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Feliç 9 d’Octubre!

Hui celebrem molt més que una data al calendari. Celebrem una història, una llengua, una cultura i una identitat que continuen ben vives.

Des dels carrers de València fins als pobles més menuts, i fins i tot des de l'altra banda de l'Atlàntic on estic jo, hui és un dia per a sentir-nos orgullosos de tot allò que fa única esta terra.

Que no es perden mai les paraules, les tradicions ni les arrels.

Per molts anys més de llengua, cultura i identitat!

Visca el poble valencià! 🦇

Ordinarily I'd fire up HiringCafe and have the AI do its thing, but today it seems to be missing. I'm in the US, so I've used it before, many times, and it works really well. Now it's nowhere to be found?

I've seen them both used interchangeably but I've also been led to believe there's some nuance to it, like cases where you'd use one over the other, and I'd like to ask natives for clarification.

¿Cuál es la diferencia entre «alguna que otra» y «una que otra»? He visto que se utilizan indistintamente, pero también me han dado a entender que hay algún matiz, como casos en los que se usaría una en lugar de la otra, y me gustaría pedir una aclaración a los hablantes nativos.

Primer que res, no visc a València, almenys encara no. Un dels meus desitjos més sincers és poder fer-ho quan el meu marit es jubile (d’ací a uns huit anys). Però tampoc crec que encaixe ben bé en allò que normalment consideraríeu una expatriada.

Per començar, estime de veritat la vostra cultura, la vostra gent, la vostra música i la vostra gastronomia. M’encanten les vostres festes. He aprés la vostra llengua. Escric llibres en valencià per a xiquets i adolescents perquè vull que tinguen herois que parlen com ells i que compartisquen els seus costums. La preservació del valencià és una cosa que em toca molt de prop.

De veritat vull conéixer-ho tot des de la perspectiva de la gent que hi viu i que hi ha viscut, encara que jo encara no hi visca. També soc moderadora de r/catalan, r/valencian i r/paisvalencia, així que fa temps que participe activament en estes comunitats i intente aportar el meu granet d’arena.

A canvi de deixar-me quedar per ací, promet que no preguntaré quin és el millor lloc «no turístic» per a menjar paella per a sopar i després em quedaré encantada quan me’n porten una coronada amb xoriço i pésols. Què en penseu?Creieu que tinc lloc per ací?

Just got this message from the AI job search:

The reranker is running into a persistent issue scoring results right now — it's pulling in 1,100+ jobs just fine but failing on the scoring pass. This is a service-side hiccup, not a problem with your search setup.

Hola! Estic escrivint una novel·la ambientada en el món de les Falles i, encara que he investigat moltíssim, encara em queden alguns dubtes sobre els terminis i el procés de construcció. Si coneixeu algun artista faller (o si ho sou vosaltres) que no tinguera inconvenient a respondre un parell de preguntes, tant en castellà com en valencià, m'ajudaríeu moltíssim.

Moltes gràcies per endavant!

I'm curious if anyone here has subscribed to any paid copywriting newsletters, either now or in the past. For example, I know John Carlton has one and I imagine several others do. It doesn't necessarily have to be a physical newsletter, it can be digital too.

If you subscribe to one, what is it about it that keeps you subbed?

Bona vesprà!

Tinc curiositat de veritat (soc dels EUA, però parle tant valencià com castellà). De tant en tant veig publicacions on algú diu amb orgull que és valencià, alacantí o d'una altra comarca o ciutat del País Valencià. I, inevitablement, apareix algú dient: «Sí, però al teu DNI posa espanyol».

Clar que sí. I què?

Què té de roín sentir orgull per la teua terra? Per què això ofén tant algunes persones?

Als Estats Units és molt normal sentir algú dir: «Soc un texà orgullós» o «Soc del Midwest i n'estic orgullós», i ningú ni s'immuta. En canvi, a València sembla que, si expresses orgull per la teua identitat regional, de seguida hi ha qui ho interpreta com un atac o com si estigueres negant una altra identitat.

Per què passa això?

(PD: No estic intentant crear divisió ni buscar discussions. Simplement tinc curiositat i m'agradaria entendre-ho des de la vostra perspectiva.)

Some companies only hire in specific states even though the job is fully remote. It shows this on the career or application page and if possible I’d like to have the option to filter out remote jobs that don’t hire in my area.

Hi! I’m on strattera 10 mg since May for ADHD and it has been an absolute godsend. One thing I’ve learned though is that it starts affecting my voice within hours. My doctor said to stop taking it for a week and see if my voice returned . It came back by the second day but by the third day the ADHD was back with a vengeance and I couldn’t stand it.

Apparently my brain is super sensitive to this stuff because such a small dose works beautifully, but I also don’t want to deal with my voice sounding like gravel forever. Does it eventually recover?

Hi! I’m on strattera 10 mg since May for ADHD and it has been an absolute godsend. One thing I’ve learned though is that it starts affecting my voice within hours. My doctor said to stop taking it for a week and see if my voice returned . It came back by the second day but by the third day the ADHD was back with a vengeance and I couldn’t stand it.

Apparently my brain is super sensitive to this stuff because such a small dose works beautifully, but I also don’t want to deal with my voice sounding like gravel forever. Does it eventually recover?

Four little mini-manuls: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/17ftnmRSJZ/

"Eyebrow" has been around for decades in the editorial and ad design world -- I've only recently heard it used in copywriting. We'd call them overlines, pre-heads, or preheaders. If you've been involved with newspapers, I'm talking about kickers.

And apparently they're now an AI tell. ISTG every few months the internet invents a new AI shibboleth. First it was AI dashes, the word "delve", "in today's fast-paced world"....

Now it's long sentences, short sentences, sentences in general, using emojis, perfect grammar, Oxford commas (!!) and now pre-heads.

I want to shout from the mountaintops: "GUYS! OGILVY WAS DOING THIS BEFORE YOUR PARENTS MET!"

Do you use eyebrows sorry I can't do it, pre-heads in your copy?

After 25+ years of DR, brand and conversion copywriting, I want to share one of the most important skills I've learned, and that's to sit with the struggle.

I'm specifically talking about that moment where you're staring at a blank page and every headline sounds like every other headline on the market. Newer copywriters look at this and think they're stuck because they don't have enough information or they haven't done enough research.

Sometimes that's the case but more often than not it's that they haven't stayed with the problem long enough. And this is where psychology comes in -- our brains like serving up the easy stuff first. So you run through all the clichés, the familiar angles and the stuff you've read elsewhere.

The problem with that is that it makes your copy totally predictable.

The best stuff appears later, after you've churned through easy mode. Psychologists call these System 1 Thinking and System 2 Thinking respectively. System 1 is over here begging you to open another tab, browse TikTok or go make a snack. System 2 is the more logical, determined side that starts cross-referencing ideas across other industrires and hobbies and things you've seen.

Unfortunately, because of how the brain works, we have to slog through System 1 before we get to System 2, and that's where a lot of newer folks will break off and quit -- RIGHT before that breakthrough happens.

System 2 Thinking also burns a lot more energy, so it feels mentally and physically exhausting *BUT* when you get that great idea or concept, your brain rewards you with a little shot of dopamine, so the more you do it, the more you get rewarded. 😄

Many times when I'm writing, the first 20 headlines are hot garbage and suddenly Headline #21 is actually decent, and they just start improving from there. Try it out yourself and see how you go!