Your friend’s hair grew back differently because of the chemo, not because she shaved her head. It doesn’t happen often, but it’s not unheard of.

when she was 14-years-old

“Will have” is litigation-speak for “I already have this but I’m not going to admit it because I want to see if you turn it over in discovery because if you don’t, then I’m going balls-to-the-wall after your ass. In the alternative, I don’t have anything but I want to make sure that whatever you do have gets turned…

True, but if she couldn’t make the fricative sound and decided to sub a glottal stop (when you just stop your voice at the level of the vocal folds) it can sound like a /k/. I agree it’s a bit of a stretch, but does make sense.

Burninator is correct. You are wrong. D and T are both alveolar consonants. The formation of the mouth is exactly the same, but the D is unvoiced and the T is voiced. R and L are so similar that speakers of some Asian languages famously can not differentiate them. The burning almost certainly burned her mouth, nose…

It does if you keep your face immobile and do not engage the tongue completely to form a hard k. The i trails off into what could be an s or a k/c. When they say they heard her say Derek/Eric it does not mean they heard a clear hard k sound at the end of the name. They were trying to interperet what she said, her…

I lived in Florida for almost five years and we never had any hurricanes hit us directly while I was there, but the year before I moved there, they had three. A guy I worked with always mocked people going to the store only to find empty shelves. “If you haven’t prepared for the hurricane before it even forms, you’re…

Have you ever read Anthony Lukas’s Common Ground? Shitty schools all around, and why not bus poor black kids into shitty underfunded white schools, and vice-versa. Through the whole busing crisis hopes were pinned by the white community that it would be rescinded by someone, the City Council, the Mayor, the courts,…

No, I understand what you’re saying, you just misunderstand the nature of the nature of the exercise. You’ve clearly just never taken an acting class or spoken on a personal level with young people with a destitute/exploitative background, at least not since globalization happened. You’re hearing some things that…

I think 100% of the people deriding this exercise have never taken a real acting class and have no idea what they’re talking about

pre-literate small child

I think what gets me is that if she hadn’t cast a Cambodian child then we’d, rightly, be upset with her for that, but she did cast a Cambodian child and we’re upset with her because because we don’t like the casting process. How did they want the casting process to work? Realistically? Were the kids supposed to bring…

And the full transcript is clearly different from the Vanity Fair summary. Now I do think this was on accident and perhaps the Vanity Fair author doesn’t realize how what they intended to write and what they actually wrote significantly change the presentation of the process. But VF editors have no excuse, especially…

when they announced his name, i spent 2 whole days beign unable to fully concentrate because i kept writing bohemian rhapsody parody lyrics in my head. never fully coalesced in a full parody but some good limes were “scaramucci, scaramucci, can you do the trumps scandal” and “nothing really matters, anyone can see,…

They dont go to Ibiza or Mallorca. They go to BENIDORM (Europe’s answer to Cancun; the discount, bargain destination of the package-deal set)

yes, generally.

To be fair, the reason I didn’t watch the new Muppet show was because the commercials made it look like they were all acting out of character...

Great choice of Ai Weiwei for the header photo

I regret that I only have one star to give.

this ☝️