I've picked out a new hill on which to die

[conuly]

People at /r/englishlearning need to stop saying "Song lyrics/poems don't have to be grammatical! Don't try to learn English through songs/poems! People just do whatever, ungrammatically, to fit the rhythm/mood/rhyme scheme!"

This may be true, I guess, but funnily enough it's never true when people say it. At least half the time, the quoted text isn't even archaic or nonstandard!

That said, I do like reading (most of the) comments in that subreddit. There's always something! omg this is kinda nsfw but when I was a teenager me and my friends saw "do the needful" in a book, and being from ohio we had 0 context for this phrase so we thought it meant "have sex with beggars"

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Two long-lost organ pieces by JS Bach performed for first time in 300 years (My goodness, we're finding so many lost compositions lately!)

Chasing the Louvre loot: Inside Antwerp's jewellery underworld

He Died at a School for Disabled People. Decades Later, His Brother Sought Answers. (There's a lot of sad stories in the comments)

The Hidden Devastation of Hurricanes: Their health effects extend far beyond official death tolls.

New flu virus mutation could see 'worst season in a decade'

Early this year, bird flu ripped through 80 farms in Ohio and Indiana. Using genetic markers, wind simulations, satellite imagery, property records and more, we found that the virus could’ve been airborne.

The Runaway Monkeys Upending the Animal-Rights Movement

Menstruation as misconduct: How prisons punish people for having their periods

Comments

[magid]

Your potential playlist jogged my memory; my French teacher taught us a sentence for us to remember the way to say ‘to have something done’: Louis XIV a fait construire Versailles. It’s been over four decades since that class, and it’s still stuck in my head.

[ioplokon]

That's a great one - because obviously Louis did not build it with his own 2 hands.