The point of CPR is to keep blood flowing to vital organs until (hopefully) the heart can be restarted and spontaneous circulation returns. You don't do CPR because someone has an acute problem with their heart, you do it because their heart stopped and their brain needs oxygen.
November 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
The point of CPR is to keep blood flowing to vital organs until (hopefully) the heart can be restarted and spontaneous circulation returns. You don't do CPR because someone has an acute problem with their heart, you do it because their heart stopped and their brain needs oxygen.
During a heart attack, the heart is still doing its job, circulating blood to the rest of the body; it's still beating. You wouldn't give CPR to someone having a heart attack because CPR is doing the job of the heart: each compression forces blood to circulate; you can think of it as a heart beat.
November 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
During a heart attack, the heart is still doing its job, circulating blood to the rest of the body; it's still beating. You wouldn't give CPR to someone having a heart attack because CPR is doing the job of the heart: each compression forces blood to circulate; you can think of it as a heart beat.
Cardiac arrest is when the heart stops beating. A heart attack is when the flow of blood is cut off to part of the heart but the heart keeps beating and thus the patient has a pulse (it's like a stroke except for the heart and not the brain)
November 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Cardiac arrest is when the heart stops beating. A heart attack is when the flow of blood is cut off to part of the heart but the heart keeps beating and thus the patient has a pulse (it's like a stroke except for the heart and not the brain)
“Found” isn’t the word I’d use, but yes.
November 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
“Found” isn’t the word I’d use, but yes.
What you’re taught in a basic cpr class: do they have a pulse?
November 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
What you’re taught in a basic cpr class: do they have a pulse?
I also think this general point applies to names too. If I wrote First Age fic, I would drive myself batty coming up with OC names that fit Northern Sindarin. Or that are shitty translations of Quenya names into Sindarin (I love that little detail).
November 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I also think this general point applies to names too. If I wrote First Age fic, I would drive myself batty coming up with OC names that fit Northern Sindarin. Or that are shitty translations of Quenya names into Sindarin (I love that little detail).
Anyways, if you're writing AotT Quenya, I better see some 'z's. Give me Sauzon! (Pre-late AotT Quenya, that is, the z > r shift seems to have happened late in Aman. For added fun, have someone attack Feanor for his hypocrisy in opposing the th > s merger but not the z > r!)
November 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Anyways, if you're writing AotT Quenya, I better see some 'z's. Give me Sauzon! (Pre-late AotT Quenya, that is, the z > r shift seems to have happened late in Aman. For added fun, have someone attack Feanor for his hypocrisy in opposing the th > s merger but not the z > r!)
Also, like, other dialects! The Sindarin in Lothlorien or Mirkwood! The Quenya-Sindarin creole of Gondolin! Quendya!
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Also, like, other dialects! The Sindarin in Lothlorien or Mirkwood! The Quenya-Sindarin creole of Gondolin! Quendya!
(We do know enough about Iathrin Sindarin to approximate it, and likewise know enough about the evolution of Quenya and 3rd Age Dunedhil Sindarin to do AotT Quenya or First Age Falathrin. But when Russingon are speaking Sindarin? No way.)
November 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
(We do know enough about Iathrin Sindarin to approximate it, and likewise know enough about the evolution of Quenya and 3rd Age Dunedhil Sindarin to do AotT Quenya or First Age Falathrin. But when Russingon are speaking Sindarin? No way.)
Anyways, fandom rant of the day over, I need to vacuum. Or walk the dog, that's what she thinks I need to do now.
November 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Anyways, fandom rant of the day over, I need to vacuum. Or walk the dog, that's what she thinks I need to do now.
I do think I did a good job in conveying the meaning of what they were saying though! Admittedly made easier by how one of the characters was teaching the other the language, so I could write him explaining things as they went along.
November 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I do think I did a good job in conveying the meaning of what they were saying though! Admittedly made easier by how one of the characters was teaching the other the language, so I could write him explaining things as they went along.
(You can do excellent explorations of Tolkien linguistics in fic without ever using an Elvish word. Or without using "thou.")
November 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
(You can do excellent explorations of Tolkien linguistics in fic without ever using an Elvish word. Or without using "thou.")
(Or just what language the characters are speaking. The answer, outside of AotT fic, is probably Sindarin, which is why I use "long year/great year" and not "yéni," even though I think a reader of Silm fic would know that word - they don't know "ennin", which is what the Sindarin cognate is)
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
(Or just what language the characters are speaking. The answer, outside of AotT fic, is probably Sindarin, which is why I use "long year/great year" and not "yéni," even though I think a reader of Silm fic would know that word - they don't know "ennin", which is what the Sindarin cognate is)
(My own answer to the "Sindarin or Quenya" question is also "English" but it comes with the footnote of "consider Elven sociolinguistics and semantics!")
November 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
(My own answer to the "Sindarin or Quenya" question is also "English" but it comes with the footnote of "consider Elven sociolinguistics and semantics!")
Also, while we're on the topic, I think that Quenya and Sindarin use the formal vs informal second person differently, that Quenya is much more restricted in its use of it while I think Sindarin, in which the formal is called the "reverential," uses the informal much more freely.
November 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Also, while we're on the topic, I think that Quenya and Sindarin use the formal vs informal second person differently, that Quenya is much more restricted in its use of it while I think Sindarin, in which the formal is called the "reverential," uses the informal much more freely.
Idk, Darth Fingon, when an author would ask if they should use Quenya or Sindarin, would answer "English." I feel more or less that way about the use of thee/thou in fic.
November 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Idk, Darth Fingon, when an author would ask if they should use Quenya or Sindarin, would answer "English." I feel more or less that way about the use of thee/thou in fic.
And sometimes just formal. And it comes across that way to the reader! Because Tolkien almost always uses "you", so when he does use "thou" it's very marked and the context tells us how to interpret that use.
November 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
And sometimes just formal. And it comes across that way to the reader! Because Tolkien almost always uses "you", so when he does use "thou" it's very marked and the context tells us how to interpret that use.
When Jirt does use thee/thou in dialogue (which he does very rarely; most of his use of it is in poetry) he uses it in what reads, and is meant to read, as formal speech. Sometimes intimate formal speech (Eowyn to Aragorn), sometimes derogatory (Denethor to Gandalf, the Mouth of Sauron)
November 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
When Jirt does use thee/thou in dialogue (which he does very rarely; most of his use of it is in poetry) he uses it in what reads, and is meant to read, as formal speech. Sometimes intimate formal speech (Eowyn to Aragorn), sometimes derogatory (Denethor to Gandalf, the Mouth of Sauron)
Tolkien provides a good example, I think, of how thee/thou can be used in modern English prose. Canonically, the Hobbits are thou'ing everyone and never using 'you', but that's conveyed in the actual text by their more casual speech.
November 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Tolkien provides a good example, I think, of how thee/thou can be used in modern English prose. Canonically, the Hobbits are thou'ing everyone and never using 'you', but that's conveyed in the actual text by their more casual speech.
(Also, like, if you are going to use it that way, then why are a married couple thou'ing each other while fucking but you'ing while having a private breakfast together?)
November 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
(Also, like, if you are going to use it that way, then why are a married couple thou'ing each other while fucking but you'ing while having a private breakfast together?)