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It’s easy to love trains—the model kind, the European kind, the kind whose locomotives billow with steam in black-and-white photos of the old American West. It’s harder to love Amtrak, the kind we actually ride.
A fascinating read if you’ve ever wondered why America’s trains can’t compete with their European and Asian counterparts. -Tajha
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God, I love diagramming sentences.
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Lingua Obscura: Young Women's Language Patterns at the Forefront of Linguistic Change | JSTOR Daily
When uptalk is used by young women the common interpretation has been that it is suggestive of weakness, as though the speaker is uncertain of their information or lacks self-confidence. But from a discourse point of view, it may be that, as women are socially conditioned to be cooperative rather than competitive, uptalk has evolved as a linguistic method for verifying that a listener is following the conversation in rather an efficient way. What’s also interesting is rather than indicating weakness, there are studies which show uptalk may be used more often by people in dominant positions to assert power, as demonstrated in the wild by George W. Bush, among others.
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Vintage editions of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables series by emma@vanillasplash
I want :-)
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I, a big wrinkle, made all of these smaller wrinkles.
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so my brother showed me this website that translates the time of day into hexidecimal color
i could watch this all day
very soothing
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