People definitely tried to beat neurodivergence out of people. It doesn’t work, but it does make people mask more, which is a win for the kinds of people who beat children for being different

No worries, text makes it difficult and if you’re not sure on the culture of SLC, I can see it being unclear

It was sarcasm, yes. There’s definitely no 24 hour club in SLC

Ah, it’s basically the same cultural niche. Haven’t you heard of Salt Lake City’s 24 hour club?

I can imagine this leading to a meltdown for some inexperienced gas pumper who’s already very frazzled by the controls.

Canada’s military is the 16th best funded in the world

In addition to jointly running Gilbreth, Incorporated, their business and engineering consulting firm, Lillian and Frank wrote numerous publications as sole authors, as well as co-authoring multiple books and more than fifty papers on a variety of scientific topics. However, in their joint publications, Lillian was not always named as a co-author, possibly due to publishers’ concerns about naming a female writer. Although her credentials included a doctorate in psychology, she was less frequently credited in their joint publications than her husband, who did not attend college.[11][25]

Infuriating

Yeah, that looks like it could be used as a visual metaphor in Snow White for the preparation of the apple

In German this rule is supplemented with ⟨h⟩, ⟨ß⟩, and vowel doubling. Perhaps it’s worth to check if English couldn’t borrow some of those conventions.

English does sporadically use vowel doubling and ⟨h⟩ to lengthen vowels, but as ever, there’s no consistency.

Kidgin

That’s what you get when the government actually wants the guy dead

I’m getting a masters in my mid thirties with a cohort mostly in their early twenties and I completely agree with you. I wrote a whole thing, but it really seemed like bragging. It’s incredibly obvious to me that the difference is just time, so I don’t feel pride in it. They’ll get there.

It’s about 80% of young urban Germans I know whose grandparents have a strong regiolect that they can understand, but not produce. I find that super unfortunate, but I do hear a lot of strong dialect from young people in rural areas, so I hope it’s a problem over exaggerated by a selection bias.

And my coworker has only been here around a decade, so it’s still there somewhere

From someone living near Frankish, Hessian, and Swabian germany, this is still accurate (for now).

I have a Syrian coworker who speaks in the thickest regiolect, and it’s incredible to watch racist old people immediately change their minds about him when he opens his mouth.

I’m also an immigrant and was complaining to a German friend about how I can understand Dialekt, I just can’t respond in turn and I felt like that was a failure in my German ability. She noted that it’s like that for Germans too, which is why it’s mostly older people who have a strong dialect (in the cities).

I’m sorry, but that seems way too broad. Film is an art form and excluding metaphor from it would really limit its range.

Sure, but trends seem to hit harder here, probably because we’re smaller. There have been weeks where it seemed like 60% of the non text posts in my feed were about jeans or beans or vegan cat food. Those probably weren’t more than 0.1% of posts, but they sure felt overwhelming at the time.

Some kids are annoying, some are polite. Simple as.

If the territories count, there’s a whole new world of opportunity. I have met a Christmas, and cocos or keeling sound kinda cute (albeit not my taste). I feel like Cartier and ashmore would show up in name shaming groups.

Although to be fair, they’re not on the map

Connecticut borders Alabama, but I guess it still has Massachusetts

I always conflated the Horn of Africa with Cape Horn in South America and assumed it was the southernmost tip of Africa. One of today’s 10k, I guess, but it’s pretty obvious now that I think about it, that the actual Horn of Africa might look like a horn (as does Cape Horn)