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I am knitting the simplest possible* bottom-up sweater, and today I reached two simultaneous milestones:

1. I finished the main torso of the sweater to the point where I divide for the armholes.

2. I finished exactly one third of my total yarn.

Is that an appropriate amount of yarn to have used to this point? Will there be enough to knit the entire sweater? I HAVE NO IDEA!! One of my reasons for knitting a simple sweater is to give myself an idea of a yarn baseline. I want to find out what is the least amount of yarn I can use and make a sweater.

*Simplest possible for me, and yes, I am aware of the irony there. But it's stockinette, in the round, I'm really very close to the stitch and row gauge called for in the pattern, and I'm only making really very very few modifications as I go. (Just the ribbing depth and the body shaping and the total length and the sleeve-cap type and probably the sleeve shaping as well.) Practically no modifications at all!

I'm very happy with it so far, and am looking forward to seeing what happens with the rest of it. :D

kaffy_r

I use semi-colons; you?

Anyone who reads anything I write, whether fictional or non-fictional, knows of my love for semi-colons. When I think about why that's so, the one thing that leaps to what I laughingly call my mind is that I use them to reflect the same patterns I use when speaking. I find them extremely useful to demarcate thoughts, observations, realizations - that could reasonably be considered "in process," rather completed. (Protip; don't use quotation marks quite as liberally as I undoubtedly have. That leads to bad grocery window displays; almost as much as apostrophe misuse.)

WRT that last sentence; see wut I did thar? But I digress.

I read this WaPo article* this morning and have grumbled about it all day. In part that's because it's not that well-written a story - it's apparently predicated on the assumption that cleverness is preferable to writing a story with a point, or at least preferable to having to prove you can write such a story.

In larger part it's because I'm part of an apparently shrinking number of English speakers and writers who have sworn off this kind of proscriptive grammar pedantry, in favor of punctuation that has a perfectly understandable and effective use, if used properly.

So I must ask my friends, for whom the acronym AKICOTI (all knowledge is contained on the internet, for those who don't trust the internet) was undoubtedly coined:

Poll #33330 Semi -colons: Threat or Menact

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 11

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I use semi-colons

View Answers

All the time; if it's good enough for Jane Austen and Lincoln, it's fine by me.
6 (54.5%)

When I deem the time is right. Which isn't all the time, damnit!
5 (45.5%)

Occasionally; that's because it's only occasionally useful.
0 (0.0%)

Rarely; I mean, I think that's what the WaPo writer meant ....
0 (0.0%)

Never! *makes warding anti-semi-colon sign*
0 (0.0%)

Other, which I'll explain in comments
0 (0.0%)

* I cancelled my subscription months ago, but was told I was still a member until sometime in November. Most likely they hope I'll resubscribe.

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Current Location: the living room
Current Music: None

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匕 bǐ
化, to change; 北, north ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=21
匸 xǐ
匹, counter for horses; 区, district; 医, doctor/medicine ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=23
十, parts 1-4 shí
十, ten; 千, thousand; 升, to rise; 午, noon; 卉, plants; 半, half; 华, magnificent/China; 协, to cooperate; 卑, vulgar/base; 卓, outstanding; 单, single/list; 卖, to sell
( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=24

语法
Chapter 34 quiz: Question words
Chapter 35 quiz: Question words
https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9781138651142/quizzes.php
Using 的
https://www.chineseboost.com/grammar/modifier-de-noun/

词汇
推动, to promote; 推广, extension; 推进, to advance; 推开, to push away
退, to retreat; 退出, to withdraw; 退休, to retire
外交, diplomacy; 外面, outside; 外文, foreign language; 另外, in addition; 意外, accident
完美，完善, perfect; 完整, complete
玩具, toy
往往, often; 交往, to affiliate; 前往, to go to/proceed
( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

玩玩
Songs: Shan Yichun, 想你的风起, and sodagreen, 我的未来不是梦.
Also The Reason I Live Here : short videos about Chinese people living abroad and non-Chinese people living in China.

七月了，外面既有绣球花又有紫薇。大家过得怎么样？

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I know I had some stuff I wanted to post about but now I can't remember what it was. Oh well.

I finally watched Captain America: Brave New World and it was fine. ( spoilers )

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RIP Julian McMahon and Mark Snow.

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Current Music: Magpie to the Morning - Neko Case

neotoma

Bacon-cheese wheel, almond croissant, apricots (!!), red plums, strawberries, yellow raspberries, black raspberries, sour cherries (pie!), donut nectarines, strawberry lemonade, a gallon of herbal lemonade, brown sugar kettle corn, caramel kettle corn.

Next week I will buy red sweet cherries (for ketchup) and peaches (for salsa), and actually enter my canning in the county's agricultural fair this year.

Fun fact, red currants used to be illegal to plant in the United States -- they are the second host for white pine blister rust disease, and that is a threat to the lumber industry as white pine is very susceptible to it. This is why purple candy in the USA is grape-flavored, while in Europe purple candy is currant-flavored; we didn't *have* currants (or gooseberries) legally for almost 100 years.

Current Mood: lethargic

profiterole_reads

Lui by CM Deiana (who used to write for the Yaoi France fanzine) was a lot of fun! During the Covid lockdown, Alexandre, a sociology student, meets Samuel, a delivery man.

I bought this novel through crowdfunding, so I got:
- 3 bonus chapters about various secondary characters
- 1 fanfic written by Auriane Velten (Ainsi soient-illes) and printed like a fanzine: it's an AU where Alex and Sam meet 25 years later, in a fascist France (we're sadly heading there, but I sure hope that it's not going to last that long)
- a few goodies

I love that the book is a little mixed-media, with illustrations of notebook pages between chapters.

There's major m/m, with Alex being demisexual and on the autism spectrum. The secondary characters mostly include gay men, but also two sapphics and an enby. There are a few POC, and Covid-related anti-Asian racism is tackled.

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部首
十 part 4
卓, outstanding; 单, single/list; 卖, to sell ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=24

词汇
往往, often; 交往, to affiliate; 前往, to go to/proceed ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
你是怀疑小郭会在里面出卖老楚, are you suspecting Xiao Guo will sell out Lao Chu in there?
历史往往都是成王败寇, history is often written by the winners

Me:
你的工作表现真卓越的。
我们公司往往跟她的公司合作。

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The Old Guard 2 was awesome, but Netflix'd better greenlight a third movie right freaking now. I'm reading the comics, but that doesn't help with the cliffhanger because the plot of the movies is different.

The first film was already full of hot people, and they went and added Henry Golding and Uma Thurman to the cast. ^^

There's major m/m, as well as subtext f/f (canon f/f in the comics).

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部首
十 part 3
华, magnificent/China; 协, to cooperate; 卑, vulgar/base ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=24

语法
[Back to review from the elementary levels with a new grammar site. If anyone has any other ideas/requests, I am totally open to any and all suggestions, there's only so much I can think up!]
Using 的
https://www.chineseboost.com/grammar/modifier-de-noun/

词汇
玩具, toy (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
我会怀念你这颗卑鄙自私的心, I'm going to miss your base, selfish heart
赵云澜是您的儿子，沈巍也是我的老师, Zhao Yunlan is your son and Shen Wei is my teacher
[no 玩具]

Me:
他的名字是印尼的，但是其实他是华侨。
别玩坏你弟弟的玩具！

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