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How about having an option to “approve” the post. For example, after I email the post the system sends an email to my registered address with “publish” and “deny” buttons. One click and it’s done.


I'm taking a note. Shouldn't take too long to implement but I think this would be optional as some people could be happy with the just difficult to guess address. :)


We probably could make gas stink less just like we could fix that bug. The ROI just isn’t there.


Gas stinking is a feature, not a bug. It's a safety measure. Particularly when we're talking gas (and not gasoline), which is naturally odorless and made to stink on purpose.


Because katsu means cutlet, a thin slice of meat. Tonkatsu for example is pork cutlet.


Transliteration is not translation.


From Wikipedia, that's technically and etymologicaly correct :

"The cutlet was introduced to Japan during the Meiji period, in a Western cuisine restaurant in the fashionable Ginza district of Tokyo. The Japanese pronunciation of cutlet is katsuretsu.

In Japanese cuisine, katsuretsu or shorter katsu is actually the name for a Japanese version of the Wiener schnitzel, a breaded cutlet. Dishes with katsu include tonkatsu and katsudon."


TIL, but in my defense, an abbreviation of a transliteration, which has come to mean something slightly different should probably be considered a new word and not be transliterated back into its etymological ancestor.


This is not true. A recent study from China showed the mortality rate for 30-39 year olds to be .2% I believe. And the rate goes down from there as age decreases.


Link to source would be very much appreciated.


Sounds like the author was blind to his expertise.


Ha! Good point. Although, I don’t think I was the targeted audience. It seemed to be more geared towards individuals that label themselves as “writers”. I remember practically nothing from my grammar education. Terminology like “definite article” might as well be Mandarin.


:) I also loved that book. I developed, what I like to think of as a sense of style, while getting an English degree, and the main tools/advice I developed totally line up with what he shared in the book.


I get it. It’s lonely and if you’re not careful to leave the house it gets worse. The good news is you have plenty of time to work on a side project but that requires first improving mental state to have enough motivation.


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