Aye HHH,

Max Felker here. Just dropped a new track on soundcloud for my upcoming EP Winthrop St which is coming out on Saturday. Can you guys give me some actual feedback, good and bad? I want to know what you think so please be honest. Trolls welcome on the condition imma troll you back.

Hey Soundcloud Music - just dropped this new track off the upcoming #WinthropSt EP coming out 11/12

https://soundcloud.com/maxfelker/greg-douglas

We are set on Arthur for our boy, but can’t seem to find a good middle name for him.

CANNOT END IN AN N, CANNOT START WITH OR END IN AN R. (just don’t think that sounds so great with the R at the end of Arthur, and our last name starts and ends with an N as well.) I know that NOT ending with an N eliminates a lot of boys names, but it just sounds bad with our surname.

Some names we like but aren’t sure on:

Arthur Felix (we both love the name Felix but don’t feel comfortable using it for personal reasons)

Arthur Thomas (my dad’s middle name, I’d love to use this but the meaning is important to me and Thomas means “twin” which he isn’t so it just doesn’t feel perfect to me haha)

Arthur Henry (I like this more than he does but he doesn’t hate it)

Arthur Bram (we love Dracula)

Arthur Dane (he is obsessed with this, I don’t like the name Dane but think it sounds good objectively)

We like Arthur more for the fantasy/legend aspect than the old man name/classic name aspect- I am very into history, but we don’t really love names like Robert, William, Charles, John, etc. and also don’t typically like super trendy/modern sounding names. James is fine but boring/overused as a middle so we don’t love that either.

I love the name Julian, but it violates the “can’t end with N” rule and he hates it anyways. He likes Scandinavian names (he loves Bjorn, which I don’t love and which also violates the N rule haha)

Please help me! I’m so stressed about his middle name. All the names we could use as honor names are names we just don’t really like, besides Thomas which I’m thrown off by the meaning of. We love Lord of the Rings and thought about Arthur Reuel as a nod to Tolkien, but when I looked up the meaning of Reuel I realized it was Hebrew and I don’t feel comfortable using it as a non-Jewish person.

Here's a list of books, stories, and essays involving linguistics, language, and communication, taken from the comments for 5 reddit posts asking of books involving linguistics (including one post from r/linguistics), a Goodreads list, this list from a linguistic (includes lots of great nonfiction resources as well), and from the sf-encyclopedia on linguistics. Here are links to Wikipedia's articles for linguistic relativity (the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, although this is considered a basically disproven hypothesis) and conceptual metaphor (largely championed by George Lakoff; see Metaphors We Live By). Both are pretty relevant for fiction that explores how language might shape our thinking.

The list is organized by how frequently an author or work was mentioned from my 8 sources. I proceed each with how many they were mentioned in, so that number should roughly reflect how relevant an author or work is to the linguistics theme and how popular the work is. I've included basically everything mentioned, since I haven't read most of these, so that does mean some of them may only be loosely related to linguistics, or just do something that's interesting with language. I've included comments with the ones I have read on how much it actually incorporates linguistics.

• 8: Ted Chiang
  • 8: Story of your Life (short story)
    • An iconic story, this is what's generally given as an example in the Reddit posts for what's being looked for. Also the basis for the movie Arrival.
  • 72 Letters (short story)
    • A little bit of a stretch, perhaps. Written names animate golems, with the name determining their attributes.
  • The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling
    • About communication methods and memory, such as speech verse writing, so very relevant depending on how loosely you take the linguistic theme.
• 8: Suzette Haden-Elgin (Linguist)
  • 8: Native Tongue Series
    • Includes a dictionary created for the women's language: https://laadanlanguage.com/
  • Coyoted Jones series
  • The Ozark Trilogy
  • The Judas Rose
  • Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense series (nonfiction)
• 7: China Mieville
  • 7: Embassytown
  • The Scar (book 2 of the Bas-Lag series)
• 7: Sam

Over the past two weeks I went back scrolling through game logs to see who LeBron James has assisted throughout his career. He has assisted 153 different players in his career. Here's the list from most assist to least assists:

Link

Full spreadsheet available here with detail below.

