Does anyone have access to this paper, and if so would you mind sending me the PDF?
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Would you like to win arguments and persuade people? There is a trick to it: early in the discussion, notice that you are wrong about something — you exaggerated a point in your excitement, or you made a strong claim out of a weak hunch. There will always be something. Then, just go ahead and call yourself out: “Actually, I don’t remember where I got that… I remember it seemed well informed,” or something like that. If you can do that often, you will be about 1000% more persuasive. It’s a superpower.
It doesn’t matter if it’s just the landlord special: an oven you’ve set up, gotten to know, and can keep steady at precise temperature is a real luxury.
I’m halfway through my first proper #gardening chore of 2023: clearing now-dormant plants off three of our lit shelves, to make room for starting the first round of pepper seeds in a few days.
I only ever hear the ‘r’ dropped from the meaning of “brought”, never added to that of “bought”.
Anyone know of an examination of British English speakers using “brought” and “bought” interchangeably? I used to think the usage (typically like “Where’d you get that?” “Oh, we bought it home from holiday.”) was short for “we bought it and brought it home”, but it seems to be used just as often when no purchase was made.
It’s a minor wonderment made the greater for its seeming lack of treatment. The only mention I’ve seen is the note and references on Wiktionary. Yet, I hear this ALL THE TIME on UK television!
“A common national story intended to generate a common national identity in a period of diversity and change carries the considerable danger of alienating those members of society who cannot instinctually identify with it. It may be wiser to emphasize that the land and its heritage are held in common, for people to understand in different ways, but with an equal affection and a mutual tolerance.
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To admit how much we cannot certainly know, and then to turn that into an opportunity and a strength, rather than an embarrassment or a handicap, is simply to make the best possible use of a common resource. It makes the point that, where the past is concerned, what is open-ended, subjective, multivalent and individual can be as valuable as that which is fixed and certain.”
From the conclusion to “Pagan Britain”, by Ronald Hutton. 👍👍
I absolutely adore the scholarship of Ronald Hutton, but am nearing the end of his published work on British paganism. Anyone have recommendations for similarly readable yet reliable pagan scholarship?
In particular, Hutton often contrasts the dearth (but by no means absence) of evidence for British pagan survivals with a relative abundance from, for example, Celtic and especially Nordic areas. Who is publishing (in English) good overviews of paganism in those areas?
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I was thinking about stereotypes of the amiable drunk. For instance, wearing a lampshade as a hat is a familiar image in (at least) the US and UK. Similar, in Japan, is that of a businessman pulling his tie around his forehead in comic imitation of a hachimaki.
Any others? Is incongruent headgear over-represented?
I need to air a gripe: taxa whose specific epithets honor people rather than describe the subject. Is the ego of one or a few humans worth choosing a non-descriptive name forever? I always imagine a besuited Victorian gentleman extravagantly autographing a plant with a Sharpie, handing it over, and saying “You’re welcome.” I just want to know if the folia are angusti or not, dude.