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Usages of non-standard grammar.
This one poses me (ETL) no problem, but my brain always tilts when the natives mix subject/verb contractions (you're, it's, they're) with the possessives (your, its, their).
It reached 2°C at night. This means that my job as "self-heating XXL size pillow for cats" is back.
I'm actually worried about one of my sister's cats. She has four; last time I checked on them they were all nice and dandy, but one of her females is sick. They're still trying to discover what's up with her, I hope that it isn't nothing serious.
And someone needs to tell Charlie Brown that my Malena is not a pissing post dammit. (Charlie Brown = one of the neighbourhood's dogs. He was a street dog, then a neighbour adopted him, so he's still getting used to live in a home, and still needs to take a few walks here and there. Malena = my lemon tree. [does it count as a pet?])
It's bizarre to talk about XX century events as "a century ago", but accurate in this case: 1912-16.
You don't even need to guess it based on whatever USA they posted at the centre. Just look at Giorgia Merdoni at the left.
Arch user: "I use Arch BTW"
Arch Linux: "me too!"
For positive guidance, here's my approach in bars:
- Casual environment. Preferably full of people, it's safer for both.
- Good hygiene, and clothes that show self-care. You don't need to LARP as rich, but don't pop up with a spaghetti-stained T-shirt either.
- Find some excuse to start a conversation. Plenty of times I've approached women outright saying "hey, I'm drinking alone and up to a chat. Are you waiting for someone?" (implied: "is it OK for me to sit with you?")
- Offer a drink. Make sure that the waiter/waitress brings it, don't bring it yourself.
- Find some topic that both of you enjoy to chitchat about. Avoid divisive ones.
It works well enough here in Latin America to break the ice.
Important: be assertive but don't be pushy. It's fine to show interest, it's not fine to insist. If you notice that she's uncomfortable with your presence, just leave. And some people will be only up for the chat, but won't be willing for anything sexy or romantic, that's fine too as long as you don't push boundaries.
TL;DR: the old definition of the meter was based on the length of a string necessary to make a pendulum oscillate once each 2s. And since the oscillation of a pendulum depends on both gravity and π, by assigning that length the value of one unit, you end with gravity as π².
This gets easier to see if you actually include the units into the equation:
T = 2π√(l/g) // the formula for pendulum oscillation
T² = 4π²l/g // getting rid of square roots, bloody roots
g = 4π²l/T² // same junk as above, just reorganised
g = 4π²l/(2s)² // they chose a pendulum with 2s oscillation
g = π²l/s² // cancelling out 4 and 2²
g = π²(1m)/s² // "we shall call that length ONE METRE!"
g = π²m/s² // gravity is pi², and the units fitIt's the same deal with the sealion comic, from the same site: not exactly funny but insightful. And yes, the art style is unique.
Not quite. Let us not conflate "criticism against one issue in a system" with "being against said system".
Plot twist: the comic has a single MC. He wears a red shirt, then he gets his morning coffee, then he wears a yellow shirt.
I'm being cheeky to highlight that the comic is artificially creating a qualitative distinction where there's none. Patriotism is at most nationalism lite; if not just an euphemism for the later.
It does so through two (IMO rather disingenuous) resources:
- A bad analogy between house and country. It's bad because it grossly disregards what matters the most in a country (its population).
- By making the nationalist sound angry so the patriot looks nicer in comparison. Not too unlike this:
What I'm going to say below is simply showing the above.
[P] I'm gonna work on my house because it's the best house.
Put people into the equation there. Both P and N will happily ignore what happens with people who live in other houses, for the sake of people living in their own. Except that they are not related to most people in their respective houses (remember, metaphors break).
Your neighbour is starving? "Sorry, as a patriot I need to focus only on people living in my house. One of them is peckish. They take priority."
[N] My house is the best house because it's my house!
People claiming to be "nationalists" typically defend the superiority of their "house" with shit like: it's the oldest house in the bloc, someone who lived in that house did something great, the garden has 0.19% less weed etc. Pretty much the same as the "patriot".
[P] Hi, neighbour! Could I see your house? I'm trying to improve my house.
More like "hi neighbour! I need some quality dirt for my house. I'll try to convince you that it's in the best of the interests of everyone living in your house if you had sand instead, so you can give me the dirt. And if you don't agree I'm going to convince every neighbour in the bloc to throw their rubbish on your garden. Do we have a deal, or do we have a deal?"
[N] Gimme your house [...]
P would instead spam propaganda until you're convinced that you're better off living of favour in someone else's house.
[P] Come into my house... / [N] Stay out of my house...
Okay, now the comic is simply making distinctions up of thin air, given that both are typically OK with tourism but heavily suspicious of immigrants.
[N] Now I am patriotism
Ouroboros, please. You were patriotism since the start.
I'd say "a plague in both houses", but I can only see one house there.
I think that this can be explained by less important elements often taking a lot of space, but using muted colours, to direct the attention of the viewer to what matters in that work.
Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss" is a good example of that, because he uses it recursively:
The ochre background is less vivid than the foreground (flower field and couple), so you focus on the later. As you distinguish its elements, the field (in green, yellow, violet) kind of blurs together into a muted hue, in contrast with the vivid yellow of the couple. Then as you focus on the couple, the man "wears" dark rectangles, while the woman's dress has clusters of vivid blue and red, so you focus your attention on her.
Da Vinci's "The Last Supper" is also a good example.
It does use plenty vibrant reds, blues, and greens (a bit hard to see as the original colours faded away), but they're mostly for the clothes. The background takes a huge amount of space and it's highly unsaturated, except the windows and door (right behind Jesus, to give him further chromatic focus [and the bright-dark effect]).
Fun exception that proves the rule:
Van Gogh's painting might look like a violation of this general "less saturated = less important" principle, but it isn't - the name is "Starry Night" for a reason, the sky is the most important element here.
[Sorry for sperging out on this. I couldn't help - I got painters in my family, and they're often talking about this sort of stuff.]
That's all covered by "non-standard" - because the standard of a language dictates what's to be taken as informal/vulgar/archaic, dialectal, slang, different words or the same word, etc. And while there are exceptions most of the time when people learn a non-native language they learn the standard, in detriment of other varieties.
(Sorry for nerding out about this, I just love this sort of topic.)