The other thing I would mention is that even if you learn standard Japanese anime is going to have a huge amount of slang and idioms.

The good thing is that, as in most modern Japanese, it will also have a huge amount of English loan words. The pronunciation may be slightly different, but you can recognize things like “hambaagaa” or “paypaa”.

Of course, sometimes it can go too far, like when I lived in Japan in the 90s and on days when they encouraged people not to drive themselves, it was a “No mycaa dayi” (“No my car day”).

That would explain why a pencil, which contains a “lead” (actually a polymer or graphite now) is Bleistift

Well, not terribly subtle, but if you are fighting with your spouse and they complain that you never say anything nice about their family, you can respond with:

“Well, I have to say that your in-laws are better than my in-laws”

That’s discriminatory! Actually it’s because they have dark skin. As a native South african, Musk knows this. Fortunately, he was able to immigrate in 1988 before things went bad. You silly

Or the dozens (hundreds?) of hours that Robin Williams spent as libbing as the genie in Aladdin. I think it was in his contract that they couldn’t even use it anywhere else

I love the idea of giving Obama a second Nobel Peace prize, just to piss Trump off.

Other people are way ahead of you:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romana_Didulo

Steven Donaldson had his first Thomas Covenant novel rejected by 27 publishers before it was finally bought.

Well, Belize is actually in North America (Central America and the Caribbean are considered to be part of the North American continent). There is an English-speaking country in South America as well: Guyana, which used to be known as British Guyana.

Until 1973, Belize was called British Honduras, that makes it less surprising.

A young woman I knew was complaining that she had made plans to meet a friend in the city (long before most people had mobile phones), but the friend hadn’t showed up so she waited for a long time on the street corner.

My brother immediately chipped in, “what was his name, John?”

Which Google lens work? And take a picture of each page and feed it to the Google translate engine. It might be the easiest way.

You skipped over the part where you attempt to plug it in, flip the USB connector attempt again, flip it again, and finally it goes in.

Following on what you said, it’s also true that for a long time it was difficult for women to get published in the science fiction genre. Many of them relied on male pseudonyms (i.e. Andre Norton, James Tiptree Jr.).

But OP was speaking specifically about fantasy books, and not specifying only bestsellers.

My guess, with no data to back it up, is that both men and women enjoy writing fantasy and science fiction, and many of them are good at it.

But writing science fiction often requires a science background, and historically there are many more men than women who have that. It is certainly becoming more balanced, but the difference is still there.

So women, who generally don’t have as scientific a background, turn to fantasy where they can create their own worlds.

There’s also a difference, because our elections typically have only a few races on them. In other words, at the federal level I only vote for the candidates in my writing. Typically four to six options.

In a us election, there can be a ballot containing choices for many different levels, including judges, district attorneys, and so on. Not to mention they might have several referenda on the same ballot too.

I could see that being much more complex on paper, making electronic voting attractive.

Thanks for the additional information. Everything newer seems to be Rotax now. Except there was one guy who had a Corvette engine in his Cessna. Other pilots were talking about how it has so much torque his rudder isn’t big enough to compensate.

Hopefully in 5 or 10 years, everything will be electric!

Just today I learned that the fuel Cessnas use has lead in it, because the engines were developed when lead was in all gasoline and they have not found it worthwhile to certify all of those tens or hundreds of thousands of planes with new engines.

In fact, I was at a fly-in today and there were several Cessnas that were 60 and 70 years old. no unleaded fuel, and no added ethanol, either.

I know someone who is allergic to garlic. Sometimes I wonder how sad her life must be.

As long as she doesn’t look at her cards, everything should be fine.