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In my experience, they tend to actually go with the way dumber option of "Okay so this means that, every time we pit the hare against the tortoise, the tortoise would win, and therefore a tortoise can also beat all the other animals a hare could ordinarily beat in a race"

fictionadventurer

One of my biggest literary pet peeves is when historical or history-inspired fiction pretends that "courting" is a synonym for "dating". Usually it's just a one-to-one word swap--in a modern context, these characters would be dating, but this is olden times, so they call it courting instead. Sometimes they'll pretend there's a shade of difference, and that courting is a more serious exploration of marriage or something. But I read a lot of fiction that was actually written during these historical eras, and the word "courting" is never used like that.

Two people do not decide that they are "courting". One person decides to "court" someone else. It's an action, not a stage in the relationship. A man decides to court a woman because he wants to encourage her to have romantic interest in him. He's trying to win her favor. It's not an exclusive relationship--a woman could be courted by multiple men at once. She'll spend time getting to know the guy who's interested in her, but they won't officially define their relationship as one where they only show romantic interest in each other. If they reach a point where they want it to be exclusive, that's when you propose.

There's no middle ground--either you're getting to know each other, or you're committed to marrying each other. This idea of a period where you kind of commit to each other until you decide you definitely want to get married is a modern one, and it occurs in eras where they use the word "dating" to describe it. The closest equivalent I can think of are times and places where they'd talk about a couple "stepping out together", but they're still not calling it "courting". Words have meaning, and the word "courting" has never meant that, so stop using it that way!

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the other mild historical disjoint i run into is when people talk about dating in the fifties like it automatically meant exclusivity. the whole reason we have the expression "going steady" is because the default was to or "go around with" or "go out with" multiple people. not in the sense of being in a stable polyamorous vee, but in the sense that archie is actively "seeing" both betty and veronica during the entire time the two girls are competing for his attention and they're both seeing other guys to make him jealous, and nobody involved considers this "cheating."

bizarrely, America has in many ways gotten more conservative about dating since World War II.

firstfullmoon

aria aber, “my father drives me to düsseldorf airport” / hedgie choi, “salvage”

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transjester64

Adding this from the comments...

avioletmoonrise

every now and then I am reminded to my great chagrin that my mother is funnier than I am

bogleech

Attempted killer apprehended for an unrelated assault that someone else committed anyway

bogleech

If you're still not quite clear on what the article is saying, this woman had a rapidly growing malignant tumor until her doctor poked it with one needle to take a sample.

Her immune cells responded to that tiny little needle wound as they normally would, and only then detected something wrong with the surrounding cells, attacking the cancer they now associated with that trivial damage.

It doesn't reliably work that way all the time or we would have noticed this happening a lot more often, but this would also seem to imply that, across the entire history of the practice, there's probably an above-zero number of people who actually beat cancer through acupuncture.

a-book-of-creatures

It’s giving “leeches actually have health benefits but not for any of the reasons they were supposed to be good for”.

kakyoiniisms

I don’t know anything about ace attorney

kurapikaschai

[Video Description: A video of an objection.lol meme of the Ace Attorney characters in court. Transcript below.

Miles Edgeworth [smirking]: I love women and having sex with women only. never had sex with a man never will and I do not want to. I would not lie about this.

Franziska Von Karma shouts “Objection!”.

von karma [holding her whip in her hands]: you literally had sex with the other guy in this game idiot. / penix write or whatever.

Edgeworth shouts “Hold it!”

Edgeworth: WH- (in all caps.) literally who told you that that’s blatantly untrue????? I don’t have sex with men especially not him

von karma [banging her fist down a couple times]: (in all caps.) you say this every time. you have had sex with men before literally an undeniable fact. what is wrong with you. you are gay and flaming.

Edgeworth shouts “Hold it!”

Edgeworth: name one time I had gay sex with another man. I wait.

von karma: hmph! you think I don’t know better not to eavesdrop when people are having private affairs? this is simply my intuition. I know I’m right.

Edgeworth: heh, can’t even provide any evidence for your claims? highly unprofessional of you ms. von karma! with that, your honor, I can confidently say this case is-

Phoenix Wright shouts “Hold it!”

Phoenix: hi everybody I am back from starbucks sorry for being late lol! ^_^ who wanted the venti vanilla caramel frappe with whip cream and chocolate drizzle again?

Edgeworth: hi. that’s mine. the venti vanilla caramel frappe with whip cream and chocolate drizzle I mean. thanks.

von karma: … bit of a fruity drink don’t you think.

Edgeworth: ? there’s no fruit in this drink.

von karma: … whatever hi penis or whatever your name is I don’t care when’s the last time you had sex with edgewart over here

Phoenix: hm, last week I think!

Edgeworth, Von Karma, Maya, Mia, Godot, and the judge all wear shocked or unimpressed expressions.

von karma [looking uncomfortable]: (in all caps.) you cannot be serious.

Edgeworth: (in all caps.) D-damn you to hell idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cosmo Wanda send this fool to the pit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Judge [shaking his head]: (in all caps.) Order! Order In The Court!!!! it seems mr. edgeworth has been found guilty of having gay sex and will now be sentenced to super hell.

Edgeworth: (in all caps.) I- how come Phoenix isn’t being being sentenced as well?

Judge: because I like him and he bought everyone starbucks. anyways have fun in super hell.

Edgeworth: (in all caps.) You will pay for this you old shit.

Transcript End.]

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perplexingly

a dynamic I really enjoy in fiction is when a relationship starts with some power imbalance, then changes into something sweet and balanced, and eventually shifts into imbalance in the other direction 🤤

northirish

Being mutuals isn't enough, we need one to stab the other in a muddy shell crater with a bayonet and realize the true horrors of industrialized total war together and that we have far more in common with each other than with the soulless monsters who sent us off to war in the first place

rukafais

Shout out to everyone on my dashboard who is enthusiastically talking about whatever the fuck theyre into that I don't recognise. Love your enthusiasm, keep going, I don't know what's happening but i support u

mud4sludge-deactivated20230205

what should i get at ihop

mud4sludge-deactivated20230205

alright.

beholdingslut

in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

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bigfoots-biggest-fan

HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY