1 All Souls Night (Part 19 of 31) By floggingbabel.blogspot.com Published On :: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 07:30:00 +0000 . CONTINUED TOMORROW. Above: Every Autumn, I write a Halloween story, write it out on leaves (one word per leaf), photograph the leaves, and then leave them where.I found them. The story is then serialized, starting on October 1 and concluding on the 31st--All Souls Day. * Full Article
1 All Souls Night (Part 20 of 31) By floggingbabel.blogspot.com Published On :: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 07:30:00 +0000 . CONTINUED TOMORROW. Above: Every Autumn, I write a Halloween story, write it out on leaves (one word per leaf), photograph the leaves, and then leave them where.I found them. The story is then serialized, starting on October 1 and concluding on the 31st--All Souls Day. * Full Article
1 All Souls Night (Part 21 of 31) By floggingbabel.blogspot.com Published On :: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:30:00 +0000 . CONTINUED TOMORROW. Above: Every Autumn, I write a Halloween story, write it out on leaves (one word per leaf), photograph the leaves, and then leave them where.I found them. The story is then serialized, starting on October 1 and concluding on the 31st--All Souls Day. * Full Article
1 All Souls Night (Part 22 of 31) By floggingbabel.blogspot.com Published On :: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 07:30:00 +0000 . CONTINUED TOMORROW. Above: Every Autumn, I write a Halloween story, write it out on leaves (one word per leaf), photograph the leaves, and then leave them where.I found them. The story is then serialized, starting on October 1 and concluding on the 31st--All Souls Day. * Full Article
1 All Souls Night (Part 23 of 31) By floggingbabel.blogspot.com Published On :: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 07:30:00 +0000 . CONTINUED TOMORROW. (For those who came in late: The first sentence was posted here on October 1 and a new sentence was posted every day thereafter.) Above: Every Autumn, I write a Halloween story, write it out on leaves (one word per leaf), photograph the leaves, and then leave them where.I found them. The story is then serialized, starting on October 1 and concluding on the 31st--All Souls Day. * Full Article
1 All Souls Night (Part 24 of 31) By floggingbabel.blogspot.com Published On :: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 07:30:00 +0000 . CONTINUED TOMORROW. (For those who came in late: The first sentence was posted here on October 1 and a new sentence was posted every day thereafter.) Above: Every Autumn, I write a Halloween story, write it out on leaves (one word per leaf), photograph the leaves, and then leave them where.I found them. The story is then serialized, starting on October 1 and concluding on the 31st--All Souls Day. * Full Article
1 All Souls Night (Part 25 of 31) By floggingbabel.blogspot.com Published On :: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 07:30:00 +0000 . CONTINUED TOMORROW. (For those who came in late: The first sentence was posted here on October 1 and a new sentence was posted every day thereafter.) Above: Every Autumn, I write a Halloween story, write it out on leaves (one word per leaf), photograph the leaves, and then leave them where.I found them. The story is then serialized, starting on October 1 and concluding on the 31st--All Souls Day. * Full Article
1 All Souls Night (Part 26 of 31) By floggingbabel.blogspot.com Published On :: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 07:30:00 +0000 . CONTINUED TOMORROW. (For those who came in late: The first sentence was posted here on October 1 and a new sentence was posted every day thereafter.) Above: Every Autumn, I write a Halloween story, write it out on leaves (one word per leaf), photograph the leaves, and then leave them where.I found them. The story is then serialized, starting on October 1 and concluding on the 31st--All Souls Day. * Full Article
1 All Souls Night (Part 27 of 31) By floggingbabel.blogspot.com Published On :: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 07:30:00 +0000 . CONTINUED TOMORROW. (For those who came in late: The first sentence was posted here on October 1 and a new sentence was posted every day thereafter.) Above: Every Autumn, I write a Halloween story, write it out on leaves (one word per leaf), photograph the leaves, and then leave them where.I found them. The story is then serialized, starting on October 1 and concluding on the 31st--All Souls Day. * Full Article
