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Tutankhamun's camping bed
Mahmoud Fadl - Love Letter From King Tut-An
> a female Cuban poet fell in love with Tut-Ank-Amon in the late 1920's while visiting his newly-open grave. Her loveletters inspired these contemporary musicians to compose an answer.
Dulce María Loynaz Muñoz (10 December 1902 – 27 April 1997) was a Cuban poet. == Biography == Dulce María Loynaz was the daughter of the famous General Enrique Loynaz del Castillo, a hero of the Cuban Liberation Army and author of the lyrics of the march theme, "El Himno Invasor", and sister of poet Enrique Loynaz Muñoz. Dulce María was born in Havana City, on December 10, 1902, in a family of great sensibility towards artistic and cultural manifestations and deep patriotic feelings. Home schooled, she grew up in a familiar environment highly propitious for poetry. Although Dulce María ha...
> Carta de Amor al Rey Tut-Ank-Amen (Love Letter to King Tutankhamen).
 
2:24 AM
Vladimir Sorokin's flat in Novosibirsk was raided by the police in the early morning. Vladimir has been investigating corruption and writing petitions to stop corruption in the region.
Now he is hospitalized with a suspected heart attack. He had a heart surgery this year.
 
@CowperKettle A much more interesting story is the woman he married, Ankhesenamun. It is a classic tale of palace intrigue.
Ankhesenamun (ˁnḫ-s-n-imn, "Her Life Is of Amun"; c. 1348 or c. 1342 – after 1322 BC) was a queen who lived during the 18th Dynasty of Egypt as the pharaoh Akhenaten's daughter and subsequently became the Great Royal Wife of pharaoh Tutankhamun. Born Ankhesenpaaten (ˁnḫ.s-n-pꜣ-itn, "she lives for the Aten"), she was the third of six known daughters of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti. She became the Great Royal Wife of her half-brother Tutankhamun. The change in her name reflects the changes in ancient Egyptian religion during her lifetime after her father's death...
 
Just another regular news. They love to raid flats of innocent people at 5 am or 6 am, in full riot gear..
@Robusto I recall viewing a documentary about 20 years ago
I recall that king Tut died very young.
They were all intermarried to the point of wrecking their DNA.
Or maybe they used consorts on the side to maintain healthy genes.
Why not. English monarchs had numerous lovers. "Let not poor Nelly starve" (Charles II)
 
 
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The quest for a pan-covid vaccine able to defeat all variants bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-12-09/…
 
5:50 AM
You will think the unthinkable.. if you hit an itheberg
I wonder how Stephen Hawking managed to live so long without exercise. Probably less affluent incapacitated people die much earlier.
 
 
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9:26 AM
> Between the ages of 35 and 39, 4 percent of women and 5.5 percent of men reported no heterosexual experience in 1992; in 2015 the figures increased to 8.9 percent and 9.5 percent. forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2019/04/07/…
 
10:15 AM
Almost 200 passengers nearly died when an airliner's surfaces froze up in flight. According to unnamed sources, the airliner was sprinkled not with a specialized aircraft antifreeze liquid prior to takeoff, but with an automobile-grade antifreeze. The responsible person has fled and is hiding. e1.ru/text/incidents/2021/12/09/70304375
The crew brought the liner to a low elevation and was able to bring it under control. It gradually thawed. But due to flying low, it had insufficient fluent to reach destination, so had to be rerouted to a nearby airport.
Records showed that the plane lost as much as 2000 meters of elevation. Sheer luck saved it from disaster.
 
 
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12:00 PM
Minus 9°C
Krishna followers dancing again in the street
 
12:41 PM
Russian singer MaxSim receiving some musical prize (center) together with her two reanimatologists.
She spent months in a covid coma. Her lungs were completely shut down, and she was on extra-corporeal oxygenation. I read discussions between doctors, and nobody believed she had good chances to survive.
The general consensus was that she was just kept alive because she had a whole lot of money and could afford unlimited extacorporeal oxygenation, but sooner or later her body would give up.
It was very unexpected when she started recovering.
In a similar condition, your average hardworking poor Russian would be just put into a black plastic bag.
Too expensive.
 
