Gotta keep reminding them why it was called The Gilded Age, not The Golden Age.
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One of my favorite examples of this is the situation with what the French call potatoes, and how that affects what they call âFrench Friesâ. I found a comic which explains it pretty well.
I wasnât aware of the further German elision. Also, nuance, I would translate âterreâ as âEarthâ rather than âgroundâ in this case. âApple of the Earthâ makes more sense to my English ears.
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Not to wax too pedantic (or off-topic) but the two primary categories of coffee brewing are âpercolationâ (i.e., water passes through the ground coffee under gravity or pressure and extracts solutes from the coffee as it passes through) and âinfusionâ (i.e., the coffee is immersed in the water and the time under immersion is what extracts the solutes). There are some hybrid techniques that have both an infusion and a percolation phase.
Drip coffee and machine espresso are percolation techniques. Cafetiere/French press is an infusion technique. The Aeropress, for example, uses a hybrid approach.
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Thereâs another one! Cafetière (which basically means âcoffee potâ or more literally âcoffee serverâ) in this sense is a shortened form of cafetière Ă piston. Iâll admit I didnât know that one, and had to look it up
Thread hijack (probably?) over, although itâs much more entertaining/rewarding than discussing whatever TACO Donny is up to.
Also, fuck that guy.
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Because of the extraterrestrial origin of apples.
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Reminds me of (& may have something to do with) HAARP.
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Actually, I guess the proper translation would be âapple of the soilâ, as basically terre in this sense it means âarable landâ. Earth can be a synonym for soil, so is still better than ground.
Now that you mention it, mexican coffe is also an infusion. So⌠we have coffee tea 
I was thinking more of adding alcohol, but I love that wormcat
(Also I suggest we move all these conversations to the language thread!)
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Two words: Pommes Schranke.
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I wonder what it means in the context of the Star Wars universe, where âspiceâ is an illicit substance thatâs smuggled by criminal cartelsâŚ
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Kennedy Center subscription sales fall 36 percent from previous year
Sales for ticket packages across all genres are down about $1.6 million year over year, a window into the arts centerâs challenges following President Donald Trumpâs takeover.
https://wapo.st/3HkpwOL
(Gift link - the gift of reqâd. login, IIRC, so hereâs the archive link)
The caveat, the former employee said, is that the theater subscriptions have been on sale for only two weeks â and some of the advertising, such as the mailed-out brochures, might not have peaked yet.
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Iâm surprised the sales at Kennedy Center havenât completely fallen off a cliff. I would have thought the overlap between (previous) Kennedy Center attendees and the MAGA agenda would have been quite low, and turning Kennedy into a MAGA arts center would have been the death of it. Maybe it hasnât entirely sunk in yet, or too many events booked pre-Trump are still going ahead?
(The new head complaining that people upset with the MAGA take-over were âmaking it politicalâ had my eye twitching.)
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US Tariff Impact: Prices Surge At Walmart And Target, Employees SayâSome Jumps Top 38%
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I was talking to someone earlier and they were saying that a Troubles era scheme for families and kids to travel to the USA had a problem for the first time: no host families in the US.
She was from the Irish office (in NI) of a US market intelligence firm and we always have long chats about what shit is going down and what it might mean. My suggestion, based on what I have heard Americans say recently, is that they may not want to attract attention to themselves. Hosting foreigners who could overstay might bring ICE down on you. You might look disloyal and lose your civil service job. Maybe people feel they have to buy tickets to the new MAGAdy Centre to prove they are loyal? That type loves giving money to their overlords rather than somewhere useful like a health system.
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Some percentage of Kennedy Center sales has to be âWants to appear to support the artsâ as opposed to âsupports the artsâ or âenjoys the shows.â AAR, momentum is a powerful force, if youâve always purchased tickets, it would be hard to stop to make a point.
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I think thatâs too divorced from Trump interests to work as a proof of loyalty to MAGA. For that, youâd need to buy Trump coins or something.
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I have to worry that publicizing this may yet land her in trouble if she comes back here. I wish I didnât have to think things like that.
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