My short story "Lawn Moving" - a gay coming of age story of first love & lawn care - is published! The print version is available in 'Spoon Knife 7: Transitions' from @AutPress
To listen to the free audio version, click the link to my website: https://t.co/2TQxzu4QjT
@westofmain_ Huh, what surprises me more than the number of Americans who have difficulty naming another city in France is the number who think that Normandy is a city π€ π
@RealMadBruno @17meigoo@westofmain_ Here is a corresponding list of American cities π
Upper Peninsula
Lower Peninsula
North Dakota
South Dakota
The Big Island
SoCal
The Midwest
New England
Mountain West
Appalachia
The Carolinas
β¦we may be inside some kind of game, but I do not think it is baseball π
@lmillernpr or just defer to another language - which is the far more typical route for we anglophones - grab a word from somewhere over there and then pretend itβs been part of English all along π
β¦rucksack, plaza, caucus, schmooze, etceteraβ¦
@lmillernpr Iβm just trying to work within familiar rules for English π€
But if no such word exists, and the word is meant to describe a quality of absence, then thereβs reason to suspect the word doesnβt exist only b/c it canβt follow known rules. Soβ¦why not make up any word you wish! π€
@catrope@burritojustice then this in regards to pedestrian deaths from cars:
βIn 2018, 2019 and 2021, all the Asian victims of fatal crashes were seniors.β
Going after bikes to make streets βsaferβ is like going all in on an anti-cigarette campaign as a means to combat wildfires. Itβs beside the point