12:55 PM
@Cerberus Aw, shucks
@Cerberus What's . . . bankruptcy like? Dunno, ask Trump
 
Oh, so the fluvoxamine study was not very robust. Bad news.
The news looked so authoritative
 
@Cerberus Some of the SSRIs are pretty crappy drugs, but they're prescribed in first- or second-line therapy for all sorts of depression. And, well, the amount of depression that gets diagnosed is 10 to 20 percent of the population in most countries of the world
@CowperKettle well, even if it was the most rigorous study, such results need to be reproduced by several separate teams of scientists before they're considered to be part of 'established science'.
 
@CowperKettle Yeah, they keep joking that Tython thsazh thomething like that
 
When I was young, there was a Russian rap song defending Tyson. And my friends believed that Tyson was innocent, based on that song.
An advertisement for an oral carcinogen in The Cosmopolitan, 1913. Today you have to wear a high-rate protection gear over your face when handling this chemical.
Then it came in tablet form, 50 tablets for 50 cents.
 
1:27 PM
Journalist Maxim Vernikov from Yekaterinburg has fled abroad and asked for political asylum in the USA e1.ru/text/politics/2021/12/11/70311185
Soon we will live like Iranians, only with a cold climate and without cheap fruits and nuts.
 
 
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100,000,000 Guinea Pigs: Dangers in Everyday Foods, Drugs, and Cosmetics is a book written by Arthur Kallet and F.J. Schlink first released in 1933 by the Vanguard Press and manufactured in the United States of America. Its central argument propounds that the American population is being used as guinea pigs in a giant experiment undertaken by the American producers of food stuffs and patent medicines and the like. Kallet and Schlink premise the book as being “written in the interest of the consumer, who does not yet realize that he is being used as a guinea pig…” == Summary == The book's ...
So that is nothing new, unfortunately.
 
3:30 PM
@Robusto the first character is 蓝 pronounced lán which is blue-blue in Chinese. 青 is qing (gtrans tells me) is I think blue-green in Chinese but I have no idea in Japanese.
 
@Mitch Two countries separated by a common writing system, more or less.
 
精灵 is what the Chinese use for 'elf'
translations between Chinese and English are usually pretty loose
I mean 'loose' is an understatement
 
You can drive a truck through them.
 
Tehy just make stuff up
 
But I think we make the mistake of thinking the characters (hanzi or kanji) have some seminal application to the words they form. They do carry some weight, but only in the way fragments from Latin or French do in English words.
Nevertheless, it's always tempting to do that.
 
3:38 PM
@Robusto Also I have absolutely no conception of things translated from Chinese to English
how laughable that must seem to them
like the Lord Acton example the other week. How does freedom or liberty actually translate at all?
 
As fodder for sophistry, I suppose.
In other words, for lawyers to chop and dice.
 
Totally
not just lawyers
5th graders
@Robusto It could be just familiarity but the metaphorical uses of Latin roots at least seem 'in the neighborhood'
 
As soon as you think you know the meaning of a word, you see it used in another context, so you have to learn that one too. And as the river runs along, bringing you closer to the end of your life than to the beginning, you begin to feel like a stranger to the language again.
 
OMG
and then you're dead
 
@Mitch Yes, but we don't think of them when we're using those words.
 
3:42 PM
hangs head
sigh
I've been using words all this time and no one understands
Learning your own language again
 
If I talk about moths sending out pheromones, unless I'm ruminating to myself I don't think of the Greek word for "carry" coupled with the last part of hormone used as a portmanteau.
 
> In the first seven months of 1914, 107 buildings were set on fire by suffragettes. (Max Hastings)
 
So your Chinese word for blue elf spirit probably doesn't make Chinese people think of the ghosts of blue elves, but merely of the Smurfs.
 