1 All Souls Night (Part 28 of 31) By floggingbabel.blogspot.com Published On :: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 07:30:00 +0000 . CONTINUED TOMORROW. (For those who came in late: The first sentence was posted here on October 1 and a new sentence was posted every day thereafter.) Above: Every Autumn, I write a Halloween story, write it out on leaves (one word per leaf), photograph the leaves, and then leave them where.I found them. The story is then serialized, starting on October 1 and concluding on the 31st--All Souls Day. * Full Article
1 All Souls Night (Part 29 of 31) By floggingbabel.blogspot.com Published On :: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 07:30:00 +0000 . CONTINUED TOMORROW. (For those who came in late: The first sentence was posted here on October 1 and a new sentence was posted every day thereafter.) Above: Every Autumn, I write a Halloween story, write it out on leaves (one word per leaf), photograph the leaves, and then leave them where.I found them. The story is then serialized, starting on October 1 and concluding on the 31st--All Souls Day. * Full Article
1 All Souls Night (Part 30 of 31) By floggingbabel.blogspot.com Published On :: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 07:30:00 +0000 . CONTINUED TOMORROW. (For those who came in late: The first sentence was posted here on October 1 and a new sentence was posted every day thereafter, to make a complete story.) Above: Every Autumn, I write a Halloween story, write it out on leaves (one word per leaf), photograph the leaves, and then leave them where.I found them. The story is then serialized, starting on October 1 and concluding on the 31st--All Souls Day. * Full Article
1 Kanguva Box Office Day 1 Advance Sales: 568% Higher Than Suriya’s Last Release ET In USA, Selling 5,460 Tix/Hr In India! - Koimoi By news.google.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:24:51 GMT Kanguva Box Office Day 1 Advance Sales: 568% Higher Than Suriya’s Last Release ET In USA, Selling 5,460 Tix/Hr In India! KoimoiKanguva morning show: Tamilians miffed as other states get earlier shows for Suriya, Bobby Deol's film Hindustan Times5 Reasons To Watch Suriya and Bobby Deol Starrer 'Kanguva' In Theatres Zee NewsKanguva’s second half to be very crisp 123teluguKanguva advance booking: Suriya's film earns over Rs 4 crore ahead of release India Today Full Article
1 3 Children, 3 Women Missing After 10 Suspected Kuki Militants Killed In Encounter In Manipur's Jiribam - NDTV By news.google.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 11:11:01 GMT 3 Children, 3 Women Missing After 10 Suspected Kuki Militants Killed In Encounter In Manipur's Jiribam NDTVManipur on boil: 2 more bodies found, 6 missing The Times of IndiaAdditional paramilitary forces rushed to Manipur amid spike in ethnic violence Hindustan TimesLetters to The Editor — November 13, 2024 The Hindu2 men found dead, 6 of family missing day after militants killed in Manipur India Today Full Article
1 21 million bitcoins By www.marriedtothesea.com Published On :: Sun, 06 Nov 2022 04:00:00 EST Today on Married To The Sea: 21 million bitcoinsThis RSS feed is brought to you by Drew and Natalie's podcast Garbage Brain University. Our new series Everything Is Real explores the world of cryptids, aliens, quantum physics, the occult, and more. If you use this RSS feed, please consider supporting us by becoming a patron. Patronage includes membership to our private Discord server and other bonus material non-patrons never see! Full Article autogen_comic
1 w0w b1g f0rtune By www.marriedtothesea.com Published On :: Wed, 07 Jun 2023 04:00:00 EDT Today on Married To The Sea: w0w b1g f0rtuneThis RSS feed is brought to you by Drew and Natalie's podcast Garbage Brain University. Our new series Everything Is Real explores the world of cryptids, aliens, quantum physics, the occult, and more. If you use this RSS feed, please consider supporting us by becoming a patron. Patronage includes membership to our private Discord server and other bonus material non-patrons never see! Full Article autogen_comic
1 Webinar: nieuw HPV-screeningsbeleid en -vaccinatie - 19 november 2024 - Medi-Sfeer By news.google.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:08:57 GMT Webinar: nieuw HPV-screeningsbeleid en -vaccinatie - 19 november 2024 Medi-Sfeer Full Article
1 Amerikaanse militair Jack Teixeira (22), die geheime informatie over oorlog lekte, krijgt 15 jaar cel - Het Nieuwsblad By news.google.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:22:28 GMT Amerikaanse militair Jack Teixeira (22), die geheime informatie over oorlog lekte, krijgt 15 jaar cel Het NieuwsbladJonge Amerikaanse militair die Pentagon-documenten lekte veroordeeld tot 15 jaar cel VRT.beLive - Oorlog in Oekraïne. Jack Teixeira, die geheime documenten over oorlog lekte, veroordeeld tot 15 jaar cel • Noord-Koreaanse soldaten betrokken bij gevechten, zeggen VS De Morgen15 jaar cel voor Amerikaanse militair die geheime documenten lekte NOS15 jaar cel voor Amerikaanse militair die geheime informatie op internet deelde NU.nl Full Article
