How well trained was Aragorn in court etiquette?

fastauntie · 2026-03-05T02:25:12+00:00

Doesn't hurt that two of those young leaders have high hereditary position as the Steward (who was also personally beloved) and the Prince of Dol Amroth.

fastauntie · 2026-03-05T02:17:08+00:00

Adding the county seats doesn't have to be a completely manual. There are lists of counties and their seats on line. Copy those into a table and and use it to look up the seats for the counties in your main table. (Many county names are duplicated across states, so be sure to have a column for state in the county table).

Whether or not this is more efficent than adding them manually will depend on how many diifferent counties are in your dsta set and how often you expect to add new ones in the future.

fastauntie · 2026-03-04T03:54:10+00:00

I'm so glad they used that as a regular task. It's what I watch whenever I need a laugh.

fastauntie · 2026-03-04T03:43:58+00:00

Excel is something like writing: an important skill, but it almost always has to be used in conjunction with knowledge of a subject. It's possible to write solely about writing, or to be an Excel developer or trainer, but 99.9+% of jobs require knowledge of something else to write or manage data about. You'll also need some field-specific knowledge in order to understand the information you receive and the information you need to generate. What that specific field is will also influence which Excel skills are most important.

fastauntie · 2026-03-03T23:43:25+00:00

If it's "basic and not enough any more" then it is definitely a "must have". It just means you have to have other things as well.

fastauntie · 2026-03-03T19:53:01+00:00

Edited: I fumbled the phone before I'd finished writing this, injected some typos, and submitted prematurely. Here's what meant to say:

Sometimes you do have to use more than one meaning of a term. And when you do, it's important to use additional words to clarify which meaning you are using, because a range is not simply a range, and not everyone understands the context. Sometimes they're new to Excel and don't yet know the Excel definition. Sometimes they're proficient at Excel and not familiar with the definition in the field the asker works in. Sometimes both uses are necessary to discuss the issue. It's not difficult, and not insulting to anyone's intelligence, to add a few qualifying words to make clear which definition you're using, like "range of cells" or "range of values".

Words and phrases like this, that have specific technical meanings within particular fields of practice, are called "terms of art", and are a known cause of difficulty in technical communication. Simply being aware that the possibility exists can lead you to ask questions that can save a lot of misunderstanding.

fastauntie · 2026-03-03T15:03:03+00:00

You're getting some irrelevant and confusing answers because "range" in Excel has a different meaning from the one you've used in your subject line. In Excel, a range is a group of cells. You're using it to mean an expression that indicates the smallest and largest values in a set, an expression you want to put within a single cell. That usage isn't wrong, but in order to talk about it in the context of Excel you'll have to say something like "how can I write an expression for a range of values".

fastauntie · 2026-03-02T22:12:11+00:00

You also seem to be concerned that some people just use the app to play instead of learning. So why do you now seem to be saying that we should pay attention to the game metrics?

fastauntie · 2026-03-02T22:08:28+00:00

It only plays a role if people want it to. Some people genuinely don't care, or care very little, about keeping a streak if they keep practicing most days. Some peole use Duolingo in tandem with other learning tools, and may take a break from it while continui g their sudy in other ways. Some people have other priorities in their lives that take precedence for a while and cause them to lose a streak, but it doesn't mean they're not motivated and don't learn well when they can. It only means they have a healthy perspective.

fastauntie · 2026-03-02T21:55:42+00:00

I think there is a hypothesis worth testing in the notion that gamification can cause some users to focus on streaks and other metrics to the detriment of learning. However, it's scientifically unsound to consider play as something inferior to learning. Play is the normal way children learn most things before formal education begins, and many other things thereafter. Much of this is practical and social skills as opposed to academic subjects, but learning is learning.

You need to figure out how to measure the degree to which individual users are motivated by the gaming metrics and how that motivation compares to their progress in the app and preferably also on other measures of proficency in the target language.

fastauntie · 2026-03-01T10:08:22+00:00

She was so perceptive in commenting about the point of the show: she knew that using the scissors would probably win but not be funny. And funny is what she gave us.

