nickie on 19/10/2020 at 19:00
And Wales goes back into full-on (pretty much) lockdown from Friday.
We thought that when mostly everything opened up again that it would be holidaymakers who would cause us trouble. They didn't. It was students. We briefly lost our lowest UK cases status (apart from the Scilly Isles) but luckily students were locked in a week or so ago. Our 98 cases are up to 140 something. No new deaths. That's good.
And while I'm having a moan, albeit in the wrong thread, I'd ask why it is that people condemn all 'those people', a.k.a. people of colour, having lots of children but don't care about scary women like Amy Coney Barrett doing her bit towards over-population. Yeah I know the answer but it pisses me off all the same.
heywood on 19/10/2020 at 22:56
Quote Posted by nickie
And Wales goes back into full-on (pretty much) lockdown from Friday.
We thought that when mostly everything opened up again that it would be holidaymakers who would cause us trouble. They didn't. It was students. We briefly lost our lowest UK cases status (apart from the Scilly Isles) but luckily students were locked in a week or so ago. Our 98 cases are up to 140 something. No new deaths. That's good.
My state appears to be at the start of a second wave now. We're probably 3-4 weeks behind you. I also thought we'd see problems from holiday makers, since we normally have a busy summer tourism season. But it didn't happen. And to my surprise, it's not the students. I expected school reopening to go poorly, but so far things are going well in the schools. The only school with a large number of cases is the University of New Hampshire's main campus, which has 177 cases so far. But that campus has ~15k students, and most of the cases came from parties in the first week or two. There's a high school in the next town over from me that had 9 cases originating from a sports team party, but otherwise there are no clusters in schools around me. My town of ~33k has had only 5 cases in schools. Our problems are coming more from weddings, parties, bars.
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And while I'm having a moan, albeit in the wrong thread, I'd ask why it is that people condemn all 'those people', a.k.a. people of colour, having lots of children but don't care about scary women like Amy Coney Barrett doing her bit towards over-population. Yeah I know the answer but it pisses me off all the same.
Personally, I think it's irresponsible to have 7 children. Some people will point out that she is able to raise and support a large family, and that's the difference. However, I suspect her children attended public school. If so, her family was a disproportionate drain on public resources.
bob_doe_nz on 21/10/2020 at 22:23
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https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-accuses-new-zealands-prime-minister-of-competently-handling-the-coronavirus-to-get-reelected)
Can't tell if it's satire... Or if it should be in the Trump thread.
Quote:
Calling New Zealand's Prime Minister “crooked and rigged,” Donald J. Trump accused Jacinda Ardern of competently handling the coronavirus pandemic in order to get reëlected.
Speaking at a rally in Wisconsin, Trump called Ardern's use of public-health measures to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus on her nation “a sleazy political move like you wouldn't believe.”
“This woman wanted to get reëlected, so she decided to go after the coronavirus and beat it,” he said. “This woman is a disgrace.”
Edit: Oops. It is satire. Damn.
Pyrian on 21/10/2020 at 23:07
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Starker on 22/10/2020 at 15:16
Isn't that the same in German also? Like in the name Hoëcker.
Thirith on 22/10/2020 at 20:34
Not a German name I'm aware of, nor is ë a thing in German.
Kolya on 22/10/2020 at 21:10
It is explained in the (
https://www.dailywritingtips.com/not-an-umlaut/) article that an English diaeresis (as in Zoë, naïve, Noël) has nothing to do with a German Umlaut. Instead it hints to the English speaker that the two vowels are not to be pulled together into a diphtong but spoken separately. Compare the pronunciation of naïve and knife or Zoë and toe.
A German Umlaut instead changes the sound of the vowel:
From a as in art, to ä as in air.
From o as in order, to ö as in turn.
From u as in whoo, to ü as in grew.
Starker on 23/10/2020 at 03:26
Ah, my mistake, I thought Bernhard Hoëcker was German, since he does stand-up in German. Yeah, I know about German umlaut (I'm an English major and also my language has the same letters).
Edit: wait no, it is a thing in German after all, like in the island name Alëuten (since it's not pronounced Aloiten): (
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleuten)
It's probably not common enough for German people to recognise it, then. I'm personally pretty used to seeing it in names like Brontë (which was required reading in school) and in French there's the tréma which is basically the same thing.