@delta Your musical choices are questionable, but blasting the whole plane with them after a red-eye is just cruel. Turn off the music! (Everyone would complain if we weren’t wearing our headphones, wouldn’t you?)
I’ve started learning Spanish and this ‘usted’ business has me perplexed. Can someone please explain where the idea of the ‘polite third person’ came from? As far as I know it has no equivalent in classical Latin. Cheers.
@daisy_razor@anachronistique This sounds amazing. Worth it. Ice cream is the best. Just think, a cocktail at that price would probably give less joy. (Probably.)
Teacher retention: if you want to keep the best teachers, treat them like they are the best. Few teachers leave an environment where they feel valued, supported, appreciated, and treated like professionals. This is more important now than ever!
“We have had so many people suffering from gun violence this year alone,” said 16-year-old Ollaya Krikib. “We’ve had more mass shootings in the country than days, and I think that is absolutely ridiculous.” https://t.co/ZKFg22tDbi
@WineFolly We celebrate Meditrinalia, the ancient Roman festival which involved tasting old wine and new wine, apparently with the goal of being cured of diseases old and new. “Novum vetus vinum bibo, novo veteri morbo medeor."
"Wine new and old I drink, of illness new and old I am cured."