Tag: tidbit

Trick-or-treat

Today is All Hallow’s Eve and I’m ready to go to Halloween parties! I have my costume ready to go (which was semi-homemade). I have the candy for the kiddos. It should be a fun day in the neighbourhood. Somewhere amidst all the fun, though, I do have to take care of a few things. …

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The perils of papers

Homework, домашнее задание, thuiswerk, preparaciĆ³n, heimarbeit, εργασία, lavoro, travail, or whatever else you want to call it. I am definitely sick of doing it today. I wrote a grand total of 6 papers today, and when combined with the ones from yesterday, 10. Not that paper writing is a difficult task for me, but it …

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Let’s not be PC about biology!

Today, when looking on Progressive’s website, I noticed the horrible atrocity of political correctness via wrong diction! This is my all-time favourite piece of PC jargon. Here’s a screenshot of the site: Progressive? Let’s briefly go over this error. Gender refers to the sets of behavioural norms applied to either sex, respectively. That is, the …

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