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I prefer (and lament the loss of) offline local [electronic] dictionaries. I find myself constantly checking Google for the proper spelling of tricky, or unfamiliar words.

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There really is a deep frustration sometimes, when you need a particular word, because at the end of the day - the meaning of a word can be so precise, that synonyms won't do. Synonyms often come close, but sometimes you don't want "close"

I've taken it upon myself to translate bits and pieces to English, as well as Spanish, for friends/family to read and feedback, and it can be quite painful to do!
So many subtleties, words that in one language carry a very specific meaning, a feeling that comes with it, sometimes it "falls between" other meanings in other languages. You can even get a sense of a mood - or an attitude - that can be very different in one language to another. I found, for example, that certain parts translated better to Spanish than to English, because of the "attitudes" imbedded in some words and expressions, despite Norwegian and English being closely related
 
Been having issues with my Internet Service ever since we switched to a different plan (THey didn't let us outright cancel until June for a bunch of convoluted reasons), they have scheduled like 3 different appointments and none of them worked, my mom is visiting from out of town so she has had to be the one receiving the technicians and they have taken advantage of her being old to not do their job properly. But not today, I left her with explicit instructions to call me whenever the fuckers try to come up with an excuse to not fix the service right away. Today they came up with the excuse that it was my network card on my PC that didn't work and that the service was working fine, my mom immediately calls me, I tell the asshole that I actually did test on the connnection, including a speedtest on the wifi and that not only are wired connections not working on anything but that the Wifi is not even giving us full speed and that it dips to 2-1mb whenever we try downloading anything mor complex than streaming a 480p youtube video.

The guy had to call the person that did the initial install and they actually fixed it by doing their job, they outright admited the reason they didn't do anything the previous 3 visits was because they assumed they could just get away with it because my mom is old.

Ha! they messed with the wrong loser this time, BITCH!

Gonna fill out a "Consumer protection" complaint too.

The highlight was when they tried to tell me that Coaxial was better than Optical fiber to try and keep me on their service, when that failed they just fucked me over by not letting me cancel until june.
 
Do we have any Canadians here? Today the Finns are playing against Canada in the ice hockey world championships final game for the gold.

Edit. And we won. Yay.
 
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Goddamnit, I wish someone had mentioned "head-hopping" to me just a few months before I finished nearly 350 fuckin pages o_-

Luckily, I seem to have exercised SOME form of intuitive approach, when dealing with 3rd person POVs, since hopping from internal-perspectives are naturally confusing (you're delving into a characters thought-process after all), but I was not aware of how obsessively strictly some people regard this, like it's some sort of super-taboo. In one article, an example of an unacceptable head-hop is something like "Ben [pov] gave Bill [not pov, therefore we should not be privy to his thoughts] a gift, and Bill thought it was nice." <---kill it with fire? seriously?

I can't imagine reserving one POV per chapter, in a story where many characters interact, and different perspectives are important, and I did read about several methods of smoothly transitioning between POVs in for example hectic chapters that might require it - but even there, I've learned that some readers are just absolutely unforgiving - which I find just unreasonable :I

Again, thanks to having allready had some intuitive feel for keeping my POVs tidy, I still gotta run through everything, and do a little bit of sorting and tweaking, which I don't mind that much to be honest, I just wasn't aware how massively important something like this apparently turned out to be :S
 
I dunno. I really like the way GRRM does it where we only see the POVs of main characters. Allows you to keep things more of a mesytery.
 
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I dunno. I really like the way GRRM does it where we only see the POVs of main characters. Allows you to keep things more of a mesytery.
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Sure, I do that, otherwise it'd be really messy (as well as full of irrelevant fluff) - but apparently, it's a huge no-no to include thoughts from two protagonists within the same scene. Which... I find... forced?
Like in the example above, I didn't read the books, but what about the scene where Jon gives Arya the sword. Both characters are important, and both are experiencing something internal in that moment. It'd make sense for the scene to relate to both of their internal experiences, despite both their experiences happening within the same scene :I

right?
 
Naw. It would be wierd to hear two thoughts at once. Never did like omniscient narrorators in books. Besides we get to hear aryas feelings about Jon and the sword a few chapters later.
 
I just wanted to share how creative the spambots have gotten.

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I like how both porn and academic websites have a similar attitude towards baity clicks, "Do you want to download a PDF version of this article perhaps? Click this nifty little icon, that says "pdf." go ahead, click it, what could possibly $$$$$$ SEND US YOUR $$$$$$$ WE NEED YOUR $$$$$$ WE BRING ARTICLE $$$$$$$ FOR YOU, IN YOUR LOCATION $$$$$$$
 
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@Hassknecht , are you warming up over there in Germany? All time record temperature measured near Polish border.

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It's brutally hot. About to rain and storm and cool down, though.
Last week was especially brutal. Had a big trade fair with the company and spent two days in full suit and tie in 36°C heat. At least the halls were climatized. Somewhat.
 
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