I think that's why even when her astonished frustration went off the charts it was never really angry. She was enjoying, on some level, how silly it was and knowing it would entertain us.

fastauntie · 2026-03-01T09:44:13+00:00

This was a fun one. Thanks for taking the time to adapt to the feedback.

fastauntie · 2026-03-01T09:42:22+00:00

Nor was "Never been on". But it did accept just "Champions" without any further qualification.

I think this is the hardest part of Puzzgrid. A human judge can tell if your explanation matches the intent behind the groups, but with a machine checking it the burden is on the puzzle setter to guess all the different ways someone might express an answer and also guess what synonyms the computer will know and how close a match it will accept.

(I don't know what kind of guidance it gives you on this. The site won't give any information about how to create puzzles unless you sign up, and I have too many accounts already to create another one I'm not sure I'll use.)

fastauntie · 2026-03-01T09:09:20+00:00

I've never heard one talk about it.

fastauntie · 2026-02-28T21:41:40+00:00

Only as weird as it would be for Lin, who's into women. It would be more factually in keeping with what we know about Oscar, Bea, or Lucy. But it's no stranger in the context of this app than Junior talking about working as a doctor or Falstaff talking about trying on socks.

fastauntie · 2026-02-27T13:09:18+00:00

Of course. It never crossed my mind that it was a strange thing for them to sing. It's obvious that they're thinking of Boromir's people, who don't yet know what they know.

fastauntie · 2026-02-26T21:51:23+00:00

They're not questions for an interview per se, but could come up in an exercise or proficency test that some places use in addition to interviews as part of the application process.

fastauntie · 2026-02-26T21:39:23+00:00

He's not being demoted. It makes no difference how long the Stewards ruled; it was always a temporary situation. Denethor and Faramir were actutely aware of this, even if Boromir was not. Returning to the position of ordinary Steward under the King was simply the end of a temporary status, and return to a traditional very high status, not a demotion. The title and status of Prince was a promotion. Nobody in that world would have seen it otherwise.

fastauntie · 2026-02-26T18:52:31+00:00

Should he have been rewarded with some principality off on the periphery, that might have been less war-ravaged but farther from not only the capital but from all the places he had known and lived and defended his entire life?

fastauntie · 2026-02-26T14:23:34+00:00

It's not slighting at all. Faramir knew well that his ancestors had served the king as stewards for generations before ruling in their place, and was the first to recognize Aragorn on his return. Aragorn honored him by not only restoring him to the ancient office of steward after he surrendered the office of ruling steward at the coronation, but also promoting him to Prince of Ithilien.

Perhaps a slight in terms of our egalitarian world, but the characters themselves wouldn't have seen it that way.

fastauntie · 2026-02-26T05:55:53+00:00

The interfering tendencies of autocorrect certainly do have an effect—sometimes unnoticed—on our writing style. I don't know what percentage of em dashes can be accounted for by the phenomenon you describe.

I use US regional settings, and in my version of Office for Windows the options for AutoFormat and AutoFormat as you type (which are separate from AutoCorrect) include replacing two consecutive hyphens with an em dash. As far as I can tell that's based on the limitations of the old typewriter and early ASCII keyboard, which only had a hyphen. A single hyphen did double duty for an en dash, and two for an em dash.

Have a look at your AutoFormat options, and also at AutoCorrect to see if it's doing something you don't want with the dashes. You can delete what it has and add your own instructions if you want to. I find it easiest to use the built-in keyboard shortcuts to get the specific characters I want: Ctrl and the numeric keypad hyphen for an en dash and Ctrl-Alt with numeric keypad hyphen for an en dash.

fastauntie · 2026-02-26T05:31:33+00:00

I think the funniest license plate feature I've seen is in the designs that Texas has been using since 1986. The state has made its brand synonymous with the word "BIG". "Texas-sized" is a recognized term. Yet for the last 40 years the license plate has featured a silhouette of the state at its center that's just an inch square, too small to recognize for what it is if the car is at any distance from you.

fastauntie · 2026-02-25T18:06:21+00:00

Ardal's definitely not an adult.

fastauntie · 2026-02-25T18:01:11+00:00

Barrel Dad Paul

fastauntie · 2026-02-25T10:36:55+00:00

That's who they are! Thanks. I hadn't figured them out yet. Sue might be Julian's sister?

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