1 2024/10/25 - Дугин о будущем By lleo.me Published On :: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0300 Тут интересна не сама идея русских воздушных городов (мы все читали «S.N.U.F.F.» Пелевина), а БПЛА. Дугин очень последовательный. Много лет открыто продвигает идею о ключевой миссии России в деле финального закрытия человеческого проекта для перехода в царство божье. И конечно же призыв переместить русских внутрь БПЛА является продолжением его идей. Разумеется, он знает расшифровку аббревиатуры. Если бы знал, что такое /dev/null, возможно, выразился бы ещё тоньше. Full Article
1 2024/10/25_lyzhi - О лыжниках By lleo.me Published On :: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:00:01 +0300 Дом, семья, любовь и помощь ближним — это и должно быть на уме. Но не может настоящий лыжник не мечтать о ядерной зиме! Это же лыжня длиной в экватор! Это же сезон длиною в год! И прохожих тоже маловато, и подсветка из-под снега прёт. Низкие оплавленные Альпы, навсегда замёрзший океан, и доступны для Елены Вяльбе все лыжни закрытых прежде стран! Full Article
1 2024/10/28 - Про уют и мою нынешнюю комнатку By lleo.me Published On :: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0300 Мне с детства нравились маленькие уютные помещения — всевозможные антресоли и особенно верхние полки вагонов. Я прекрасно спал даже на третьей полке — багажной. Бывало в студенчестве беру «сидячий билет» старого типа — это когда в плацкартное купе набивали в полтора раза больше народа, чем полок, и народ не мог договориться, кому достанется верхняя, а кто двое будут всю ночь сидеть на нижней, поэтому обычно сидели внизу все втроем. Я эту систему ломал: сразу объявлял попутчикам, что претендую на третью багажную, а им достанутся верхняя и нижняя. Я стелил там куртку и сладко спал, двое счастливых попутчиков тоже спокойно спали подо мной. В жизни на мою долю не выпало бездомных скитаний и квартирных проблем — я жил в Чертаново в отдельной квартире, бывало, даже в трех сразу на одном этаже, жил в элитной коммуналке Дома Писателей, жил в Питере в самых экзотичных местах, даже в музее. Короче, никаких нищебродских комплексов, что квартира непременно должна быть огромной, с золотым ковром и последней модели телевизором, у меня не сложилось. Напротив: многокомнатные пафосные отели с золотом по мрамору, гардинами и гулким эхом я люто ненавижу с тех пор, как был блогером и меня в таких постоянно селили. Считаю, что квартира должна быть наполнена близкими людьми, родственниками и друзьями — вот это, пожалуй, единственное требование к квартире. Так или иначе, мне уютнее всего в маленьких помещениях. За последний месяц во время поездки по США, помимо ночевок в палатке в кемпинге, наиболее запомнилась микро-мансарда в доме Миши и Вероники в Нью-Йорке: Не то, чтоб они мне не предлагали спальню побольше. Но я выбрал эту, там было прекрасно, и воздух свежий прямо из окна. А недавно я и в родных краях нашел себе совсем симпатичное место — вот она, идеальная микрокомнатка под лестницей. Я называю ее «палатка номер 6»: Туда влез стандартный матрас, ноги вытягиваются полностью, еще место остается. Обитаю там уже который день. Хотя мою келью не все домашние одобряют — они хотят там вместо меня хранить старый хлам, вёдра, коврики и ящики с говном. Но я пока держу оборону, придумываю каждый день новые отмазки: ах, гость приехал, уступил ему на время свою комнату, ах, гость уехал, белье надо постирать, пусть сохнет, ах устал сегодня, нет сил идти на второй этаж... Порой думаю: вот было бы классно здесь еще и полочку раскладную приделать, монитор поставить и книгу писать. А какие у вас уютные места? Full Article
1 2024/10/31 - Посоветуйте шапку на зиму By lleo.me Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0300 Всем спасибо за помощь в выборе! Максимальное число голосов набрали эти 4 шапки, и я 3 из них купил. Как придут, фото в них выложу: 11494127109 Уж извините, шапку Йоды брать не стал — но не только потому, что мне она не в стиль, просто ее цена (я сейчас посмотрел в корзине) оказалась не в районе 350-750 руб, а аж 1400, самая дорогая из всех. Было: Вот пытаюсь выбрать себе шапку на зиму, а то заморозки. Нашел на Алиэкспрессе с десяток подходящих в районе 500 руб, но не могу выбрать. Помогите: ======== [ ГОЛОСОВАНИЕ ] ======== недоступно при трансляции в соцсети, зайдите на сайт ======== [ /ГОЛОСОВАНИЕ ] ======== Все остальные какие-то пидорские. Full Article
