u/Cold_Box_3219

I get that reviews should be concise, but for longer stays it can be hard to give a fair review within the limit. Sometimes there are multiple relevant positives and negatives, and cutting it down too much removes important context.

What makes it more frustrating is that hosts seem to get far more space to respond, sometimes with long, detailed replies, while guests have to compress everything into a tiny review. It feels a bit unbalanced.

For short stays, the limit may be fine. But for longer stays, it does not leave much room to explain the experience properly.

Curious if others have run into this.

Words like know, knee, knife, and knight are spelled with a “k,” even though we don’t pronounce it anymore.

From what I understand, that “k” used to be pronounced in older forms of English. So when did English speakers stop saying it? Was there a specific period when sounds like kn-, gn-, and wr- started disappearing, even though the older spellings stayed?

Were most silent letters in English originally pronounced and later dropped from speech, or were some added later because of spelling conventions, Latin/Greek influence, or other reasons?

I’ve also heard that contact between Old Norse and Old English speakers in medieval Britain influenced the development of English. I’d be interested in understanding whether that contact had any influence on pronunciation changes like these.

This is just my personal opinion, but Canada joining the EU would be the wrong direction, especially from a housing perspective. Canada already has unaffordable home prices, extreme rent pressure, low vacancy rates in many cities, and not enough supply for the people already living here.

For most Canadians, the practical benefits would be limited. Europe is far away, so easier access to European labour markets would not meaningfully help the average person trying to afford rent or buy a home here.

At the same time, Canada could become a more attractive destination for people looking to leave crowded and expensive parts of Europe. If EU membership or closer integration meant freer movement, looser entry rules, or reduced control over who can live and work here, housing demand could rise even further.

That would make an already broken market worse. More demand does not automatically create more homes, more rentals, more tradespeople, more infrastructure, or faster permitting. It would likely mean higher rents, more competition for limited units, and even less affordability for citizens, permanent residents, and newcomers already in Canada.

Canada needs to fix housing supply, zoning, infrastructure, construction capacity, and affordability before even considering any arrangement that could add more pressure to the housing market.

I think people are often inconsistent about harassment allegations depending on who the accused person is.

I’m not saying this is only about one gender or one specific group. There are real reasons people may react differently in some situations. For example, men are generally physically stronger and can often cause more physical harm, so context and power dynamics do matter.

But that should not mean misconduct from someone who is seen as less threatening automatically gets brushed off. When someone is famous, attractive, funny, popular, or generally well-liked, people seem a lot quicker to excuse things they would take seriously if the same behavior came from someone they already disliked.

Of course, evidence matters, context matters, and time matters, not every allegation is the same, and not every old incident should automatically ruin someone’s life

I just think people are too selective about when they care. If something crosses a line, it should be discussed honestly instead of being dismissed because the accused person has a likeable public image.

The standard should be based on the severity of the situation, the context, and what the person actually did, not on their gender or other unrelated factors when they are harming someone else.