Coaching Carousel

New York Giants

Out: GM Dave Gettleman, OC Freddie Kitchens (Interim)

In: GM Dave Ziegler, OC Adam Stenavich

Fans have been unhappy with Gettleman for years, and it seems like ownership is finally catching up. The Maras also seem content with holding on to former Patriots ST Coach Joe Judge as their locker room leader. If that is the case, it makes sense to bring in somebody Judge is already familiar with in Ziegler, the current Patriots' Director of Player Personnel. The 44-year-old is a Patriot through and through. He was college teammates with Nick Caserio (who he replaced following Caserio's move to Houston) and Josh McDaniels (under whom he was a scout in Denver). He has cut his teeth under Belichick, spending the last 9 years in the scouting department in New England. In his first year without the "assistant" being tagged onto his job title, Ziegler added key free agents in Kendrick Bourne, Matt Judon, and Hunter Henry. He also oversaw one of the best draft classes in recent Patriot history with Mac Jones a favorite to win ROTY on top of inspiring play from Christian Barmore and Rhamondre Stevenson.

In addition to Ziegler, Packers' OL Coach Adam Stenavich joins as the new offensive coordinator. A bit of an unknown name, Stenavich is a former NFL player that has really made the most of his coaching opportunities. With Green Bay, he has overseen a revolving door of elite late round picks at OL, from Corey Linsley to David Bakhtiari to Yosh Nijman. In 2021, the Packers have seen countless injury along the line yet still have maintained an elite unit. Prior to Green Bay, Stenavich was on Shanahan's staff in San Francisco, coaching the likes of Joe Staley, Mike McGlinchey, and Weston Richburg. While Stenavich is unproven as a playcaller, he has worked under two of the best young offensive minds in the game. On top of his promising resume, his area of expertise is one the Giants desperately need help with. Other than Andrew Thomas, the Giants' OL has been an endless pile of poop covered garbage.

Chicago Bears

Out: GM Ryan Pace, HC Matt Nagy, OC Bill Lazor, DC Sean DeSai

In: GM Ed Dodds, HC Leslie Frazier, OC Darrell Bevell, DC Jeff Howard

Pace's tenure in Chicago has run its course. While many applauded him for having the onions to make a big move for Khalil

Vinland Saga is one of those shows I constantly told myself to check out, but never did. So when I heard that it was finally dubbed, it gave me the extra little push I needed to check it out.

I had heard there were 2 dubs of it because of a split between streaming and home video licenses. Being the (over)analytical person that I am, I wanted to do a mental exercise in comparing them, so a little while ago I set myself both some time and money to be able to watch both dubs in their entirety and scrutinized them, and here was the document I wrote out, reformatted to the best of my ability for Reddit.

Fair warning: This is a LENGTHY post.

Also, all of my evaluations for every aspect that I wrote out here is simply my opinion. You are by all means welcome to disagree where you feel appropriate. :)

Scriptwork:

Netflix:

• Dialogue sounds more modern.

• Some liberties taken from the actual translation (script is technically less accurate to the Japanese, but for the most part still manages to get the point across).

• Character dialogue sounds like it flows a bit better, overall. Fewer instances of awkward pauses mid-sentence and no “stuttering” from characters (i.e. characters saying the same word twice to try and fit pauses in lip flaps in some sentences).

Sentai:

• Takes a more conservative approach, staying more true to the Japanese dialogue, but still does occasionally take liberties to give certain moments with certain characters more “oomph.”

• Characters pause mid-sentence and stutter more with this script.

• Has a tendency to add in bits of dialogue or sounds (grunts, gasps, sighs, etc.) here and there in moments where there was not meant to be any dialogue (ex: Thorfinn pushed a random guy out of his way in the beginning of episode 8. In both the Japanese version and Netflix’s dub, Thorfinn didn’t say anything as he did so, but in Sentai’s dub, he said “asshole”).

• One egregious error: Thors calling Thorfinn “Thors” in episode 4.

• Swear words are used more religiously.

Audio Mixing:

Netflix:

• Mixes vocals to sound realistic with the environments the characters are physically in.

Sentai:

• Takes after the Japanese’s style more, putting much more emphasis on the vocals, while the environment is secondary. Effects are still adde

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This post got a great reaction last time, and a huge thanks to everyone who interacted on it! With the new year already upon us, I thought I’d revisit my list of the best Scots currently plying their trade outside of the leagues within the UK and Ireland.

1. Aaron Hickey, 19 (Bologna) - Left-back

Since landing at the Stadio Renato Dall'Ara for a fee of just £1.5m from Heart of Midlothian in September 2020, it’s fair to say Aaron Hickey has went from boy to man since his time in the Scottish Premiership.