1 2024/11/03 - Разговоры с высшим разумом о мышах By lleo.me Published On :: Sun, 03 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0300 Заехал в гости товарищ Чук, пили пиво с раками. По этому поводу спросил у ЧатГПТ заведомую хуйню и получил очень умный ответ: Спросил ещё более чудовищную хуйню и получил ещё более убедительный ответ: Дуглас Адамс полагал, что сверхинтеллектуальная машина на вопрос о жизни и Вселенной ответит «42». Он ошибался. Ответ будет гораздо более подробный и бессмысленный. Но я верю: всё-таки вырастет поколение, которое будет ссылаться даже не на Википедию, а на ЧатГПТ. Возможно, имеет смысл уже сейчас позволить ЧатуГПТ вносить свои правки в Википедию и модерировать чужие. Чатгппедия станет самым убедительным источником знаний на планете! Full Article
1 2024/11/05 - Трамп vs Харрис By lleo.me Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0300 Очень мне этого не хочется, но я считаю, что Америка выберет Трампа. Почему? Не потому, что ей симпатичен 80-летний вздорный старик. И даже не потому, что он уже был президентом (средний американец, как любой другой казуал, готов голосовать за старое). А просто потому что американцы не готовы выбрать своим президентом черную бабу. Вы скажете — как же так, это же Мекка политкорректности, дивёрсити и мультикультуризма. Так вот именно поэтому. Нарратив о равенстве женщин и рас, который Америка транслирует громче всех, на самом деле означает, что слишком многие там с этим не согласны и их требуется переспорить. Любая агрессивная декларация прав — не баловство, а болезненная реакция общества на существующие проблемы. Никому ведь не придет в голову устраивать демонстрации в поддержку лыжников — нет у лыжников проблем. Проблемы есть у женщин: им действительно реже удается построить высокооплачиваемую карьеру (не важно, по какой причине), они действительно часто сталкиваются с насилием и дискриминацией. Проблемы есть и у черных: их действительно постоянно убивают американские полицейские. Их действительно называют ниггерами. Многие их действительно считают людьми второго сорта. Да, среди них есть прекрасные люди, музыканты, учёные и айтишники. Но большая масса черных живет в своих гетто и предпочитает не учиться, не работать, а заниматься криминалом и наркотой. Это не я придумал, это бессердечная сука статистика. Впрочем, тут не важна причина, важно, что есть в американском обществе такое отношение, и всё. Именно поэтому чем громче пропагандистские вопли о том, что лыжники имеют такие же права, как гребцы и велосипедисты, тем чётче следует понимать, что это крик о проблеме: лыжников, получается, действительно не любят. А значит, и в президенты не выберут. Всё это нетрудно видеть и в исторических фактах: у Америки не было опыта женщины-президента, и уж особенно черной женщины-президента. В Британии с этим норм, там испокон веков были королевы или Тетчер, в Германии — Меркель, в ортодоксальном Израиле — Голда Меир, про современную Европу не говорю, даже в сверхпатриархальной гипермаскулинной Грузии президент сейчас женщина. Даже в истории России были великие императрицы, хотя советская и постсоветская власть, тяготеющая к старым хрычам, сильно пошатнула народную готовность поклоняться верховной женщине. Но в США изначально с 1789 года, со времён первого Джорджа Вашингтона, президентом всегда был только белый мужик с очень серьезным хлебальником. И чем громче кричат о своих правах американские темнокожие феминистки, тем понятнее, что им реально есть за что и с кем бодаться. Поэтому я думаю, что у Харрис шансов нет. И во многом — именно по причине дискриминации, которую наконец-то средняя масса сможет проявить абсолютно прозрачно и безнаказанно. А жаль. Full Article
1 2024/11/06 - Вот тоже раздобыл себе книгу By lleo.me Published On :: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0300 Вообще у меня принцип: в доме не должно быть ни одной бумажной книги, даже своей. Но решил, что всё-таки одна какая-нибудь книга у меня должна быть. Full Article
