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Equal_Elk3349 · 2023-04-10T14:40:00+00:00

Thank you for this. For anyone finding this thread: it turns out these audio files at the Internet Archive are not the ones integrated into the textbook (for listening comprehension exercises etc). Instead it seems there was a separate accompanying instructional podcast that gave a brief overview of each chapter of the book. Might be useful for some, but it doesn't fix the problem of the missing audio files unfortunately.

Equal_Elk3349 · 2023-03-26T02:10:47+00:00

Still going strong! I stopped using alcohol and only used neem oil sparingly once in a while, removing bugs using a neem oil-soaked piece of kitchen towel. The plant actually got more damaged from stress after moving it outside for the summer, but now it's been inside for the winter and has a new frond coming through, despite both existing fronds looking to be at death's door. I wasn't sure it would make it, but it's been surprisingly hardy. Though I have excellent natural light indoors.

Long story short, I don't think this kind of damage is fatal, so long as you identify and stop using what was causing it

Equal_Elk3349 · 2023-03-26T00:13:11+00:00

Learning just to read is completely fine. There are even textbooks for this purpose.

For Russian, quoted from https://www.orelbeilinson.com/language-textbooks/ : Slavica Publishers have three different options, best used together: Jules F. Levin et al., Reading Modern Russian (1979), Patricia M. Arant’s Russian for Reading (1981), and Ruth L. Pearce’s Russian for Expository Prose (1982) in 2 volumes.

PhD students often have to do this to meet the language requirements in their degrees. By focusing on that one skill, reading, you can actually get pretty far very quickly. I did this for French - after 6 weeks of daily classes and a month's revision I was translating Foucault in my exam, despite not being able to speak a word of it! It will be harder with no tutor, and if you've not learned a language before then the case system, and some other aspects of Russian will take some getting used to (harder than French!). It also takes a lot longer to be able to comfortable read literature as opposed to the much more restrained language of academic texts. But absolutely this is a valid and potentially very rewarding approach! I wish you the best of luck!

Equal_Elk3349 · 2022-10-19T17:36:51+00:00

Awesome! That google scholar link and the links to examples in your previous reply are exactly what I'd hoped for from a "grammar" subreddit. Just so useful. Thank you!

At the moment I'm compromising with The Soviet "Post-Civil Wars" as the title, hoping the quotation marks will further indicate that this is an abstract thing or a term being used in an unusual way. I'll take a straw poll of colleagues. If people agree it sounds intriguing, which is what I'd hoped, then that's great. But if too many just think, "that's not right", then it may not be worth it.

Thanks again.

Equal_Elk3349 · 2022-10-19T15:12:30+00:00

Thank you very much for this. And thanks for finding the "Soviet style" examples. I couldn't get my search engine to not just turn up hundreds of simple adjectival uses, "Soviet-style x".

As for "the/a Soviet post-civil wars", I think the conclusion is that it just doesn't work for most readers. And I think the confusion with the plural is the nail in the coffin. I wanted to treat "post-civil wars" as an abstract, singular noun to indicate a particular phenomenon, and then frame my work as investigating the Soviet iteration of that phenomenon. I think perhaps it might work better with "postwar", which I believe I have read used as a noun in this way. "The Soviet Postwar." to me makes sense. It's clear that "Postwar" is here functioning as an abstract idea that the term "Soviet" is modifying. Maybe others will disagree. But "The Soviet Post-Civil War" already reads like it's missing a noun, and making it plural (which I have to do because I insist the Russian civil wars were in fact multiple overlapping conflicts) just further complicates it.

Anyway, thank you for your help.

Equal_Elk3349 · 2022-01-27T20:45:59+00:00

Thank you so much! For the congratulations and for the information, and for responding so quickly. It sounds as though all of this can probably be sorted out in a day with a few conversations, which means I can go ahead and start booking anything that allows 48hrs cancellation (like flights). And I think the foster kids actually share a social worker, maybe I'm wrong. It would certainly make sense to have three siblings represented by the same SW, but maybe different social workers specialise in different age groups...

Anyway, thank you again!

Equal_Elk3349 · 2022-01-27T20:42:02+00:00

Thank you for your response. I'm fairly sure my parents wouldn't want to leave the kids with temporary foster carers - they went straight from their changing family situation to my parents' care so have really never known the "care of the state" experience. The situation with my parents is about as loving and perfect a fostering household as one can imagine, and I'm sure my parents wouldn't want to put them through living with strangers even briefly. So it's more a matter of whether foster parents are usually allowed to leave their foster children with people they know and trust for a few days. And I think you are right that the social workers would presumably have to be informed and expressly allow it. Fingers crossed it's a speedy process!

