@lottebettsdean Heathcliff is a murderous psychopath who destroys everyone's lives and starves his own child to death. His obsession is a bug, not a feature. There's no love and certainly no romance, people inexplicably choose to see romance in it
@lottebettsdean My naughty take is that anyone who likes this story can't see it for what it is, so the only way to portray it is to also not see it for what it is, so in that sense, she is serving the audience's story, not the author's
All languages covey information at a similar rate when spoken (39bits/s).
Languages that are spoken faster have less information density per syllable!
One of the coolest results in linguistics.
Instead of saying "you have to practice to get better", I've got an aerials instructor who says "whatever you do is what you'll get better at".
I love the reframing.
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Scientists are figuring out that birds talk to each other through song.
I bet there have been birds who heard some of Messiaen's music and thought "oh that's completely inaccessible"
Notable to me that every for-profit information hub is injecting AI into every corner of their services while the largest nonprofit information hub is fighting it off like their the Night's Watch
not a lot of people know that "Sally Rooney: Intermezzo" is an anagram of "merely a nine zΕoty's orzo". 9 zΕoty is about Β£1.50, which from Morrisons gets you 500g of orzo - just 60g less than the weight of *Intermezzo* in hardback. a fun "easter egg" from faber and faber