Jan. 31st, 2021

conuly: (Default)
Yay!

Poll #25205 It's my birthday!
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 64


What're you gonna do about it?

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Throw confetti
34 (53.1%)

Blow noisemakers
19 (29.7%)

Wear a silly cone-shaped hat
30 (46.9%)

Sing the happy birthday song
33 (51.6%)

Play party games
15 (23.4%)



Also I posted a prompt, so....
conuly: (Default)
I think I was pretty clear. Am I wrong? Was I just unclear?

Honestly, sometimes I despair. These people clearly know how to read, they're looking for books - but... I just... I don't know.

(And all this for a post which has long since dropped over the main page by now, so really, the problem is that I care. But I do care! If you don't flair your post, people don't know it's solved, and then they waste their time clicking through. I mean, if they're on page 2 or 3 (sort by "new") anyway they do. Maybe the real problem is they need another mod or two to go through and flair these posts faster.)

In unrelated /r/whatsthatbook questions, does anybody here speak Spanish and would you like to start and then mod a sub for Spanish inquiries? Every week we get a handful, and they largely go unanswered because it's an English-speaking sub. There's clearly a demand, albeit a small one, and I bet if we had a few dedicated searchers and recruited from some Spanish-language subs we could really have something useful for them.
conuly: (Default)
And one of the best ways is novel utterances.

See, that's a big difference between language and all the not-language communication out there. With language you can say something totally new that nobody has ever heard before - and other people will understand it! Even though they've never heard or thought of anything like it before, when you say it, they understand it!

Case in point:

Beetle parents manipulate information broadcast from bacteria in a rotting corpse

Isn't it just amazing?
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I'm not sure why I don't do it more often.

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