#word definitions

[castodust]

Lazy post do people still fw this

Anyways word definitions i found on Pinterest and i haven’t saw people posting

F2U, don’t credit me!

[stream-of-stars-polling]

Are nonbinary people trans?

yes in every case - I am nonbinary

no in every case - I am nonbinary

yes in every case - I am trans

no in every case - I am trans

yes in every case - I am not nonbinary or trans

no in every case - I am not nonbinary or trans

yes unless they are agender

yes if they are closer to the gender that they weren't assigned with at birth

yes but only if they transition

yes but only if they identify as trans

I do not want to answer this poll but still want to see results

Voting ended onApr 22

I am not trying to say anything with this poll. I have no agenda. I simply want to see if others see nonbinary people as trans. I have heard some say that if you are not cis, you are trans. I have also heard others say you are only trans if you are on the binary. I just want to know which opinion is more popular.

Sincerely,

A nonbinary person

[eightopals]

I just need to get this off my chest. I keep running into it, in everything from fanfic to current news commentary.

reign vs. rein

reign: the period during which a sovereign rules.

rein: a long, narrow strap attached at one end to a horse's bit, typically used in pairs to guide or check a horse while riding or driving.

So, to the source of my actual annoyance:

“You don’t get free rein to nose into people’s personal business just because you’re the team leader.”

This is the correct usage. The expression is NOT “free reign.”

If you give a horse “free rein,” you are not controlling it. You are holding the reins loosely and letting it pick its own path. Usually this implies you trust the horse, and in the case of a well-behaved, experienced horse on familiar ground, this may be the best choice - especially if it’s dark or foggy out and you are not familiar with the path yourself.

So if you are, say, a manager on a technical team, and you think one of your direct-reports is ready for bigger responsibilities, you might say, “Meredith, you’re the project lead. I’m giving you free rein to make all the day-to-day decisions. Just make sure I know what’s going on and that you are able to hit the major milestones shown on the plan.”

You’re not letting her be the queen. You’re setting her free to pick the best path by herself.

[bethanydelleman]

What do you think Austen encompasses when she refers to “taste” and “manners”? I’m trying to think past the obvious but I don’t really know what these concepts meant in the early 19th century, but they were clearly important descriptives.

Thanks for your thoughts!

This is a big question, as Jane Austen's works are often described as a "comedy of manners" and the concept of taste comes up a lot! There are certainly nuances in the way she uses these words. I'm going to do taste in this response and manners in another post because this got long.

Taste comes in two forms, natural and educated. Lady Catherine in Pride & Prejudice snobbishly describes herself as having the former:

There are few people in England, I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

While this is most likely a jab at people who claim natural taste while being uneducated, and a display of Lady Catherine's misplaced pride. In Sense & Sensibility, Elinor defends Edward by claiming he has natural taste:

“What a pity it is, Elinor,” said Marianne, “that Edward should have no taste for drawing.”

“No taste for drawing!” replied Elinor, “why should you think so? He does not draw himself, indeed, but he has great pleasure in seeing the performances of other people, and I assure you he is by no means deficient in natural taste, though he has not had opportunities of improving it. Had he ever been in the way of learning, I think he would have drawn very well. He distrusts his own judgment in such matters so much, that he is always unwilling to give his opinion on any picture; but he has an innate propriety and simplicity of taste, which in general direct him perfectly right.”

Now "taste" doesn't seem to only be "the ability to discern what is of good quality or of a high aesthetic standard." it also speaks to execution, as we see here in Northanger Abbey:

Her taste for drawing was not superior; though whenever she could obtain the outside of a letter from her mother or seize upon any other odd piece of paper, she did what she could in that way, by drawing houses and trees, hens and chickens, all very much like one another.

This sentence would suggest the definition of taste to be something like "skill". Etymoline gives this definition:

Also from c. 1300 in English as "to touch, to handle." From early 14c. as "have experience or knowledge of" (of bliss, bitterness, etc.). The meaning "exercise the sense of taste" is recorded from late 14c.... The meaning "aesthetic judgment, artistic sensibility, faculty of discerning and appreciating what is excellent" is attested by mid-15c... The sense of "fact or condition of liking or preferring something, inclination" is from late 14c. 

Henry Tilney talks about taste as something like skill as well:

“I should no more lay it down as a general rule that women write better letters than men, than that they sing better duets, or draw better landscapes. In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.”

Austen also makes a bit of a pun about taste, would not disgust a young person of taste, when talking about the merits of novels.

We see taste associated with education again here:

They were viewing the country with the eyes of persons accustomed to drawing, and decided on its capability of being formed into pictures, with all the eagerness of real taste. Here Catherine was quite lost. She knew nothing of drawing—nothing of taste... her attention was so earnest that he became perfectly satisfied of her having a great deal of natural taste.

