Well done! I read the article as well, and you’ve done a great job explaining it. Dialogue used to have careful sound editing to match the actor’s inflections, etc. No more, alas…bring on the subtitles.
And then there’s candlepin bowling with balls smaller than duckpin and pins the thinnest—like candles. Played in New England and the Canadian Maritimes.
Yeah, corticosteroids like prednisone that will make you feel great (for a while) and energetic (for a while), until side effects kick in if you have to take it regularly.
An earlier post referenced Bugs Bunny cartoons; Bugs would taunt Elmer Fudd with the “nimrod” epithet because Elmer fancied himself a hunter. Also, long before cartoons, poor hunters would be similarly taunted, a ref. Going back to 18th century.
Possibly, but it’s new for her, and no one else seems to endure it?