We should’ve done something to protect them. More school officers, armed teachers, maybe had a gate guard or someone watching who was coming in.
Person: [trips on a pothole and breaks his jaw]
Republicans: We should’ve done something to protect him. We should have hired people to stand around the pothole to warn people that there’s a pothole nearby. We should create more potholes in the same area so that the current pothole is easily noticeable. Anything but fixing the pothole itself.
No protected person may be punished for an offense he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.
This technically counts, as students are civilians, and thus considered a “protected person”. So yes, collective classroom punishment breaks the fourth Geneva Convention, and she should be rewarded for standing up for human rights and doing her research.
The short involves Goofy doing domestic chores for his wife, which was an odd concept in the 1950′s. So based on the Milkman not knowing who he was kissing in this bit, it implies that Goofy’s wife was fucking the Milkman.
I’d also like to add (and probably should have) that the fight is far from over:
“Still, today’s vote means the proposal will have to go the House where Democrats will need to convince 25 Republicans to support net neutrality in order for the measure to pass—and they have until January of next year to do it.”
So you have two options: Continue to pressure your House reps to support Net Neutrality or vote them out for someone who does (if their seat is up).
To those fanfic writers that are not english native speakers: sometimes, when I read your work, I notice that english isn’t your first language, because there are strange phrases. I know immediately that to you, they are perfectly normal, since it’s the way your language describes things. And I love that, because here you go, creating your art, in a language you spent so much time learning, just so that other people can enjoy your stories! It is so amazing and I will never criticise you for that, but instead I will be thankful that you put in all the effort.
I love you all, you are amazing. Keep creating, please!
Writing is hard. Writing in a language that is not your native tongue is even harder. I love and respect the hell out of you all!
I read a book a while back, which I have completely forgotten the name of, but the author mentioned teaching poetry workshops to children of different age groups and said that the a lot of the younger kids came out with some really sublime stuff because they hadn’t internalised as many cliches and boring stock phrases in the English language yet, while the older kids tended to write very formulaic stuff in comparison. I think that writers working in a language that’s not their native tongue bring a similar quality to their work. You’ll see phrases that a native speaker could never come up with that are so fresh and beautiful.
We native English speakers tend to do a lot of washing in each others’ water, so to speak, when it comes to writing. We’re all drawing from the same stock pool of set phrases, idioms, metaphors, and classic literary references.
Go to any Blockbuster (well, you can’t) and read the titles of the wall of B-listers. Dozens upon dozens of puns that are small variations off a handful of tired, overused metaphors. We laud a good writer as one that can put the words together in new ways – and ESL folks, you can do that without even breaking a sweat.
You second-language folks, you bring the fresh and the new into that pool. You put words together in ways that are absolutely correct, but we never would have thought to. You make our language younger and I absolutely am grateful for that.
Wow, as someone who was once told that I should stop writing because English is not my native language (yes, I am still salty over that, even years later), thank you so much! This has moved me immensely! 😀
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