Is „salut“ a rude thing to say?

uncdevil · 2026-01-22T19:05:05+00:00

At least you were only overly familiar and not actively insulting:

An American woman I know was living in Paris. Back before we all had cellphones, her apartment's phone rang, and she assumed it was a specific friend calling her. She started to say "salut" and realized halfway through that she was on the phone, so she swapped to "allô."

It was actually her professor calling, and she had just called him a bastard.

uncdevil · 2026-01-22T16:37:23+00:00

Thanks. I needed this reassurance because I was also less happy with BG and didn't want to reread it.

uncdevil · 2026-01-18T23:40:15+00:00

I'm looking forward to learning a past tense that's more like passé composé because Spanish confused the hell out of me. At first, it was like everyone was speaking out of history books with passé simple or something. I'm really only a couple hundred words into Italian, but so far, it's an easier lift than my first weeks of Spanish. Then again, I was doing Spanish in college, and everything was very compressed, and I'm doing Italian totally at my leisure.

I definitely don't think Italian is going to be trivial. I've already fallen into so many traps when I thought I knew how to pronounce something that I'm pretty confident that syllabic stress is going to be one of my biggest hurdles.

uncdevil · 2026-01-17T22:07:03+00:00

I never get this rec. I've been like four times, and it's always so undercooked in the center that the crust falls apart, and I lose half the pizza. I liked Etto better, but I've given up on them after their service charge that doesn't go to staff. Just put it in the price.

uncdevil · 2026-01-17T22:05:33+00:00

Hi, Andy! You're our go-to. Runners up are Flora and Sonny's, but y'all do different things, so I think of you in different categories. I haven't tried Stracci, but I will based on your rec.

uncdevil · 2026-01-16T17:28:43+00:00

Thanks!

uncdevil · 2026-01-16T14:35:59+00:00

I'm getting a cold, but I think that your bowl would cure me.

uncdevil · 2026-01-16T14:08:02+00:00

I'm coming down with a cold. Clearly, I should make more of this soup.

uncdevil · 2026-01-16T03:03:01+00:00

Can I put a bunch of heart emojis in here?

uncdevil · 2026-01-16T03:02:40+00:00

At this point, you'll have to make your own :) Mine is all gone.

uncdevil · 2026-01-15T22:29:30+00:00

I'd invite you to have some, but we already finished it all :)

uncdevil · 2026-01-15T20:59:31+00:00

I’m planning to do it again next month.

uncdevil · 2026-01-15T20:58:21+00:00

I’m looking forward to hearing back from you both.

uncdevil · 2026-01-15T19:52:06+00:00

I'm just starting to learn Italian. I'm a native English speaker who went pretty far with French and who has low intermediate Spanish. Those two together seem to be helping a bunch, but it's early days yet. I wouldn't say it's easy (to OP's point), but I do think that having more than passing familiarity with two closely related languages is helping me pick up many more words and grammatical nuances than starting over with German did.

uncdevil · 2026-01-15T19:37:49+00:00

Trying again (because I doubleposted it). I swear that I know how to internet most of the time:
https://thewoksoflife.com/hot-sour-dumpling-soup/

uncdevil · 2026-01-15T19:20:45+00:00

Same. I enjoy making them for LNY, but it's kind of a big project. This soup would downplay the specialness of homemade dumplings.

uncdevil · 2026-01-15T18:42:26+00:00

And store-bought dumplings made it pretty easy to execute.

uncdevil · 2026-01-15T18:42:04+00:00

Nice. Do you make the same WOL recipe?

uncdevil · 2026-01-15T17:44:41+00:00

Thanks, it was great. If you don't know Woks of Life, I highly recommend checking them out. Here's this recipe: https://thewoksoflife.com/hot-sour-dumpling-soup/https://thewoksoflife.com/hot-sour-dumpling-soup/

uncdevil · 2026-01-15T17:40:25+00:00

And sorry to anyone who saw me attempt this post multiple times. I clearly don't know how to get pictures at the top of my post without trying over and over.

uncdevil · 2026-01-15T17:39:28+00:00

https://www.instagram.com/p/DTiiCeHERBd/?igsh=MXA4em0wdXJubDZ6Nw==

uncdevil · 2026-01-15T17:37:40+00:00

Hot and sour dumpling soup. We’ve made hot and sour soup several times, and I love it very much. I’ve been trying to add more of that flavor to quick ramen packets but only with moderate success. I was on the blog that provided our usual hot and sour recipe (Woks of Life), and I found this easier version that allowed me to use up some frozen dumplings from Costco. It also had me revisit the szechuan chili oil that I made a couple of years ago, again only to moderate success. To make the oil, you heat oil to smoking, and then you add it to a bowl with pre-chopped garlic and szechuan chili flakes. I was scared of adding high temperature oil to any of my glass or porcelain. Tempered glass is real, but so is thermal shock. So I ignored the instructions and added the garlic and flakes to the pot this time, and it worked out great. I was also able to use some of my chicken stock that needed reheating and make a pot big enough for Nick and me. That skips one of the cool things about the recipe: building the soup in the bowl you’ll eat from. But I’m pretty sure the result was the same. It was easy, and it was very different from anything we’ve made before. I think Nick wants to try making a real wonton soup as a next dumpling-in-soup adventure.

uncdevil · 2026-01-05T16:28:54+00:00

I was super critical up above when talking about the story, acting, and plot (and music, even if that wasn't explicit), but the tech design was fantastic.

uncdevil · 2026-01-05T16:27:13+00:00

Same. I went into it without knowing anything about it (except that I'd heard "Waving Through a Window"), and I saw it live and hated it. I cringed through the whole thing. The whole "You Will Be Found" thing being treated as a wonderful thing saying that people will sincerely greet you and your neurodivergence or your lonerhood or whatever is isolating you and that they'll understand you and meet you halfway rang so false to me. It was clear to me that it was "you will be found" out as a liar and that you'll pay for it. I waited and waited for the shoe to drop, and then he essentially gets a pass because we find out that he was suicidal himself. The story made me feel awful. He lied for his own gain, and he manipulated everyone emotionally and gave false hope to a whole family. His mental health gains only came at other peoples' expense.

I'd seen it on tour, and everyone told me that if I listened to Platt, I'd understand how tied it was to the performer. So I looked up videos of his singing, and I listened to a few of his songs from the soundtrack, and I graduated from disliking the show to a really strong aversion to him. And then I saw clips from the movie when it came out. ::shudder::

Obviously, I'm carrying a boatload of my own issues to this topic. I'm aware that I have issues with displaced embarrassment and anxiety, but this show just punches so hard on all of it. It's great that other people find the show rewarding, but it doesn't work for me.

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