Is there an English word or phrase for the feeling of nostalgia for something that has not ended or left yet?
For example, the feeling that one would get when walking through campus the week before graduation, knowing that they will be leaving shortly. Or the feeling one may have near the end o...
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@Robusto I've siouxed you so many times by now I've lost count. And curly-sued you, and boy-named-sued you. How come you still don't live Under the Bridge?
@Robusto another great rapper.
History forgot.
Always does.
@Robusto I smell a single-word-request right there. You're posting your shit on the wrong site.
> Hailed by his famous contemporaries including Edith Wharton, H.G. Wells, Katherine Mansfield, Graham Greene, and Evelyn Waugh, who called him a “genius,” William Gerhardie is one of the twentieth century’s forgotten masters, and his lovely comedy Futility one of the century’s neglected masterpieces.
It tells the story of someone very similar to Gerhardie himself: a young Englishman raised in Russia who returns to St. Petersburg and falls in love with the daughter of a hilariously dysfunctional family—all played out with the armies of the Russian Revolution marching back and forth outside…
@mini All of those are probably like palatalisation.
@mini Liaison?
That term is more often used for French, I believe, and it is about how a silent letter at the end of a word is sometimes pronounced, "liaising" the two words together.
@Færd Well, there is more or less consensus among climate scientists that temperatures are getting higher and that this is mainly caused by the greenhouse effect, which in turn is mainly caused by increasing greenhouse gases.
But I think climate scientists would not ascribe such a short-term rise in temperatures to the long-term development so easily?
@Cerberus You do have some point there. The graph may not be accurate enough in its earlier parts to account for temperature bumps and plunges over courses of a few decades.
And there's a non-zero possibility that so far we've been experiencing one of those.
But we'd be wise to heed the overwhelming probability that this is the onset of the catastrophic long-term greenhouse pattern.
no no no. the earth is flat. the temperature is rising because the volume is constant but the pressure is rising, eventually the heat will melt the icewall that surrounds us all and the temperature will start dropping until it's cold enough for the icewall to freeze up again. We'll be fine.
There are some things only a developer can do. When I have a task that doesn't require a developer -- that anybody can do -- and I need to call that out, I'm stuck for a great way to describe those people. "Non-developer" is the pithiest, most descriptive one I can think of, but I do not love it....
@MattE.Эллен Sigh. The curvature of the 'earth' is negative. The Sun is at the center and the surface of the Earth encircles it. This is elementary science. Just look out your window.
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