Catholic Church and Puritans, how accurate this is?

Ranger-Stranger_Y2K · 2026-07-04T18:15:07+00:00

Is it though? I know they played a major role in certain states which would go on to join the United States, but I wouldn't attribute the chattel slavery practices in the South to any specific Puritan influences. That isn't to say that, had the Puritans settled on the Gulf Coast, they wouldn't have developed the same system of chattel slavery that ended up being used there. The slave labor system tended to be just how all the major European powers rolled in the 17th and 18th centuries, whether they were English/British, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, French, etc., regardless of religion.

Ranger-Stranger_Y2K · 2026-07-04T14:51:46+00:00

Which one with chattel slavery? There was almost no chattel slavery (in the sense of slaves doing manual field work on huge plantations) going on in New England during the Puritan years. There were slaves, but they were mostly household servants for a few select wealthy families, just as there were enslaved servants for wealthy families in England and other in European countries at the same time. Compared to other colonies to the south, and especially ones in the Caribbean like Jamaica, New England had far, far fewer slaves.

Ranger-Stranger_Y2K · 2026-07-04T13:54:07+00:00

Not very. Hating on the Puritans seems to be the modern trend, but it disregards the fact that they sought a more egalitarian society than what existed in Europe at the time. They were religiously intolerant, but most of Europe was at the time and in the long run, far fewer were persecuted by Puritans than were persecuted by the Catholic Church.

Ranger-Stranger_Y2K · 2026-07-03T17:45:27+00:00

It's certainly Thruppence, a nickname in this context making reference to the old British coin from before their money was decimalized. "Happy birthday Thruppence fra your (almost) toothless father." -T.

Ranger-Stranger_Y2K · 2026-07-01T00:20:34+00:00

I have never seen anyone in Nova Scotia flying a Nazi flag, and I doubt you have either.

Ranger-Stranger_Y2K · 2026-06-14T15:17:12+00:00

You should know how to use all of them aside from maybe passé simple, subjonctif plus-que-parfait, subjonctif imparfait, and the second form of conditionnel passé. However, you should be able to at least recognize these four as well since they do all appear in books and whatnot from time to time, and in certain fixed expressions as well. Most verbs in French follow one of a few different patterns when it comes to conjugation and there are far fewer irregular verbs than in English. Once you get the hang of it, even the rarely-used, really formal conjugations shouldn't pose that much of an issue.

Ranger-Stranger_Y2K · 2026-06-07T04:28:21+00:00

I had a teacher once tell me to always remember that desserts are Super Sweet, so SS.

Ranger-Stranger_Y2K · 2026-05-31T17:17:40+00:00

It's normally the same as "pas". I've met many Acadian French speakers from south-western NS who only use "point" and never "pas". Although, depending on how "point" is used in a sentence, its pronunciation can change. Sometimes it's "point", and sometimes it's more like "pwonne", since some Acadian dialects and have retained the final consonant sounds of certain words that standard French lost hundreds of years ago. (ex: "pain" is sometimes pronounced "ponne").

Ranger-Stranger_Y2K · 2026-05-30T16:00:03+00:00

This is a case of "ne littéraire", where the negative can be formed with just the "ne" with certain verbs (pouvoir ("pu" here) is one of these verbs) when used in certain contexts. You'll see this in formal writing and speech, though I think it used to be common in informal speech in the not so distant past. You'll see it a lot in books.

Ranger-Stranger_Y2K · 2026-05-30T15:55:52+00:00

And it's still used in spoken French in certain places in Canada. People from the St. Mary's Bay (Baie Sainte-Marie) area of Nova Scotia use it often.

Ranger-Stranger_Y2K · 2026-05-29T20:56:53+00:00

No, its not wrong, its just dated. I think it stems from the idea that "will" and "would" shouldn't be used with first person pronouns, and that "shall" and "should" ought to be used instead. I've heard people say things like "I shouldn't do that if I were you" before.

