posniewski
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One of the young and exotic
he/him
he/him
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Sorry! Didn't mean to suggest it was always *corrrect*. Just that it's the only mnemonic we have. And it's a terrible one, and it also misses a gazillion exceptions. Like everything else in this promiscuous, arbitrary, maddening, amazingly expressive language.
December 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Sorry! Didn't mean to suggest it was always *corrrect*. Just that it's the only mnemonic we have. And it's a terrible one, and it also misses a gazillion exceptions. Like everything else in this promiscuous, arbitrary, maddening, amazingly expressive language.
English delights in chaos. The rhyme taught to me as a kid was:
i before e,
Except after c,
Or when sounded as "a",
As in neighbor and weigh
But seizure and seizedo what they please.
i before e,
Except after c,
Or when sounded as "a",
As in neighbor and weigh
But seizure and seizedo what they please.
December 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
English delights in chaos. The rhyme taught to me as a kid was:
i before e,
Except after c,
Or when sounded as "a",
As in neighbor and weigh
But seizure and seizedo what they please.
i before e,
Except after c,
Or when sounded as "a",
As in neighbor and weigh
But seizure and seizedo what they please.
I voted him in when he started because he seemed the most sane. And I voted for him again the next time; I was sort of meh, but the options didn't seem better.
Regrettably, I'm no longer in Santa Clara and cannot vote him directly into the sun.
Regrettably, I'm no longer in Santa Clara and cannot vote him directly into the sun.
June 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I voted him in when he started because he seemed the most sane. And I voted for him again the next time; I was sort of meh, but the options didn't seem better.
Regrettably, I'm no longer in Santa Clara and cannot vote him directly into the sun.
Regrettably, I'm no longer in Santa Clara and cannot vote him directly into the sun.
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Happy pride!
June 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Happy pride!