You are welcome to your viewpoint.

Language movement can be so, frustrating? Strange? I have always loved that word. It is used to describe both Jane Eyre and Mary from The Secret Garden. Quiet, thoughtful girls who have rich inner lives. But I do absolutely remember the first time I heard it used as a slur. I was 8ish and a new student at a teeny tiny…

Thank you! I believe it was created specifically for an article talking about how much the current US administration hates people like me. :)

Kay that pretty funny.

I have an uncle who was born just before midnight, March 31. My grandma swears she told the doctor if he was born on April 1 she wouldn’t pay him.

Surprise parties are the fucking worst. Sooooo hostile.

I used to write

I would contribute to a Jews Punching Nazis Legal Defense Fund. 

At Indian places, ask for what the servers preference is. Be careful. I got a lamb vindalo I had to rinse in the sink when I got it home.

Sure thing dude. What a terrible world you inhabit. I foresee so much pain and misery in your life. :)

Wow, I should not have replied to you. Your inital story, was it deliberately unclear? And this response, wow.

I’m not super clear on what happened. She complained about sexism from the people (but not you) she was supervising. You pointed out that she could use her words. She flipped the fuck out. And screamed at you. For suggesting that she use her words. And you learned something? Think this was appropriate?

Oh right. It only matters if it’s legal, not whether it’s a decent thing, or an unkind thing, or anything else.

Always funny!

Yeah, the south is mostly liberal!

Sorry to pile on, but the first time I met an theoretically educated person who denied the moon landing, they were from Oklahoma.

Oh my hearing isn’t “bad” I just can’t hear and mimic (accurately) nuances like notes for singing and some accents. But what you describe I think falls closer to what I think of as emphasis rather than notes. And I am ALL about subtle and distinct emphasis. I am unlikely to become fluent but I like to have a small…

Shut the fuck up.

It me,

I have scarlet fever related hearing damage, which makes me effectively tone deaf. I assume this pretty much precludes me from being able to learn a language like Mandarin?