It’s the *second* meal, sure. Spaniards can sit down to dinner at 1030…

Oh no. I’m m sorry for your loss (of faith in humankind). Can you ballpark what percentage you thought were using AI and what percentage actually were?

And if your neighbours are annoying, well, of course they are, being nigh-boors, the people who inhabited/farmed near you.

And "villain"'s connection to the "village"

Understood. But it is a great piece and I have reposted despite being a papered-over redneck who likes McDonald’s and is allergic to lit-crit theory!

Well I wanted to quote post this with a compliment only to discover that it was impossible. I guess that’s how people nastily argue? But it’s also how people say “I liked this and you should check it out because…”

Not Costco’s, but if it looks like a name, it can happen, eg Barnes & Noble’s (sometimes without the apostrophe, suggesting some confusion whether it’s construed as a possessive) is out there.

I've always wondered how many times this footer has pushed a one-page e-mail into two and so, when an e-mail *was* necessarily printed for some reason, wasted a sheet of paper

However many people that is, I want to be at that event.

Yes! Oxford commas can often avoid ambiguity, but applying them across the board can create as many problems as it solves, usually by setting up a false parenthesis. They are certainly not always a good idea:

Also at the event were Cher, the president of Kazakhstan, and three sumo wrestlers.

Sure, just meant to emphasize the friend/coworker reversal. This came up in a parent-teacher meeting where the teacher said (in English) that my 13yo son had good colleagues, which may have confused my wife.

Or maybe she, like me, picked up "colega" from Machos Alfa...

FYI my mission is getting rid of the meaningless "don't forward this on, this is the property of blah blah, this is the business's registered address, this is its corporate registry number, please consider the environment, we are a proud member of this affiliate network" footer on every e-mail.

The best thing to do for panels, by far, is to get the participants together for 15 minutes for a laugh in the green room to warm up their chemistry. The call, *ugh*. It feels like make-work for everyone, every time, and i am a hardened veteran.

Yeah and I bet they still have those Peppa accents in high school right?

The funny thing is that the Times piece itself notes that more primary- than secondary-school teachers report hearing "trash" and "candy" suggesting that... ding ding ding, children learn the language of their community.