@Robusto sure, but when you translate the roots 'carry' makes a lot of sense.
or 'decide' has 'cut' as its root and that makes sense
 
@Mitch Sure, it makes sense if you dissect it, but you have to stop and take yourself out of the conversation to ruminate like that.
 
3:48 PM
but of course I'm just -used- to those connections
and they are very tenuous too
@CowperKettle Those women were on fire
 
Well, it got them the vote.
That and other things.
Something like that also brought along Prohibition.
The Volstead Act.
Heh, it's so cold here I need to replace the batteries in my outdoor thermometer.
26 °F
 
@Mitch I never knew they used such methods. I though they were just picketing in the streets.
 
@Robusto All this about Smurf translations has to be qualified that I only did it through gtrans with no extra looking to confirm that that is what Chinese actually uses for it.
gtrans is great except when it's not.
 
Yes, minus 3°C is cold for the latitude
 
@CowperKettle I feel like I read recently where maybe there was one or two women who self-immolated, but I could easily be making that up.
 
3:54 PM
@Robusto I've got 34.
 
Suffragettes in Great Britain and Ireland orchestrated a bombing and arson campaign between the years 1912 and 1914. The campaign was instigated by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), and was a part of their wider campaign for women's suffrage. The campaign, led by key WSPU figures such as Emmeline Pankhurst, targeted infrastructure, government, churches and the general public, and saw the use of improvised explosive devices, arson, letter bombs, assassination attempts and other forms of direct action and violence. At least 5 people were killed in such attacks (including one suffragette...
 
@CowperKettle Remember his altitude.
 
@Mitch It's getting better. It used to be laugh-out-loud funny. Now it merely provokes a chuckle now and then.
 
Ah, thank you WIkipedia
A court in Moscow has handed down a six-year prison sentence for hooliganism to Azat Miftakhov, a postgraduate mathematics student at the Moscow State University for alleged participation in an arson attack on the ruling United Russia party's office in Moscow in 2018. rferl.org/a/…
 
@Robusto it's still pretty wild for rarer languages like Thai and (checks notes) Swahili?
 
3:57 PM
@CowperKettle He's at 5300', I'm at 5600'.
It's cooler a mile high.
 
The mile-high club is slang for the people who have had sexual intercourse on board an aircraft in flight.An alleged explanation for wanting to perform the act is the supposed vibration of the plane. Some say they have fantasies about pilots or flight attendants, or a fetish about planes themselves, a type of mechanophilia. For others, the appeal of joining the mile-high club is the thrill of doing something taboo and the thrill of the risk of being discovered. == History == An early reference to the concept is found in the betting book for Brooks's, a London gentlemen's club. The 1785 entry (only...
 
@CowperKettle Hooligan's is (or was) a popular chain restaurant in the US. a faux Irish pub aura but family friendly. Maybe for business lunches for entry level professionals?
 
Not that kind of cooler.
 
@CowperKettle See, when you live at that altitude you are in the club all the time.
 
3:59 PM
They're so cool they have to go down in elevation to join the club
 
The only advantage to winter down (up?) here is that you don't have to wear sunscreen—mostly.
But the wind is the real joy-killer.
I hardly rode my bike at all this week because we were having serious wind.
Walking doesn't get my ya-yas out in the same way or to the same degree.
 
A good place for wind power stations
Installed windpower capacity quadrupled in 2010-2020 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_New_Mexico
 
@Robusto it's like going up hill
but
if you go the other direction it feels really great
like why is everybody complaining
 
4:26 PM
@Mitch In the winter the wind cuts you in the face, making it feel way worse than just the pressure you feel in the summer. In the summer it actually cools you off some.
 
@Robusto how doe it feel going away from the wind -in winter-? still eye watering?
 
