u/Elisabethianian

For all you haters!

I think Joel wonderfully redeemed himself, and I was surprised I felt this way since he left Midge in such an asshole way and with such a stupid reason. All the reels I had seen focused on those scenes: Midge waking up early to look perfect when she wakes up, her doing all the right things in her marriage and then he still cheats. I thought it was going to be a story about Midge's independence and life in a men's world but I was just as invested in Joel's life.

Hey iedereen! Ik ga zaterdag voor het eerst naar Castlefest. Heb mijn outfit helemaal klaar en zat de denken aan de tas die erbij hoort. Wat voor spullen moet je echt meenemen? Bijvoorbeeld: wordt het aangeraden om een eigen beker mee te nemen (op de fotos zie ik soms mensen met een beker in thema aan hun riem). Cash of is alles wel pinnen? Mag eten en drinken mee op het terrein?

Wat zijn de gouden tips en tricks om mee te nemen? :)

Recently I have been seeing many social media posts about jewellery jars, these glass jars filled to the brim with random jewellery. I seem to enjoy them because my algorithm keeps pushing them. But it made me realise, along with other 'thrifting' videos that I get in my algorithm, how overconsumption can even happen in spaces meant to reduce consumption. People do 'hauls' of thrift shop clothes and buy an entire jar of jewellery of which they might use 20% while they donate/throw away (?) the rest.

Who needs an entire jar of jewellery?

What bothered me the most about the film, as it did anyone who understands language, is that Grace's method of learning to communicate with Rocky is NOT HOW TRANSLATIONS WORK.

You can't just substitute words. Even if you ignore the problem that every word has a half dozen meanings depending on context, grammatical structure has a ton of variety even among human languages. Even if you take a human language like Japanese and you attempt word substitution you get gibberish out the other end.

The book answers this with two or three sentences, that could have easily been a throw away line in the movie.

Rocky's species use sound for everything, so naturally their brains are far better at processing language than ours. Rocky picked up English with little effort, and is intentionally speaking his own language wrong for Grace's sake.

Grace isn't the only person attempting to learn a new language. Rocky did it first, and is helping his less intelligent human counterpart. From Rocky's perspective he is mixing up his own language's grammar and misusing words to compensate for Grace's poor memory.