Similar to Pride & Prejudice: Lady Catherine continued her remarks on Elizabeth’s performance, mixing with them many instructions on execution and taste.

And then of course, we have Elizabeth's admiration of Darcy's taste when she sees Pemberley:

Elizabeth was delighted. She had never seen a place for which nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste... The rooms were lofty and handsome, and their furniture suitable to the fortune of their proprietor; but Elizabeth saw, with admiration of his taste, that it was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine,—with less of splendour, and more real elegance, than the furniture of Rosings.

And again, the association with education:

She listened most attentively to all that passed between them, and gloried in every expression, every sentence of her uncle, which marked his intelligence, his taste, or his good manners.

Mary had neither genius nor taste; and though vanity had given her application, it had given her likewise a pedantic air and conceited manner, which would have injured a higher degree of excellence than she had reached. Elizabeth, easy and unaffected, had been listened to with much more pleasure, though not playing half so well; and Mary, at the end of a long concerto, was glad to purchase praise and gratitude by Scotch and Irish airs, at the request of her younger sisters, who with some of the Lucases, and two or three officers, joined eagerly in dancing at one end of the room.

So, to sum up this massive litany of quotes, natural taste seems to be an inclination in the right direction, which can be honed with proper education. Real taste comes from a place of education. There seems to be a suggestion that one type of taste can be correct, it is not just a matter of opinion. Jane Austen argues that novels should be a part of that "correct" taste. I imagine that taste changed with movements, such as Romanticism and the idea of the picturesque.

[aromanticduck]

Is there a difference between 'fuck buddies' and 'friends with benefits'?

Yes: fuck buddies is more about the sex while FWB is more about the friendship

Yes: fuck buddies is more about the friendship and FWB is more about the sex

Yes, another difference (in tags)

No, they're different words for the same thing

Honestly? No clue

Voting ended onMay 31, 2024

By 'more about the friendship' I mean friends who happen to like having sex with each other, who would probably still be friends if they stopped having sex.

By 'more about the sex' I mean only really friends because they're fucking, and if they stopped having sex they probably wouldn't bother seeing each other.

[gloomymagpie]

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Cathemeral animals: those which are sporadically active during parts of both day and night

Crepuscular animals: those which are primarily active during the twilight period, being matutinal, vespertine, or both

Diurnal animals: those which are active during the day

Imago: the last stage of insect metamorphosis, when they are sexually mature and have functional wings

Instar: a developmental stage of arthropods(ex insects) which occurs between each moult until sexual maturity is reached

Larva: a distinct juvenile form many animals(insects, some arachnids etc) undergo before metamorphosis into their next life stage

Matutinal animals: those which are active at dawn

Monoestrus: having one estrus cycle per year

Moulting: process by which an animal casts off parts of its body to serve some beneficial purpose, either at specific times of the year, or at specific points in its life cycle

Nocturnal animals: those which are active at night

Pedicels: bony supporting structures that develop in the lateral region of the frontal bone

Pelage: the fur, hair or wool of a mammal

Pupa: life stage of some insects undergoing transformation

Regurgitation: the action of bringing swallowed food up to the mouth

Ruminant:  an animal (such as a cow or sheep) that swallows food and then brings it back up again to continue chewing it

Twilight period: the period of time before sunrise and after sunset

Vagrancy: is a phenomenon in biology whereby an individual animal (usually a bird) appears well outside its normal range, they are known as vagrants.

Vespertine animals: those which are active at dusk

IUCN: International Union for Conservation of Nature

IBAMA: Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources

CITES: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (of Wild Fauna and Flora)

ICMBio: Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation

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Welp, guess highlighting the word and clicking “look up” isn’t enough this time. Let’s open the browser and search for “coping stone” then!

… thanks -.-

[professorpski]

Quilting has been used so extensively on quilts, throws, and comfortables that many think of it only in connection with them and do not realize how much real beauty it can contribute to garments. Quilting costs little more than your time....

Mary Brooks Picken added that you did have to take time to make it “perfect work,” so attention was needed as well. She gave examples of machine quilting all over on a robe, vest, or “comfortable” which is a little confusing, but comfortables here meant both padded or quilted comforters for beds AND padded and quilted mufflers (thank you, Oxford English Dictionary).  While this was published in Sewing Simplified from 1953, some of the material dated back to the 1930s from earlier books Picken wrote, and the meaning of words has since changed.

She also pointed out that bands along the edge of a garment might be quilted, and I have seen quilted collars and cuffs that are handsome as well. Picken also suggested quilting a coat lining, but I swore I would never take on a large quilting project after I machine quilted a simple-pieced comforter. It was about the most tedious and awkward machine sewing I had ever done.

So, take my advice and think of machine quilting as trim or embellishment. If you are keen on a quilted coat lining, you can buy such fabrics pre-made.