Today I learned...
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Ssssister in sstuttering, I sssalute you.Today YOU ALL learned that October 22 is International Stuttering Awareness Day (ISAD)
Some good articles on their website from speech/language/psychology research to peoples personal experiences around the world.
Whoops, sorry - I didn't see it before.
And yes, there is a dedicated article: here.I also learned that the Spanish have a similar coin: the Spanish gold Lynx, also known as "Spanish doubloon". Last I heard of "Spanish doubloons", it was the Golden Age of Piracy.
Had a rough day at work yesterday, but here’s something I’m slowly learning, and it took me nearly 40 goddamn years: some folks don’t like you, or want to be your friend, and you gotta be OK with that. Don’t matter if you’re the nicest person in the office. Some folks just ain’t gonna like you for one reason or another. Don’t mind ‘em. Find your own people. When you’re at work? Just keep your head down, do the work, and go home.
Must be why it never caught on :/
There is an older sense of the word "romance" as well - a story that romanticises a story in the sense of idealising it and making it more chivalric, noble and so forth. For example, the 14th century Chinese novel "Romance of the Three Kingdom" retells real history but there's not a lot of romantic love. Instead, it makes those historical events all about ideal heroes, villains, nobility and and so. That's also the sense of romance in "Arthurian romances" - it's not about Lancelot and Guinevere.
You didn't know that? The whole HEA thing?
I mean, i knew THAT...
but I just assumed that some romances have HEA and HFN and some do not... but romance in a story was still romance?
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Er ... JT, Homer, I'm not sure what HEA and HFN mean. Can you please elaborate?
I also wrote several stories with romantic elements. (Most of them ended up happily, one ended up unresolved). But I've never heard of HEA and HFN, so ... *shrug*
Happily Ever AfterEr ... JT, Homer, I'm not sure what HEA and HFN mean. Can you please elaborate?
I also wrote several stories with romantic elements. (Most of them ended up happily, one ended up unresolved). But I've never heard of HEA and HFN, so ... *shrug*
Happily For Now
Oh. Yeah. I've heard those phrases but didn't know they had official acronyms. Guess that's what I learned today.
Thanks, JT! Guess I'm also one of today's lucky 10,000. 
Nahhhh . . . That was just ol' Geoff spilling the tea!
Today I was informed by an editor with a YouTube channel that you use "blond" as an adjective describing the color of someone's hair (or the color of a brownie, etc.), and "blonde" only as a noun referring to any person (regardless of sex) with that hair color. This editor also states that to refer to someone in that way is reductive, demeaning, and offensive, on par with saying, "That fatso over there."
I don't say I "learned" this, because I'm not convinced. I'm an old-school amateur linguist, and I use "blonde" to refer to fair-haired females and their hair and "blond" for fair-haired males and theirs. Perhaps it's a bit whimsical to gender hair depending on the DNA of the head it grows out of, but it's how I learned to write it and so I shall continue to do. And from a cursory search, the Internet by and large agrees with me.
Sorry, Mr. Editor Man, as much as I like your channel overall, I'm not going back and taking these usages out of my soon-to-be-published W.I.P. It's my style, and I'm sticking to it.
(By the way, I'm so firm on this, that if I wanted to use the French-sourced term for a man with dark hair, I'd write "brunet." Though I never would. That'd take the reader out of the story in no time.)
I don't say I "learned" this, because I'm not convinced. I'm an old-school amateur linguist, and I use "blonde" to refer to fair-haired females and their hair and "blond" for fair-haired males and theirs. Perhaps it's a bit whimsical to gender hair depending on the DNA of the head it grows out of, but it's how I learned to write it and so I shall continue to do. And from a cursory search, the Internet by and large agrees with me.
Sorry, Mr. Editor Man, as much as I like your channel overall, I'm not going back and taking these usages out of my soon-to-be-published W.I.P. It's my style, and I'm sticking to it.
(By the way, I'm so firm on this, that if I wanted to use the French-sourced term for a man with dark hair, I'd write "brunet." Though I never would. That'd take the reader out of the story in no time.)
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Me never thought of blond/blonde as gendered, but I'll accept counsel from three old-school amateur linguists. I certainly never perceived being called "the blonde" as a calculated insult.
Good to know. Moving forward, instead of differentiating two women as the blonde or the brunette, I'll go with the one with the rack and the one with the ass. How's that?
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