That’ll show him!

Both where I’m from and where I live in western Europe are the oldest buildings 14th-century churches.

you dogged a bullet

😳

Big if.

My mum’s got a great anecdote about how the doctor came around about my cough when I was a newborn, and he came into a room full of local mums all fawning over me in my cot and chugging away.

I’m not convinced that there’s even a soft rule; I think it’s just a case of the one or the other way of doing it nebulously sticking, like how sometimes you form a noun with -ness and sometimes you do it with -hood. Which now I think about it is more or less what you’re saying, but I don’t think it’s done consciously at any rate.

I believe “the gays” used to be offensive, and I did notice that myself but it doesn’t make sense to met that that would be the distinction!

adjectives as nouns are rarely a good sign in general

I don’t think that’s true unless you mean within the context of referring to people or something, e.g. the blacks, the poors. But then stuff like “the rich” and “the unemployed” I don’t really take issue with.

I think it unironically would be androids.

Does it make a difference that it’s under the section “Prescribed Prayers”? Because the New Testament has a similar rule written in it that women have to cover their heads while praying.

I did that a lot as a kid, as well as having to scratch e.g. my left arm if I’d just scratched my right arm. I had to put my first step on a new surface with my left foot and the last with my right, and I had a system of sort of aping something I’d just heard by grinding my teeth, which I still sort of do sometimes but only in my head because my teeth have grown in such a way that I can’t really do it any more.

I remember I used to eat a bag of crisps by holding the bag in my right hand and picking with my left, until one day I decided that was stupid, and rather than just giving up dictating which hand did what, I switched hands.

Have you tried explaining in your native language that you don’t speak that language? They love it.

Or put a bit more elegantly: joy shared is joy doubled; sorrow shared is sorrow halved.

Honestly, I thought I’d deleted that comment before you replied. I’d broken my promise to myself of never commenting in the celsius/fahrenheit threads.

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Not to mention negative numbers.

Cherry picking to sound smart.

It was my point to begin with so I’m bringing it back within context!

If you’ve already read a lot of books, you should give If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller a go.

Thanks, ants. Thants.

You can sort of tell by the style, the typeface the name’s set in, and the boilerplate dialogue.