@Mitch No. It's a blessed relief.
 
walking is really boring if you're used to biking
while walking you close your eyes and open them again and you're still practically in the same place.
i've seen this all before
But I have noticed when walking the same place I've biked before that omg look at that I'd never noticed that before, because concentration while biking is pretty much directly in front.
 
@Mitch I listen to audible books or podcasts while walking, so the time goes pretty quickly. When I don't ride I walk about four miles, which takes a little over an hour, which is perfect for a podcast.
When I ride, though, I seldom ride less than two hours.
In that time I cover 30 to 40 miles or more, depending on how much climbing and how much wind.
Sometimes the wind here is 360°. Pretty much in your face the whole ride. I'm not sure of the physics of that, but that's what happens.
 
4:43 PM
@Robusto that's describes a tornado
you should turn around the other direction and then the wind will always be at your back
life hack
 
@Robusto Same here when the temperature gets below minus 20°C. I tried bicycling wearing ski goggles, but my spectacles get clouded over inside the goggles.
 
@Mitch I cycled into a dust devil once, thinking it was no big deal, but it almost knocked me off my bike.
 
I want to try listening to audiobooks while jogging. Some say it's nice.
 
@CowperKettle Always a problem with glasses.
 
@Robusto I always wondered about that because dust devils look like they're just pushing up some dust what's the big deal
 
4:45 PM
@Mitch They look so harmless. Just some leaves and dirt blowing around.
 
When I bicycle, it's too dangerous to listen to an mp3 player, so I print out poems, put them into a plastic sheet, and put the sheet with poems under one of the handlebars. I glance at the sheet now and then, and repeat the stanza. Then the next stanza. Then the next. This way I memorized some poems.
 
driving along the coast in Florida I've seen multiple water spouts on a clear day and it just looks like they're standing there really hardly doing anything at all and you want to drive a boat through them just to see what would happen... but I'm suspecting it wouldn't be a null operation.
 
Not a void function, no. It would return a result.
 
@Robusto Right, like you'd just need some goggles to keep they dust out of your eyes otherwise just a puff of air
@Robusto right. I mean it wouldn't be wizard of oz style pick you up and throw you, but it would definitely knock you down (a dust devil that is)
 
@Mitch Same thing with surfing. It looks like if you wipe out on the board you just get dunked and then come right back up. The reality is you can get bashed hard into the shingle.
 
4:48 PM
@CowperKettle 1) interesting idea for poetry 2) wait that sounds more dangerous that ear phones, you have to take away you eyes from the road
 
And sometimes you're held under longer than is healthy.
 
> The college-educated are only about a third of the population, so they cannot build a durable majority without wooing other voters into the fold. With educational polarization rising — and older dividing lines like race beginning to fade — the left cannot afford to forget just how different educated people are from whatever demographic group they are supposed to represent.
 
@Robusto Yeah... for surfing I'd want a chair on the board.
and maybe not to have to wait for a wave
basically to have it self powered
 
@Mitch No, you only rarely take your eyes off the road. I usually only do that at intersections, while waiting for the traffic light to turn green.
I have two plastic bags stuffed with frayed poetry printouts from 2012-2019
 
@CowperKettle oh that's reasonable.
 
4:51 PM
Back in 2013, I could recite "The City of the Dreadful Night" for maybe 20 minutes by memory before looking up the page for a "fresh" stanza.
 
If I'm going somewhere I've never gone before or through busy streets, I might not listen to anything
 
@CowperKettle I actually rear-ended somebody at a stopped turn lane once because of doing that, and I didn't even have cue cards.
 
@CowperKettle This is why spoken-word audio is better for cycling. Plus my earbuds have a pass-through function which enables me to hear the traffic sounds while still listening to the voice. No different, really, from carrying on a conversation with the people you're riding with.
 
Oh! Sorry to hear that! I once rear-ended a woman on the sidewalk because I turned my head to look at an interesting shop sign that included a big clock.
 
