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Fetian wrote: Tue Apr 01, 2025 11:06 am

I'm not at all confident on my submission there in the first place, nor on my essay, so we'll see what kind of marks I get. Uuughhhh. At least the lowest scores of everything will get dropped at the end of class so it probably won't end up affecting my grade at all, but if I get dinged that does remove some of my safety net.

Full marks on both! (I'm starting to suspect this is a gut class)

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No DIMs this month, can't afford them -- but I have bought the yearly rose (/plant) and that should get here in a little over a week!

Also!

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Proof the grapevine is still alive!!

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As of yesterday, Oz is suddenly eating much more food. This is heartening and also worrying -- her thyroid medication might need to be adjusted, or it might be a sign of something else wrong. Going to keep an eye on her for a bit but hopefully maybe she's just, getting better and eating a normal amount of food again

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Puds! They are stuffed with taco meat, onion, cilantro, and citrus juice (which were leftover taco ingredients from a couple nights ago) and topped with dubliner cheese

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The Emperor's New Clothes but it's about the stock market and how the money involved doesn't exist

The Emperor's Net Worth

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(what's a gut class)

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An easy class you can put minimum effort in to and still get an A

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why's it named after intestines

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I had no idea so I looked it up and etymonline has this:

Meaning "easy college course" is student slang from 1916, probably from obsolete slang sense of "feast" (the connecting notion is "something that one can eat up").

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Alright! For now I'm going with "keit" as the species name and giving it an irregular plural so I can keep ketal. I'm also keeping teket (/anket/unket/raket) but have changed several other words that used to use the "ket" phoneme to "kei"

I also finally got around to fixing a few mistakes in the dictionary, and designating every verb as either transitive or intransitive which is very hard for my poor little monolingual english brain. But a fun side-effect of this decision to have a strict transitivity system is that like, "to stop" is an intransitive verb so there will have to be a different word for "to stop [something]"

Tomorrow I want to come up with a 'to cause to be' verb that will let you functionally transitive-ify the intransitive verbs, and the grammar around doing that.

I'm not 100% happy with the species name but we'll see if it doesn't grow on me.

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