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@TheCinesthetic Happy Birthday!🎉🍾🥂🎊☕🥛🎂🎂🎂🧁🧁🧁🍰🎊🎉🧀🍷🎊

Happy 50th Birthday to Reese Witherspoon!

@Inquiringmind53 @JoshPhillipsPhD That volcanic eruption in 1815 caused worldwide weather disruptions. It also inspired Lord Byron's poem 'Darkness.' (Wikipedia article headers about Byron's 'Darkness' and the Mount Tambora eruption)

@JoshPhillipsPhD Tell me if I remember the lore accurately? It was on a dare, or a bet that a woman couldn’t write a horror novel. And she said oh yes I can! And then did… 🤣 makes it sound easy, but depending on what was going on in her brain, maybe it was. 😏🤷‍♀️

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein when she was 18-19 years old. 🤯

@Inquiringmind53 @JoshPhillipsPhD The movie Gothic (1986) tells the story: Byron, the Shelleys, Polidori, 'Monk' Lewis were staying in a villa at the Lake of Geneva. A monster eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia (The Year Without Summer) caused terrible thunderstorms, it inspired them. Storytelling time!🌋⛈

@Inquiringmind53 @LouiseCulmer1 @JoshPhillipsPhD Polidori wrote a vampire story.

@LouiseCulmer1 @JoshPhillipsPhD Yes, I didn’t mean to insinuate that it was not. Sales would be how they decided the winner, but she was the only one who actually did it. So… she probably would have won anyway…?

@StarWarsDaily_ Cute! Can't say more until it's on regular TV😀

What are your opinions on Grogu (Baby Yoda) in The Mandalorian?

@llandoniffirg 😀some of his fans, the most prominent is Flora😀🥬🌼🌸💮🌼🍊🍑🍎

His new album "Straight out of the garden" goes on sale next Friday! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@StarWarsDaily_ Still developing and crafting a Tauntaun thermo armor...

Tweet like you live on Hoth

@llandoniffirg 😀garden jungle frens!😀☘🍀🌱🪴

Yup 100% 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Jazzmodius @PulpLibrarian He could actually play a Bond Villain, too😀🤣😂🤣😂

@PulpLibrarian He was awesome in Hot Fuzz

Happy birthday to Timothy Dalton, born today in 1946!

@PulpLibrarian Happy Birthday!🎉🍾🥂🎊☕🥛🎂🎂🎂🧁🧁🧁🍰🎊🎉🧀🍷🎊

@007 Happy Birthday!🎉🍾🥂🎊☕🥛🎂🎂🎂🧁🧁🧁🍰🎊🎉🧀🍷🎊

Not a problem solver, more of a problem eliminator. Happy birthday to Timothy Dalton.

@salinasp @gregmcantwell @JoshPhillipsPhD Thanks, I don't remember having read that book yet, I think I mixed it up with the Paris trilogy at first.

@Surfphilosopher @gregmcantwell @JoshPhillipsPhD Nausea

I'm done for the day. Heading home. What are you all reading this weekend?

@ima_pseudo41406 @SketchesbyBoze They probably use 'baby' to make it sound maximum cute. Babying pets and calling themselves 'pet parents' is another thing. But we need to make sure actual children will know what a duckling is when we read them Hans Christian Anderson. 'Whats' a duckling?' 'That's a baby duck'🐣

@SketchesbyBoze Nouns are being lost - you see video after video where they refer animal young as "Baby": baby ducks, baby geese, baby swans, baby otters, when they are actually referred to as ducklings, goslings, cygnets, and pups. Language becomes less precise as these nouns are disused.

You can be pretty confident that someone doesn’t read when they say “raped over at Kohl’s” rather than “raked over the coals.” As literacy declines, we are seeing new & unparalleled malapropisms.

@WillyDiBa7 @inkysputter @SketchesbyBoze Probably urbanization. Never seen a bed of coals? The expression is about literally dragging someone over a a raked bed of burning coals, usually a heretic. This type of medieval punishment turned into an expression for severe criticism.

@inkysputter @SketchesbyBoze I mean idt “got raped over” and “got raped” would be the same. Literally just swap it with fuck. “Got fucked over” and “got fucked” are clearly different (although it does def depend on context of the full sentence fs).

@pftq @numbertalker @SketchesbyBoze @Waterflame A blip is not insignificant, it needs to be checked. Read some submarine thrillers. Odd how many get that wrong😀

@numbertalker @SketchesbyBoze @Waterflame It's a figure of speech. 🙄

@SketchesbyBoze This just shows that texts used in schools should get footnotes and glossaries to explain old proverbs, expressions. In the age of text processing there's zero excuse for teachers and schools not to provide this information from the beginning. Children's TV can't do it all alone!

@viarentable @Globalstats11 No idea. Wait, I'll look it up. Google language model AI's numbers: Mexico overtook Spain and Colombia, but Spain is the language's origin. Not enough space for many flags?🤔

@Surfphilosopher @Globalstats11 Then why not argentina or Colombia?

World's Most Spoken Languages in 2026 🗣 1. 🇬🇧🇺🇸 English – 1.5 Billion Speakers 2. 🇨🇳 Mandarin – 1.2 Billion 3. 🇮🇳 Hindi – 609 Million 4. 🇪🇸🇲🇽 Spanish – 559 Million 5. 🇸🇦🇦🇪 Standard Arabic – 335 Million 6. 🇫🇷🇨🇦 French – 312 Million 7. 🇮🇳🇧🇩 Bengali – 284 Million 8. 🇧🇷🇵🇹 Portuguese – 267 Million 9. 🇷🇺 Russian – 253 Million 10. 🇮🇩 Indonesian – 252 Million 11. 🇵🇰🇮🇳 Urdu – 246 Million 12. 🇩🇪 German – 134 Million 13. 🇯🇵 Japanese – 126 Million 14. 🇳🇬 Nigerian Pidgin – 121 Million 15. 🇪🇬 Egyptian Arabic – 119 Million 16. 🇮🇳 Marathi – 99 Million 17. 🇻🇳 Vietnamese – 97 Million 18. 🇮🇳 Telugu – 96 Million 19. 🇳🇬🇳🇪 Hausa – 94 Million 20. 🇹🇷 Turkish – 91 Million 21. 🇵🇰 Western Punjabi – 90 Million 22. 🇹🇿🇰🇪 Swahili – 87 Million 23. 🇵🇭 Tagalog – 87 Million 24. 🇮🇳 Tamil – 86 Million 25. 🇭🇰🇲🇴 Yue Chinese – 86 Million Speakers Note: Figures Rounded. As of Last Updated. Source: Ethnologue via Trade Brains

@SachinGadagin @Globalstats11 French used to be the main diplomatic language spoken at the different royal courts in Europe. The grammar and spelling probably were a factor, possibly also the difficult way of spelling out numbers like quatre-vingt for eighty and quatre-vingt-dix for ninety in trade.😀

@Globalstats11 French and Bengali having such large speaker bases alongside Portuguese, Russian and Indonesian is something people often underestimate in global conversations.

@Geecube3 @Globalstats11 Same😀

@Surfphilosopher @Globalstats11 Awesome I will definitely check it out as well 😅. Thanks a lot I love it when I learn something from ppl here

@Dr_TripleE @Globalstats11 It's a language that develops when people with different languages meet and want to communicate, often first for trading purposes. The next step usually is for a Creole to develop, which is new words but used in the grammar/sentence structure of one's own or old language(s).

@Globalstats11 Is pidgin a language?