1 2024/11/06_SITE - Мой сайт временно не открывается из России By lleo.me Published On :: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:01 +0300 Мой сайт временно не открывается из России у большинства провайдеров (у меня из Питера открывается). И это нормально. Мы этого ждали, мы с вами к этому давно готовы. Но спешу успокоить: связано это вовсе не с моим скромным сайтом. Он не под запретом и не под санкциями. Связано это с тем, что он, как сотни тысяч других сайтов, проксируется через CloudFlare. CloudFlare — крупнейший мировой сервис (ему, например, принадлежит IP 1.1.1.1), который, скажем так, сильно помогает владельцу строить доступ к своему сайту. С недавнего времени там используется новая технология соединения под названием ECH (Encrypted Client Hello) на TLS версии 1.3, и вот ее Роскомнадзор принялся блокировать. Простыми словами: когда вы открываете ссылку https (вместо старого протокола http), то ваше соединение шифрованное. И Роскомнадзор не видит, что за данные вы читаете-передаете. Он просто видит, что идет обмен какими-то зашифрованными данными с сайтом по имени lleo.me Это Роскомнадзор сильно огорчает. https именно для этого и придумали ещё в прошлом веке. Но раньше Роскомнадзору было хотя бы видно имя сайта. В новом протоколе обмена имя сайта тоже не видно. Пользователь пошел куда-то и прочитал там три килобайта чего-то. Это совсем расстраивает Роскомнадзор. Поэтому пару дней назад он начал тупо блокировать протокол ECH, как минимум — для CloudFlare. Не блокируются только заходы с браузеров, которые не поддерживают TLS 1.3 (например, wget). Думаю, теоретически посетитель может отключить у себя в браузере TLS версии 1.3, но я не пробовал и вам категорически не советую — много чего может рухнуть. А советую раздобыть уже наконец VPN. Владельцы сайтов могут это поправить на своей стороне: в своих настройках на Сloudflare выключить ECH — но только если вы платный абонент CloudFlare. Зато бесплатные владельцы сайтов могут в настройках CloudFlare просто выключить TLS 1.3 в разделе «SSL/TLS» / «Edge Certificates» / «TLS 1.3», и будет тот же эффект. Однако я не побегу это делать сразу. Почему? У меня в ближайшие дни до 12 числа адова дохерища работы и все равно нет времени писать новые посты в дневник. Но и чисто из педагогических соображений спешить не следует. Во-первых, VPN должен стать таким же элементом личной гигиены как мыло в каждом доме. Каждая новая проблема, созданная Роскомнадзором, должна лишь напоминать об этом. Во-вторых, говноеды Роскомнадзора должны сперва вдоволь наесться говна. Ведь через CloudFlare завязан не какой-то там никчемный lleo.me, а сотни тысяч сайтов, в том числе критически важные: заводы, магазины, поликлиники, детские садики, билетные кассы, и всё это точно так же наебнулось. Так что теоретически даже есть мизерный шанс, что фраер сдаст назад. В общем, если у вас действительно проблемы с моим сайтом, просто советую недельку подождать и не заходить. Я постараюсь, чтобы до 13 ноября здесь не было ничего, достойного вашего внимания. А 13 ноября мы что-нибудь с этим придумаем, и я новый рассказ, например, выложу. Full Article
1 2024/11/07 - А принимал посильное участие By lleo.me Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0300 Смертная казнь и мировая война — это очень хорошо для меня Сера, пентаграмма и кипящий котел — это очень хорошо для меня Черные рога, копыта и хвост — это очень хорошо для меня А Царство Божье — ня ня-ня-ня-ня А Царство Божье — ня ня-ня-ня-ня Full Article
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1 Cavan hold on to Ulster U21 title By www.bbc.co.uk Published On :: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:36:11 GMT Cavan retain the Ulster Under-21 Football title as they edge out Tyrone 1-10 to 0-10 in Wednesday's final at Brewster Park. Full Article Northern Ireland
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1 College Football Playoff Rankings: Oregon, Ohio State on top; Alabama enters top 10 By www.foxsports.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:59:04 -0500 The second set of College Football Playoff Predictions were released Tuesday night, with Oregon, Ohio State and Texas listed in the top three spots. See the complete rankings! Full Article college-football
1 Tom Brady’s 3 Stars of Week 10: Lamar Jackson, Ja'Marr Chase, Leo Chenal | DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE By www.foxsports.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 02:09:54 +0000 Tom Brady gave his 3 stars of Week 10 which included Baltimore Ravens QB Lamar Jackson, Cincinnati Bengals WR Ja'Marr Chase and Kansas City Chiefs LB Leo Chenal. Full Article nfl
1 Tom Brady's 3 Stars of Week 10, including Ravens' Lamar Jackson By www.foxsports.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 21:20:50 -0500 Week 10 of the 2024 NFL season had a few memorable and exciting finishes as several stars showed out! Check out FOX Sports lead NFL analyst Tom Brady to name his latest 3 Stars of The Week. Full Article nfl
