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@stancarey My dad's favorite expression for swearing, borrowed from a family friend, is "plumbing words."
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Ellen
@Starry1086@wandering.shop
mastodon 4.7.3Totally blind, nature lover, cat parent, nonbinary. Works in digital accessibility. Please describe your images and videos.
138 Followers
90 Following
38 Posts
Joined September 27, 2023
Pronouns:
they/them, -e
Languages I speak:
English, castellano, português
Languages I'd like to practice:
Català, Deutsch
Interests:
Birds, music, knitting, reading, language.
Just got home from the local #NoKings protest. Favorite sign: "The wrong ice is melting, the wrong Amazon is burning."
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@missbrainslug@xarxa.cloud Esto me recuerda cuando el taller de ordenadores reparó mi portátil y pidieeron mil disculpas porque la pieza de reemplazo no tenía el mismo color. A mí me da igual, amigo. 😀🧑🦯
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@handmade_ghost@sunny.garden Just reached the description of dancing tree families in Chapter 11; so lovely to imagine.
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@IcooIey iOS VoiceOver strikes again and I wondered what any of this had to do with cetaceans.
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@handmade_ghost@sunny.garden I ended up buying the Audible version, and am now two chapters in. Fascinating world building/character background so far!
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@handmade_ghost@sunny.garden That's what I'm hoping. I've downloaded an Amazon sample in the meantime.
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@handmade_ghost@sunny.garden Hmmm, yeah. I was wondering for days when it was that Suddharma and John talked about John potentially inflicting "brain damage" and I just found it at the start of Chapter 7. Disadvantage of reading the audiobook: not being able to search.
My favorite character is Iren (I keep imagining it spelled as Irène but that seems a rather gendered name for them to take.)
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@handmade_ghost@sunny.garden Nearly reached the end but decided I needed to reread several chapters. And John's description of Vo in Chapter 18...y didn't I clock before that Vo is ND-coded?
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@moonrabbit Thankfully no. I think I unintentionally lured her outside by dragging one of her preferred toys around just before I stepped outside for some time on the deck. Won't do that again!
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@handmade_ghost@sunny.garden @annaleen@wandering.shop I am very bummed that I can only get the audio version through Audible. Neither Libby nor Hoopla has it (yet?).
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@missbrainslug @qpocooriginal Yo ni idea que pasa en la foto, el alt no me explica mucho.
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@herissonrose @moonrabbit Wow, the learning curve steepening with age is helpful info to know. My grandma was also Polish, first gen born in the States, and that's why I've tried learning it.
I'm pretty sure I've seen wszcz as a consonant combo...
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@herissonrose I mean, I knew about the neuroplasticity being better in younger people, I guess my "Still feel like a kid" tendencies made me think I could keep learning new langs forever. Span, Port, Ger and Catalan still make me happy though, and a little 🇬🇷
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@herissonrose @moonrabbit Hard agree with all of this. have been trying to learn Polish on and off for a couple years and it needs more vowels/fewer tongue-twisting consonant clusters. Also the grammar is confusing.
Love lego language though. :)
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@neonmate@chaos.social @daswarkeinhuhn@netzkae.se Hi, daily Braille user here. Am I understanding right that these are advertising a conference? I don't know what #39C3 is...
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@Euan@speedlines.stctp.zone I didn't know (or had forgotten) that Bert knits! :ball_of_yarn: 💛
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@herissonrose Oddly, from looking at some Polish words, I could kind of see their roots/hints of how they're formed...which I can do with German too.
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@joannaholman To my US brain, Tory is short for Victoria (though usually spelled differently). My parents did have a male neighbor named Torey once.
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@dkozlov@mstdn.games Does neighborhood cat still come around, or did someone adopt them?