My grandmother (the Tamil one that gave birth to my father) used to call my dad a bhadwa, badtamiiz rascal when he was young, which my father later used with me. My mother was aghast.

As for the HNQ thing, this query is a bit glitchy, but it seems to show that there've been a couple three-in-a-single day ones, including one in January. The first week of last year's May might be a record.

@CDR huh, interesting, I'dn't heard हूश before

@CDR You have interesting grandfathers.

oh and you're welcome, about the Byron q

@CDR cool! Thanks

@CDR oh wait that was your grandmother. You have interesting grandparents.

@verbose With such an excellent name it's no wonder she did such a fine job ;)

@Bookworm Is HNQ undergoing character development?

new haul

@Mithical Bitterblue is a fantastic book, but it's the third of a trilogy and you really must read Graceling before it. (The second book, Fire, is not so necessary - a great story, but a prequel and quite independent from the first and third books in the trilogy. Only one scene at the end of Bitterblue really ties together with the events and characters of Fire.)

Specifically, there's a massive reveal somewhere in the middle of Graceling which is essentially the starting assumption behind all of Bitterblue. I know you don't care much about spoilers in general, but that reveal makes both Graceling and Bitterblue much more impactful reads.

@ClaraDiazSanchez Even if none of the other currently active users have read The Midwife yet, don't think of it as shouting questions into the void but rather into the future. Imagine the feeling of a hypothetical new user who's really into Kettu, coming to the site a year from now and seeing a whole bunch of unanswered questions that they can resolve all at the same time.

Does this sound like it was written by an AI? GPTZero says no, but it doesn't sound like "new user" to me. literature.stackexchange.com/a/26397/512

@shoover It doesn't seem like AI to me—the writer seems to know the novel and the references are broadly correct. The arguments are rather vague and woolly and (in my opinion) incorrect, but everyone's entitled to their own interpretation

@GarethRees Maybe the author has written a paper on Le Carré and just happened to have this analysis in their back pocket. :shrug:

@shoover I think if they had written a paper they would have had to organize the argument a bit and maybe consider the significance of "ghosts"

@CDR Thanks for posting the answer on the "Parmuska" question. I'll hold off from accepting for a little while though, just in case any Finns happen to weigh in.

@ClaraDiazSanchez Finns again awake? Rejoyce!

I know π is the ratio of circumference to diameter but isn't that definition rather ... circular

@verbose Not for an ellipse, I think.