thawed_caveman

I thought the same. It seems clear that the Supreme Court intended that ruling for use by their political side, if a Democrat tries to use it that's the instant they'll overturn it.

Which would be one way to get rid of it i suppose

Quakers just eat the oreo dry.

Seems like a form of torture the spanish inquisition would have practiced, so catholic

At least half of it could be

BD = Bande Dessinée, the french term for both graphic novels and comics. Both have a huge history in Europe in general and France-Belgium in particular, but it's extremely unusual for english speakrs to know or care, it's really appreciated.

I guess i shouldn't speak so definitively, it's not like i have data to back up the fact that there are more French than English speakers with bad grammar; but really, french grammar is worse than complex, it's unintuitive and arbitrary, and it does feel like i see more french speakers with bad grammar. For what that's worth

It's called a national animal

Quotes from the article:

According to Bloomberg, Murray told Lopez that Global Tetrahedron’s bid was a better option because the Sandy Hook families agreed to waive some of the money owed to them in order to pay off Jones’ other creditors. “I’ve always thought my goal was to maximize the recovery for unsecured creditors,” Murray said, per Bloomberg. “And under one bid, they’re clearly better than they were under the other.”

and

The only other bid besides the Onion’s was $3.5 million from First United American Companies LLC, the company that operates Jones’ online supplement store.

Brother you're on desktop, you could have cropped

Oh i thought you were writing lyrics

I bought the first one when it came out and didn't buy the next ones. I actually liked the comics it contained, but the overall tone is more intellectual and less countercultural than the original (of which i also have a few issues).

I think the difference might boil down to being at the cutting edge of an emerging culture compared to being comfortable in an established culture four decades later.

Yeah, so by all accounts i'm the kind of person most likely to love the french language: native speaker, effortless spelling and grammar, avid reader of BD, i even like the flowery and decorative aspects of the language (language soutenu); but then i also speak other languages, and this gives me the perspective that, from a practical standpoint, there's a lot of issues with french. There's layers of sediment accumulated over centuries, a lot of rules and spellings are vestigial and serve no purpose anymore other than make it harder.

Also, a lot of rules and spellings come from grammarians just saying so, and writing prescriptivist style guides to make people spell The Correct Way. To a point, i even think the ability to invent and follow an arbitrary The Correct Way hass been a class signal.

Even native french speakers sometimes have bad grammar, or at least that's much more common than english speakers having bad grammar.

English speakers say the same things about their language, but they don't know about ô <--- this accent and the agony of trying to guess when it should be used or not. It's supposed to indicate a difference in pronunciation, but this difference depends on the accent and is also obvious from context. I've known teachers to dock points for shit like this, and it radicalized me against arbitrary rules despite being completely capable of following them. In my opinion, people use features that have a purpose; if people don't use it, then it's pointless.

And from a global perspective, fewer people speak french than a lot of other languages. On the one hand this doesn't matter, lots of people speak mandarin, it's about who you're likely to interact with; but i'd say your more likely to interact with spanish speakers.

Unless of course you're that much into BD. That doesn't surprise me at all, lots of english speakers learned japanese for weeb reasons, i think it's completely legit to learn a language for the culture. Actually i find it pretty impressive

What gaming is like for a non-gamer

This guy had his non-gaming wife try different games, very enlightening for your purposes