I gotta admire my body's commitment to chronic pain. One day it really just said, "Pain forever? Pain forever!" and hasn't quit since.
do goyische english speakers even know how many words they use regularly are yiddish Do they even know
there’s the obvious like mensch and mazel tov and bris and kosher but also chutzpah and klutz and dreck and kvetch and tchotchke and putz and schlock and SCHLONG! DO YOU GUYS KNOW THAT ONE OF THE FAMOUS TERMS FOR DICK IS YIDDISH! what about shmuck or schtick or GLITCH! GLITCH IS YIDDISH! DO YOU GUYS EVEN KNOW THAT BAGEL IS YIDDISH
well, no, they’re loanwords. english does it all the time with all kinds of languages. café (french), bazaar (persian), and kindergarten (german) are all loanwords. it’s not stealing, because languages aren’t really capable of the malice that implies. there’s also nothing wrong with using words from or learning new languages. what really gets my goat though is when gentiles mock the way yiddish sounds while using its words without even realizing it
[ID: tags: "#i love that yiddish is so pervasive through the english language #but that also makes me think that we (gentiles) stole it from jewish people"]
Obsessed with AO3 writers, who are a particularly fascinating subspecies of homo sapien.
Do Not Let HR do this to you. It is not illegal to talk about wages in the work place. I did and got a 12% raise!
True info. Now let me add something: The power of documentation. (I was a long time steward in a nurses union.)
Remember: The "'E" in email stands for evidence.
That cuts both ways. Be careful what you put into an email. It never really goes away and can be used against you.
But can also be a powerful tool for workplace fairness.
Case 1: Your supervisor asks you to do something you know is either illegal or against company policy. A verbal request. If things go wrong, you can count on them denying that they ever told you to do that. You go back to your desk, or wherever and you send them an email: "I just want to make sure that I understood correctly that you want me to do xxxxx" Quite often, once they see it in writing, they will change their mind about having you do it. If not, you have documentation.
Case 2: You have a schedule you like, you've had that schedule for a while, it works for you. Your supervisor comes to you and says "We're really short-handed now and I need you to change your schedule just for a month until we can get someone else hired. It's just temporary and you can have your old schedule back after a month." A month goes by and they forget entirely that they made that promise to you. So, once again, when they make the initial request, you send them an email "I'm happy to help out temporarily, but just want to make sure I understand correctly that I will get my old schedule back after a month as you promised." Documentation.
[Image ID: Text reading: In the middle of a busy clinic at our practice, I got pulled in by my manager to speak to HR, who must have made a special trip because she lives several states away, and told I was being 'investigated' for discussing wages with my other employees. She told me it was against company policy to discuss wages.
Me; That's illegal.
Them: (start italics) three slow, long seconds of staring at me blankly (end italics) Uh...
Me: That's an illegal policy to have. The right to discuss wages is a right protected by the National Labor Relations board. I used to be in a union. I know this.
HR: Oh, this is news to me! I have been working HR for 18 years and I never knew that. Haha. Well try not do do it anyway, it makes people upset, haha.
Me: people are entitled to their opinions about what their work is worth. Bye.
I then left, and sent her several texts and emails saying I would like a copy of their company policy to see where this wage discussion policy was kept. She quickly called me back in to her office.
HR: You know what, there is no policy like that in the handbook! I double check. Sorry about the confusion, my apologies.
Me: You still haven't given me the paper saying that we had this discussion. I am going to need some protection against retaliation.
HR: Oh haha yes here you go.
I just received a paper with legal letterhead and an apology saying there was no verbal warning or write up. Don't even take their shit you guys. Keep talking about wages. Know your worth. /End ID]
At one of my old (shit) jobs my boss would continually come have these verbal discussions with me and would never put anything in writing I took to summarizing every discussion we had in email. Like “just to confirm that you asked me to do X by Y date and you understand that means I won’t be able to complete the previous task you gave me until Z date - 2 weeks later than originally scheduled - because you want me to prioritize this new project.
The woman would then storm back into my office screaming at me for putting the discussion in writing and arguing about pushing back the other project or whatever. At which point I would summarize that conversation in email as well. Which would bring her storming back in, rinse and repeat ad nauseum.
Anyway I cannot imagine how badly that job would have gone if I hadn’t put all her wildly unreasonable demands in writing. Bitch still hated me but she could never hang me for “missing deadlines” because I always had in writing that she’d pushed the project back because she wanted something else done first.
Paper your asses babes. Do not let them get away with shit. If they won’t put what they’re asking you to do in writing then write it up yourself and email it to them.
If you don't have this kind of job but someday you'd might: start practicing.
After a casual conversation with friends, write up a brief synopsis of what you discussed & agreed to. (...Do not email this to friends unless you have their agreement that this would be a fun group project.) Get practice with,
"A, B, and C had a brief meeting about food options after the big game. We decided on pizza, with A&B agreeing to contribute X dollars each, and C agreeing to contribute Y dollars and also bring soda. A will call for pizza on the day of the game and schedule it for delivery at 8:30 pm."
"A, B & C discussed movie options. A wanted something lite and fun; B wanted something scifi; C was fine with anything but horror. Nobody wanted superheroes. Decided on Lost Space Wanderers which opened last weekend; C agreed to research theatre options and report tomorrow."
...and so on. Practice describing the results of "meetings" with friends and you'll be ready to sum up "boss told me to set aside Project A to focus on Project B for the next two weeks" - because what's likely is that boss didn't say anything that clear; boss talked about how important Project B is and how the company needs parts X and Y done asap and you have the best skills for that, and when you mentioned how much time Project A was taking, boss said "eh don't worry about that right now; marketing is breathing down my neck so we really need part X by Friday, okay?"
