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fictionadventurer · 10 months
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I know I just said that we shouldn't categorize people in history, but when it comes to the presidential podcast, I do find myself sorting presidents into "good" and "garbage" piles based on how they treated their wife.
Good
Ulysses S. Grant gets top marks here. I'm not crazy about his wife, but he was, and they're cute together. She was sunny and upbeat enough to boost him through a lot of years of struggle, and he was devoted to both her and the children.
Theodore Roosevelt was a loving husband to both his wives and a ridiculously devoted father to all his children.
James Garfield starts out in the garbage pile because he married her without love and had an affair, but the way they both overcame that to fall deeply in love is a pretty beautiful redemption.
Woodrow Wilson seems to have had a pretty good relationship with his wife. I know less about them so this is a tentative classification, but she was willing to basically help run the country after his stroke, so it suggests there was something good there.
Garbage
Warren Harding reigns in the garbage can. Multiple unrepentant affairs with long-term mistresses.
FDR was already on pretty shaky ground in my mind, but once I learned he had an affair with Eleanor's secretary, and then Eleanor stayed with him through polio, and then at his death he was with this same secretary while Eleanor was away, he lost a lot of points.
Middle Ground
Lincoln and his wife had a pretty rocky relationship, but from what I can tell they tried to make it work and were planning on taking steps to improve things before his death.
Chester Arthur's wife hated that he was constantly away on political business, which gives him a lot of bad husband points, but also she did want that high-class, high-status lifestyle, and from what I can tell he did love her and had a lot of regrets after she died.
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rhiannons-bird · 9 months
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I would buy Thomas Lightwood's poetry book
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ratracechronicler · 2 months
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This is not a defense of AI but rather a curiosity...
I overheard a conversation explaining how ChatGPT "knows" syntax but not semantics. It can grammatically put a sentence together, but it doesn't understand actual meaning and why we wouldn't say "I drove my headphones to the moon" even though that's a grammatically correct sentence.
The "nonsense" sentence made me think of a gaming video on YouTube where one of the players mentioned (and I might be paraphrasing slightly) that "There are two walkies coming in spicy on the next ice cream truck."
Out of context, that is just plain nonsense. But in context, with enough understanding of what each word is referring to, it made perfect sense.
And it just makes me think that there's going to be another layer to AI "understanding" language: context. Words don't exist in a vacuum; one of the main things I need to emphasize to students is that they're actually writing for an audience with certain knowledge and expectations. And there are so many idioms and references baked into language, and it's just going to add to that additional layer of complexity of how words do and don't make sense together and what that means for predicting which one comes next.
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antiqua-lugar · 3 months
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"oh I'm so jealous Italian is such and elegant and poetic language" ah yeah, the inherent poeticità of STOCAZZO
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seokoilua · 1 year
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Simon’s Song, English translation
Olden days, escaped years They say time heals all wounds It hurt, I lost myself I was lost before I found home
What we had and the ones we were Can never forget everything that was good If you demand me for an answer All the memories live on
We have been tested, we got to fight But what we were, no one can take from us Going separate ways when it is over Something that I will remember for life
What we had and the ones we were Can never forget everything that was good If the question has an answer Hillerska will always live on
If you saw me here today Saw how longing makes me weak And the memories that still live inside me
Yeah, if I saw you here today I would ask how it is And whether the memories still live inside you
We have been tested, we got to fight But what we were, no one can take from us Going separate ways when it is over Something that I will remember for life.
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So. I know there are plenty amazing translations for Simon’s Song by people who actually know what they are doing, but I had a little too much free time and I like to pretend that I’m studying Swedish. (Which I haven’t needed to do after doing the final exam last autumn [AND getting the top grade, mind you], but somewhere along the way I found Young Royals.)
I love this song. I do. The lyrics do sound like something a talented 16-year-old could write while being just vague and specific enough to be so clearly Wilmon while passing as any general school/love song.
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m-ushroomtale · 2 years
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flordeamatista · 4 months
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guess who is writing again ☺️
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brechtian · 4 months
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Isn’t it crazy that the poetic meter conversational English most often falls into is iambic isn’t it CRAZY there’s a poetic meter we are naturally inclined towards at all!!!! We literally created language based off of what was most pleasing to our ears music and poetry in their rawest forms predate standardized or codified language!!!
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theflyingfeeling · 2 years
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[talking about the new song after it was performed, not included in this video was them asking us if they should release the song or smth, roughly translated:]
Joel: We'll keep that in mind!*
Niko: Yeah, we too have been thinking we should maybe release that one
Joel: Pretty ok first reaction, right after the world tour. But hey, let's do a little throwback, let's go a few years back in time. For that, we're gonna need a little help from you...
@ Särkänniemi, Tampere, 28.5.2022
*literal translation of the Finnish idiom: "I'll put it behind my ear"
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miabrown007 · 8 months
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why does it matter so much what language are you reading a story in, it should be the same story!! but it does, oh it does.
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pleasantgirl2000 · 11 months
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shawty got that protestant work ethic and catholic shame combo call that a christ complex
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brightgnosis · 8 months
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Flora's lexicon: An interpretation of the language and sentiment of flowers with an outline of botany and a poetical introduction by Catharine Harbeson Waterman
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For the dnd ask
Jairix for 32, 64, 68 ;)
oh I'm so glad you asked Kim 🥰
32. do they seek control, or do they want less of it?
AHAHAHAH I don't think jairix could stand a loss of control - not now, not when she's holding on so tight to every bit of it she has left. I think she's desperate for it and it's killing her. Every possible circumstance, every possible enemy is rearing its head over Abseir, and Jairix knows only too well that a lack of control does not mean the responsibility weighs any less heavy.
64. do they value mercy or justice more?
to be frank, I don't think that she cares. jairix wants the things she has claimed as her own - her homeland, her city, her scattered party - to survive. she values mercy when it is extended to Abseir. She values justice when it protects Starfall. Although, perhaps, she leans more heavily on the side of justice now. Mercy leaves too much room for consequences later. (perhaps she looks at the decisions she makes every day and the compromises she's made and cannot bring herself to ask for mercy. perhaps she's locked it inside her so deep that her mouth no longer knows how to form the words.)
68. what was the best moment of their life?
I'll pick two. One during the campaign and one before, because nothing that happened during the campaign was unequivocally happy - there was always some greater cloud hanging over it. But I think sitting with Nan'Uov, looking up at the stars of the Orclands, was the closest thing to content she's been in a long time.
But the best moment of Jairix's life may have been arriving in Abseir for the first time, a little 10-year-old lizard fleeing the only home she'd ever known, and arriving at a miraculous city, still half-built and growing by the day, filled with all sorts of different kinds of people and with strange flying contraptions (airships, although how would she know it, they were some of the first) dotting the sky. Of course she fell in love at once. Of course she begged her parents, even after the war was over, to stay, so she could live in this wonderful place and learn its magic. Of course she ended up here, in the very center of its interconnected parts, giving everything she has and everything she is to the city that she adores.
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I think I met Jem Carstairs irl. 
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17yearcicada · 2 years
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i’ve been reading a lot of/about poetry recently and one tiny part of me is saying i should start writing poetry again but the rest of me is saying You Are A High School Student.
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vivika-ka · 22 days
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you ever read a story in Spanish and it’s like, “damn, this feels poetic without even trying.”
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