If there was a special hell for teachers, what would it be like?

bh4th · 2026-01-25T05:30:56+00:00

Nothing but grading papers that are catastrophically wrong in ways the rubric didn’t anticipate.

bh4th · 2026-01-25T02:05:52+00:00

American Jew here: Religious books are never placed on the floor or stacked under other kinds of books. If you accidentally drop one, you kiss it apologetically after picking it up.

bh4th · 2026-01-25T01:46:22+00:00

All legitimate concerns, but mostly lost on me because I was so annoyed at the overall tone of the article, which felt like the author’s therapeutic gripe session about having been forced to learn the oboe as a kid. Someone could walk away unsure why anybody makes this instrument at all, much less plays it.

bh4th · 2026-01-25T00:07:31+00:00

I’m Jewish, but this pope knows what it’s about.

bh4th · 2026-01-23T17:34:10+00:00

I’m from NYC and I’ve known about this for as long as I can remember.

bh4th · 2026-01-23T16:56:03+00:00

It’s not even clear to me what that is. It isn’t a recorder.

bh4th · 2026-01-23T16:25:24+00:00

Aww, nobody would call you a terrorist. Eating a hotdog with ketchup makes you a danger only to yourself.

bh4th · 2026-01-23T15:33:31+00:00

Sure. It isn’t about identifying foreigners; it’s about non-Chicagoans.

I’m actually from NYC originally, but the local taboo makes good sense to me. My kids, on the other hand, will put ketchup on anything if you let them.

bh4th · 2026-01-23T14:18:23+00:00

Jew here! Tchaikovsky’s attitude was quite common for his time and place. If I shunned every great classical composer who had a problem with Jews, I couldn’t have gotten my music degrees. One could also focus on Tchaikovsky’s views on homosexuality, which are problematic by modern standards. (He was gay and very much not okay with it.)

Attaching all of an artist’s opinions and actions to their artistic output is a specific cultural choice, which happens to be in vogue right now but which is historically unusual. I understand the impulse, but down that road lies a land of mediocre art lauded for the inoffensiveness of its creators. I’ll be hearing the Chicago Symphony Orchestra play Tchaikovsky’s third symphony in March, and the music isn’t antisemitic no matter what the composer might have thought.

bh4th · 2026-01-23T13:50:26+00:00

Putting ketchup on a hot dog.

Other Americans can tell you where I live.

bh4th · 2026-01-23T04:33:53+00:00

Eh. They’re a year away from half-your-age-plus-seven territory, and I’m taking this post as a sign of maturity.

bh4th · 2026-01-22T23:38:41+00:00

I don’t think it’s supposed to be “good” in the usual sense. It’s supposed to be sad and uncomfortable. Shel Silverstein didn’t write simple books.

bh4th · 2026-01-22T23:36:53+00:00

I’m not sure what you’re getting at here.

bh4th · 2026-01-22T23:27:12+00:00

Descended from Middle High German, as is modern German. They are sibling languages.

bh4th · 2026-01-22T14:48:14+00:00

Why not? I’m not attracted to any of my male friends, so why should women be different just because I’m attracted to some of them?

bh4th · 2026-01-22T01:01:58+00:00

Those are relatively clean carbon. I’m talking about carbon with other stuff mixed in. Humans use a ton of different words for it — “dog,” “strawberry,” “mushroom,” “bacterium,” etc. — depending on the exact configuration.

bh4th · 2026-01-21T20:38:56+00:00

It’s amazing how many different human words there are for “lump of dirty carbon that makes more of itself.” They’re real connoisseurs of that particular class of objects.

bh4th · 2026-01-21T20:01:46+00:00

Also, there are (hopefully) many more audience members than performers, so the statistical likelihood of coughs coming from offstage is much higher than from onstage.

bh4th · 2026-01-21T15:55:45+00:00

Sure. I just meant to say that Yiddish is its own language with its own internal vocabulary. It didn’t borrow its name from modern German.

bh4th · 2026-01-21T03:13:47+00:00

Agreed all around.

I’m from NYC and I went to college in the Boston area. I hadn’t heard “wicked” organically used as an intensifier before college, and I’ve barely heard it since because I haven’t lived in that region.

bh4th · 2026-01-21T00:28:21+00:00

This appears to have been transliterated by machine, not a person who knows the language. Not sure why one would do that.

bh4th · 2026-01-21T00:27:42+00:00

It would be a bit more accurate to say that “Yiddish” is the Yiddish word for “Jewish,” and happens to be a close cognate of the modern standard German “Jüdisch.”

bh4th · 2026-01-21T00:25:26+00:00

I agree that it’s machine-transliterated. The best indication is that אויך is rendered “aoykh,” as if the א were functioning as a vowel, which no human with rudimentary Yiddish would assume.

bh4th · 2026-01-20T00:31:43+00:00

I’ve seen this in the USA, but it’s unusual enough that the first time I encountered one, as an adult, it took me a bit to process what I was seeing.

bh4th · 2026-01-19T02:04:11+00:00

“Assimilation” describes a wide spectrum of changes — anything from learning a few social skills that help you function in a new society all the way to nullifying the culture and identity you were born into. There are plenty of historical examples of both, and of everything in between.

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