I mean, right back at you? In my experience it’s routinely pretty full even at random times of the day west of Haymarket, and packed out at rush hour. Say what you want about the trams overall, lacking in passengers they are not archive.ph/H0e57

That’s just not true, sorry.

Uh, because that bit serves not just the airport but also massive employment sites in the west of the city, with a frequency/capacity that we don’t have the suburban rail for? The city fare is the same as the bus!

But that said I think I would find it weird if one reverted back to the formal in contexts where it would not be justified anyway: once you are на ты interpersonally, going back to на вы doesn’t sound right to me. But what do I know!

If anything this could be a level of recursion: given the increased distance, using the informal instead of the now-expected formal might signal contempt/unhappiness.

That said, your argument is entirely correct for Belarusian, once you’ve decided to go for Cyrillic at least. I don’t make the rules!

Meh. I don’t have particularly strong opinions about ё in Russian (don’t use it but I’m overeducated, prefer the more traditional ё-less manner, but also know the difference between aesthetic and normative), but the ё zealots are some of the most insufferable pricks about language you’ll ever meet.

(narcissism of minute differences but it’s only slightly uncharitable to say that linguists are largely uninterested in psycholinguistic consequences, which is Bad, but not helped by the average psycholinguistic study proudly using an apparatus for analysing language that’s decades out of date)

no no that’s quite all right, he’s a psycholinguist, we’re happy to not have him

Not at all like those pesky continentals, what would they know about *checks notes* universities

Yes but the completion rates Nina, we have the best in the world. So good at progression.

In the (mercifully short) period that my eldest participated in this sort of thing, this was the message that was clearly felt to be necessary.

A corollary is that for all the posturing about vocational training and Mickey Mouse degrees the government knows it will not survive a radical contraction of opportunities for voters’ (grand)children so when push comes to shove they will sacrifice quality and student/staff experience.

That’s right. Like, in academia the fight is always about how many jobs in ‘good’ places there are and no-one’s going to bat for actually growing the availability of higher education.

I will defend lutefisk (it’s just normal preserved food, actually) and even rakfisk has a case for it (pretty good with flatbrød and a nice akevitt) but there are limits

‘Regardless of where our grandparents came from’, unless there is a visa involved in living memory, in which case, off you pop.

Most people don’t read policy closely but they might remember Rachel Reeves doing the ‘and I am not making it up… it was a bat tunnel’ routine

Yeah I really got stung! With no spots between Dundee Terrace and Napier Merchiston campus I tried to park at the Dundee Street space but couldn’t because it was full. Had to go to Dalry Rd which kind of defeats the purpose when your destination is Polwarth…

My solution is to start dabbling in the history of the field