u/GardenPeep

Delta's statement is interesting: it appears that they came up with a pretense for causing this guy to board last (however, I think everyone else boarding would have noticed the agents in the jetway.) If I see agents in a jetway, I'm going to take a picture, probably surreptitiously if possible (after all you have to look at your phone to see what seat you're in, right?)

For example, in mid-September I'll be carless, basing in Tavistock and looking at walking routes that start along Pork Hill Road. Will the #98 bus (for example) make courtesy stops and pickups at the car parks like Pork Hill and Four Winds?

How convenient and reliable are private rides like Uber, Lyft and taxis for this purpose?

(Otherwise it looks like many hikes begin with a long walk along the road.)

Our office of emergency management put out a brochure translated into Spanish with the title Una Portland Resistente. (A resilient Portland). A Spanish speaker stopped by our table and took a look to check the quality of the translation from English. He said that conventionally, cities are treated as masculine, so that the correct form of the title would be "Un Portland resistente"

Further questions I'd consider if I were publishing would be 1) would it be better to put the adjective before the noun; and 2) how necessary is the indefinite article (as opposed to its use in English?)

Comments?

Just heard a long, complicated coffee order today and started thinking about how a cruel English teacher could come up with order-of-adjective exercises around coffee orders. (Size, coffee type, bean origin, caf/decaf, brew type, alternative milk, iced/hot/superhot, etc.)

Does anyone else think its resemblance to a real human voice except for a subtle lack of appropriate intonation make it sound kind of sinister?

TriMet’s MAX stop voice is unapologetically artificial. Maybe we should just stop there, (or use real people of course.)