Hickey kicked off his Bologna career on a positive note in 2020 starting in 8 of the Red and Blues first 10 Serie A fixtures of the 2020/21 season. This run would abruptly come to an end at the beginning of December, however. Romelu Lukaku and Achraf Hakimi would share no Christmas joy with the then 18 year-old Scotsman, as they tore him to shreds at the San Siro - leading to Hickey being hooked on the 63rd minute. The 3-1 loss to Inter was only the beginning of Hickey’s problems as only days later he caught covid-19. With a serviceable back-up in experienced former Ajax and Norwich City defender Mitchell Dijks filling in for Hickey whilst he was stuck with the rona’, the young Scotsman only spent 74 minutes on the pitch between December and February. Not many more would be to come though, as his first start back saw him sent for an early shower due to a reckless and lazy challenge on Mert Müldur against Sassuolo leading to a straight red card. The final nail on the coffin of Hickey’s first Bologna season was a shoulder injury which put him out for the rest of the campaign due to surgery. A season which started with such promise, but faded into misery.

This season Hickey has properly announced himself to Football Italia. Mitchell Dijks has been made to make way for one of Serie A’s best young talents, as Hickey has featured in all 19 of the Greyhounds Serie A outings. The two footed full back has improved drastically, and the biggest improvement for me is his defending one-on-one. Hickey’s tendency to ‘dive into the challenge’ was my main criticism of him both with Hearts and Bologna, however this season he’s a player who’s looked a lot more assured and intelligent in the challenge when one-on-one with his attacker. Going forward he’s been just as sol

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
3. Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
4. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
5. All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
6. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
7. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
8. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
9. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
10. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
11. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
12. The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as a History by Norman Mailer
13. The Art of Fiction by Henry James
14. The Art of Living by Epictetus
15. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
16. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
17. Atonement by Ian McEwan
18. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
19. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
20. Babe by Dick King-Smith
21. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
22. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
23. Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten
24. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
25. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
26. Beloved by Toni Morrison
27. Beowulf by Anonymous
28. The Bhagavad Gita by Anonymous
29. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1200 Jews by Peter Duffy
30. Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
31. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
32. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
33. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
34. Brigadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
35. [Candide](https://amzn.to/34jc

I thought would be cool to get a thread going of some great matches that don't necessarily appear on 'best of' or Top 100 lists, but are still some of your favourite matches that everyone should check out. Searching for 'best wrestling matches ever' or whatever tends to throws up the same ones we hear about all the time, hopefully people can discover some cool matches here that aren't usually on those types of lists. Here are a few of mine to get started. Some of these are probably very well known but what the hell:

War Raiders vs Ricochet and Aleister Black (NXT Takeover: New York, 2019)

Steiner Brothers vs Nasty Boys (WCW Halloween Havoc 1990)

Kyle O'Reilly vs Katsuyori Shibata (NJPW King of Pro Wrestling 2016)

Rey Mysterio Jr vs Dean Malenko (WCW Monday Nitro, July 8th, 1996)

Mr Perfect vs Ric Flair (Monday Night Raw, January 25th 1993)

Tetsuya Naito vs Kenny Omega (NJPW G1 Climax Semi Finals, August 13th 2016)

Chris Jericho vs Shane Douglas vs 2 Cold Scorpio vs Pitbull #2 (ECW Heat Wave 1996)

LAX vs The Lucha Bros (Full Metal Mayhem Match, Impact Rebellion 2019)

Roddy Piper vs Greg Valentine (Dog Collar Match, NWA Starrcade 1983)

Sabu vs Terry Funk (ECW Born to be Wired, August 9th, 1997)

What are some of yours?

