I've studied a lot of German and a lot of English. Plus I watch quality TV. In case you need to procrastinate 48 more minutes, I recommend this:

The basic nuts and bolts of English are Germanic; we've got a ton of vocabulary from Latin and French, but when it comes down to the very basics, that's all Germanic. Family, body parts, animals … all Germanic.

"You" is etymologically related to the German "euch". Granted, "euch" is second person plural informal accusative, but stuff gets shuffled around after thousands of years, these things happen.

We're special needs nerds.

Yes indeedy about thee and thou!

Oooh, you pushed my buttons with "subjunctive"; I'm always in a subjunctive mood.

("Aren't" I? "Amn't" I? I suppose it'd technically be "amn't".)

Well that settles it, I'm ready to sign up!

I wouldn't take procrastination advice from anyone who ever got around to classes and books.

Bars, tools, ports dot com … shouldn't that be a Web site for gay sailors on leave?

I wonder what is a quick and easy test. Like that old thing about rock stars being such prima donnas that they'd demand a bowl a green M&Ms … ? That actually originated as a quick and dirty way to test whether the people preparing the stage did their job correctly: you can't really confirm that they got all the…

The response to Netroots Nation and Seattle was an eye-opener for me too. I'm figuratively hanging out with all my fellow white liberals and I think we're all on the same page, then all of a sudden half of them are all, "screw BLM, we want free college and blacks are just going to have to wait another century or…

"At the time I thought it was a waste of time, but later on I realised the value."

"I let my need to despise major media & take a comedic version of the facts be more important"

I've heard this is where English / lit majors excel: they develop a talent for developing strategies to solve problems. Maybe it was just a fad from a few years ago, but:

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Same here. Mind you, it probably doesn't perform as well as a charcoal grill you can get for $15, but there's something appealing about repurposing materials.

Add a few starving coyotes and I'd get cable just to watch.

Yeah. His deal is "survivalism!" because he longs to be top dog in a world where the skills he possesses are suddenly prized. Myself, I want to build one just because I enjoy simple, efficient, and ludicrous solutions to problems. I've got a proper charcoal grill already, but this … this is a thing of beauty.

King Beauregard understands that King Beauregard would be a poor fit and would not be offended by not being invited. But two things: