Actually I think cursive has a use in the development of hand eye coordination and probably in some language retention value. Which puts is miles above test prep. Of course I also think handwritten things are something we should have kids do a lot, especially notes, because it does improve memory by forcing development of multiple connections.
Fun headline I saw today, some schools have cut lunch time down so much it is causing kids to not finish their meals.
Why?
After listening to a couple of semesters of McWHorter lectures on language, I don't think learning to write a language has any relationship to retaining it, especially not as a child.
There are some ridiculous nonsense languages out there, spoken effortlessly by kids, and not written at all, and basically impenetrable for anybody who didn't learn it as a child.
Hello, "natural supplements" company marketing cbd to white peoples' dogs, I see you.
my dog is on a buttload of trazidone for his anxiety and hyperactivity. I've had multiple people suggest CBD and I'm like "I don't think that does what you think it does, my dog doesn't have joint pain..."
Good fantasy, can't be arsed to check what has been mentioned already:
Earthsea, also any other fantasy by LeGuin, though overall she writes way more SF
Long Price Quartet
ASOIAF, three first books are better 'objectively' but I still like the later ones, meandering and nonsense-filled as they are
Little, Big
Neverwhere
Bridge of Birds
Terry Pratchett though that is its own entire sub-genre
Name of the Wind, mabe its actually good, maybe I just have too much pro magic school bias
Speaking of, the Magicians
Lies of Locke Lamora
Guy Gavriel Kay - Tigana, but also all the other pseudo-historical ones. Maybe Fionavar Tapestry is good but its been too long.
Best Served Cold
NK Jemisin
City of Stairs
Baru Cormorant
Might add more later as I think of them.
Oh I forgot name of the wind because that migrated to the shelf in the other room, but of course it kicks ass
Fionavar tapestry was p bad when I tried reading it a couple years ago.
City of stairs is almost good but not quite to me, although most people really like it
NK Jemisin objectively good but stressful to read
Neverwhere I think is bad, not a good take on Everyman/weird London, or maybe I just don’t like that genre
Long price was thoroughly mediocre and missed the chance to do cool things with its setting and setup
We need to figure out how to stop parts of east Asia from wanting ground up rhinoceros horn and shit before I have energy remaining to turn on white people woo woo whims
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I'd be remiss if I didn't plug Morgan's A Land Fit for Heroes, because Morgan
Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.
We need to figure out how to stop parts of east Asia from wanting ground up rhinoceros horn and shit before I have energy remaining to turn on white people woo woo whims
But chu through the power of twitter we can hate on everyone simultaneously
There is no one who we cannot hate
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Hot take: requests aren't opinions and even if the intended read is obvious it's important to make a distinction
FF XIV - Qih'to Furishu (on Siren), Battle.Net - Ilpala#1975
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Fuck Joe Manchin
We need to figure out how to stop parts of east Asia from wanting ground up rhinoceros horn and shit before I have energy remaining to turn on white people woo woo whims
But chu through the power of twitter we can hate on everyone simultaneously
There is no one who we cannot hate
what about specific celebs who we deem perfect and without flaw
It's weird right now on the internet because I'm having 2004 flashbacks of not joining WoW early enough and then feeling like I've missed the boat entirely and it's impossible to catch up to anyone I'd want to MMO with.
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We need to figure out how to stop parts of east Asia from wanting ground up rhinoceros horn and shit before I have energy remaining to turn on white people woo woo whims
But chu through the power of twitter we can hate on everyone simultaneously
There is no one who we cannot hate
what about specific celebs who we deem perfect and without flaw
Anna Kendrick!
Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.
It's weird right now on the internet because I'm having 2004 flashbacks of not joining WoW early enough and then feeling like I've missed the boat entirely and it's impossible to catch up to anyone I'd want to MMO with.
The earlier that sets in the more convenient it is
"Just completely passed me by, farewell friends, if you can even see me waving goodbye from the faroff lands you now explore"
"We're level five, asshole!"
"Alas, never the twain shall meet."
FF XIV - Qih'to Furishu (on Siren), Battle.Net - Ilpala#1975
Switch - SW-7373-3669-3011
Fuck Joe Manchin
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It's weird right now on the internet because I'm having 2004 flashbacks of not joining WoW early enough and then feeling like I've missed the boat entirely and it's impossible to catch up to anyone I'd want to MMO with.
I'm getting cold sweats.
Like maybe just a taste, I could roll a rogue, maybe play a little on the side.
Just on the weekends
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@eddy Most people have hit my main suggestions already, but I would add in the Tensorate series by YJ Yang. They are non-western, non-linear, and non-binary. Each one focuses on a different character and is told in a different style, but they are all really good, quick reads.
It's weird right now on the internet because I'm having 2004 flashbacks of not joining WoW early enough and then feeling like I've missed the boat entirely and it's impossible to catch up to anyone I'd want to MMO with.
this is false and every expansion famously allowed for a catch up as purples were turned in for greens
don't give into this
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Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.
We need to figure out how to stop parts of east Asia from wanting ground up rhinoceros horn and shit before I have energy remaining to turn on white people woo woo whims
But chu through the power of twitter we can hate on everyone simultaneously
There is no one who we cannot hate
what about specific celebs who we deem perfect and without flaw
We wait patiently for the day their turn in the frozen dairy pond.
