Daniel Kennedy

just trying to share the funny idiom and comment on my experience of it. You won't see this is you muted me, but fair enough

replies are enabled for followers so we can have fun little conversations about language/idioms/noodles etc.

Disabled for whatever this is

removed by author for reasons unfathomable

and this goes a thousand fold for children's books because you know there'll be unpaid civilians out there (ie parents instead of voice actors) stumbling over your awkward prose

this is probably the first french idiom I learned, no one has yet managed to explain what they were going for with this one. French idiomatic language is often closer to a mad-libs word randomiser than an attempt to represent the world as experienced by humans

I remember learning about the Hays Code in film school and how it made it so that any amoral protagonist had to meet karmic justice by the end of the film and going “wow, that’s really silly” and then once a week I log online and see people argue that we need stuff like that now or it’s problematic

Dreading having to have “the talk” with my son (i.e. what to do if a man shows up on our doorstep who looks exactly like me and claims that he’s the real William Gerrard and I’m an imposter 🙄)

mono no a-hair-e

probably a terrible faux-pas to wear fashionable 1910s footwear nowadays

Ringo has blisters because he's a drummer, John's are probably some horrible disease

you'd need a ghost reader to even try to read this much of one guy

buttermilk chicken thighs was my nickname in school

the guy from the copy pasta text!

it was a sign

I wanted to try Popeye's because it was featured heavily in an episode of Atlanta, and then the very next day I saw an ad saying they were opening one nearby

Brent Oil is called that because it originally comes from Brent Cross Shopping Centre

Anglo publishers would have beaten Annie Ernaux with hammers I'll tell you that much

If I ever open a restaurant be sure to book a table the first night, because it's all downhill from there

it's fun to learn how to cook a new dish because I know the first time will be delicious and all subsequent times it will be shit

an Adidas Samba law firm

I hate clothing-colour related social shibboleth slang: blue-stocking girlfriend, white-shoe firm boyfriend

weren't those just the days though?

At long last I am experiencing the sad divorce from the classic lit fic novel Don't Have a Sad Divorce

in a parallel world where all the tech oligarchs were into lit fic instead of sci fi they are having sad affairs and ruminating on identity, childhood, and loss instead of attempting to hasten the collapse of civilisation

that's definitely her

ooh, I love a little pronunciation guide at the beginning. It often solves quite a few made-up problems that editors find themselves worrying about

Edith Gowan-Speculoos?

Dolores Daumesnil-Higgins?

it was something with a double barrelled surname, something like Dorothy Sydney-Poitier but not that obviously