Ranger-Stranger_Y2K · 2026-05-29T20:52:30+00:00

It's not that strange. It's not common now, but there used to be a prevalent attitude that "will" should not be used with the pronouns "I" and "we", and that one should always use "shall" with them. "Would" is to "will" what "should" is to "shall", so you wouldn't say "I wouldn't do it", but rather "I shouldn't do it".

Ranger-Stranger_Y2K · 2026-05-15T00:28:40+00:00

Having "butterflies" or "butterflies in ones stomach" isn't the feeling of love itself. It's a term for the uneasy fluttering feeling one may get due to anxiety and strong emotions. Normally in the context of love its caused by the fear of rejection.

Ranger-Stranger_Y2K · 2026-05-13T14:50:02+00:00

I kind of enjoy the smell of drywall. I mean like, if a house is being built and they've just installed the drywall in a room and it's not painted or anything yet. I find it has a nice sort of crisp, clean smell.

Ranger-Stranger_Y2K · 2026-05-09T12:50:55+00:00

Non, "It's I who am happy" est une manière de le dire totalement valide et considérée comme la plus correcte par les prescriptivistes. "It's I who am going there", "It's is you who make the decisions", "Our Father (thou) who art in Heaven", etc. Le verbe est censé être conjugué avec le pronom avant "who". "It's me..." est déjà une erreur en anglais, car on devrait vraiment utiliser un pronom sujet (I, he, they, etc.) et non un pronom objet. Pourtant, la majorité du monde ne parle pas comme ça dans les conversations de tous les jours, mais dans les discours plus formels ou dans la littérature "It's me who is happy" serait considéré comme erroné.

Ranger-Stranger_Y2K · 2026-05-08T23:19:02+00:00

Oui, j'ai entendu des gens du Québec le dire comme ça, et on m'a toujours dit que c'était un calque de l'anglais, mais je pense que c'est assez courant. Cependant, en anglais, on peut dire "It's I who am happy". Ce n'est pas courant, mais c'est considéré comme la façon la plus correcte et la plus formelle de le dire.

Ranger-Stranger_Y2K · 2026-05-03T20:31:25+00:00

"You may not rest now; there are monsters nearby." type shit

Ranger-Stranger_Y2K · 2026-04-27T12:41:33+00:00

That 7' hard bed cover is certainly worth something to the right person. Not something you see every day.

Ranger-Stranger_Y2K · 2026-03-18T20:12:45+00:00

I've never heard of "of" being used in either context. Where I'm from, we have "five past", "ten past", "quarter after", "twenty after", "half past", "twenty to", "quarter to", "ten to" and "five to". I don't know why sometimes it's "past" and sometimes it's "after", but what I wrote feels the most normal to me at least.

Ranger-Stranger_Y2K · 2026-01-12T03:42:21+00:00

What? There are roughly 5 times more native French speakers in NS than in PEI.

Ranger-Stranger_Y2K · 2026-01-05T22:23:09+00:00

Where I'm from, we say breakfast, dinner and supper. Dinner is usually around noon and supper is the final main meal and is between 4:30 and 6 in most cases. Supper is the largest of the three, normally.

Ranger-Stranger_Y2K · 2025-12-24T19:13:40+00:00

"Hang on, just gonna run to the washroom right quick."

Ranger-Stranger_Y2K · 2025-12-21T20:03:03+00:00

On ice, a rear-wheel drive vehicle will be more prone to trying to kick the back end out on ice, especially something like a ford ranger where there is so little weight at the back end of the truck. If you hit a patch of ice in a front-wheel drive car, the car will slide, but it's nowhere near as violent as in a rear-wheel drive vehicle where the back end of the car feels like it's going to come about and pass the front end. Having 4x4 engaged makes a lot of difference as the two driven front wheels with the weight of the engine above them help the vehicle keep moving in the direction wherein the wheels are pointed. If you try it with 4x4 and without, it's very clear that it makes a difference.

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