I rewatched Super Bowl XLV tonight and I think this team is slightly better and incredibly similar in terms of role players and their abilities. We had Greg Jennings, Jordy Nelson, Donald Driver, and James Jones at WR, and James Starks and Brandon Jackson at RB, and now we have Davonte Adams, Allen Lazard, Marquez Valdes-Scantling, and Equanimeus St. Brown at WR and Aaron Jones and AJ Dillon at RB. Marcedes Lewis is a much better blocker than Donald Lee, and the running game is a step up as well. Rodgers is playing as well as he ever has, and is way better at reading defenses now. If the starters get healthy during this break, the OL is just as good, possibly even better with Bakhtiari back. The defense is a little different, but equally effective. BJ Raji was great up front and Kenny Clark is able to take 2 OLs and still tackle the runner. Clay Matthews and AJ Hawk were a good pair, but De’Vondre Campbell, Rashan Gary, Preston Smith, and Krys Barnes are all fantastic, a big step up at LB. Charles Woodson, Tramon Williams, and Nick Collins had a dozen INTs, but the secondary now is insane with Kevin King, Rasul Douglas, Eric Stokes, Darnell Savage, Adrian Amos, and even Chandon Sullivan having the same 12 INTs with 2 of them going for TDs courtesy of Douglas. Would love to see Douglas get another pick six in this Super Bowl like Collins did in the big game. I keep hearing special teams is terrible this year, but they’re just as good as 2010, they’re average, and the only thing anyone can find to complain about. Crosby may have a shorter range now and missed some kicks, but other than that rough Bengals game, he has only not made three FGs. With homefield locked up this season, unlike all the road games required in 2010, this should be a very different path to the Super Bowl. I also don’t expect we’ll see MCCarthy and the cowboys get past the first round because they’ll host either the Cardinals who just beat them, or the Rams, and we’ll likely see one of them since I expect the Saints to get in that last spot, and I doubt they’ll beat the Rams or Cardinals. Tampa Bay likely beats Philadelphia, and won’t get past the second round regardless of who they play. The only really tough matchup will be against either the Rams or Cardinals as we already know. It would be great to get a second round matchup against the Saints, which is possible, they did beat Tampa Bay twice. It would be nice to erase that first game of the season, right? I’m so

The nurse asked the rabbit, “what is your blood type?”

“I am probably a type O” said the rabbit.

The doctor says it terminal.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

He lost May

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

Said if she ever hosts a gender reveal party, when it comes time to pop the balloon she'll spray everyone with water.

Gender is fluid.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

 

 

 

12:00 PM - Centra

Hi everybody! So I gave myself a reading challenge based off the 50 states: For each state I'll be reading a work by an author born in said state, a poet (all native Americans poets. I couldn't find poets for a few states tho so I instead went with a native american historical nonfiction for the states I couldn't find), a fiction, a nonfiction, a historical Nonfiction, and a young adult novel. So in total I'll be reading 6 books for each state. It took me a good while to find all the books I wanted for each category but I've finally done it!! That being said, I had the thought that it might be fun to get another category going- suggestions or favorites from everybody on here. So would everybody give me their suggestions of their favorite books set in each state, or just books that you think would fit perfect with this challenge, please and thank you!! I added my list below. It's a long one!

Alabama     Author: William March- The Bad Seed     Poet: Janet McAdams- 7 Boxes for the Country After     Fiction: The Well and the Mine- Gin Phillips     Nonfiction: All Over but the Shoutin- Rick Bragg     Historical: Alabama Scoundrels- Kelly Kazek & Wil Elrick     Young adult: The Drowned Forest- Kristopher Reisz

Alaska     Author: Eowyn Ivey- The Snow Child     Poet: Joan Naviyuk Kane- Milk Black Carbon     Fiction: Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and Survival- Velma Wallis     Nonfiction: Shadows on the Koyukuk- Sidney Huntington     Historical: Bloody Falls of the Coppermine: Madness, Murder, and the Collision of Cultures in the Arctic 1913- McKay Jenkins     Young adult: The Call of the Wild- Jack London

Arizona     Author: Jeanette Walls- The Glass Castle     Poet: Ofelia Zepeda- When It Rains     Fiction: The Blessing Way- Tony Hillerman     Nonfiction: The Land of the Open Graves- Jason De León     Historical: Down the Great Unknown- Edward Dolnick     Young adult: Saving Lucas Biggs- Marisa de los Santo & David Teague

Arkansas     Author: Donald Harington- The Choiring of the Trees     Poet: Sy Hoahwah- Velroy and the Madischie Mafia     Fiction: The Bird Eater- Ania Ahlborn     Nonfiction: Daughter of the White River- Denise Parkinson     Historical: On the Laps of Gods- Robert Whitaker     Young adult: Summer of my German Soldier- Bette Greene

California     Author: John Steinbeck- The Pearl     Poet: Various- Red Indian Road West     Fiction: Mildred Pierce- James M. Cain     Nonfiction: Fast Times at Ri

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

And boy are my arms legs.

Amy