mthor

From a standpoint of studying language as a phenomenon, you're right. But if you actually want to talk to people, you need to have the chance to use it, even just a little. For example, my grandmother, although born in America, was raised in a home where they mostly spoke Polish (her mother never learned English), so as a child and young woman, she was very fluent in both languages. After her mother died, she and my grandfather would speak Polish only when they didn't want the kids to understand, and after my grandfather died, she didn't use it because she had nobody to speak it with. Fast forward about ten years, to when I was taking Russian in college, and she couldn't understand a word I was saying. She admitted that twenty years before, she'd have probably understood just fine, but without using it, she lost it. (You're right about one language being a gate to others - the Russian and Bosnian interpreters used to sit in the kitchen at the office speaking Russian and Bosnian to see how long they could maintain a coherent conversation in two languages, and we sometimes had to shoo them back to work. ) tl;dr: The study of language can be fascinating in its own right, but if one wishes to communicate with it, one must talk to other people using it on a fairly regular basis.

Unless you're going to Denmark, why? Any language that you don't have a chance to use, you'll forget it. (Unless maybe you planned on reading The Little Mermaid in its original form?)

That I don't know about - at least it's in the right general area.

Cut them some slack - first, they had to go through a pandemic, and then they had to deal with zeni - I'd have just slapped some duct tape on it if it would have gotten him out the damned door faster. (Seriously, though, that's been done at home - I've never seen a student apply anything like that, much less an experienced nurse. Pokemon bandaids would probably be easier to center.) Edit: OK, I went inside, got on the desktop with the big screen, and put on my cheaters - it does look like toilet paper. I sit corrected - I have never, since I started as a lowly NA in 1978 (back before one needed the "C"), ever seen anyone vaguely associated with health care apply a dressing that looks like that. ( I initially thought that it was just carelessly folded ABDs, but being able to see them makes a difference.)

Don't even go there. If it's from the hospital, the nurses are TIRED. If it's a home job, I'm impressed that it's not just a long line of Pokemon bandaids

Report cards got here Saturday. Still passing 3rd grade (actually, we're doing well). One more marking period to go... I don't care what the next plague is, I'm not taking 4th grade again.

So he didn't die. Pity party's over - time to re-ban him. Unless, of course, you're waiting on the relapse arc or the rejection arc...

They did. I didn't see it, but from what I hear, it sucked. Edit: Unless you mean that you want a reboot of Reboot: The Reboot...

🍻👽🎂👽🍻

My sister got a law degree, and her undergrad was environmental engineering, so there you go.

Don't tell the kids, or they're going to want one.

A Karen is a member of a Burmese ethnic minority group. What you saw was probably a Jennifer (thanks, @Vamped).

It's graupelling here. Normally, I think graupel is cute, but not in late April.

Don't we have enough problems with CO2 emissions without adding dino farts?

My reflection.

Alcohol has most of the effects of a class II narcotic, but it's going to burn like a mother. Good luck.

Thank you, sweetie. You get a cookie. (What a nice young man!)

You're too young.

Sterno

No, Who's on first.

No. What is the name of the man on 3rd base.

And here I thought that it was H.H. Holmes.