Emily’s NEW positivity and being nice to each other thread

[SimonDoom]

This discussion is bringing back bad memories of my one semester of French... I was not a fan. That's probably why I flipped my 'you' from 'vous' comment. I didn't realize how faulty my memory is.

Notwithstanding my silly post above, I took Spanish from the get-go, and I love the Spanish language, even though at this point I've forgotten much of what I learned. In an ideal world, I would know French, but I've listened to some French tapes, and I'm not optimistic about my prospects.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Notwithstanding my silly post above, I took Spanish from the get-go, and I love the Spanish language, even though at this point I've forgotten much of what I learned. In an ideal world, I would know French, but I've listened to some French tapes, and I'm not optimistic about my prospects.

Yeah, I took freshman Spanish three times in college.

Una cervesa fria, por favor.
Donde esta el bano?

That’s about all I remember.

 

[MrPixel]

¿Dónde está el baño?

Fixed it for you.

We're sort of in the same boat. My go-to these days is, "Habló muy poquito." Three years of high school Spanish and living in the barrio (survival Spanish!) for two years... mostly forgotten in the subsequent 40. I wish I had retained it now that we have a significant Mexican population in our small town.

Our kid has learned to speak and read Mandarin, adding to his fluent Hindi and Urdu. Boggles my mind!

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

"Habló muy poquito."

Hablo muy poquito

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Fixed it for you.

Thanks but it’s often said with a drawl instead of a Spanish accent.

 

[TxRad]

Thanks but it’s often said with a drawl instead of a Spanish accent.

Now you're speakin' Texacan.

 

[MrPixel]

Hablo muy poquito

??? Hmm... that's what I typed. My guess is you couldn't see the diacritical over the 'o' in "Hablo", or you got a substitute characater. I'm on a Mac, where diacriticals are easy. Is it not so on other systems? Maybe I should cut back on those. Was the tilde visible in "bano"? Did you see the upside down '?'.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

??? Hmm... that's what I typed. My guess is you couldn't see the diacritical over the 'o' in "Hablo", or you got a substitute characater. I'm on a Mac, where diacriticals are easy. Is it not so on other systems? Maybe I should cut back on those. Was the tilde visible in "bano"? Did you see the upside down '?'.

I can see the accent, but "I speak..." in present indicative is "Hablo" without the accent.

Habló muy poquito is "he/she spoke very little."

In other words, it is the 3rd person past indicative.
Still grammatically correct! But I'm guessing that's not what you meant

 

[PrimeOptimal]

Weird thing happened. A story of mine was rejected for AI for a second time 2 days ago. Then earlier today, it suddenly got published without me resubmitting it lol. Super confused, but yay!

 

[MrPixel]

Weird thing happened. A story of mine was rejected for AI for a second time 2 days ago. Then earlier today, it suddenly got published without me resubmitting it lol. Super confused, but yay!
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Good for you! Could we dare to think that Laurel has possibly turned down the acceptance threshold for AI? Detection is a matter of percentage, you know. My eduguess is she's learning to deal with this stuff alongside the rest of us. So good on her, too!

 

[EmilyMiller]

Positivity and being nice to people officially died this week.

@AH_Mod can you please lock this thread. It’s irrelevant.

 

[Djmac1031]

Positivity and being nice to people officially died this week.

@AH_Mod can you please lock this thread. It’s irrelevant.

So this is all my fault. Emily asked me to leave something alone and I didn't.

I was trying to be helpful. But I made a mistake.

My apologies to her, and to the rest of you.

 

[lavendersilk]

Positivity and being nice to people officially died this week.

@AH_Mod can you please lock this thread. It’s irrelevant.

This was one of the first threads I found when I started posting on here. I am sad to see it go.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I naively referred to this place as a family a while ago on this thread. It’s not. No one cares. Not really. We not only tolerate bullying and assholery, we embrace it, we maybe just ignore it. It’s no big deal. But this response - or lack of it - makes us who we are.

