Posts by Cheshire_Ocelot@cawfee.club
(DIR) Post #B330jM5O2CM6TApJFg by Cheshire_Ocelot@cawfee.club
2026-02-06T14:41:39.272777Z
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@meowski it’s Google, this is exactly what I’d expect.
(DIR) Post #B331Jcb081Mm6CuId6 by Cheshire_Ocelot@cawfee.club
2026-02-06T14:48:12.419288Z
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https://x.com/chiarobacker/status/2019715204050034902
(DIR) Post #B33J6PZf1tKn7j8Aam by Cheshire_Ocelot@cawfee.club
2026-02-06T18:07:30.787935Z
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I’m reading Paul Fussell’s book Poetic Meter and Poetic Form. Here, after giving a couple examples of attempts at purely syllabic metre in English, he concludes, “But accent, like passion and murder, will out, and it will out the moment the poet, arrived at a climax, seizes all the techniques of prosodic reinforcement offered him by the conventions of the English language.” He has the same conclusion later about quantifiable verse; stress/accent is just too much a part of English for either of these to work.
(DIR) Post #B33JsoEqdCpNWDTQIK by Cheshire_Ocelot@cawfee.club
2026-02-06T18:16:15.100896Z
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Accentual-syllabic meter seems to be fashionable during ages interested in classical rhetoric and distinguished by commitments to the sense of human limitation and order. Of all metrical systems possible in English, the accentual-syllabic is the most hostile by nature to impulse, irregularity, and unrestrained grandiosity. It seems all but impossible to transmit impressions of hysteria or the frantic within a strict accentual-syllabic versification: a weighty judiciousness appears to be the tone most commonly associated with accentual-syllabism.
(DIR) Post #B33KIdr9r1l4qei7ma by Cheshire_Ocelot@cawfee.club
2026-02-06T18:20:55.475115Z
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On the “metrical contract,” and how people impose metres into language:
(DIR) Post #B33SwFgjvf2N6pEhyC by Cheshire_Ocelot@cawfee.club
2026-02-06T19:57:43.339927Z
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@nozaki oh man, I haven’t seen one of these “I need feminism” photos in forever. I’d forgotten about it.Today, though, this is insufficiently progressive.
(DIR) Post #B33UQMhwUmNLWMioEK by Cheshire_Ocelot@cawfee.club
2026-02-06T20:14:20.957393Z
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I’ve finished one lesson of Classical Chinese, time to translate the Tao Te Ching.
(DIR) Post #B33chfcKF8jyivrCOO by Cheshire_Ocelot@cawfee.club
2026-02-06T21:47:08.219803Z
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https://x.com/_pisukev/status/2019889484834435506
(DIR) Post #B33u1oauH5NTZuNvf6 by Cheshire_Ocelot@cawfee.club
2026-02-07T01:01:15.777561Z
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@sun @meowski @mischievoustomato FWIW, I use Orion on my main computer and phone. Firefox at work.
(DIR) Post #B35DrrOVCavFbj4c0O by Cheshire_Ocelot@cawfee.club
2026-02-07T16:18:16.305633Z
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星辰 | すり餌/お仕事募集中 #pixiv https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/140894908
(DIR) Post #B35JRPoTizT0GJzrtI by Cheshire_Ocelot@cawfee.club
2026-02-07T17:20:43.521482Z
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https://x.com/saisyou_t/status/2020060716359987343
(DIR) Post #B35WJ4fDlwMDkx1I2K by Cheshire_Ocelot@cawfee.club
2026-02-07T19:44:53.450353Z
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@teto gotta pay those medical bills somehow.
(DIR) Post #B37Hw60jaVz6EP9R8S by Cheshire_Ocelot@cawfee.club
2026-02-08T16:13:17.175982Z
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https://x.com/yaomojun/status/2020328460108038522
(DIR) Post #B39LZmH54hW2mYKXdA by Cheshire_Ocelot@cawfee.club
2026-02-09T16:03:30.033724Z
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New post: a short review of Beth Kobliner’s book, *Get a Finncial Life*.https://itsollkorrect.com/blog/2026/get-a-financial-life/
(DIR) Post #B39c8UgE54uXcFfSUa by Cheshire_Ocelot@cawfee.club
2026-02-09T19:09:01.584185Z
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Some good news: Ven. Fulton Sheen is going to be beatified.The Holy See has officially informed Bishop Louis Tylka of the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, that the cause for the Venerable Servant of God Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen can proceed to beatification, according to an announcement from the diocese.https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/fulton-sheen-beatification
(DIR) Post #B39eGUYkc3ilT17344 by Cheshire_Ocelot@cawfee.club
2026-02-09T19:32:49.618866Z
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https://x.com/iliekcatfood/status/2020642610239644041
(DIR) Post #B3A85wXjEBQxhCWL6O by Cheshire_Ocelot@cawfee.club
2026-02-10T01:07:07.462653Z
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@benis_redux late reply, but: yes, teachers would be bad at this for many reasons, but I don’t trust the vast majority of teachers to teach anything else, either. So, for now I guess we have to consider adding this course in an imagined ideal environment.
(DIR) Post #B3BOVwskNmzqhWjZmS by Cheshire_Ocelot@cawfee.club
2026-02-10T15:45:50.483239Z
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https://x.com/icoasagiwa/status/2021050871610736726
(DIR) Post #B3BZxm8h1684zFfE7E by Cheshire_Ocelot@cawfee.club
2026-02-10T17:54:06.704448Z
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@grips @benis_redux yes, that’s how I’ve heard it said.
(DIR) Post #B3BdIUk3C93SyPi1eS by Cheshire_Ocelot@cawfee.club
2026-02-10T18:31:28.783369Z
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I’m working through this course on Classical Chinese, and one small problem with the translation exercises taken from the Analects is that I know this book so well, I already know what each selection should say. I have to mentally push aside what I remember to try translating from scratch.https://web.archive.org/web/20250803173616/https:/chinesetexts.stanford.edu/