No worries, easily done. I meant to say before, I also really like the Crucible - something we studied at school, and yet I still liked it! 😁
No worries, easily done. I meant to say before, I also really like the Crucible - something we studied at school, and yet I still liked it! 😁
Of books I’ve completed, Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge. Read it at school, hated it (as well as Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess of the D’Urbervilles) - full of ridiculous coincidences. And also utterly miserable to boot.
I started reading The Da Vinci Code, but gave up after the very first page.
Possibly showing my ignorance here, but The Crucible is by Arthur Miller, and The Scarlet Letter is by Nathaniel Hawthorne - did either of them write a work with the other title as well? I can’t find anything to suggest they did, but I might be missing something.
Thanks! That was near Dundee about 9 or 10 years ago.
Thank you really glad you liked it - whatever time of day it is :-)
Just for you, here’s my favourite sunset pic I ever took:
Can the mind vomit?
You maniac, you made up! God damn you all to hell!!
Oh really? That’s cool, thanks for the info. Language is so fascinating 👍
Yeah, I was thinking I might. I ly thing is, I haven’t got all the books, nor do I have a website on which to host such a list. However I might still have a go 👍
Meant to say in my Nero Wolfe comment - there’s a Lemmy community for interesting words at [email protected] - it’s not very busy, but still.
Yeah, I’d say so. Maybe something like “Take it easy” would fit better.
I’m currently reading through all of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe mysteries, and one fun feature is that he almost always includes one or more very obscure words. It’s a nice little thing to look out for.
In the one I’m currently reading it’s, “peculate,” meaning to embezzle or steal money. Others include:
I had a look to see if I could find a full list but sadly not. However most Wikipedia entries for the individual novels include a section called, “The unfamiliar word,” if you want to find more.
There used to be a Scottish football ⚽ player called Kevin Twaddle. Always amused me.
Would “Have a good one” maybe serve that purpose? It’s not exactly the same, but similar sentiment.
No need, not enough people on Lemmy anyway. Plus men-only groups often degenerate into paranoid misogynistic nonsense (like going on about blue and red pills). But I’m pretty sure you knew that already. And even if not, don’t ask, set the terms for people to say no and then whine when they do.
Yep, and thanks, I should have done that myself. Although setting that up as the default search takes a little more detail.
Not sure if this will help for that specific search but I recently discovered a change that you can make to your browser’s search defaults that makes Google search a lot better (for me at least), stripping away all the AI stuff.
Details in this thread: https://lemmy.world/post/19104187
Oh wow, that’s great, I didn’t realise it was back on the agenda - thanks a lot! 👍
That said, I found this line a bit surprising: “it’s not a goal to make it feel like you’re not in Firefox.”
That’s a shame, because being able to have a website run as if I’m not in a browser is exactly what I want to achieve! Still though, at least they’re looking at the concept.
Exactly. And I’m not being a book snob here, I’ve read plenty of books that weren’t the height of intellectualism. But it’s so BAD… 😁