Does anyone else think at it feels at times almost British for something written by Americans?
What are you reading, watching and listening to? - All languages
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Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to? - All languages
That title is an interesting bit of syntax. In general English allows not to move as far left as possible without changing the meaning. But here I think the variants have different meanings.
"How to not write a novel": preferred reading is how to avoid writing it.
"How not to write a novel": can't mean that, instead means ways you shouldn't write.
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I was listening to this to improve the translation and now it's stuck in my head:
My mother used to sing all these songs while cooking and working.rotting bones wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2026 2:02 pm Maybe it's just me, but Nazrul's song about the rain as a goddess sounds fantastically dynamic: https://snapshotsofthelabyrinth.photo.b ... %e0%a7%8d/
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Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to? - All languages
These Violent Delights by Nemerever. Gay dark academia vibes so far.
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The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, tr. Ivan Morris. Chapter titles include “When I make myself imagine”, “Depressing things”, “Hateful things”, “Things that make one’s heart beat faster”. To be so closely inside a 9th century lady’s head is rather amazing.
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Your brief summary is enough to make me think of the concept of Tiffany problems.
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MAGA witches are proof that politics cuts across cultural forms: https://youtu.be/1cpjU5qS_vk?t=609
This book looks interesting: https://youtu.be/afQUBFTI7sY
This book looks interesting: https://youtu.be/afQUBFTI7sY