Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 26 March 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
pom have you read the vila-matas book ?
Not yet, but I've meaning to. It's been languishing on my reading list for years now, partly because I keep clinging to the fantasy that someday I'll use it to brush up on my feeble Spanish instead of resorting to a translation, which is what's bound to happen anyway.
― coco vide (pomenitul), Thursday, 26 March 2020 00:08 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 27 March 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
'“Do you not see the reason for yourself,” he indifferently replied' = underrated imho.
― coco vide (pomenitul), Friday, 27 March 2020 00:02 (four years ago) link
that one has been worming away round my head with an odd insistence such that i feel i might be compelled to try it out at work this week. (on a video call i shd stress)
― Fizzles, Monday, 30 March 2020 08:28 (four years ago) link
i have given up copying and pasting
― j., Monday, 30 March 2020 14:20 (four years ago) link
how does one speak in a flute-like tone?
― andrew m., Monday, 30 March 2020 19:07 (four years ago) link
Here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgufAvkTB1s
― coco vide (pomenitul), Monday, 30 March 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
very ephemeral airy pronunciation imo
like exhaling while enunciating but not forcing air with specific words
― mh, Monday, 30 March 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link
forgot how surprisingly funny some of this story is, especially the bit where everyone in the office can't stop saying the word "prefer."
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 19 December 2021 01:25 (two years ago) link