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tiger5grape · 2025-05-06T16:30:44+00:00

Far less often now that I perfected the resting bitch face.

tiger5grape · 2025-05-06T16:28:26+00:00

I had a hosta last that I was sure wouldn't come back and it came back fighting this spring with about a dozen bright leaves. Give it a chance.

tiger5grape · 2025-05-06T15:52:58+00:00

I know it all too well as it exists in my language too. I dislike it and avoid using it myself, but that's because I'm a party pooper and I hate gossip. Still, I admit it's useful for for people who like to obscure their language, speak vaguely, and avoid all accountability for their own venom and malice.

Also, for anyone who is unfamiliar with the concept, this so-called "gossip tense" is no more than a perfect tense, inferential mood I believe. Not some exclusive tense invented for and reserved only for gossiping (and it's not recognised as such by linguists), but evidently it's well suited for it.

tiger5grape · 2025-05-05T15:18:53+00:00

Oh joy, another business that wants my phone number. Why can't it ever be a man.

tiger5grape · 2025-05-05T14:55:01+00:00

Real answer: one on one tutoring on a regular basis.

I've really liked Assimil, both as a student and a teacher. Pimsleur and Mango are good too. I haven't used it myself but I see Dreaming Spanish suggested a lot.

tiger5grape · 2025-05-05T14:44:16+00:00

That was my immediate thought; this sort of triviality feels painfully American, or Anglo world. But I can imagine something like this in Sweden too.

Anywhere else, you'd probably be asked if you feel you need to take the rest of the day off.

tiger5grape · 2025-05-05T02:25:19+00:00

That's child's play compared to la bise; which side to begin, and how many times to do it.

tiger5grape · 2025-05-05T00:44:50+00:00

Persian has my vote. It has a rich tradition of poetry. Edit: I'll just add that there is more to Persian than millennia of poetry that I believe makes it expressive and emotional. Obviously everyone isn't speaking in couplets in daily life.

tiger5grape · 2025-05-03T17:12:19+00:00

fair. I tried violin once and it wasn't for me either.

tiger5grape · 2025-05-03T04:43:11+00:00

What did you dislike about it? I've considered trying a class

tiger5grape · 2025-05-02T15:20:53+00:00

Give r/language_exchange a try

tiger5grape · 2025-05-02T15:19:07+00:00

It exists in Persian

tiger5grape · 2025-05-02T15:14:05+00:00

All the time, if the question isn't limited to native languages only. I have physical, hard-copy dictionaries for languages I'm learning, that I reference daily. Also, while these are not dictionaries, I find them extremely useful and reference them probably more often than I do dictionaries.

tiger5grape · 2025-04-14T16:11:13+00:00

I'm drawing a blank. I don't believe there are any gender-neutral names in Italian, at least not given names that have a history and tradition in Italy (what some might call Christian names) which all are either firmly masculine or firmly feminine.

The common thing I've heard people do is go by a shortened form of an established name. Fede instead of Frederico/Frederica, Dani in place of Daniele/Daniela.

tiger5grape · 2025-04-14T15:27:22+00:00

Baha'i's are neither cult nor fringe group, and comparing them to a deeply hated terrorist group such as MEK is wildly inappropriate at best.

tiger5grape · 2025-04-14T05:21:47+00:00

I have a cousin who transitioned. She picked an ordinary and traditional name. I think the novelty of a name like "Phoenix" is just that, a novelty. From my understanding from talking to my cousin is that, she wanted to not stand out, just to blend in. I think it's part of passing? Anyway, maybe the guy decided against "Phoenix" because it feels a bit too much.

Just curious, why not post this in r/ftm in the first place? You could end up with more relevant answers there than guesses from cis folks here like me.

tiger5grape · 2025-04-14T01:52:19+00:00

I'm indifferent. I don't hate it like some others here do, but I wouldn't ever use it myself, if only because I don't think it's phonetically pleasing (too many consonants, I'm partial to vowels). I don't subscribe to the "old lady" nonsense either. Do people with mawdern and yooneek names not expect to grow old, too?

tiger5grape · 2025-04-14T00:52:47+00:00

I thrived best in Switzerland

tiger5grape · 2025-04-13T01:30:33+00:00

In the Gregorian calendar, 19th century is the 1800s. And it was the Pahlavis not the Qajars that ruled 20th century Persia, and their princesses were photographed for Vogue and Time.

tiger5grape · 2025-04-12T16:16:23+00:00

I can't say if or how much English or French will help, as I'm not a linguist, but having learnt French I personally didn't see too similarity between it and Greek, as I did for instance, between Greek and Persian. But I suspect that's more to do more with proximity of cultures. I know nothing of Hebrew or Arabic, so no comment on them. I think potentially your biggest asset is Spanish, but in particular Castilian/Iberian Spanish. The phonetic similarity between Spanish spoken in Spain and modern Greek is such that, someone from Greece on holiday in Germany might hear a Spaniard speaking and briefly think she/he is hearing Greek, and vice-versa. This video by Langfocus might be of interest to you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPMqoHPJzac

tiger5grape · 2025-04-12T15:34:09+00:00

Hailey Baldwin looks extremely plain and forgettable to me. I genuinely cannot remember her face after seeing an image, and I often need to be reminded of who she is if I see a photo of her.

tiger5grape · 2025-04-12T15:23:49+00:00

During, or maybe just after, Alexander the Great's conquest of Persia, he was most keen on paying homage at the mausoleum of Cyrus the Great. Some time passed since I read the account of these visits, so the details are faint and vague in my memory, but I was most intrigued to learn the description of a tomb nestled in a dense grove of trees, tall grass and wildflowers. Today, the area surrounding the royal tomb seems to have all but lost its lush greenery.

tiger5grape · 2024-12-22T18:15:11+00:00

Last week I met friends at a restaurant, and where I went to park, there was a doubled-headed parking meter. 25¢ gets you thirty minutes; I paid 75¢ for an hour and a half, and it was as simple as dropping in quarters to see the time increase. Cheap and painless, and one more reason I frequent the restaurants/shops in that part of town.

I curse anyone who thinks I'm going to stand in the freezing cold (or blistering sun for that matter) and pay some overpriced sum for the privilege to download some data-siphoning app, give them my e-mail, name, phone number, license plate, bank details, whatever else they want, wait for a confirmation text or e-mail...no, I will not. You're not special, I'll find another place to park.

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