I meant generally, and not in this case, but I didn’t add it.

There are some situations where you can’t reply otherwise without being unnecessarily super rude, so ‘wa alekum salam’ to you too. (I am often tempted to add “ya-habibi” after that)

That, and she has to give up drinking because alcohol is haraam.

Seriously I didn’t recognize her without it.

That’s what I mean. I am not yet a true cat lady — I am still catless as I believe that that’s a bigger commitment than getting married.

They’re going about it wrong — a true cat lady only does strays and rescues.

This connection between your hand, your eyes, and your brain is one I intuited a long time ago, studying languages very different from English, with different alphabets. For Arabic it is probably the ONLY way. This is one of my biggest beefs with tech-obsessed language learning that insists on students typing…

That makes me odd for life, then.

Pics or it didn’t happen. (Knowing the Russians they’ve probably GOT pics)

Ditto for changing countries!

Also, Dolly’s working from a different sense of the word “cheap.”

“You’ll still be listening to these” is more like “you’ll still be subjected to these at ‘80s nostalgia nights’ 30 years later.”

I am surprised I never heard of this guy from my EFL students. Seeing words as you hear them is good for your comprehension and music makes it easier to remember what you heard.

Starred for “Uday and Qusay.”

Even the hardest of hard-core cat ladies of my acquaintance have better style than this.

In Turkey many people are deeply confused about the difference between Christmas and New Year. Add to that all the decorations and whatnot that Westerners associate with Christmas are displayed for New Year in Turkey.

Where do you live that you can afford to?

The whole idea sounds like some kind of parody anyway.

I’ve become addicted to Reddit /r/relationships. Some of those situations will remind you all over again that being “alone” is better than putting up with people who cheat on you, abuse you, hurt your pets, treat you like a servant, etc., etc.

I answered that question for myself thusly: TODAY. Give up, let it go, you have so little control over it when you think about it. Work to improve and develop what you can control about the situation.