Know this Patrick Stewart; even you are not beyond my capacity to betray.
Most people have hit my main suggestions already, but I would add in the Tensorate series by YJ Yang. They are non-western, non-linear, and non-binary. Each one focuses on a different character and is told in a different style, but they are all really good, quick reads.
Oh the character in one of them starts as non-gendered and then chooses to be a dude and his twin chooses to be a lady and it causes some friction between them
It’s a cool take on gender
He ends up dating someone who is male but female-bodied due to religious reasons to not get a magic sex change thing
That particular book felt like a series of sketches about this guy’s background rather than a novel per se—almost fanfictiony, if that makes sense—but I heard the other books are more fleshed out. Was a good read regardless.
Wait I was trying to quote organichu’s post also oops this is spoilers so let me spoil that
I watched an episode about a supreme court pick recently and I enjoyed it and also kinda rolled my eyes at the message I took from it that the ultimate supreme court has a fiery liberal and fiery conservative battling it out in the marketplace of ideas
also there's one part where the conservative supreme court justice pretends to be homophobic but then its all a ruse, and i'm like hoho, yes, what a delightful jest, pretending that gay people are less than human in the name of proving some point about conservatism, how very clever and endearing
Actually I think cursive has a use in the development of hand eye coordination and probably in some language retention value. Which puts is miles above test prep. Of course I also think handwritten things are something we should have kids do a lot, especially notes, because it does improve memory by forcing development of multiple connections.
Fun headline I saw today, some schools have cut lunch time down so much it is causing kids to not finish their meals.
Why?
After listening to a couple of semesters of McWHorter lectures on language, I don't think learning to write a language has any relationship to retaining it, especially not as a child.
There are some ridiculous nonsense languages out there, spoken effortlessly by kids, and not written at all, and basically impenetrable for anybody who didn't learn it as a child.
Writing and speaking are different pathways and skills.
Take it from someone whose religion has loved to historically get every one to read the language but not speak it. But I was putting more on having more practice and requirements to hand write a language helps with the skills of literacy. Not the skills of speaking.
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the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Dear seafood restaurants, please stop including lemons with your fish, because I am a moron.
God I wish I had thought of that it’s fucking obvious in hindsight
After listening to a couple of semesters of McWHorter lectures on language, I don't think learning to write a language has any relationship to retaining it, especially not as a child.
There are some ridiculous nonsense languages out there, spoken effortlessly by kids, and not written at all, and basically impenetrable for anybody who didn't learn it as a child.
my dog is on a buttload of trazidone for his anxiety and hyperactivity. I've had multiple people suggest CBD and I'm like "I don't think that does what you think it does, my dog doesn't have joint pain..."
uhh uhh CBD wine?
Oh I forgot name of the wind because that migrated to the shelf in the other room, but of course it kicks ass
Fionavar tapestry was p bad when I tried reading it a couple years ago.
City of stairs is almost good but not quite to me, although most people really like it
NK Jemisin objectively good but stressful to read
Neverwhere I think is bad, not a good take on Everyman/weird London, or maybe I just don’t like that genre
Long price was thoroughly mediocre and missed the chance to do cool things with its setting and setup
Asoiaf is fun
—hot takes with credeiki
But chu through the power of twitter we can hate on everyone simultaneously
There is no one who we cannot hate
Switch - SW-7373-3669-3011
Fuck Joe Manchin
Anna Kendrick!
I think this exists actually
The earlier that sets in the more convenient it is
"Just completely passed me by, farewell friends, if you can even see me waving goodbye from the faroff lands you now explore"
"We're level five, asshole!"
"Alas, never the twain shall meet."
Switch - SW-7373-3669-3011
Fuck Joe Manchin
Like maybe just a taste, I could roll a rogue, maybe play a little on the side.
Just on the weekends
"The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I’d beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it." -- Jack Kirby
I started reading it but I dunno
It's conceptually interesting but the main character was so boring that I fell off it
I'll read some of these recommendations, probably
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
this is false and every expansion famously allowed for a catch up as purples were turned in for greens
don't give into this
We wait patiently for the day their turn in the frozen dairy pond.
Know this Patrick Stewart; even you are not beyond my capacity to betray.
It's not written in 0s and 1s.
Wait..why are these free text and not ICD 10 codes?
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Some days it really does feel like I leave chat with a shopping list
Too many turtles!
It's got great prose and some wonderful ideas but tbh I'm not sure it's worth it
It’s a cool take on gender
He ends up dating someone who is male but female-bodied due to religious reasons to not get a magic sex change thing
That particular book felt like a series of sketches about this guy’s background rather than a novel per se—almost fanfictiony, if that makes sense—but I heard the other books are more fleshed out. Was a good read regardless.
Wait I was trying to quote organichu’s post also oops this is spoilers so let me spoil that
This man def ate a lot of rinds because he thought it was racist not to
also there's one part where the conservative supreme court justice pretends to be homophobic but then its all a ruse, and i'm like hoho, yes, what a delightful jest, pretending that gay people are less than human in the name of proving some point about conservatism, how very clever and endearing
There’s also icd codes
Good morning @Winky
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Writing and speaking are different pathways and skills.
Take it from someone whose religion has loved to historically get every one to read the language but not speak it. But I was putting more on having more practice and requirements to hand write a language helps with the skills of literacy. Not the skills of speaking.