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conulyYesterday we had stirfry, and today I finished it, and I thought - "Hm, I wonder when the word stirfry entered the English language?"
I assumed as part of this that it was a calque of the original, probably Chinese, term. But I was wrong! No, although "stirfry" as a word does characteristically look like a Chinese-to-English calque, in fact it was straight-up invented by the authors of this cookbook. (The term was, not the technique.)
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I assumed as part of this that it was a calque of the original, probably Chinese, term. But I was wrong! No, although "stirfry" as a word does characteristically look like a Chinese-to-English calque, in fact it was straight-up invented by the authors of this cookbook. (The term was, not the technique.)
Here’s a story worth keeping in your knapsack.
How Four Dollars Can Unlock American History
That Time Campbell’s Put Marbles in Their Soup
The Changing American Diet
US generates more electricity from renewables than coal for first time ever
D.C. Prosecutors, Once Dubious, Are Becoming Believers In Restorative Justice
The black men from Pittsburgh who made up America’s original paramedic corps wanted to make history and save lives — starting with their own.
How Natural Black Hair at Work Became a Civil Rights Issue
How the American Flag Became Sacred — and the Hottest Brand in the Nation
Twitter thread on the flag code and violations thereof
VA secretary changes rules to allow displaying of religious symbols
Bosnian children fight back against segregation in schools
Scientists Are Giving Dead Brains New Life. What Could Go Wrong?
The Mormon Church vs. the internet
The No. 1 Ladies’ Defrauding Agency
The Detested Bradford Pear Tree Is Coming to a Forest Near You
Only One in Seven Eligible Kids Get Free Lunch in the Summer. What's Going Wrong?
No prosecution for Alabama woman who was shot, lost fetus
America in decay
Exposing the Racist Facebook Posts of City Cops
'The children wanted to help us': Lawmaker emotionally recalls note from detained migrants
Central American officials avoid focus on immigration
Before You Call Out Our Hypocrisy, Let Us Remind You That We Don’t Care
Japanese Internment Hasn’t Taught Us Anything (Well, other than that you can get away with shoving people into shitty desert conditions for an indefinite period of time. Taught us that.)
The Unfulfilled Promise of LGBTQ Rights in South Africa
In battle for Libya's oil, water becomes a casualty
Thousands of Ethiopian Israelis protest police violence
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Date: 2019-07-04 04:56 pm (UTC)One thing that keeps jumping out at me in all these stories is the bit about the guy with the gun "shooting in self defense".
Just about *everywhere* the rules pretty much say that if a civilian uses gun he'd better be outnumbered or the other person has to have a serious weapon.
But nobody has said the victim was armed. Which means the shooter is guilty of a serious escalation in the level of violence.
Something fishy is going on here. Besides the obvious, that is.
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Date: 2019-07-05 06:45 pm (UTC)