Why is "Quixote" pronounced "keeYOteh" when you say "Don Quixote" but then when you use the word "quixotic" which is from his name you pronounce it "kwiksAHtik". It should be "keeYAHtik". It is my quest to make people pronounce it "keeYAHtik" which in my view is more correct. Some say I'm quixotic.
Moving right along from the Don Quixote comment below (or earlier), you don't really want to know how the French pronounce/mangle this name..."Donkey Shot" might be a reasonable facsimile, at least that is how my poor, addled brain tried to interpret what I heard for the first five years of living in France. OK never mind (passons). What this comment is really about is Maurer's hopeless, barbaric prononciation of commonly used English terms. Jeff...are you reading these lines? It is NOT "forMIDable", it is "FORMidable", you pathetic turkey...GET IT RIGHT. You made another egregious error of prononciation that I have forgotten (gimme a break; I'm almost 82 years old), but the one example is good enough to make the point: You sir, are a semi-educated, over-confident barbarian; and your self-satisfied, serenely confident opinions about DOGE and Trump might indeed be wrong...in the fullness of time.
Why yes in fact I am. Anyway it’s all in good fun…Maurer is really a good humorist and I’m a charter member of the platinum club in the champagne room for winners.
I like several Substack writers. I can see subscribing to one of several where I read the free versions that are presented. I do not see me picking only one. NO one is that good compared to everyone else. Can't intelligent minds get together and decide on a group whose thinking is good, even if they don't always agree. I would love to subscribe to such a group. It would be sort of subscribing to the opinion page of a newspaper that sifts its editorials for quality opinions that are well thought out, AND agrees with your general philosophy. An opinion, well presented, that is different from one you previously held, written by someone whose opinion you generally agree with, is the most valuable thing a person can read. The second most valuable would be a careful analysis of an opinion you agree with, that goes deeper into facts and precedents and is based on a better understanding of people.
So, collect yourself some careful analysts, form a group, and publish the most impactful article the members of that group produced that week.
Sign me up as the first subscriber, even if the fee is something like what the NYT or WSJ charges for a year.
you know patreon? it works sort of like substack, in that you subscribe to creators and receive exclusive content for a fee.
well, something you probably don't know about is "kemono" - it's a website that freely provides any & all subscriber-only patreon content, as long as at least one person provides it a validly subscribed login credential for a given patreon creator. so it's sort of like a "pirate bay" for patreon subscriber-only content.
such a thing does not exist yet for substack, to my knowledge -- probably this is because far fewer substack creators are posting, you know, boobies and such. but it sounds like exactly what you're looking for.
it would, of course, be very illegal, in terms of copyright infringement - sci-hub is another thing that works like this, except for academic papers. (i used the heck out of it in college, just because it let me access academic journal sites faster than SSHing or whatever from my computer to the campus network -- academics in developing nations where universities can't pay all the journal access fees say it changed their lives, though).
so, having said publically that such a thing would be pretty neat, i now have to refrain from actually doing it, because they'd know it was me. but, uh, hint hint, anyone reading this outside the arm of american copyright enforcement. kim dotcom, where are you???
On the subject of Emile St. Godard, it is in fact the case that Manitoba's history has in large part been influenced by French speakers. It was founded in 1870 as a bilingual province, but the percentage of French speakers in Manitoba decreased a lot over the following decades, due to government policies (the Manitoba schools question) and immigration -- though interestingly Manitoba also received a fair number of French-speaking immigrants from Belgium and Switzerland in the late 19th and early 20th century. The status of Manitoba, as well as the Métis rebellions under Louis Riel, was actually a major issue in Canadian language conflicts in the first few decades of the Canadian federation.
As for St. Godard himself, whom I'd never heard about, I did a short web search and the English-language articles don't say much about his ancestry, but I found a radio show from Radio-Canada in French about forgotten athletes that goes into more detail about his background. His paternal grandfather actually came from Québec and moved to New England where he married a Franco-American woman, and the family then moved to Manitoba, where Emile's father was born and later married a woman originally from Montréal. All in all very interesting, thank you Jeff for mentioning this forgotten part of our sporting history.
I can't post on that article, but just so you know, Democrats have no opening while they remain committed to defending Richard Leland Levine etl al.
There is nothing else on that subject worth talking about.