One AH member spent months wandering around the entire site posting shit about me. Did anyone ever say, “hey, Em, take a look at what was said about you on this link?” Not once. And I saw people from here on the same threads. Multiple people. They saw, they did nothing. Someone else’s problem.

We see the usual suspects bullying people every day. You know about it. You do nothing. Afraid the bully will turn on you? Or, more likely, as I say, you just don’t care. It’s not worth making a scene about.

I have had lots of the equivalent of thoughts and prayers in the last few days. Lots of heads sadly shaking at how awful things are. Has anyone done a damn thing about it?

As far as I can see, the only person who has tried to stand up to bullying is some random I don’t even know.

What’s that line about if you tolerate this again? It’s OK, it’s happening to someone else, I don’t want to rock the boat. Let someone else do it. I don’t want to upset anyone.

But there is no someone else. There is only each of you. And all you give is thoughts and prayers. No risk to you in thoughts and prayers, just the delusion that you’ve done something. And nothing will ever change. Because change only happens when people feel that bad behavior needs to be called out and that it’s everyone’s responsibility to do so.

I’ve tried. But it’s just me. A single person cannot effect change. No matter how annoying they are.

So, live in the world you’ve built. Enjoy it until you are the only potential victim left. Then you might look around and think, “why won’t anyone lift a finger to help?” Of course it will be too late then. It’s already too late.

All that is required for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. Like all of you.

 

[Devinter]

@EmilyMiller - I tend to prefer to handle private matters in PM form, not in the public eye. I've tried to help you more than I think you realize. But even in the PMs that you and I exchanged, I truly tried to make a difference despite having to tread carefully. It saddens me that you choose not to see that. But I will not hold it against you. You are going through a difficult time, and I know that you are hurting. Burning bridges is likely not the best course of action, but if that is what you need to do in order to feel better, then I want you to know that mine is fire-proof and that I'll be here if change your mind.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

I think it is best to let this particular case rest. I believe that is what Em wants too. There is truth in what she said about the solidarity of this forum, the lack of it, to be more specific, and I believe I have spoken about it more than once, months ago. It is an interesting topic for some future thread, but once again we should all let things settle down first and discuss things with cooler heads.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I think it is best to let this particular case rest. I believe that is what Em wants too. There is truth in what she said about the solidarity of this forum, the lack of it, to be more specific, and I believe I have spoken about it more than once, months ago. It is an interesting topic for some future thread, but once again we should all let things settle down first and discuss things with cooler heads.

It's hard to keep a cool head when a very productive four year old thread gets shut down.

 

[TxRad]

I seemed to have missed something. Carry on.

 

[samhasstories]

I don't have any idea what happened, but this thread was fun and entertaining and, whether or not it represented the true spirit of this place, certainly had its heart in the right place. We can all use some positivity from time to time. Hope everyone's okay.

 

[StillStunned]

I don't have any idea what happened, but this thread was fun and entertaining and, whether or not it represented the true spirit of this place, certainly had its heart in the right place. We can all use some positivity from time to time. Hope everyone's okay.

My positive thought for the day: it's Friday! That means only two more working days until Monday.

 

[Bazzle]

We are a community of individuals. All wanting the best for each other. Whilst all being in competition with each other for the praise from the 1000's of anonymous readers who might give us a star. (Often 1 star in my case)

The community did rally around Emily.

I've read her latest valentines story. Its lovely and sweet!

 

[Winter_Fare]

It's hard to keep a cool head when a very productive four year old thread gets shut down.

Indeed.

 

[yowser]

It's hard to keep a cool head when a very productive four year old thread gets shut down.

I'm not seeing four years here...

 

[djrip]

It's hard to keep a cool head when a very productive four year old thread gets shut down.

Seems like maybe that was the spat of censored posts between O and that DD guy, over his usual plagiarism schtick?

 

[alohadave]

I'm not seeing four years here...

This one: https://forum.literotica.com/threads/awkwardmd-and-omenainen-review-thread.1516126/