Then again, I also rode into the back of a stopped car as a little kid because I wasn't paying enough attention and the damned brakes were such that the front brake was under my dominant hand, so it made me head-flip rather than stop.
 
4:53 PM
@tchrist What? That defies convention (unless you're a lefty).
 
I'm guessing yo didn't get hurt too bad?
 
So my the time I reacted, I overreacted.
@Robusto Zurdo era y soy.
 
As a little kid, I got quite a scratch on my head at an airport because I was walking behind my parents and reading an SF book at the same time, and there was a sudden step
I was unable to tear myself from a book sometimes.
 
@CowperKettle Which is why even pedestrians can get road rage.
 
@tchrist El mundo conspira contra gente como tú.
 
4:56 PM
@Mitch It was by haphazard chance just right in front of my uncle's house, who drove me home all banged up.
 
Maybe that's why I learned English. I started reading "The Horse Whisperer" and kept reading although I understood only vaguely, too many unknown words there were
 
Going over the handlebars is always something you want to avoid.
 
I still remember the word gelding from that book.
I only came across it maybe 4 times after that.
 
@CowperKettle It's a word you usually see only in an equine context.
 
My brother used to taunt me with that word. "Why do you needed to memorize it"
I made my brother or my sister to test my knowledge of newly-met words.
 
5:00 PM
@CowperKettle "I made my brother or my sister to test my knowledge of newly-met words."
 
Yes, I know ))
 
Otherwise you sound like you created your brother and sister.
 
I once came across a cheap version of "Satanic Verses", then read it and gifted it to a library
There is a great library where you can borrow books for a couple of weeks and take them home
English-language books. The first book I borrowed there was "To Kill a Mockingbird", turned out a great book
 
@Robusto Ni empieces, pues me he fijado en ello desde era niño y me ha seguido fastidiando hasta este mismo día igual como seguirá hasta que me mate algún día.
 
@CowperKettle That is the very definition of a library, at least in the US.
 
5:05 PM
@CowperKettle What kinds of library are there where you cannot take the books home with you?
 
@tchrist There are those where you can only read them in a special hall
 
Those are academic or private libraries.
 
And in Tyumen, in Siberia, you could only read English-language books in a hall. Because such books were rare. But here I came across this great library back in 2000.
 
Usually public libraries do not have rare books like those, but they do often have periodicals that must be read on site.
 
I don't think the Bodlean Library lets you check out ancient manuscripts, for example.
 
5:07 PM
Book museums.
 
I have several thousand books at home in my flat, but they are 99.9% Russian
 
One researcher who researched political repressions in the USSR brought a portable scanner and a laptop with him into a library, and managed to scan a lot of valuable material before the FSB banned access to materials on repressions. Back in 1992 people did not know what a scanner was, so they just let him.
 
@CowperKettle Oh when did you start seriously learning English?
 
@tchrist "I'M WALKING HERE"
 
5:11 PM
@tchrist In the late 1990s I started buying books in English and trying to read them
But it was still hard to get them.
 
Has that changed substantially since the fall of the Soviets?
 
Of course. I guess it was very hard to find English books before 1991. We had a couple, but one was a translation of a Russian book, and the other was something about circus. I did not manage to read them then.
I tried to read one, but I stuck at The
I opened the dictionary's record on "the", and it horrified me.
Nobody told me that it was just an article and you could just avoid paying attention to them.
 
look up 'a/an' next, that'll scare the shit out of you
 
@CowperKettle Hahaha, articles tripped you up from the very first word.
 
Yes))
 
5:15 PM
@CowperKettle Had you encountered the notion of an article previously? Doesn't Russian not have them?
 
@tchrist No, at the age of about 8, I did not. We only started English in fourth grade
Russian does not have articles
 
It depends on what -the- definition of 'the' is
 
Haha, that must have been terribly bewildering!
 
@CowperKettle You ignore articles at your peril, though.
 
