Now let’s do it right, without the stupidity.

She’s my brother. I’m her sister.
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Today’s word: Basta

The entrance to Hell is a barricaded abandoned inoperative escalator descending into an opaque abyss. It is located along the way to a 75 bus.

“An escalator can never break; it can only become stairs. You would never see an ‘Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order.’ sign, just ‘Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.’.”

I don’t know why I get such enjoyment from descending up escalators and vice versa.
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Today’s word: Inferno

“Can we pretend none of that happened?”
Can we pretend that none of today happened?

I have trust issues. I wouldn’t want to live with anyone who couldn’t be bought.
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Today’s word: Casa

Let the pronoun they serve as an indefinite 3rd person singular pronoun. At the most basic level, this allows the he/she conundrum to be circumvented. However, this more generally allows deliberate vagueness, by allowing description without detail. Even gender and number can be obfuscated.

No idea on a solution, pronoun based or otherwise, for distinguishing between the 1st person plurals formed by 1st + 2nd from those formed by 1st + 3rd.

We are so awesome. We-GFWBAFB2P, that is.
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Today’s word: Insieme

“There are 7 rules about the uses of the subjunctive, and one is that the uses of the subjunctive are infinite and you’ll spend the rest of your life learning the uses of the subjunctive.”

There is a magic in someone who has not touched the language in years having their eyes glaze over as if entering some mystic trance and pouring out from the restraints of forgotten strands of memory the simple rhythm of do, dare, dedi, datum. The language has spoken to me.
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Today’s word: Latino

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What’s it called when you kidnap an inanimate object?
“Stealing?”
No, but if you also hold it for ransom.
“Thingnapping?”
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Today’s word: Biscotti

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There are better hours to have lost.
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Today’s word: Ora

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The 300 is gratifyingly enjoyable despite it being an epic and overhyped, although divergence from historical details, even if artistic, still must incur some minimal level of wincing. The most incongruous moment, however, is when suddenly the Spartan numbers drop from 297 to 2; although the sudden abandonment of unity for individuality feels just as dissonant. There is certainly an allegorical theme, although that is much an issue of current modern geopolitics as much as one of historical accuracy.
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Today’s word: Teatro

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Some days need 2 rolls.

When they’re this wrong and you’re this right, it’s worth remembering that *you* don’t have to justify yourself to *them*.
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Today’s word: Simpatico

One has to feel bad for Mussolini: no matter how hard he tried, he just could never be Hitler.
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Today’s word: Ave

William Henry Harrison Principle
Brevity is either elegant or awkward.

Much has been done/needs doing.
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Today’s word: Sei

I went on Spring Break and all I saw were some corner triglyphs. (And some lousy obelisks. They were limestone. I don't want to talk about it.)

[may retroactively add an account of London here]

[may retroactively add an account of Sicily here]

Spring Break:
Sicily 3/2-10
England 3/11-18

Some vacations I would pay to take.

"What did you do on your vacation, grandpa?"
"Killed a mugger."
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Today’s word: Vacanza