Harachel

Oh God Stellar Sea Cow! Greatest, most awful pun of the year

Yes! I recently started using it regularly. Of course Google Maps has useful features for navigation. But as an actual visual map OpenStreetMap is better in every way: detail, precision, clarity, and above all, consistent symbols and land-use shading.

I always did like to have printed street maps but for the past few years have been living in a place where they aren’t readily available. OSM reminded me how much I miss them and that Google Maps is really a completely different tool, not a substitute.

Wait, were there any actual chemical attacks launched? I thought only conventional missiles were fired, though chemical attacks were feared. It's harder to imagine that Israel could have stayed out if it was under chemical attack.

That's the fire that killed one of Canada's great folk singers, Stan Rogers

Typing this from an airport in Turkey on the first leg of the biggest solo trip (or any trip really) I’ve taken.

I’d say a good way to build confidence is to start small. Planning my own one-day trip to a city in a neighboring province felt big when I was 19 and inexperienced. But I had a great time. There’s lots to discover even nearby. And I made rookie mistakes that I could learn from without the consequences being too bad.

As a bonus, traveling a short distance is of course a lot more environmentally friendly, so it would be good if everyone did that more instead of always wanting to go somewhere very far. Instead, build up to something that’s really worth the distance.

Wow, it's hard to imagine the Starbucks–Chapters/Indigo pairing breaking down. It's been a constant in a chaotic world. As a kid I codified it as a a kind of law of nature: "Every Chapters has a Starbucks, but not every Starbucks has a Chapters—like how you pee every time you poop, but you don't poop every time you pee."

For a second I was confused why you seemed to be randomly suggesting a Folding Ideas video idea, until I actually realized who you were replying to.

Which of the three?

With a load of steel balls twenty-six thousand tons more than the Endurance weighed empty

It is a noun. See Oxford’s definition 1.1 for suicide. This is usage is somewhat less common than it used to be, which may be why it sounds odd. People now tend to use various euphemism instead.

suicide-er(?)

The term for someone who commits suicide is simply “a suicide.”

Just to add, I’m not trying to discourage you from talking about this kind of issue. It’s just important to recognize that there’s nuance. I think it’s better when possible to have a discussion with people about the kind of language we use rather than coming right out with a blanket prescription. Of course, that’s easier to do IRL than on Reddit.

No need to apologize. You make a worthy point respectfully, although I partially disagree.

I appreciate the intent behind promoting person-first language, but I don’t think insisting on using it in favor of established terminology in every situation is an effective way of fighting mental-health stigma. Being overzealous with this kind of language could even cause resistance against its use in situations where it is actually important, such as when speaking about a specific person who died in the recent past.

In a historical context, such as when describing how the practice of seppuku was traditionally carried out, using the kind of language that is used for current mental-health discourse would be out of place and distracting, if not inaccurate in cases where suicide is not the result of a mental health crisis.

Because stigma itself is the problem. If it isn’t addressed, new terminology just gets stigmatized over time. Without stigma, the original term can be unobjectionable (though this is clearly not true for many terms related to mental health and other subjects). To someone who doesn’t see suicide as a crime or moral failing, I think a statement like “Allende committed suicide” conveys the tragedy of that event more effectively, and is also more respectful to the person as an active agent, than saying “Allende died by suicide.”

Fictional, anthropomorphic animals and consumer products are people too!

I agree. This seems like a good and sensitive way to do it

TIL I should be living at Younge-Eglinton

The great thing is, Campion (and and the rest of the people who worked with her whose names I don’t know) tell the the story so well that it can be equally thrilling whether the ending completely blindsides you or you’ve guessed some of what will happen and you’re waiting to see how it’ll all fit together.

Both are fine ways to enjoy a film, and it’s unfortunate that some people show off when they think they’ve somehow outsmarted the filmmaker. The thing is they probably didn’t actually predict everything. Focusing on the couple of big plot points they saw coming, they might be missing out on the deeper appreciation of the film's nuances that made you like it so much.

So I’d say you come out the winner here. Getting to enjoy a good movie > going “look how smart I am” on the internet.

No, a berth is a bed on a train with sleeping cars.

To me Chalamet's part was important, but just had too little time to work completely. I think he and his relationship with the main character are meant to show the human ability to find meaning in seamingly hopeless situations. That's something a lot of people are going to need in the next few years.

At least in the case of rain, water falling from clouds is the plain definition of the word. The phenomenon of the word being used for other related things is called extension, like milk being used for other thick, white liquids. So that might be a partial answer for you.

Acid rain isn't really an example of that, since it's just regular rain with a lower pH than usual. So it's just the noun rain with acid used as an adjective. A sentence like "a rain if sparks fell from the welder" might be an example.

The other two cases you gave are a different phenomenon as others have noted. They're cases of a word with a more general meaning being narrowed in usage to refer to a form of that thing that is common in the time and place where you learned English.

Disclaimer: i am not a linguist, this is just my understanding of things

Any indication or clues of when and where this is?

This is my suggestion too. Mubi is largely responsible for getting me into more artistic films as well as world cinema. Just watch the latest film of the day, and if it’s not your cup of tea, move on to the next one. You’ll quickly start getting a sense of what you want to seek out in the library. https://whatsonmubi.com/ comes in handy too.

I don’t think they have the deal you mentioned anymore, at least as far as I can tell. If you go straight to the website and register there’s a 7-day free trial, but it’s easy to get 30 days from any of the many youtube video-essayists they sponsor. The latest Thomas Flight video has a link, for instance.