@Mitch Definitely.
 
5:17 PM
They do have meaning.
 
@Robusto Otherwise we would not have a pair of contrasting ones.
 
I know, but I think that for a learner it's not a big deal. One should put all effort in memorizing words and in reading/listening/watching movies
 
Definitely.
Or indefinitely.
 
Where a/an is more akin to any/some versus the which is more akin to this/these/that/those.
They serve as sign posts for anaphoric resolution.
 
And then there's the matter of pronunciation of the definite article.
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A: Is pronouncing "The" as in "Thee" still correct in titles?

RobustoThe is pronounced "thee" when it precedes a word that begins with a vowel (the apple, the overtone series, etc.) or (sometimes) an aspirated consonant (the historic occasion of his birth) or when the speaker wishes to differentiate a noun by calling it out for special dramatic emphasis. For examp...

 
5:20 PM
Russian has demonstratives, does it not?
And if so, do they function as determiners, as pronouns, or both?
 
@tchrist I'm pretty sure WALS has a map of the distribution of different kinds of articles among languages and one category is definite articles but no indefinite articles
maybe?
 
@Robusto Formas cultas — e incultas.
@Mitch Pretty sure you're right.
 
Meghan thee astallion
@tchrist Pretty sure you are too!
cripes now I have to look it up
 
> The words тот , та, то (that), те (those), этот, эта, это (this), эти (these), такой, такая, такое, такие (such) and столько (so) are Russian demonstrative pronouns. This group of pronouns most clearly demonstrates quality and quantity of objects, as compared to all other pronouns.
 
5:25 PM
They surrender their genders in the plural.
 
@tchrist Yes, "this" (этот), "that" (тот)
 
@Mitch Why is there a "ghost" Western Hemisphere where no such things exist.
 
Russian demonstratives can be changed to reflect gender and plurality
 
@CowperKettle Greek had το.
> Greek has only one article - since there are 24 forms for it, they couldn't afford a second one. The Greek article is definite, and it is often translated "the".
 
@Robusto ??
I see the whole world
in their map
and
 
5:28 PM
Article: ὁ • (ho) m, ἡ f (hē), τό n (tó)
  1. (rarely in Epic, often in later Greek) the
Pronoun: ὁ • (ho) m, ἡ f (hē), τό n (tó)
  1. (Epic, demonstrative) that
  2. (Epic, third person personal pronoun) he, she, it, they
  3. (relative, Epic, Ionic, poetic Attic) who, which, that
I was reading this today
I wanted to understand the etymology of "hoi polloi" and turns out "hoi" is an article
 
 
oh
weird
 
Big monitor, I guess.
 
omg scroll left
there's a whole nother parallel world where no one speaks
keeps scrolling
 
5:31 PM
Same thing when you scroll right.
 
well that's a coordinate bug
 
The map is poorly coordinated.
 
sin (theta + 2\pi n)
makes me think of the software bug about when they were testing some supersonic jet fighter screaming across the sky and just as it went over the equator the plane automatically flipped over
haha good times
lotsa laughs
and then there was the software bug... oh... that one's not so funny
 
> To err is human, but if you really want to fuck things up use a computer.
 
5:35 PM
Daffodils only have ears in horror poetry.
 
> Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct
 
6:00 PM
@Robusto Did Homer mention Narcissus?
 
 
6:40 PM
Hey hi. Do you find it acceptable to use the preposition with insteand of to with to get back to mean "talk at a later time"?
—I'm here. Use me.
—Okay, Banning. Sit tight. We'll get back with you.
(Olympus has fallen)
Is that regional?
When you're a learner variations with the use of the preposition for significant verbal constructs are more striking.
instead*
Oh so it's like hoc in Latin??
 
6:59 PM
A Google Books search shows that get back with you is common usage
 
I see, do you agree with it?
As in do you use with too?
 
to is more common on Ngram
 
So it's a minority usage.
Thanks btw.
 
