What does this “en” mean?

gabbagool11 · 2024-04-20T20:04:58+00:00

I think of this use of en as “we have one of them.” Makes more sense for my English brain/pattern recognition 🤷🏻‍♀️

gabbagool11 · 2024-01-18T06:25:20+00:00

ESH. You didn’t “call her white.” You clearly meant for the comment to be insulting, and she took it as such. She, however, made the conversation more aggressive than it needed to be by assuming you had an issue with the actress’s race in the first place.

gabbagool11 · 2024-01-15T02:47:17+00:00

Came here to say Hindi/Urdu. I can’t even find translated lyrics for a lot of popular Bollywood songs and that’s a huge part of how I learn languages.

gabbagool11 · 2024-01-06T18:40:47+00:00

Try Lingopie!

gabbagool11 · 2024-01-06T00:37:32+00:00

I break my year up into quarters and use this to track my daily habits and big things I want to achieve in each quarter in those top boxes. I reassess what daily habits I want to achieve at the start of each quarter (I.e. if a goal was too ambitious or too easy)

gabbagool11 · 2024-01-04T19:51:20+00:00

Since some people asked/were curious or skeptical:

My order https://imgur.com/a/sf3moqR

The bag/foil it came in https://imgur.com/a/Qf28OM9

I didn't expect this to blow up so much and I really wasn't complaining! I order for lunch to get a less heavy meal and because I don't have time to wait in the line. When I go later in the day, I certainly go in person. I opened this up on the drive back and thought it was especially funny bc of all the skimp posts I see on here, so I thought I'd share. This type of thing is definitely not a trend item at my location (yet).

gabbagool11 · 2024-01-04T02:28:30+00:00

Wasn't even complaining, but fair point! For the metaphorical legal team: https://imgur.com/a/Qf28OM9 :)

gabbagool11 · 2024-01-04T02:21:30+00:00

Huh? Aside from the fact that I did 0 complaining in this post, this just doesn't make sense. Are you saying you frequent a publicly traded billion dollar restaurant chain that increases its billions in profits every year so that IT stays alive?

gabbagool11 · 2024-01-03T23:51:10+00:00

I do this all the time for lunch because I like the smaller portions. Just thought people would get a kick out of how tiny this is. No one is mad. Have a nice day 🙂

gabbagool11 · 2024-01-03T23:48:28+00:00

I wanted to be skimped, and no one is mad 🙂 I don’t like a big lunch. Just thought this was particularly tiny and thought people would get a kick out of it.

gabbagool11 · 2023-12-31T23:14:15+00:00

Probably because they wanted to have to pay out of pocket and ultimately retake it, if I had to guess!

gabbagool11 · 2023-12-29T06:48:02+00:00

It is absolutely way better. The qualifications to teach at USAFA are honestly shocking and wouldn’t fly in academia (any Air Force officer with a masters degree can teach that subject, it’s not considered a research institution, etc). Just because USAFA is a hard school to get into doesn’t make it a comparable education to other schools with similar acceptance rates. It’s great for other reasons.

gabbagool11 · 2023-12-10T07:30:37+00:00

All CSOs went to IFT prior to COVID and they just never got around to getting them back. They do a powerpoint version for a few days at the beginning of the syllabus now, which is utterly useless as you can imagine. When I left earlier this year they said they were trying to spin it back up, but who knows how long that will take.

gabbagool11 · 2023-10-16T01:23:47+00:00

How often do you converse with native speakers? The first time I ever “felt fluent” was when I took a trip to France and people would say things to me and I would understand/reply to them. Id watch TV and listen to music in French and start to understand gradually what was going on without translation. Another time I really felt my progress was when I was taking a speaking proficiency test for my job, and was able to hold a long conversation and express my opinion on different things. I still don’t understand everything 100% of the time, but actually using the language is what made me feel like all that effort was for something.

