I’m losing my French. C’est vrai. The longer I don’t speak it, the worse it sounds when it finally gets a chance to come out. I end up having to rely on a trick I learned in freshman French: if you say “euhhh” instead of “uhhh” (i.e., French schwa instead of American English schwa), you [...]
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Partial list of rhetorical crutches to abolish
“and stuff” “type thing” “_______-wise” There are more. Suggestions? N.B. “Like” (as a filler word) is too easy a target to nominate for this list, particularly because the author utilizes it often.
Triple nerd score
This should be a thing that exists in my life. Is it so much to ask, really?
Movies I watched recently
Charade (1963). Look at that beautiful Art Nouveau lamp. I want it bad. The movie — a romantic suspense set in Paris — was pretty delightful, too. Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn were such wonderful personalities. Wings of Desire, or Der Himmel über Berlin (1987). Favorite line: “Time heals all… but what if Time itself [...]
