Recent Comments

1. 3 days ago on Close to Home

   They’re going to die out if they kill off all the women. Not smart.

2. 19 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   I made lentil stew with sweet potatoes, and mixed in the leftover Hoppin’ John (black-eyed peas, collard greens, and ham).

3. 23 days ago on The Argyle Sweater

   We called it bug juice in the Girl Scouts mumblety-mumble years ago.

4. about 2 months ago on Doonesbury

   I understand that “dude” is considered ungendered, in California at least, as a form of address. If you ask someone if they’re dating a dude, I believe that’s still a male reference. I live in the East, though, where we think of it as male in both usages.

5. about 2 months ago on Doonesbury

   Thank you!

6. 4 months ago on Snow Sez

   Same.

7. 4 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   Except that “pequeñas” is plural, so it clearly applies to the pumpkins, not the woman. It looks like it’s in the wrong place to me, too, and a native speaker elsewhere in the comment section agreed.

8. 4 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   Oh, yes, it should be “las” in the last sentence, true! I missed that one. (I am not at all a native speaker.) Thank you for going through this for us.

9. 5 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   Thank you. That’s bad, then. I don’t use Apple myself, but of course many people do.

10. 5 months ago on Breaking Cat News

    Is this backed up by anything but internet rumors? Because there are a lot of wild rumors out there.