!!! That would work!! Thank you!

I’m not free to share the context but these are notations, so it doesn’t really help anyway

Knowledge of this person’s handwriting suggests fautise, bantire, variations thereof—but none of the variations I can think of are words

Yes, and even moreso, "google translate is seamlessly and invisibly generating messages it labels as "translations" that in fact are nothing of the kind"

I'm not trying to credit creativity here, at all--I agree with your skepticism about that. What I mean to point out is that this is a way--no doubt one of several-- that the translations can mislead. sort of like how Bard will invent plausible-sounding titles for texts that don't exist.

We used to have sussexes who were great foragers—the Orpingtons sort of need a leader but I’m hoping the Wyandotte will do that

Two lavender orpingtons and a silver laced Wyandotte. I’m ameraucana-curious but we’ve never had any

Oh that would be a dream!

Thanks, Stephen! Hope to talk to you about this one, too, one day!

Thank you!

It’s going to be an unhinged adventure

If you've been following the crisis at WVU, where I'm an assistant prof of English, you may know that

1. I, along with many colleagues, will find out next month if we'll be laid off in May

2. WVU's lawyer said they're reading profs' social media. Hi.

Yes!