Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221

[Peelee]

I was just at a cracker barrel restaurant when I could take the people waiting for to be seated no more and had to step outside to finish waiting with my sister-in-law and my niece inside.

Oh I know that feeling well.

[Caerulea]

(Yet more medical stuff to add to this thread) Does anyone here know how long the anesthetic used for toes is supposed to last? A day later and it feels asleep. This morning it was still numb.

—Caerulea

[Peelee]

(Yet more medical stuff to add to this thread) Does anyone here know how long the anesthetic used for toes is supposed to last? A day later and it feels asleep. This morning it was still numb.

—Caerulea

"That's gonna friend in the dosage and the anesthetic." - my RN wife

[Caerulea]

"That's gonna friend in the dosage and the anesthetic." - my RN wife

Well, now it mostly just hurts. Probably not as bad as Comrade's tooth, but still annoying. Oh well. Thank you anyway.

—Caerulea

[WarKitty]

Well, now it mostly just hurts. Probably not as bad as Comrade's tooth, but still annoying. Oh well. Thank you anyway.

—Caerulea

Can I just say I love your avatar?

[Peelee]

Well, now it mostly just hurts. Probably not as bad as Comrade's tooth, but still annoying. Oh well. Thank you anyway.

—Caerulea

No problem. Sorry I couldn't be more help.

Can I just say I love your avatar?

Ha! My wife said the same thing when I handed her my phone.

[Caerulea]

Can I just say I love your avatar?

Thank you! I really like yours as well. It is very cute.

Edit:
I sort of forget that people are not their avatars, in that I imagine their personalities from them. Peelee reads to me as a majestic, friendly, well, dragon, and WarKitty as a perpetually cute, contented sleeping cat.

—Caerulea

[Insane Jeenyus]

Thank you! I really like yours as well. It is very cute.

Edit:
I sort of forget that people are not their avatars, in that I imagine their personalities from them. Peelee reads to me as a majestic, friendly, well, dragon, and WarKitty as a perpetually cute, contented sleeping cat.

—Caerulea

and mine? .. .. ..

[Peelee]

I sort of forget that people are not their avatars, in that I imagine their personalities from them. Peelee reads to me as a majestic, friendly, well, dragon

—Caerulea

Hooray, I come across like I hope!

Also, Ah, dragons. The giant flying beastly cats of D&D.

and mine? .. .. ..

An insane genius, frankly.

[Caerulea]

Also, Ah, dragons. The giant flying beastly cats of D&D.

Indeed.

and mine? .. .. ..

I haven't actually looked at your avatar, and only just now have realised that it is Wile E. Coyote. I just read your name. (I only actually pay attention to the avatars that are 1. not forum default ones and 2. I can make sense of them quickly. Otherwise it just serves as a tag stating "this post authored by Insane Jeenyus.")

Now I should probably go to sleep, in spite of the cat's efforts to take over my bed.

Spoiler: cat

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—Caerulea

[Comrade]

I'd probably change my avatar if doing so wasn't such a pain in the neck on this site (or at least I remember it being that way). Inasmuch as I love Grouper this one comes across a little, uh, heavy.

[factotum]

You know why Temple of Doom sucked? No Sallah. Indy was the heart and soul, but Sallah still managed to steal the show. John Rhys-Davies is a king among actors.

The problem is, the material he was given for Last Crusade sucked. In the first movie he was an important man, the best "digger" in all Egypt, who could arrange for teams of men to help Indy at a moment's notice. In the third one? He and Marcus Brody were both reduced to comic relief.

[2D8HP]

...Does anybody have an experience teaching young children to read? We are trying to get my 5-year-old reading, and it is frustrating.

Sure, by keeping the television on a lot of time (mostly PBS kids shows), turning "closed captioning" on, and keeping the volume low.

Worked like a charm!

...I sort of forget that people are not their avatars..

they're not?

[DataNinja]

I sort of forget that people are not their avatars

they're not?

Nah, we totally are. Clearly. There's nothing weird or unusual about that.