@λyoyed'oncques I'm a native speaker of Russian, so I'm not an expert ))
To me it sounds okay
 
@CowperKettle Ok, thanks there!
I find it surprising but acceptable, but I'm a learner so yeah.
 
7:05 PM
@λyoyed'oncques It's fine. Don't worry about it.
But here's the thing. There is a different shade of meaning.
 
@λyoyed'oncques "Get back to you" means you will furnish information to someone at a later time. "Get back with you" refers to having a meeting or colloquy of some sort with the person being addressed.
 
.. And we will get back at you means "we will do something unpleasant to you".
 
I also note the person who said that in the movie is African-American, but that's the script from the movie, it's not spontanenous. A different shade ? But here you have the guy in the White House hunting down terrorists, and the others are in a war room coordinating efforts to retake the White House...
They clearly mean they will talk to him on the radio at a later time. But using with would make it more "personal"?
Yes, I know for back at you.
 
7:10 PM
@λyoyed'oncques It's a subtle distinction. You could either to mean either, but with implies some kind of meeting where a conversation will take place. Could be online, could be in person, whatever. But to is simpler, and while a meeting of sorts might occur, it usually means the bare supplying of information.
With: "How are going to accomplish this task?" To: "The task has been accomplished.
 
I see, thanks @Robusto, I think I get it.
It makes sense there would be a "meeting" figuratively speaking because he has to receive further instructions and not just chat at a later time.
He's like a soldier.
Yeah, thanks, subtleties like this make my day.
I really like prepositions.
Cheers!
 
7:28 PM
South Korea amazed me.
They really got cutting in 1980.
Probably due to all the global warming.
 
Btw, if any of you ever come across enweille in Québec, that just means "move it". I say that because I've realized many people even English speakers in Canada don't know and are perplexed by this. This enweille/aweille, is basically a pronunciation of the old spelling of the conjugated forms of the verb envoyer i.e. to send i.e. we write j'envoie (1SG) not really j'envoye anymore (but I do in Qc.). Thought that might be useful if you come skiing and hear that close to the chairlifts..
something. Anyways.
Interjection: enweille \ɑ̃.wɛj\
  1. (Québec) (Familier) Vas-y.
 
Okay, if I'm ever in Quebec, I will try to remember it
7652 km to Quebec
7376 km to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Almost in between.
Isaac Newton's coat of arms
 
 
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PSA, PSA, breaking news, this just in.
Stop calling things songs that aren't.
Kthxbai, FFS.
This has been a CBS News special report, I'm Ben Tracey.
People keep thanking me for my music and trying to be courteous by translating their thanks into Russian.
In which language calling not-a-song a song sounds even more retarded — yes: retarded — than it does in English.
And so it is with that in mind that I feel obliged to say: Thank you, fellow humans, but fuck you, fellow humans.
Fellow humans is the worst.
I'm Ben Tracey.
This has been a PSA by the CBS.
Kthxbai, FFS.
 
@RegDwigнt Songs without words we can have, but not songs without pitch?
 
 
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It would be lovely if someone gave me feedback on this closure reason english.stackexchange.com/questions/580007/… Generally, most Stacks work differently, and I have no inkling about how to approach getting it reopened or whether that even is a fruitful direction.
 
@Akixkisu It was closed as a matter of opinion. One person's temporary ban might well be the next person's temporary suspension.
It can have no correct answer, merely opinion.
 
@tchrist So whether it is a misnomer is observer dependant?
Thanks.
 
John thinks you called it the wrong thing. Jane thinks you called it the right thing.
Not being able to do something for a while has many synonyms.
Who among us shall elevate the one over the other?
Look to established usage for guidance.
 
Though it could be clearly incorrect.
And if it is incorrect, it would be a misnomer - I suppose that was where I came from — For instance, if the "temoprary" was necessary to indicate the meaning.
 
@Akixkisu That's true.
 

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