...at no point did you get a direct instruction.
Which is why anyone who is not the screaming-drama boss mentioned above would think it was perfectly reasonable for you to say, "I want to clarify the discussion we had earlier - you told me to focus on Project B to the exclusion of Project A for the next two weeks, even if that means Project A will miss its deadline; is that correct?"
Okay, but also to back up to the thing about discussing your wages: It is not just your legal right to discuss your wages and working conditions with your coworkers, it is illegal for your employer to tell you that you can't or retaliate against you for doing so.
If that happens to you, you should contact your state department of labor. Hopefully with some of the emails that you've used to establish documentation.
Crash landing my gyrocopter directly in front of a Michelin star restaurant and stepping out completely unscathed, handing the keys to a valet who takes my spot in the wreckage and is immediately impaled by a metal rod and bleeds out in the cockpit
this was honestly the funniest email in the defunctland garfield video. who was out there detailing their explicit sexual experience in the garfield dark ride so eloquently that kevin defunctland had to censor it this much. i want to study you
Observation #1: The prefix "a-" means "none", such as in "asexual", "apolitical" and "Atheism".
Observation: The word "unicorn" is a combination of "uni", meaning "one", and "cornus", meaning "horn".
Conclusion:
ALTThis is an acorn.
I’m just thinking about it. And. I mean. The very real brain damage it did to me and countless other closeted teenagers aside. I DO have to hand it to them. It is kinda funny that they did it twice. The exact same move. Twice. Six years apart. Twice! The sheer confidence required. To know what was put to page. And put to screen. To be familiar with it. And then to tell teenage girls. En masse. That theyre NUTS. for saying. Um. Well when I watched the show I thought dean on his knees staring up at castiel and brokenly saying his name and saying I need you / I love you and it breaking through brainwashing . Well I thought it was kind of gay? It’s like when Galileo was like hey guys I have new information about the stars. Here are my sources they’re math and the sky and my results are replicable. And the Catholic Church said Everybody knows math is gay and made up. Idiot. Penance of burn to death.
youtubers love to say “i hope i’m pronouncing that correctly” while recording themselves in a video that they upload to the internet, which they have access to
Hint: its because the video is not as well researched as its presentation implies
Hint: it’s because sometimes it’s hard to pronounce words especially if you don’t use them very often
Don’t leave this in the tags!! They’re good points! An attempt is better than nothing!
It’s one thing to listen to a correct pronunciation. It’s another to actually have your mouth form the words, especially when you’re using a sound you don’t normally use in your native language.
Maybe they’re not saying “I didn’t look up the actual pronunciation and I’m just winging it.” Maybe it’s “I looked it up and it uses a sound that I don’t use in my day to day speech and I don’t think I did it quite right but I tried.”
And sometimes, there aren’t sufficient resources to teach you the correct pronunciation! Sometimes you’ll get bot-made videos that contradict each other.
This this this this. As someone who struggles to pronounce a couple of words I use fairly often my FIRST LANGUAGE, thanks to those particular sounds just being difficult shapes for me to string together coherently, I am constantly afraid of fucking up words in other languages or even just with roots in other languages.
It’s one thing to not even try, but the “I hope I’m doing this correctly” isn’t always “I’m hoping I can just wing this word with whatever I think it’s supposed to sound like,” a lot of times it “okay so I’ve looked it up and tried it a few times so I’m really hoping its coming out right, but I’m not used enough to the language to really be sure .”
Languages are fucking DIFFICULT for a lot of people. Not just the repeating/speaking part, but also the ability to HEAR and RECOGNIZE the patterns and sounds.
This. Look, I absolutely want to pronounce long scientific words and the names of people from other ethnic groups and words in other languages correctly. But I spent years of my childhood desperately attempting and failing to be able to do the Hungarian gutteral r of my direct family history. I had speech therapy as a kid to get English phonemes down, expecting me to manage ones I'm not used to is unfair unless you're giving me years to practice.
Also, sometimes there are conflicts on how a word is pronounced. We already know about a lot of the English words that are spelled the same but get pronounced differently depending on context, imagine how much more confusing that is for someone from an outside perspective. "Lead" as in "lead them here," and "lead" as in "lead balloon" both look the samr but use different sounds. And when you apply that to a language you don't know that already uses sounds you're unfamiliar with, mistakes are gonna happen. Then you have dead languages. There's conflict on things as basic as the pronunciation of mythological names occasionally!
Sometimes they're deaf.
Sometimes they're hard of hearing.
Sometimes they have audio processing disorders.
Sometimes they have speech impediments.
Sometimes they have brain damage.
Sometimes they're saying something in a language they aren't super strong in (listen it doesn't matter how many times my Chinese friends laugh at me, I still apparently cannot pronounce "ni hao" correctly to them because the way they say it and the way I hear myself say it sounds EXACTLY THE SAME- I'm told the tone is what's wrong more than the sound of the syllables themselves)
Sometimes it's because the place they learned it from also didn't pronounce it correctly (do you know how many Japanese learning resources I went through before I found one that actually pronounced things right? The answer is a LOT since I started in the early 90s)
Sometimes it's because they learned it with a regional dialect and now are trying a more universal dialect
Sometimes it's because they look at a word and their brain goes ?????????? Idk man good fucking luck (do you know how many times I pronounced Siobhan "si-o-ban" before I finally met someone actually named that and was corrected? I grew up around a bunch of Germans and that is Not how German works so my Irish ancestry did not save me from completely butchering that name)
grocery store mission barely accomplished took massive damage to the hull and all internal systems. shield repair could take days