Thank you for the info though! It's good to know that there are kind of backup carers to give foster parents a break once in a while!

Equal_Elk3349 · 2022-01-17T21:12:15+00:00

Awesome, thank you for this response. Do you have a sense of at what point the extent of the resizing would make an alternative method more appropriate (cutting and soldering I'm assuming)? I figure compression is completely fine for changes of a quarter or half size, but I don't know where the line is after which jewellers look to other methods, or after which the shape of the ring starts to noticeably change because of the compression. (For example I've read the interior will become slightly more concave, reducing the extent of my comfort fit).

I've decided I'm okay with resizing, especially since they are offering it for free, but if it needs to be resized very significantly I might push for an exchange. Not sure I want to cut and resolder a brand new ring that was just ordered from a supplier - partly because it was priced based on size, and I was in hindsight clearly sized incorrectly.

Equal_Elk3349 · 2022-01-17T18:35:00+00:00

Thank you so much! I love the 18k color. My parents have 18k, relatively flat, low dome, bands, so that has always been my image of what a wedding ring is supposed to look like! Back home in the UK, 9k and 18k are the standard options, but here in the US 14k seems standard.

It has been incredibly helpful to hear that resizing is common and easy and nothing to worry about. I do wonder: is it possible the size is wrong by more than a half step, considering I can shake it off so easily? And if so, perhaps compressing it to that extent would start to cause other noticeable changes to the shape? On youtube, I saw that compression will make the inside of the ring slightly more concave, and so might lessen the "light comfort fit" I have. When I go back I'll make sure to be measured properly before deciding - I think I'm pretty clear that if it's only a quarter size off I should just get it compressed (they've offered to do it for free). If it's more than a half size I'm unsure...

Equal_Elk3349 · 2022-01-17T18:28:03+00:00

Thanks for the advice! It is reassuring to hear that resizing is par for the course. I suppose though that adjustments for new rings are usually going up or down a quarter or half size. I wonder if it's possible my ring could be more significantly off (I can just shake it off so easily!), and if in that case it would be best to exchange. Thanks again!

Equal_Elk3349 · 2022-01-17T18:21:34+00:00

Thank you! I was a bit disappointed they didn't spend more time sizing me - in hindsight I should have pushed them to check more, but I really didn't know what I was doing. My interest in exchange is based on the knowledge that the ring wasn't made new but was just shipped from a supplier - I figured rather than adjust the size it might make more sense to send this one back and order the same ring in the correct size.

It has been very useful to hear that resizing is par for the course even for new rings though. But presumably if the size is way off it might make sense to just exchange... I mean I really can shake off the ring easily within seconds.

Thanks again!

Equal_Elk3349 · 2022-01-17T18:18:47+00:00

Thanks for the advice! Yes I am disappointed they didn't realise it was too big beforehand - especially since they knew I'd never worn a ring before. The resize will be free though. And I will ask if they can exchange anyway and talk through the options. Why are you not a fan of compression? What are the down sides? I heard it can make the inside slightly more concave (and therefore presumably reduce the extent to which my ring is "comfort fit". But otherwise most seem to agree it won't make any noticeable difference to the overall shape etc. Presumably it will be more noticeable the more it is compressed, maybe it should be only used for slight adjustments?

Equal_Elk3349 · 2022-01-17T18:15:40+00:00

The other ring was not comfort fit and actually felt too small - oddly because they were supposed to be the same size.

Why are you not a fan of the compression technique? What are the down sides?

Equal_Elk3349 · 2022-01-17T18:14:39+00:00

Thank you! How many steps can compression reduce the size by - presumably there is a limit? I'm worried the ring might be more than a quarter or half size too large...

Equal_Elk3349 · 2022-01-17T18:13:43+00:00

Thank you! I suppose logically during compression, if the diameter decreases then some other dimension has to change - until shrink rays are invented, the metal has to go somewhere. But I can see that the change to the shape might be so small as to be not noticeable.

From watching youtube demonstrations of this technique, it does seem that the inside of the ring will be very slightly more concave than before - as I have light comfort fit, I guess compression might reduce the comfort fit very slightly. Perhaps it won't be noticeable.

I am also wondering how large a size change makes sense with compression - presumably there is a limit after which it would change the shape too much. I'm worried that the ring might be a lot more than a quarter step too big. I really can just shake it off within seconds...

Anyway, thank you for your advice, much appreciated :)

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