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cwwilkie

@cwwilkie@zirk.us

Minneapolis-based AmE #editor (ACES) and #writer. Into #grilling, int'l #travel, #stationery, #SelfPub, and my #Vespa. Studying #LanguageLearning, #DPRK, and #OSINF. 두만강 Persona non grata cum laude.

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GramrgednAngel, to edibuddies
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"Pushing aside the overhanging greenery, my eyes . . ."

PREHENSILE EYES

MUST BE ON STALKS

@edibuddies

cwwilkie,
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@GramrgednAngel @edibuddies That's the hardest gaze I've heard of.

GramrgednAngel, to edibuddies
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@edibuddies

A typical marginal comment:

"Gizzards" are specific to birds. "Innards" works here and has a similar sound. "Guts" would be all right, too.

cwwilkie,
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@GramrgednAngel @edibuddies Oh, I dislike it when people conflate corpses with carcasses. I see it in "professional" writing more and more.

grammargirl, to random
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A foreign friend who is a translator asked if I know what the term "lazy sad" means.

I've never heard it, so I don't. A Google search makes me think it's just a song title.

Have any of you heard it being used outside of a song?

cwwilkie,
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@grammargirl I've never encountered this (Minnesota, 50+).

RedPenRabbit, to movies
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Me, editing something my husband wrote: What do you think? I don't want to change your voice.

Him: You didn't. You took the essence of what I wrote and made it betterer.

And isn't that what editing is?

#Editing #AmEditing #Writing #WritingCommunity @edibuddies

cwwilkie,
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@RedPenRabbit @edibuddies It should be!

grammargirl, to earthquake
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    cwwilkie,
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    @grammargirl That's what they want you to think.

    Lizette603_23, to random
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    @cwwilkie Does Rebecca know what power she holds?

    cwwilkie,
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    @Lizette603_23 I remind her occasionally.

    cwwilkie, to random
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    I have at least two standards for presidency:

    1. My leaders have to be smarter than me.

    2. There's a difference between doing a great job and being the least-shittiest in recent history.

    cwwilkie,
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    @Lizette603_23 I think it's a generous qualifier, sure, but it's crucial who it screens out.

    cwwilkie,
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    @Lizette603_23 Trumpers don't say what they mean when they say "smart." They mean "he agrees with me" or "he hates the same people I do," while overlooking things like firing missiles at a hurricane or injecting yourself with bleach.

    "Smart" for me includes "surrounding yourself with smart people and listening to them."

    grammargirl, to random
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    Join the fun by entering the ACES National #GrammarDay poetry contest!

    It doesn't have to be complicated (in fact, it's better if it's not). A limerick or haiku will do. It just needs to be language-themed. Deadline: Sunday night.

    More details: https://aceseditors.org/news/2024/announcing-aces-annual-poetry-contest-in-honor-of-national-grammar-day

    cwwilkie,
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    @grammargirl There once was a conference by ACES
    It was hosted in all sorts of places
    You could go to a meeting
    Indifferent to seating
    But just to put handles to faces

    cwwilkie,
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    @grammargirl @mikeolson I'm just cocking off, I never win these things.

    cwwilkie,
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    @grammargirl https://despair.com/products/stupidity

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Without looking it up, tell me anything you know about Lithuania or Lithuanians.

    cwwilkie,
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    @RickiTarr I went to school with a boy from Lithuania, in fourth grade, and boy did he let everyone know about that. Any time there was an argument, he would burst in with "I've got Lithuanian blood!" as though that settled the matter. As children, we had no idea what that had to do with anything, but I got the sense that people in other nations also felt that they were the international standard like we assumed we were.

    lowqualityfacts, to random
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    That's so wholesome.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    cwwilkie,
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    @lowqualityfacts "As a bonus, they also die first. Win-win."

    grammargirl, to random
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    I'm thinking about how we use word that describe hitting for good food:

    That pie hits the spot.
    That pie bangs.
    That pie was larruping.
    That pie lashes. (in Trinidad, I'm told)

    Can you think of any other "hitting" words we used to describe food?

    cwwilkie,
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    @grammargirl That pie slaps.
    That pie sucker-punched me, it wasn't valid.
    That pie is merely a product of socioeconomic forces with which I have no experience.
    That pie is violating the Geneva Convention.
    We'll see that pie in the Hague in three years, if there's any justice.
    A pie that will live in infamy.

    grammargirl, to random
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    I'm as big a podcast fan as you can imagine, but today even I got pissed when two podcasts that sounded interesting didn't have transcripts. Sometimes even I don't want to listen to your hour-long conversation.

    It's ridiculously easy to make transcripts these days with tools like MacWhisper, Descript, and a multitude of other free AI tools that are launching every week.

    I still spend time proofing my transcripts, but there's no excuse not to have rough transcripts anymore.

    #podcasting

    cwwilkie,
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    @grammargirl Part of my process is to upload my transcripts on my website, into YouTube, and on Listen Notes. It's easy to do and it's just responsible.

    grammargirl, to random
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    A follower asked me to share a piece on Substack, but I didn't think it was the best take.

    Here's what I think is the clearest summary:

    Substack says allowing self-proclaimed Nazis to use their service is a free speech issue, but they don't allow sexually explicit content published by sex workers.

    Since they're willing to disallow some content but not Nazi content, it means they want to do business w/Nazis (and are full of shit about "free speech").

    https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/26/substack-turns-on-its-nazis-welcome-sign/

    cwwilkie,
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    @grammargirl Thank you for that. I wonder if they'd go so far as to claim they're banning adult content on moral grounds but find nothing morally objectionable about Nazi content.

    Worse, if they claim it's their financial brokers, their banks who won't allow adult content... that just passes the Nazi buck higher.

    cwwilkie, to random
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    I'm very good at making a melt, like a sandwich, like a grilled cheese sandwich but with extra stuff inside. I'm very good at melts, and consequently I don't mind eating them almost every day.

    cwwilkie,
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    @Lizette603_23 I thought about that, recently, starting a restaurant with a menu of the things I like to cook.
    – melts
    – chilaquiles
    – hamburgers
    – Icelandic hotdogs
    – ramen
    – roasted cauliflower
    – potstickers
    – pasta alla carbonara

    But I have no idea what the theme of the restaurant would be. There would be no salads or desserts, but there would be a full bar.

    cwwilkie,
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    @Lizette603_23 I discovered this recipe in Reykjavik, at Bæjarins Beztu.

    It's a hotdog topped with fresh onions, crispy fried onions, remoulade, "hotdog sauce," ketchup (sweetened by apples rather than glucose) and sweet mustard.

    cwwilkie, to random
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    I absolutely cannot tell you what I'm doing tonight, because many of you would at least blush and be offended, but let me just say that this is one time when I love my life. I resolved to "fly my freak flag high," like people like to say (but intend much lesser, more modest values than I've taken it to mean), and tonight it's literally paying off.

    I recognize I'm an embarrassment to polite society, but I don't wake up with any of you, and I pay my bills and have no debt, so.

    cwwilkie, to random
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    My interest in Xmas has waned in the last several years, but now it's more like an onus. My mom's stressing us out with the need to create a "perfect" holiday, full of accoutrement we don't even like, and I'm guessing the weekend will crumble under evangelism at some point.

    We haven't decorated at home. My wife's Jewish, but she likes the pageantry, or she used to. The world's a shitty place right now, with people excited about making it worse; there's nothing to celebrate.

    cwwilkie,
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    Rebecca's working a double-shift today, so I'm going to fight through grocery store crowds to pick up the last dozen requirements. I'm going to learn how to make fudge (which is the last thing my inflammation needs), I'm sure it's easy. We're both sleep-deprived and I've got to manage her emotions in preparation for coping with my narcissistic mother.

    I understand people less and less each year. Why is this necessary? Why do we commit so much energy, for negative ROI?

    cwwilkie,
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    @Lizette603_23 There are dietary restrictions involved, so we have to get the one chocolate, Guittard, without soy in it. And I believe I'm going to melt down mini-marshmallows instead of Fluff, so that's like, what, two cups instead of one? But yes, it will be tasty because I'll play good music and smile while making it, and I welcome the opportunity to cook/bake something new.

    cwwilkie,
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    @Lizette603_23 Fixers do suffer. I do try to be good. But no problem is ever solved, it's only mitigated for another week or day. There's never a break, and my wife badly needs a break.

    cwwilkie,
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    @Lizette603_23 Not to be the perpetual Eeyore, but even if you do like mysteries, boy howdy, you've got your work cut out for you.

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