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How Dare You! You MUST Speak With Me! Let's Get Real About This Common italki Complaint
Do you feel obligated to talk to everyone you see on the street or in the coffee shop or at your place of work? How about that annoying middle-aged guy sitting next to you on that 18 - hour international flight you took? You remember him, ladies. He's the one with the silk shirt unbuttoned halfway down so that you could admire his chest hair. And who could forget his blingy gold Mr T chain. And that awesome mustache that looks like two sausages stuck to his face.
Maybe it's the guy who graduated college in 1959 with honors in his field of study and he's positive that you want to hear all about his glory days. Never mind that he's been working in a gas station for his entire career and his intellectual life consists of talking about the latest NASCAR superstar.
Aunt Irma calls you every week to discuss her latest bunion pain. Is it your duty to listen faithfully or tell her that the pot roast is burning and your daughter came home drunk and that you have to go?
What about creepy Uncle Fester who regales his audience with tales of his latest hemorrhoid surgery? Do you listen politely and thank him for the engaging intercourse?
In other words, do you believe that you are required to speak with every single human being who wants to talk with you? Yes? No?
It's simple folks, maybe you remind people of complaining Aunt Irma or Creepy Uncle Fester or their ex-wife or ex-husband. Or maybe they just feel uncomfortable interacting with you. Yes, yes, I know it's a shock when the realization dawns on us that not everyone is as crazy over us as our dog is. But that's life, Uncle Fester.
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Word of the Day -- Ultracrepidarian
Ultracrepidarian: someone who has no <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/special" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(29, 42, 87);">special</a> <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/knowledge" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(29, 42, 87);">knowledge</a> of a <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/subject" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(29, 42, 87);">subject</a> but who <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/express" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(29, 42, 87);">expresses</a> an <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/opinion" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(29, 42, 87);">opinion</a> about it:
The above definition is from this source:
<a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ultracrepidarian" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ultracrepidarian</a>
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Word of the day -- Intercourse
Intercourse can be used to describe communications or interactions of people in a group or individually. Put simply, intercourse means to engage in talk or to socialize either one-on-one or in a group. [ This is a commonly - known definition. Therefore no attribution to a source is needed. ]
So if you're having a conversation with a friend at the coffee shop, you're engaged in intercourse with that person. If you are having drinks at a cocktail party and the partygoers are talking, they're engaged in intercourse.
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Sad Family Story
My aunt wanted to join the circus. They wouldn't take her though since she only had a mustache, not a full beard. Do you have a similar sad family story?
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Plagiarism
Recently there was a multi-part [ I think it was a four-part ] discussion on these pages. The information was laid out very nicely in rows and columns. Knowing how difficult it is to lay out type like that I decided to Google one of the tables and see if it was original work. It was not shocking to me to see that the information had been lifted nearly verbatim from another site. A few words had been changed. The text on all of the submissions that the italki contributor used was substantially the same as the original.
I would argue that most people know that you must cite work product that you borrow from others. In fact, some rights holders require that you receive written permission to use their work. Usually a simple citation in the form of a link that leads to the original work will suffice in online situations. A link is certainly better than nothing and I would imagine that would satisfy most rights holders.
If I haven't been clear enough, I'll state it another way. Do you believe that you could take the work of a bestselling author and change 25% of the words and then publish that book under your name as an original work?
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Dieser Inhalt verstößt gegen unsere Community-Richtlinien.4. Dezember 2019
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Generating Discussion Posts
Are you struggling with idea generation for posts? Here are a few suggestions that might help you come up with more-interesting ideas.
#1 Think about the offbeat. Examples: What animal would you like to rename? Why?
#2 Sheer Randomness. Would you like to have a road named after you?
#3 Name some products with funny-sounding names. Example: Who here has heard of the body powder called Anti Monkey Butt? [ It's a real product. ] And through their site I learned that each June 21st is Swamp A*s Awareness Day. You can enter to be crowned King or Queen of Swamp A*s.
#4 Embarrassing stories about yourself. After all, there's no better ice breaker than to admit that you aren't perfect. Example: What's the biggest social blunder you've made? Maybe you once left the department store restroom with toilet paper stuck to your shoe? [ Then you can tell about the time that you did and how you were wondering why people were staring at you. How did you finally become aware of this long white, wispy ghost that was following you everywhere? ]
So the next time you're at your wit's end with idea generation try to think more broadly than maybe you have been. Not that there's anything wrong with posts about linguistics or language acquisition, it's good to stretch the old gray matter sometimes and get the creative juices flowing. Good luck.
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Taste Test
At a nice restaurant, do you taste your food before salting it? Remember, the chef has already seasoned it perfectly.
This seems to be a 'thing' here in the states.
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Do You See a Problem With This?
I recently became aware of the fact that 80% of all glasses frames and corrective lenses are made by one company by the name of Luxottica in Italy. Now we know why they're so outrageously expensive for a product with such a low cost of materials.
Has anyone else ever thought about this? Were you aware of this?
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Things We Need
I really wish they'd make aluminum foil shiny on BOTH sides. And what is your idea to improve the world?
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