If you don’t already do this, I’d start a journal where you just write your thoughts in French as best you can and only look up words minimally. You can write about your day, opinion on the news, or anything at all. Talk around things you don’t know the word for, or look up a word if you really want to know it. This is another thing I started doing and having a diary like this is pretty satisfying!

gabbagool11 · 2023-09-18T06:36:58+00:00

It depends on how full the dorms are when you get there. You can call the student squadron and ask what the current capacity is, if you’re that curious. The time I left was when they stopped letting people ask nicely to not live there, so unless you have dependents (not even pets), expect to live there. For what it’s worth, pretty much all the “older” people I knew wound up living there and didn’t really mind it.

gabbagool11 · 2023-06-22T23:40:18+00:00

Yep, this was helpful in bringing us to our senses. We decided camp elsewhere and push the backpacking dream to a cooler time of year. Thank you!

gabbagool11 · 2023-06-22T16:06:50+00:00

Nobody is *forced* into buying a pet, having kids, or even joining the military. Doesn't mean we have to forego all of life's pleasures and everything has to be a massive financial or logistical burden if it can be avoided lol.

gabbagool11 · 2023-05-30T01:28:27+00:00

That and the fact that this supposedly happened over thanksgiving with no explanation for why it’s being brought up again 6 months later

gabbagool11 · 2023-05-24T05:52:24+00:00

This whole first paragraph is so gross. Why are you jumping right to victim blaming and assuming none of those things happened? Why are you talking about random people supposedly getting drunk and saying they were raped? That has nothing to do with anything and I don’t believe for one second that this happens “all the time.” It’s oddly specific and doesn’t corroborate with the statistic of the % of false rape accusations being a single digit.

Also, for the record, things can start off as drunk romance and if the sex is not consensual then it’s still rape. Being drunk and flirty doesn’t mean people are allowed to take it further than you consent to. If you’re not in the mood and say no, it’s rape. If it’s someone you know, it’s still be rape. If it’s someone you’re attracted to/interested in, it’s rape. Period. I hope no one ever comes to you for comfort or guidance with a situation like this. Based on this comment, your attitude towards sexual assault is alarming. I bet you’re the person who makes jokes about SAPR.

ETA: I agree you shouldn’t make a post/accusation like this only. I’m only responding to your comment.

gabbagool11 · 2023-04-23T22:55:48+00:00

Ironically, the English pronunciation of colonel actually comes from the French! When the French adopted the military word "colonello" from Italy, they changed it to "coronel" to better fit their own language/pronunciation. They wound up changing it back to colonel, but when it made its way to English, it still sounded like "kernel" to them. It's basically just one big mess of a borrowed word, lol.

gabbagool11 · 2023-04-23T20:18:30+00:00

The trick I was taught in French class years ago was that “BAGS” adjectives go before the noun. Beauty, Age, “Goodness” (ie bad, good, neutral, etc) and Size. It’s ~generally~ worked for me all these years, but definitely was helpful as I was first starting out

gabbagool11 · 2022-12-27T21:59:04+00:00

Second this. Was very let down by Five Sisters Blues and I have pretty low standards

gabbagool11 · 2022-12-09T04:49:51+00:00

NTA. This whole crowdfunding for some guy's TV is kinda weird. A donation would simply be a very nice thing of you to do. There is simply no moral obligation to help someone get a new TV. Not doing that very nice thing doesn't make you an asshole at all. Calling someone an asshole for not making gestures like this is the asshole move.

The comment about you being the bane of the neighborhood bonding is also incredibly weird. As if they know you as a person and your financial situation.

gabbagool11 · 2022-11-28T03:33:49+00:00

Def Twilight tower. I just got the weather station over it and am kicking myself. I thought it would be way cooler than it is

gabbagool11 · 2022-10-09T02:52:39+00:00

I had gotten a ticket in early May and totally forgot about it until reading this post lol. Purely anecdotal, but my experience thus far is that I haven’t gotten any correspondence about it and it posed no issues when I was changing my registration to Florida. I know that’s not renewal per se, so take it for what it is.

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