them: well this scraper doesn't have the flaws you were talking about, surely it must be okay
everyone else: oh, clearly the flaws i enumerated were too specific and there must be a more fundamental way of phrasing things; let's try that again
(scraper still bad tho)
@SportsGoblin hey making it to the playoffs against all odds and then immediately losing against a clearly better team is what the narrative arc for the seahawks is SUPPOSED to be
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burnet: senpai…
fennel: you know we are the exact same age right
burnet: s–senpai… 🥺
@alyssa these are college students for clarity
@alyssa oh the implication is that because fennel was so knowledgeable burnet thought she was her senior
@alyssa what?
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on reordering names in translation
@clarfonthey person as a person from a culture which uses western ordering, i prefer the original ordering be preserved, with the following notes
• if it's not clear to readers whether the name is using an eastern or western order, the family name should be written in allcaps
• although japanese names have historically switched order upon translation to english, some style guides are starting to reverse that trend. see https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/21/asia/japan-name-abe-shinzo-intl/index.html for an example
• chinese names should never be written in western order (chairman mao = mao zedong)
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@alyssa not etymologically (elaine < helen)
due to the rarity of adeline as a name in the english‐speaking world, people do however sometimes conflate aline with eileen (< eibhlín < aveline < avila)
due to similarity in pronunciation, eileen is sometimes also considered an irish form of helen, so you could probably say aline ~ eileen ~ elaine
@alyssa no although i always forget that alice ∶ adelaide ∷ aline ∶ adeline
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