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1 what 'polite' means: Culpeper, O'Driscoll & Hardaker (2019) By separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com Published On :: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:20:00 +0000 I've studied the word please off and on for a few years now.* Currently, I'm trying to finish up a study that I started an embarrassing number of years ago. Now that I've returned to it, I have the pleasure of reading all the works that have been published on related topics in the meantime. They couldn't inform my study design, but they must now inform the paper I hope to publish. One of these is a chapter by Jonathan Culpeper, Jim O'Driscoll and Claire Hardaker: "Notions of Politeness in Britain and North America," published in the book in From Speech Acts to Lay Understandings of Politeness, edited by Eva Ogiermann and Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (Cambridge UP, 2019). Their question, what does polite mean in the UK and US, was a research project on my to-do list. When I was a younger scholar, I'd have been (a) royally annoyed with those authors for getting to it first, (b) sad, sad, sad that I didn't get to do a fun piece of research, and (c) consumed with self-loathing for not being quick enough to do the project myself. It is both the blessing and curse of middle age that I now look at anything anyone else has done with gratitude. Good! Now I don't have to do it! Let's start with why it's interesting to ask about "notions of politeness" in the two countries. Here's a clue from an earlier post about use of please when ordering at restaurants. I asked:So, how can it be that Americans think of themselves as polite when they fail to extend this common courtesy word?I argued that Americans (subconsciously) find the lack of please in these contexts "more polite." In the comments section for that post, some people—mostly British people—could just not accept that a food order without a please could be described as polite. To them, to be polite includes saying please. If you're not using the word please, it's just not polite. Now, part of the reason for that disagreement is that I was using the word polite in linguistic-theory-laden ways. The distinction between how the word politeness is used in linguistic discussions and how it's used in everyday life has become such a problem for us linguists that we now talk about polite1 and polite2 to distinguish commonplace understandings of polite (1) from our theoretical uses (2). The failures of communication in my previous blogpost probably stemmed from having three understandings of politeness at play: the linguist's polite2, American polite1, and British polite1. Postcard from the How to be British series Culpeper et al. set out to contrast British and American polite1. They point out that academic research on the topic of British/American politeness is "full of stereotypes that have largely gone unexamined." These stereotypes hold that British culture favo(u)rs maintaining social distance by using indirectness and avoidance in interaction, while Americans are more interested in creating interactional intimacy by being informal and open. The authors asked: how do AmE and BrE speakers use the word polite? If differences exist, then do they conform to the stereotypes, or do they tell us something new? To investigate this, the authors used two sets of data.Part 1: clustering 'polite' words in the OECFirst, they searched the Oxford English Corpus, where they found thousands of instances of polite. In AmE, it occurs 6.8 times and in BrE 8.8 times per million words. They then used corpus-linguistic tools to determine which words polite was most likely to co-occur with in the two countries' data. They then used statistical tools to group these collocates into clusters that reflect how they behave linguistically. (I'll skip over the detail of the statistical methods they use, but it suffices to say: they know what they're doing.) For example in the British data, words like courteous, considerate, and respectful form a courteous cluster, while words like cheery, optimistic, and upbeat are in the cheerful cluster. The British and American datasets were similar in that polite co-occurred at similar rates with words that formed cheerful and friendly clusters. This seems to go with the common stereotype of American politeness as outgoing and inclusive, but contradicts the British stereotype of reserved behavio(u)r. The most notable difference was that British polite collocated with words in a sensible cluster, including: sensible, straightforward, reasonable, and fair. This cluster didn't figure in the American data. The British data also had a calm cluster (calm, quiet, generous, modest, etc.), which had little overlap with American collocates. British polite, then, seems to be associated with "calm rationality, rather than, say, spontaneous emotion." Other clusters