Why is "Quixote" pronounced "keeYOteh" when you say "Don Quixote" but then when you use the word "quixotic" which is from his name you pronounce it "kwiksAHtik". It should be "keeYAHtik". It is my quest to make people pronounce it "keeYAHtik" which in my view is more correct. Some say I'm quixotic.
Moving right along from the Don Quixote comment below (or earlier), you don't really want to know how the French pronounce/mangle this name..."Donkey Shot" might be a reasonable facsimile, at least that is how my poor, addled brain tried to interpret what I heard for the first five years of living in France. OK never mind (passons). What this comment is really about is Maurer's hopeless, barbaric prononciation of commonly used English terms. Jeff...are you reading these lines? It is NOT "forMIDable", it is "FORMidable", you pathetic turkey...GET IT RIGHT. You made another egregious error of prononciation that I have forgotten (gimme a break; I'm almost 82 years old), but the one example is good enough to make the point: You sir, are a semi-educated, over-confident barbarian; and your self-satisfied, serenely confident opinions about DOGE and Trump might indeed be wrong...in the fullness of time.
grandpa???
srsly, that was a hot roast. sed trumpus et musque calidior in avernum incendabintur.
Why yes in fact I am. Anyway it’s all in good fun…Maurer is really a good humorist and I’m a charter member of the platinum club in the champagne room for winners.
cogito flammae magnae melior ridebintur - si illud nefas est, mea culpa, sed id est id est. viae multae, et sed parve carpevint veritas & libertas.
I might be wrong but.....
I like several Substack writers. I can see subscribing to one of several where I read the free versions that are presented. I do not see me picking only one. NO one is that good compared to everyone else. Can't intelligent minds get together and decide on a group whose thinking is good, even if they don't always agree. I would love to subscribe to such a group. It would be sort of subscribing to the opinion page of a newspaper that sifts its editorials for quality opinions that are well thought out, AND agrees with your general philosophy. An opinion, well presented, that is different from one you previously held, written by someone whose opinion you generally agree with, is the most valuable thing a person can read. The second most valuable would be a careful analysis of an opinion you agree with, that goes deeper into facts and precedents and is based on a better understanding of people.
So, collect yourself some careful analysts, form a group, and publish the most impactful article the members of that group produced that week.
Sign me up as the first subscriber, even if the fee is something like what the NYT or WSJ charges for a year.
you've given me a terrible, awful idea.
you know patreon? it works sort of like substack, in that you subscribe to creators and receive exclusive content for a fee.
well, something you probably don't know about is "kemono" - it's a website that freely provides any & all subscriber-only patreon content, as long as at least one person provides it a validly subscribed login credential for a given patreon creator. so it's sort of like a "pirate bay" for patreon subscriber-only content.
such a thing does not exist yet for substack, to my knowledge -- probably this is because far fewer substack creators are posting, you know, boobies and such. but it sounds like exactly what you're looking for.
it would, of course, be very illegal, in terms of copyright infringement - sci-hub is another thing that works like this, except for academic papers. (i used the heck out of it in college, just because it let me access academic journal sites faster than SSHing or whatever from my computer to the campus network -- academics in developing nations where universities can't pay all the journal access fees say it changed their lives, though).
so, having said publically that such a thing would be pretty neat, i now have to refrain from actually doing it, because they'd know it was me. but, uh, hint hint, anyone reading this outside the arm of american copyright enforcement. kim dotcom, where are you???
IT’S BALTOS ALL THE WAY DOWN.
IT’S BALTO, BALTO, BALTO ALL THE WAY DOWN.
On the subject of Emile St. Godard, it is in fact the case that Manitoba's history has in large part been influenced by French speakers. It was founded in 1870 as a bilingual province, but the percentage of French speakers in Manitoba decreased a lot over the following decades, due to government policies (the Manitoba schools question) and immigration -- though interestingly Manitoba also received a fair number of French-speaking immigrants from Belgium and Switzerland in the late 19th and early 20th century. The status of Manitoba, as well as the Métis rebellions under Louis Riel, was actually a major issue in Canadian language conflicts in the first few decades of the Canadian federation.
As for St. Godard himself, whom I'd never heard about, I did a short web search and the English-language articles don't say much about his ancestry, but I found a radio show from Radio-Canada in French about forgotten athletes that goes into more detail about his background. His paternal grandfather actually came from Québec and moved to New England where he married a Franco-American woman, and the family then moved to Manitoba, where Emile's father was born and later married a woman originally from Montréal. All in all very interesting, thank you Jeff for mentioning this forgotten part of our sporting history.