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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • If you express your viewpoint in a kind way, that’s genuinely the most “winning” you can possibly achieve.

    Convincing people in one go is not achievable by just finding the right words.

    People may disagree. They may downvote you to hell. They may thank you. They may agree. They may misunderstand.

    But as long as you write kindly, people will read what you say and give it thought. Maybe it plants a seed for them to change their mind another time.















  • I oversimplified a bit! Sorry!

    Words always shift over time and borders. The words “recu” and “receive/receipt” are pretty close and used to be closer. To be more accurate it was “receite” when they adopted it from French. Compared to Latin “recepta” which has a hard P in it. So adding “P” from Latin to the spelling as “receipt” but leaving the pronunciation as Anglo-French “receite” was the most silly part.


  • English is a hilarious mess. The word “receite” originated from Latin but came to England through France at which point it had mutated to modern pronunciation as “recu”, so they shoved a few extra and silent letters in there and spelled it “receipt” to pretend they got it from Latin even though they kept pronouncing it more French.



  • I always imagined travelling back in time 100 years and trying to explain our tech.

    -“We have personal communicators available at all times, that we can use to instantly communicate with anyone on Earth.”

    -“Wow! But I guess language barriers make it impossible?”

    -'No, actually. A surprising amount of people in the world understand English. Also, we have instant translators in our communicators. I could contact someone in China right now and have a conversation about anything."

    -“Incredible!! What sort of topics do you talk to them about?”

    -“…I don’t. It’s kinda impolite to just start talking to strangers. I mostly talk to old friends from school. And my family.”