@RL_Dane I hate to say it, but the one they call Baja Blast is actually pretty good, but only on the rare occasions we go to Taco Bell, because all carbonated beverages are best enjoyed in a paper cup over-filled with ice.
Lol, isn't it grand? Next best thing to having access to the Oxford English Dictionary (which I hope you're making great use of in college, @benjaminhollon)
My dream would be to have an omni-lingual etymology dictionary that shows all etymologies for all languages IN all languages, with cross-references for foreign origins and gerunds.
And since it's etymology (not entomology https://xkcd.com/1012/) we're discussing, I also have a really good grasp of that, usually. Just from my knowledge of English etymology, I was already able to understand about 10% of written French before ever having taken a class in it, since the root words were similar. Or the word was similar to an obscure English synonym that I happen to know.
> This is probably Adam-ology-Man, a pun on Etymology-Man, but might be Etiology-Man (the study of causation and attribution), Ontology-Man (the study of being and existence), Ethology-Man (the study of human character, with a focus on its formation and evolution). Or perhaps Anthropology-Man or Anthropogeny-Man.
Heh, I took Mandarin in High School and had a very different experience. I already know far more in French after one semester than I ever knew in Mandarin after two years. ;)
Interesting-sounding language. From the one clip I saw online (probably not representative), it sounded more Arabic than like any other Asian language I've heard.
"Asian" generally refers to a set of linguistic/cultural/genetic similarities amongst Asian peoples, except in the case of India, where it refers to a people FROM THE CONTINENT OF ASIA, EXCEPT FOR IRAN AND IRANIANS BECAUSE WE HATE YOU.
Or maybe because they don't want to count the Middle East as Asia, nor India as being in the Middle East, but man WE'RE LITERALLY ONE COUNTRY AWAY!! And if we're not in Asia, what flerpin' continent are we in?!?
Honestly, I might know more French at this point than I ever learned Farsi. I can't remember well how much Farsi I actually knew and how much my parents translated for me.
But the proper root meaning of gruntled would've meant to be dissatisfied to the point of grunting.
DISgruntled supposedly meant "entirely gruntled" rather than "not gruntled," because language confusing why we no speak binary like proper machines.
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I would've considered going into COMM (partially because their building @ UTD is seriously crazy fire amazing), but the one COMM class I took in summer '15 bored me to tears.
The prof lost the class the very first day, and everyone was on their phones/laptops entertaining themselves. It was depressing.
Interesting, okay. At A&M COMM-101 is required to be taken in the first semester for all COMM freshman, and I don't think you can take it from outside the major.
Yup, it really is. Which is why I absolutely love villanelles but can't ever write good ones; it's so much harder in English than the original (I think) Italian. It's why I've moved my focus in poetry from rhyming to meter; I love good meter, too.
@R. L. Dane Yeah, I get suckered into a Dew every once in a while. Pretty green bottle. Sweet citrus taste, but usually leaves me feeling depressed as I come down from the sugar and caffeine high.
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I rediscovered #MountainDew during high #covid times. A police officer recommended* it when he helped me. I had some kind of episode* due to the extreme heat 🥵🔥 while queuing for the supermarket.
Refreshing! 🤪 But only once a week max. Not for lazy days. ☝️
My recent 15-hr long day 🚲 ride I consumed 2 bottles in addition to water and 🥥💧. I won't normally do 2, but I needed extra fuel and relief from the heat. 😁 #excuses
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