seemed more complex. Courteous and charming came up as British clusters, while American had respectful, gracious, and thoughtful clusters. However, many of the words in those clusters were the same. For example, almost all the words in the British courteous cluster were in the American gracious cluster. That is, in American courteous and attentive were more closely associated with 'gracious' words like open-minded and appreciative, while British courteous and attentive didn't intersect with more 'gracious' words. Respectful is a particularly interesting case: it shows up in the courteous cluster for the British data, but has its own respectful cluster in American (with words like compassionate and humane). Looking at these clusters of patterns gives us a sense of the connotations of the words—that is to say, the associations those words bring up for us. Words live in webs of cultural assumptions. Pluck one word in one web, and others will reverberate. But it won't be the same words that would have reverberated if you'd plucked the same word in the other web. It's not that compassionate wasn't in the British data, for example—it's that its patterns did not land it in a cluster with respectful. In American, respectful seems to have "a warmer flavour" with collocates relating to kindness and positive attitudes toward(s) others, while in the British data respectful has "older historic echoes of courtly, refined, well-mannered behaviour." Part 2: 'politeness' and sincerity on TwitterTheir second investigation involved analy{s/z}ing use of polite and its synonyms in a particular 36-hour period on Twitter. The data overall seemed to go against the stereotypes that American politeness is "friendly" and British is "formal", but once they looked at the data in more detail, they discovered why: US and UK words differed in (in)sincerity. In the British data, respectful seemed to "be used as a vehicle for irony, sarcasm and humour", while in the American data friendly "appears to have acquired a negative connotation" about 17% of the time, in which "friendly" people were accused of being untrustworthy or otherwise undesirable. This also underscores the idea that American respectful has a "warmer flavour" than British respectful. It's intriguing that each culture seems to be using words stereotypically associated with them (American–friendly; British–respectful) in ironic ways, while taking the less "typical of them" words more seriously. Yay for this study! I'm grateful to Culpeper, O'Driscoll and Hardaker for this very interesting paper, which demonstrates why it's difficult to have cross-cultural discussions of what's "polite" or "respectful" behavio(u)r. The more we're aware of these trends in how words are interpreted differently in different places, the better we can take care in our discussions of what's polite, acceptable, or rude. *If you're interested in the fruits of my please labo(u)rs so far, have a look at:Routine Politeness in American & British Requests (Murphy & De Felice 2019)Defining your P's & Q's: Describing and Prescribing Politeness in Dictionaries (Murphy 2019) Blog posts with the 'politeness' label Full Article politeness stereotypes
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1 Internet Reacts To Trump's Comments About Injecting Disinfectant To Cure COVID-19 By cheezburger.com Published On :: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 19:00:00 -0700 The internet is reacting to comments made by Donald Trump during a COVID-19-related press briefing held yesterday. Trump claimed that the virus could be treated by bringing "light inside the body" or injecting a disinfectant. Thankfully medical professionals were quick to denounce these claims, and people on the internet have since been creating some excellent memes on the matter. This should go without saying, but please don't inject yourself with disinfectant, y'all. Full Article twitter donald trump funny memes twitter memes funny tweets twitter reactions dank memes politics
