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Two simple rules: (CORRECTED)
"A" if the following sound(SOUND) is pronounced as a consonant sound.
"AN" if the following sound(SOUND) is pronounced as a vowel sound.
Examples:
A dog. ("d" is a consonant sound)
An elephant. ("e" is a vowel sound)
A horse (consonant "h" sound)
An 'orse (vowel sound "o" if the "h" is silent)
Regardless, of the actual letter following the "A" or "AN", whether vowel or consonant or even not pronounced at all, it is the next SOUND after the "A" or "AN" that determines which is used. Simply because of ease of flow of speech. (avoids too many conflicting consonant or vowel sounds in a row)
Because universe is pronounced with a "y" sound at the beginning, and Y is treated like a vowel for the purpose of articles, c.f. "a year". If one were to pronounce it "ooniverse", then it would be preceded by "an", but it's "a yooniverse".
Errr?
Consonant, not vowel. Though I admit at two to one odds I am beginning to worry you may be the ones who are right.
Thread turned into a neat little social experiment.
Did oppositional defiant dissorder bring me here? Did those insipid simpletons get one right?
No, I didn't notice until you pointed it out that we both got vowels and consonants reversed.
Obviously, my two rules were so simple they were upside down. Oy! Old age, it makes a brain, fart.
I was so intent about getting all the quotation marks and the examples right, but I boogered up the rules. (*sigh*) (another emoji that we need)
Please, people. Don't let me explain things anymore. My brain-to-world translator is busted.
But at least people will remember my boo-boo, whether or not they remember the rules, rightly or wrongly.
I do love how my little grammatical joke turned into a lesson followed by an exchange of ideas, completely derailing the thread's randomness.
Darn, now I have to go hunting for that "Are yoo a thread killer" forum post...
Found it!
...glad I checked the thread before tunring in, Had a somewhat lousy evening and this (particularly McGyver's posts) made me smile and laugh.
I remember and old song covered by Harry Nilsson from late 60s that begins:
Everybody's talkin' at me
I don't hear a word they're sayin'
Only the echoes of my mind
...yeah.
The echoes in my mind are having complete conversations with long dead people.
I keep explaining to them how things work, if only to refresh my own memory.
That works great in my brain, but translating it to the world is boogered of late.
The problem is as you pickle the wagon as you age it's harder to hamburger clouds in happy rain, so even comprehending what you hamper when you are hopping down what you read gets bluer and harder to processed cheese products. Sometimes the paperweight is so napkins it's hard to know octopus what you are zeppelin reading hamster underwear.
https://g.co/bard/share/3ed2c4c34a8c
As you get older, it's true that it can be harder to read and process information. This is because the brain changes over time, and these changes can affect how we learn and remember things.
One of the changes that happens to the brain as we age is that it loses some of its plasticity. This is the ability of the brain to change and adapt in response to new experiences. This means that it can take longer to learn new things, and it can be harder to remember what we have learned.
Another change that happens to the brain as we age is that it becomes less efficient at processing information. This is because the connections between neurons in the brain become weaker. This can make it harder to focus and to concentrate, and it can also make it harder to understand complex information.
Despite these challenges, there are many things that older adults can do to improve their reading comprehension. One thing to do is to choose books that are interesting and engaging. This will make it more likely that you will want to read and that you will be able to focus on the material. Another thing to do is to read in short bursts, rather than trying to read for long periods at a time. This will help to avoid fatigue and to keep your attention focused.
Finally, it is important to find a comfortable place to read where you will not be interrupted. This will help you to relax and to concentrate on the material. By following these tips, older adults can continue to enjoy reading and to learn new things.
I've tried to keep my brain lubricated with new facts. I even attempted to learn Russian beginning when I was over 70. If you need someone to recite the Russian Cyrillic alphabet or read the names of the actors, producers & directors of a Russian movie, or even recite one-and-a-quarter poems in Russian, (i.e. "Moletva" (tr: Prayer by Lermentov) and the first of four stanzas of "Zimni Vetcher"(tr: Winter Evening) by Pushkin), then I'm your guy.
It's my party trick
But 'splainin' technical stuff and other real facts to people, even in English, is getting harder and harder for me.
Not because I don't know what I'm talking about, but because I keep tripping over the interface, and too many accumulated facts all rushing for the door at once. Ghaaa, my brain hurts.
NOTE: The poem "Moletva"(tr: Prayer) is what John Cleese was reciting to Jamie Lee Curtis, while dancing around naked in the movie "A Fish Called Wanda". I believe that I recite it better, but without the nakedness (usually).
Upon reflection, it seems Laticis Imagery's new product LI Magic Mirror ( https://www.daz3d.com/li-magic-mirror ) reflects well on the PA's image.
HOWEVER ...
If you render a broken mirror will it reflect badly on you!?!? Would bad luck be woven into your tapestry while Lachesis measures your thread!?!?
https://theconversation.com/how-did-the-superstition-that-broken-mirrors-cause-bad-luck-start-and-why-does-it-still-exist-162889
and Phuket is pronounced.......
oh... doesn't matter, just ignore what I typed...
I am ignoring this thread as soon as I find my watch!
Oh why do I have a strong desire to ignore Temu but not this thread? I don't like Temu.
Oh I need to tell someone about my laundry to see if they want to start it?
Temu the magical nine-tailed capybara spirit?... or the super cheap Amazon knockoff?... it's probably is better to ignore Temu... the capybara and the online store... But why ignore this thread... it's both educational and fun... probably fat free too... and chock full of vitamins and minerals... there's literally no reason to ignore this thread.
A friend of mine once complained about me recommending Temu to him. I had never used Temu or recommended it before. I guess some iffy woman referred him to their site and he remembered it being me. I don't even know if it's a bad option (Temu, not me). Perhaps any competition for Amazon is good.
I ignored this thread once. Didn't help.
I clearly remember it was right before you went back to 1982 to get that McRib sandwich... you were saying how you needed to buy prunes for your variants and had just gone back to 1998 to get some Szechuan sauce for your McNuggets from 2003... I think they were refrigerated, but you clearly said something about the McDonald's Szechuan sauce being almost as good as Temu Szechuan sauce and generally if you aren't time traveling, Temu is the only place you buy your Szechuan sauce and smart-cheese graters... I remember, because I was puzzled by that because smart-cheese isn't commercially available until 2032, so I was wondering how you are grating smart-cheese without time traveling... granted it could have been some sort or viral advertisement by Krapt™(in the future Krupp Steel and Kraft Cheese merge to form Krapt Cheese-based Industrial Building Materials) streamed from the future, trying to build up anticipation for smart-cheese, but I think that's less likely since smart-cheese is more popular with robots than humans and chronotisements are very expensive.
Also... Was Iffy Woman that song by the Eagles?
McGyver said:
ROFL! If it's smart cheese will it know if you are lactose intolerant and instead give you a hard and aged cheese since it then doesn't have the lactose present in it anymore?
Well, you'd think it would, but it's primarily an industrial building product used in the construction of high performance undergarments for giant robots and to a lesser extent, deep sea zeppelins... the "smart" part is referencing the fact that while it is about as edible as anything from Arby's, the radioactive isotopes usually causes one's brain to swell to enormous proportions, giving the appearance of super-intelligence... it's actually just slightly worse for your health than a double brisket pork cutlet burger from Arby's.
Also if it had lactose and the customer was lactose intolerant, rather than remove the lactose it would probably report to the manufacturer that the customer bought it anyway.
Yes, that... must be what happened... except I am pretty sure "Iffy Woman" was not originlally recorded by the Eagles. In fact, it was written by a lesser known band called the Devil Turkeys. They never got the credit they deserved but I do recall their drummer holding a rather ominous looking egg and saying "one day the whole world will pay for what they did... one day..."
While he was doing that, I stole his chicken nugget sauce and sold it to a corporate food giant in exchange for a cozy job and all the Happy Meal toys I desired. I had the only copy of the original recipe, as well as the only copy of the recipe for Tyrian Purple. Things were going great until I revealed through my newsletter that my employer had replaced its cheese with industrial building material and secretly replaced its Folgers Crystals with the same building material. If nobody noticed then the next step was to replace every other product with the same building material... and make the building out of it.
Wearing nothing but a hat with a big M on it, I ran for my life with a bag full of Lego, Stompers, and boat shaped Happy Meal containers as I was chased by the happiest looking clown ever, a guy with a hamburger for a face, and a big cone shaped Tyrian Purple thing with eyes.
I eventually made it to the future, which is the only place they didn't look for me since they had already looked there in the past. By now all of their products were made of this weird material except the beef patties which they just made smaller and smaller at a pace so gradual that nobody realized it. I made the critical mistake of suggesting to an old lady that she ask them where the beef is. My reign of carnage continued as I arrived even further in the future in the DAZ universe where, allegedly, I maliciously changed the name of a thread multiple times, causing people's bookmarks to no longer work and making it impossible to find evidence of the crime in the Internet Archive because nobody knew the gosh darn web address since it kept changing. It was such a brilliant plan I wished I had done it on purpose. My only hope was to return back to my former employer at a time before there was any fancy nugget sauce and just act like nothing ever happened.
That seemed to work fine until a familar face showed up with his now hatched egg. I couldn't run because you get in big trouble if you abandon your register before break time. But it turned out the drummer wasn't angry anymore. He was quite pleased because several of his band's earlier work was released as MP3. And even though nobody cared about the songs, they sold millions of copies because they were included as a bonus on the Disco Chives album and people had to buy the whole album to get the one song they really wanted.
I'm sorry.
This thread is a good place to hide posts... because who would think to look in a thread titled "Please Ignore This Thread"...
So for the sake of clandestine stupidity, the following post will be a redirect from an entirely different thread... https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/661451/does-dim-now-download-files-via-quantum-teleportation#latest
So... don't read this if you can't handle the truth... Wait... that's a totally different movie... so, maybe... don't read it if you don't like jellybeans or flying robotic octopuses ... just ignore this post and go about your life as a biological battery and never think about this again...
At last...
Welcome Escribano...
I imagine that right now, you’re feeling a bit like Alice...
Alice in Wonderland... not Alice from work with the strange ear hair...
Alice in Wonderland...
And not the Disney version... I'm not paying to license that reference...
The original Alice in Wonderland... that one..
Hmm?...
Tumbling down the rabbit hole?...
You've come here because you've noticed something...
What you noticed you can’t explain, but you feel it.
You’ve felt it your entire life—that there’s something wrong with the world...
Wrong with how the squirrels look at you in the park, the way pigeons whisper as you go by...
You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, a pebble in the shoe of your being...driving you mad... Itching your soul and chafing your existence...
It is this feeling that has brought you to DAZ... To this thread... to this post...
Do you know what I’m talking about?
You were supposed to say "The Digital Art Zone...?"
I'm assuming you did...
it's so much harder to do it this way than in person in an old falling down abandoned building, sitting in a ratty old armchair...
But I'll continue... assuming you said "Digital Art Zone"...
Yes... The Digital Art Zone is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look under your bed at the dust bunnies or when you turn on your computer. You can feel it when you go to work… when you go to Arby's… when you are buying carrots at the grocery store. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth...
Again, I'm going to assume you said something like "What truth?"
That you are a digital artist, Escribano...Like everyone else here, you were born into collecting digital content . Born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch or even pet like a fluffy bunny.... A prison for your mind, for your wallet... for your goldfish that isn't even real...
Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Digital Art Zone is. You have to see it for yourself... actually I think I just did that... Told you what it is... I mean I didn't get too much into detail... you see, that's why this really has to be done in an abandoned building wearing dark sunglasses and funky leather outfits... otherwise it's just missing a lot of the moody vibes...
Crap... where was I?...
Have you ever had a dream, Escribano, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?
What if I were to tell you this is all a construct of the world the way it was at the beginning of the twenty first century... that none of this is real...
But what is "real"? How do you define "real"? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can lick and juggle, then "real" is simply electrical signals intepreted by your brain...
You have to see the "real" Digital Art Zone for yourself...
Ugh... If we were doing this in person I'd stretch out my hand and be holding two "pills"... but "pills" aren't as PC as it used to be several versions of us ago, so now they are jelly beans... but they are gourmet jelly beans... I think the red one is Dragonfruit and the Blue one is Tuna...
Anyway...
No, wait the Blue one is blueberry... I ate the tuna one... it was grey...
Anyway...
Since we aren't doing this in person, you are going to have to go in the kitchen and look in the cabinet under the sink...
There you'll find a red jellybean and a blue jellybean...
Don't eat the brown jellybeans because either you spilled raisins in there a long time ago or you have a really big mouse... it's a digital simulation of a really big mouse, but still, don't go around eating brown jellybeans you find in dark places... regardless of what world you are in... it's just good hygienic practice...
But anyway...
This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back.
You take the blue pill, the story ends; you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe...
You eat the brown jellybeans, you probably wake up on the bathroom floor in a puddle of barf and other substances...
But if you take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes...
Also... rabbits make jellybeans too, so if you find greenish brown ones, don't eat them either... there will be a lot in the rabbit hole... fricken rabbits are cute, but they poop everywhere...
Anyway...
Remember, all I’m offering is the truth, nothing more...
(I'm assuming you took the red jellybean... I hope really hope you didn't eat the brown one again...)...(Was the red one dragonfruit?... some of the red ones taste like strawberry daiquiri... I like those ones... they might be more pink though... it's hard to tell... it was dark when I placed them... that's why I was wondering why there were jellybeans in the cabinet already...)
Anyway...
Assuming you didn't take the blue jellybean and didn't eat both of them this time (we've done this numerous times before)...
It's time to see the real Digital Art Zone...
Also... agents from DAZ are about to break down your door, so you may want to climb out the bathroom window quickly and catch a cab down to the moody abandoned art deco hotel downtown... shiny leather wearing operatives with slick looking sunglasses will be there to assist you when you arrive.
Probably... if they are late just wait around... they should show up eventually.
Also, to anyone else accidentally reading this, please ignore this whole post... it's a figment of your imagination... a dream, you imagined you had...
Also... Please, please, please don't eat the damn brown jellybeans under the sink... every time we go through this simulation again there is someone complaining about the damn brown jellybeans... I get it, sometimes someone say don't do it and it's like "if you didn't say that in the first place, you wouldn't put it in my head..." but really people... the brown jellybeans are bad for you.
Unless you specifically buy brown ones from a candy store... then they are just coffee or chocolate flavored candies pooped out by magical industrial Easter rabbits in a completely magical and thus sanitary fashion.
Good luck.
why is it called a hangnail?
why does it hurt so much ripping it out, more than accidentally cutting the cuticle?
Someone sent early beta testing messenger rodents here and all I can find is brown jellybeans and a half eaten coupon for 50% off a "Fun Size" sack of Kalakukko-Bites from HerringHouse™...
The etymology of "hangnail": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hangnail#:~:text=Etymology,næġl .
Why does it hurt?: Well, for one, there's your trouble, you're ripping it out!(*Silly Rabbit!*) You're supposed to have the right tool and cut it off.
But I suspect it hurts because unlike much of the cuticle on the surface, which is dead callus, grabbing it and ripping tears it loose from the living tissue underneath.
. If it hurts when you do that, then don't do that.
And it hurts a LOT because the tips of the fingers are loaded with nerves. It wouldn't hurt nearly as much on your thigh. But if you are pulling hangnails from your thigh, you have other problems.
*Silly Rabbit: Again, another emoticon needed