Last month, I spent almost exactly 2x as much on whisky as I did on groceries. Didn't consume all of that whisky though, obviously, since I tend to make few but big purchases.
Freaked out when it looked like my ledger-cli file showed I had 120GBP more than my bank statement did. 30 minutes later, I've gone through everything twice and figured it out.
@jws Or move it all to an archived folder that you only peek into when you find yourself with nothing productive to do.
// @japchap
Ah, really not feeling too good about tomorrow's exam. Transcription, description of articulation, and rule formation. Sigh. At least I'll have a nice fountain pen to use…‽
@japchap For that, I can only suggest that you drop the idea of prioritising at all, and just focus completing the tasks one at a time, in any order.
@japchap Could the "without much to say for it" be improved by breaking down as many tasks as possible into sub-tasks? I find tasks often look a mess until I break them down even more and make some sort of plan for them.
@larand Something we covered in a lecture just 12 hours ago, actually…all to do with entrenchment, it seems: given multiple ways to express the same concept, you choose the one you've been most exposed to.
// @matigo @c
@larand I have the same thing sometimes. Recently it's been "à la base" in French. I also often get Cantonese phrases that pop up, which would acutally be perfectly acceptable in some varieties of Singaporian English but very strange in other varieties. Most commonly, and literally translated, "should can" (= "that should be possible"). It probably comes up just because it's fewer syllables, and I do detest inefficiency in communication, above all when it's with myself :P
// @matigo @c
@larand English, though I am able to process thought in French and Cantonese. I actually grew up bilingual (Cantonese and English), but English took over, and Cantonese got put aside because its sounds and my opinion of it weren't as appealing as English (mainly due to where I heard it — in the markets, etc., whereas I heard English spoken very elegantly in school).
I don't have a favourite language for all occasions. Italian for opera but German for Lieder/non-operatic pieces (very hard to explain why, save for my preference for bel canto opera); English for lexical creativity but Danish because of its relative lack of consonants; Latin for declension fetish and complex sentence structures (arguably, German comes close); Cantonese for very casual speech that often involves ranting and profanity.
tldr: I don't have a favourite language, just a preferred language for a given context.
// @matigo @c
@larand That's good to know. Complex grammar can be beautiful, but only when one has lots of energy. I hold that same opinion for consonants.
// @matigo @c