[Mariele]

I mean, I almost used my real face for my avatar, but then I thought one of the beautiful dancers doing traditional dances from Rajasthan would be less obnoxious. (Even if the whole system is a bit messed up on account of tourism revenue, I still appreciate Rajasthani dance.)

It's very strange to go from college discussion posts, where the avatars are themselves in Business Professional attire, to... here.

[Knaight]

Does anybody have an experience teaching young children to read? We are trying to get my 5-year-old reading, and it is frustrating.

I remember my younger brother didn't learn to read until he was 7, and that my parents and I helped him learn with a book that really pushed the phonetic aspects of the language with some specialized diacritics, font sizes, and the like. It worked decently.

I also remember teaching myself to read when I was two, which basically came down to a floor level book case full of Doctor Seuss being available to me, plus my parents reading to me. That combination of knowledge and options is probably pretty easy to recreate, and while it doesn't always work I'm far from the only person to teach myself to read. I assume most people do.

[Mith]

My brother, who is a teacher, says that teaching reading is best done with phonemes. I am no where near qualified to talk about it, but perhaps this link can at least give you an idea of what to look for when looking for ideas.

[Brett Wong]

The best part about being back after going away for a long time is having a bunch of comics to catch up on! How is everyone doing?

[Anonymouswizard]

So I'm thinking of growing my hair out and getting my ears pierced. Not because I don't look handsome now, but because I like my hair long and think a couple of studs would look nice.

[Grey_Wolf_c]

My brother, who is a teacher, says that teaching reading is best done with phonemes.

Even better: start with a language that has a closer to 1-1 relationship between sounds and letters. Like, say, Spanish.

I sort of forget that people are not their avatars, in that I imagine their personalities from them.

Wait, we aren't?
I may need to spend less time on the Internet...
Grey Wolf

[Mith]

Even better: start with a language that has a closer to 1-1 relationship between sounds and letters. Like, say, Spanish.





Wait, we aren't?
I may need to spend less time on the Internet...
Grey Wolf

We did have better correlation, but then some lazy printing press people decided not to make a few english characters for their printing press, so the spelling changed.

[Grey_Wolf_c]

We did have better correlation, but then some lazy printing press people decided not to make a few english characters for their printing press, so the spelling changed.

Honestly, I was more thinking of the fact that English has like 20-something vowel sounds, which you somehow transcribe with only five six symbols.

I hated French for having 8 vowels, including three variations on 'e' which I never managed to get right. But at least they tell me which one I'm supposed to use. I've no idea what I would've done to master English if I had not cheated my way into it.

Grey Wolf

[Mith]

Honestly, I was more thinking of the fact that English has like 20-something vowel sounds, which you somehow transcribe with only five six symbols.

I hated French for having 8 vowels, including three variations on 'e' which I never managed to get right. But at least they tell me which one I'm supposed to use. I've no idea what I would've done to master English if I had not cheated my way into it.

Grey Wolf

Fair. Aside from ash (Æ), I think all the other symbols I can think of as part of English were constanants.

[Bartmanhomer]

Today at my job, my supervisor and the Day Hab program throw me an early surprise birthday party. Which was so random and unpredictable even throw my birthday is on May 4.

[Anonymouswizard]

English is a language? I thought it was a random collection of sounds we all pretend has meaning.

On that note, I do know a few words where the spelling differs between US and Commonwealth English because printers used different substitutes for missing letters. I believe that while in the use Æ was generally printed as E, over here in the place the language develloped AE was preferred.

But yeah, I do find myself sometimes correcting my immigrant friends on vowel sounds. I do get why it's so hard, and would support the introduction of accents to make it easier for people to get it.

[Fyraltari]

English has more than enough accents as is, it's diacritics it is in dire need of.

[Peelee]

I'm up for getting rid of the Bahston accent.

[halfeye]

Adopting the Cyrilic alphabet for English might be entertaining.

[Gaius Hermicus]

I'm up for getting rid of the Bahston accent.

I take offense at that, as I am a proud New Englander.

[Peelee]

I take offense at that, as I am a proud New Englander.

Look, there's a difference between Charles Winchester and Will Hunting, is all I'm saying here.