#spurious

[texasdreamer01]

Rodney for the character opinion bingo? ☺️

[theyuniversity]

For example,

Our neighbor claimed he was descended from royalty, but his evidence was spurious at best, consisting mainly of a poorly forged family tree. 🤴

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[pinkoptics]

😄👤 for the Soulmates one!

😄 - Most excited that John and Rodney are arguing and hot under the collar in this one! Rodney’s being an ass, John’s calling him on it and damn if I’m not having fun writing the back and forth (as in, just was writing it, not 15 minutes ago, floooooooow).

👤 - POV is John. And he’s pissed. Which makes him kiss forcefully, apparently.

[classiccokelimited]

I announce a new book project, for which I plan to provide early to primary elections in publishing by summer of 2024, by Talon 38 Personal Media Sm-LLC

[Titles are planned and changeable, and are © 2023 Talon 38 Personal Media]

Contempt of U.S. Congress, by Shadenactive Deformal of U.S. Acts

by Patrick L. Cheatham (twitter) and of Entropic Front:

The Acts Redeformative Era 1994-2023

Tethered Twenty First Century Planetary Evolvement, to Curtail Spurious Flair

Contempt of U.S. Congress now exists possibly by actions since the 8th of November 1994 when began the aftermath of U.S. Legal Foresight deciders future-reactive replacement by deciders future-preventative, I begin to write on this book. A new hybrid word for what the after 1994 philosophy became in part - is prefences-conprevicted.

[wordsforyourwip]

Writers, some words for your WIP today:

Hint

Spurious

Laughter

Distant

Mountain

[almightyrayzilla]

Drawtumn 21.19 - Spurious

[infinitysisters]

There was a time—I’m talking of the 1990s, so almost of prehistory—when every bad decision that people made was attributed to lack of self-esteem, rather than to such human phenomena as, say, weakness, folly, cowardice, laziness, or even fear or duress, the first four of which were dismissed as being incurably judgmental and therefore useless as scientific explanation.

The problem with self-esteem is that it is entirely egotistical and self-regarding, unlike self-respect, which is a social virtue and imposes discipline and obligations upon the person who has, or wishes to have, it.

By contrast, self-esteem is like a medal that one pins to one’s own chest merely by virtue of existing. I am, therefore I esteem myself, and I demand that you esteem me too.

Curiously enough, at the height of self-esteem’s popularity most people knew, or at least had some inkling, that the whole idea was completely bogus. Sometimes when patients would say to me, “I have low self-esteem, doctor,” I would reply (admittedly not in every last case), “Well, at least you’ve got one thing right, then.”

Far from becoming angry, they started to laugh, as if they had been caught out in a naughty game that they had been playing. It came to them almost as a relief: they didn’t have to pretend to believe an evident absurdity any more, and then they could begin to examine the real causes of the devastation of their lives, some internal and some external

- Theodore Dalrymple

[intermundia]

I remember vividly in grad school preparing to do a team presentation with a couple guys who were from India. We were talking about research, I don’t exactly remember, but I do remember saying that something was ‘spurious.’ One of them quickly corrected my pronunciation that it was supposed to be ‘spoorius’ or something, with long u.

I looked at him and was like... my guy, you are studying at a university located in the American West talking to someone who grew up on a farm and around horses. In these here parts, when we see spurs we pronounce it like spurs 😂

It’s strange to be corrected about the pronunciation of your native language by a foreign student, but it was fine. I know that I say things wrong all the time by virtue of the fact that I don’t subvocalize when I read, and as a kid developed a large vocabulary early on from books.

I’m curious though, my fellow Americans, when you say ‘spurious’, do you say it like a cowboy or do you say it ‘spoorius’ like my friends Bibin and Aditya?