LilLebowskiAchiever t1_je8s1ob wrote on March 30, 2023 at 6:25 AM

Reply to Ukraine, Russia frustrated by IOC approval of neutral athletes by PrincessBananas85

Need to drug test Russian athletes 3x per week. Blood, urine and hair analysis. All surprise tests, done by EU technical staff and labs. Start next week, every week, no exceptions, all the way through the 2026 Olympics. 3 hot tests or no-shows and all Russians are out. Same for Belarus.

LilLebowskiAchiever t1_j9sxyrt wrote on February 24, 2023 at 9:30 AM

Reply to Update: so, I'm going to read 100 "classic" books, and To Kill a Mockingbird was the first on the list by [deleted]

After you read “The Odyssey”, wait 6 months and then read Charles Frasier’s “Cold Mountain”.

Other books that stuck with me:

“Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe

“Eat a Bowl of Tea” Louis Chu

“There Eyes We’re Watching God” Zora Neale Hurston

“A Suitable Boy” Vikram Seth (very long)

“Collected Poems” Langston Hughes

“Pillars of the Earth” Ken Follett

“The God of Small Things” Arundhari Roy

“Another Country” James Baldwin

“A Fine Balance” Mistry

LilLebowskiAchiever t1_j6a9xod wrote on January 28, 2023 at 9:56 PM

Reply to comment by Saesama in TIL about foreign accent syndrome. This is a very rare (~100 cases worldwide) but real medical condition where people abruptly begin speaking in a foreign accent following head trauma like a bad migraine, accident, or stroke. by veety

Boston accent is based on the original counties in Ireland where the potato famine was worst and the most people fled. They happened to drop their R’s…..and 120 years JFK became president, speaking with the evolution of that accent.

But now when I listen to the Swedish Chef on the Muppets, I have to wonder if it all started with a Viking who survived a stroke….

LilLebowskiAchiever t1_j699w9s wrote on January 28, 2023 at 5:48 PM

Reply to comment by Saesama in TIL about foreign accent syndrome. This is a very rare (~100 cases worldwide) but real medical condition where people abruptly begin speaking in a foreign accent following head trauma like a bad migraine, accident, or stroke. by veety

I’m just imagining some isolated Viking ages ago who spoke old Germanic, had a stroke, started speaking post-stroke strangely, and everyone around him over time picked up on his new accent. Hence, a new language was born.