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The Congressional Budget Office is a non-partisan organization of experts when they agree with you. They’re a bunch of hacks when they don’t.

What’s the difference between grey and gray? It’s grAy in America, and grEy (almost) Everywhere else.

I’ve always found that interesting.

Anyway, another of those little bits is the Mr./Mr dichotomy. In the US we write a bit more formally than most of the rest of the English speakers of the world, so we add the period. Most other places don’t. I’ve usually stuck to that convention because it seems a bit jarring not to.

But no more. Today I throw off the chains of tradition, and live life to the fullest. I’m writing Mr/Mrs/Ms and living in infamy.

The most American English thing possible is adopting other bits of grammar because they’re useful. That is what we do. It’s our thing.

Steps

Isildur gets a bum wrap. Yes, he did fail, but he was battling Sauron’s will and malice in Mount Doom. Do we mock Fingolfin for losing after wounding Morgoth seven times before the peaks of Thangorodim? The Isildur hate is like mocking someone for getting poisoned and dying.

“Ha, ha! After you were poisoned, you died! Loser.”

That’s just not fair.

It’s like making fun of sprinters because cars are faster. The Man contested with the will of Sauron! He didn’t win, but he did try. Come on.

Is ‘almost xxx’ used to refer to slightly more than xxx in other countries, such as Sweden?

I gotta get to work.

Things will resume Saturday (7/31).

Is hard to put into words.

I feel like a Fremen leaving Arrakis. The air is thick and wet. There is no smoke in the air. The hills are green instead of brown, and the earth is soil, not rock. This is a soft, water-rich place.

Don’t let avoiding toxic people leave you without conflict resolution skills.