1 15 Of The Most Tremendous Donald Trump Memes By cheezburger.com Published On :: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 07:00:00 -0700 One does not simply become president, without generating some Trump memes.15 Trump memes mixed in with about a dozen or so Trump GIFs -so as to cushion the impact some of these may have on our more sensitive readers. Whether you love him or hate him, you've gotta admit that Donald Trump is incredibly meme material."We'll build a Trump meme, and make the Memeians pay for it"Need more Trump memes? There's an abundance of Trump memes available at your disposal, such as Trump's Space Force memes or Hilarious Trump Space force memes which was related to announcing that America will be militarizing space, or the awkward memes of Trump staring at a solar eclipse or Memes of Awkward Obama/Trump Interactions. Or wax nostalgic with photoshop memes of Trump's Executive Orders which were changed to look like a variety of hilarious scenarios that Trump has just signed. And for a simpler, more sophisticated laugh, try the Trump and Kim memes that really have a nice subtle nuance to their humor.Donald Trump seems to be a magnet for being the subject of memes, and it really is not slowing down. Not much anyone can do to stop it so might as well sit back and laugh, regardless of where you stand politically Full Article donald trump funny politics funny tweets
1 NFPA offers free 1st Responder Connection App By www.nfpa.org Published On :: 15 Jun2017 19:37:24 GMT The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has released a free 1st Responder Connection App offering firefighters, EMS, command staff, public educators, wildland fire personnel, and authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs) convenient, digital access to best practices, safety tips, and emergency response content. Full Article
1 31 Days, 31 Lists: 2018 Translated Picture Books By blogs.slj.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 05:00:22 +0000 They come and they go into our bookstores and libraries and out again without a whisper of awards or significant praise. Yet the true mark of whether or not you are opening up your child to the world is to show them books made internationally. Today we celebrate translations. Even the weird ones. I take that back. ESPECIALLY the weird ones! Full Article 31 Days 31 Lists Best Books of 2018 2018 translated children's books 31 days 31 lists translated picture books translations
1 31 Days, 31 Lists: 2018 Books with a Message By blogs.slj.com Published On :: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 05:00:51 +0000 The earliest American picture books had only one goal: To provide some form of moral instruction. These days books with clear messages are exceedingly common. The ones that do it well? Much rarer. Here are the 2018 titles that knew what they were doing this year. Full Article 31 Days 31 Lists 31 days 31 lists message books
1 31 Days, 31 Lists: 2018 Fabulous Photography Books for Kids By blogs.slj.com Published On :: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 05:00:19 +0000 Every year I try to keep an eye out for any children's book that gives ample attention to photographs in some way. Thanks to advances in technology and printing, it's never been easier to make books with photographic images. Yet despite this, few come out. Today's list is a small one, but I'm grateful that each and every single one of these books exists. Full Article 31 Days 31 Lists 31 days 31 lists photography picture book photography
1 31 Days, 31 Lists: 2018 Fairy Tales, Folktales, and Religious Tales By blogs.slj.com Published On :: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 05:00:31 +0000 Interestingly, 2018 turned out to be a very strong year for folktales, fairy tales, and religious stories. Why? Well, look closely and you'll see that this is nothing so much as a gathering of small publishers. It's like I always say. The more the big guys consolidate, the more cracks and fissures remain for the little folks to sneak through. Here then are the titles published in 2018 that really stood out and shone: Full Article 31 Days 31 Lists 31 days 31 lists fairy tales folk tales religious tales
1 31 Days, 31 Lists: Oddest Children’s Books of 2018 By blogs.slj.com Published On :: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 05:00:13 +0000 What one person might consider "odd" could easily be another's cup of tea. It's important, then, to clarify that I don't see "odd" as a bad thing at all. It's healthy for a kid to see a book written for their age level that's outside the norm and dares to get a little bit freaky.Here then, are the 2018 titles that dared to be strange in some way. May they inspire others in the future! Full Article 31 Days 31 Lists 31 days 31 lists weirdo children's books
1 31 Days, 31 Lists: 2018 Poetry Books By blogs.slj.com Published On :: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 05:00:57 +0000 Poems used to be the sole property of April a.k.a. Poetry Month. Now that's changing. Publishers are rapidly putting more faith into the poetry books they produce. So let's take a look at what we saw this year, and the wide range of topics that were touched. Full Article 31 Days 31 Lists Best Books of 2018 2018 poetry 31 days 31 lists poetry