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No, don't do that. We all live in the same time. Please take it back before the Gods notice.

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I know of a couple: - How to fix damned near everything [1] - Reader's Digest Fix it yourself [2] - Audel's Carpenters and Builders guide [3]

That Audel's, my wife got me for Christmas a few years back at Lee Valley Tools, I think. Was about 1/3 of what the listed price is here.

[1] https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?ds=20&kn=how%...

[2] https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?ds=20&kn=read...

[3] https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/audels-carpenters...


You write well. I loved my days in restaurants, and you capture it way better than I ever could. I wish I could go back, but its impossible..


Are you referring to something other than a female chicken?


Well, thats how I imagined it. A hen mowing lawns and spending at once. Still impressive for a hen


It probably should be "when I turned 10".


swedish neuter pronoun


"They" would have been a lot less confusing here...


I'm baffled by why one would use a Swedish pronoun in an English text. We live in a strange world.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swenglish

Not uncommon for Swedish-first speakers - just accidental language bleed, as is the case with most other second language speakers.

(As for "strange world" - have you looked at the etymology of most English words? :p)


I'd guess its similar to Danish and hen meant "he" here, Han in Danish


This reminds me of something Jimmy Carr said.

Oh! gender neutral elder, oh! gender neutral elder, what’s a joke?

YOU ARE!


Is this a new neo-pronoun I'm not familiar with yet?


It was first coined in the 60s and has been floating around since, but it's really only seen regular use in the past decade or so.


Thank you!


"The summer he turned 10 was spent mowing lawns around his small town."


Quebec City too.


I sure wish we still did.


I am nearly 60, and am excited to take your course! I congratulate you in finding a compelling way to teach Humanities that is relevant to today's society. Bravo.


I am getting started writing a blog, and this article is some of the most helpful I've read.

Makes me feel OK to be quirky and unpolished when the rest of the world is making reaction faces and pointing at text to feed an algo.


Thank you for not doing that.


Hey, this looks good! I will try it out, and best of luck to you on your launch!


Thanks for the kind words. If you need any help while trying it out our you need to chat feel free to shoot me a mail - tobi@limejourney.com


Thank you, this is fascinating! Do you have any recommended reading?


Unfortunately, I don’t recall exactly which sources I read on this, it was many years ago. I just recall that it started as one of those “wild link chases” on Wikipedia and ended up deep in some downloaded textbook PDFs :)

But I do recall enjoying diagrams such as this illustrating how different modern alphabets are related via historical counterparts (there are similar diagrams showing how Hebrew and Arabic emerges from Phoenician, as well as comparisons to runes): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmi_script#/media/File%3A...

I also rather enjoyed reading about the history from Hieroglyphs, to Hieratic, to Phoenician (as well as Phoenician history in general). But unfortunately, don’t recall where. Start with Wikipedia :)


Thanks! I used to have an old dictionary that traced the evolution of the letters, it was quite cool. There is a book 'Textual Scholarship' by Greetham that goes deep on the more modern letterforms like Uncial. I haven't cracked that in a while.


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