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My team works from home on Mondays, and today I decided to stay over at my parents' (we have the Fourth off tomorrow for Independence Day), so I'm working from there. That was a really, really good decision, because it is beautiful out, and I'm working from their deck, accompanied by my mother's hen...

Salmoneus wrote:96 football fans died [...] 95 counts of manslaughter

Typo, or is there some reason he isn't being charged for one of the deaths?

[quick update on my cousin: she and her baby are safe, with relatives, and hopefully will stay that way for the foreseeable future. Still a terrible situation for her and I know she's got a long road ahead of her, but I had a chance to talk to her and she seems to be doing OK, so that's good!]

I'm pretty much crying with laughter now, so thanks for that.

I heartily approve of Tim Horton's as a celebration for any occasion. I work with heathens who prefer Dunkin Donuts, though.

/sɪsˈhɛʔ/ I think, although I've written it significantly more than I've spoken it. I definitely stress the last syllable, but I'm not sure why.

Apparently my cousin and her baby are in hiding from her husband. I don't have any details, but I am so scared for her right now. They live in another country, so there's literally nothing I can do for her other than pray, but I am so furious on her behalf and I just wish I could do something. I wou...

Imralu, from what you've said before, your dad's a dick; it's great that he seems to try to be improving in his old age, but I still don't think you owe him a thing. Signing a form for you is the bare minimum a parent should do. I certainly hope he continues to improve himself, but if you ever do ha...

So with all this title stacking, is there any limit on this? Who confers these titles/positions, anyway? What I'm getting at is, is there anything legally stopping a person from getting themselves granted a whole passel of different titles, thus ending up with control of everything, as opposed to sp...

It also seems that, at least when it comes to categories like age and gender, context is important That's interesting. So, if you were to compare e.g. a forum post to a combined selection of texts, books, and newspaper articles, you'd get worse results than comparing simply forum posts alone? That ...

I really should've linked the Wikipedia article in the first post to avoid confusion! I was indeed referring to the former: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Paci ... age_family

Mridlar, pimi--towupelalinmir pinel ato.
_{bird being MASC-make_noise-HAB-PL only all}
Birds, people--they all just make noise.

(in Tirina, there generally aren't specific verbs for animal sounds, like "to bark" or "to meow"; you just say wupela de <animal> "make a sound like <animal>")

I've recently learned of the Indo-Pacific language family theory, which proposes links between the Dravidian languages and Korean (and apparently some other languages too). Apparently, there's a large number of very similar words between Tamil and Korean that are potential cognates, and that's where...

The languages that are dying today are in that state due to past actions. Sure, the last speakers may die peaceful deaths surrounded by loved ones or whatever, but how do you think there came to be so few speakers in the first place? By being a historically small ethnic group, or being lukewarm abo...

To be honest, I suspect there's another explanation at work: liberals are saying this is an issue, liberals baad ergo this is not a problem. I think this is a big part of it. Possibly the biggest part of it. My political views shifted a lot when I stopped assuming everything liberals did was automa...

Yeah, that's great news about your job and medical stuff! As for the rest, well, you've got some time, at least. Hopefully you can find someone good to replace the guy who's leaving.

That is good news! Not only that you're having success with certain foods being OK, but also that you might make some progress with an actual diagnosis.

If you want to complicate the "gravy" thing further, my Italian-American relatives in New England refer to the sauce on pasta as "gravy", which really threw me for a loop the first time I heard it.

If you're interested, there's also two other series closely linked with Percy Jackson (he's a main character in one that also includes the Roman gods--The Heroes of Olympus--but just has been mentioned so far in the new one that's still ongoing, The Trials of Apollo), and a series with Norse gods (M...

That sounds awful, and I hope you're able to find a good doctor who will actually address your symptoms soon! In much more minor news, people are free to stop commenting on my hair anytime now. My hair is, in fact, quite long! This is really shocking news that needs to be commented on repeatedly eve...

I was thinking it was urine. The combination of "warm" with "moist" just screams "SOMEONE PEED" to me.

Meanwhile, I'm just wondering why the duvet is moist. EDIT: actually, here's a few more things if you find them helpful. Some of these might fall more into the editing category than the translation category, I confess. 3. "Senior" usually refers only to the last year of high school, so something wit...

I'll be honest--I tried reading the abstract and had no idea what half of it meant (neat stuff about a better way to make very tiny lenses, I got that much!). Nevertheless, that's very exciting!

Whaaaaa... there's people who pronounce the "l" in "polka"? I definitely don't, and I genuinely don't remember ever hearing someone pronounce the "l" who wasn't either being intentionally silly, a non-native English speaker/otherwise unfamiliar with the word, or made fun of for it immediately afterw...

I've been watching MasterChef Junior and it is frankly bizarre to watch Gordon Ramsay be genuinely kind and nice. Also it's pretty adorable to watch tiny children carrying around these massive mixers and blenders and such, and having to stand on stools to reach the stoves, and making way better food...