I agree with your points, but to be honest Bungo Stray Dogs got me interested in Osamu Dasai and Akutagawa...

Did you even read the article?

churn animated stories? WTF has that do do with an article about fiction books - NOT manga? or even anime?

You realize most of those stories were originally books? They turn books to mangas and then to animes.

No, not all start as light novels. In many cases the light novels come afterwards as a way to capitalise (eg Demon Slayer, the manga finished a while ago, so while the anime is still running light novels are coming out).

Apothecary Diaries started as a light novel, but JJK, AoT and many others start as Manga

Also, the article is about animes as well. Makato Shinkai’s She and Her Cat is an anime, not a book, for example. It talks a lot about books, but it isn't only about books. I thought that was obvious.

> No, not all start as light novels

Many are though, many of the animes that came out for a few years I had already read the LN for. That so many novels becomes animes is likely a big reason why there are so many novels being written along those styles.

But did you really scan the items they wanted? Most people in my local community scan their hands or the pavements around the pokestop. They have a great map of London pavements if they want to do it.

Do those pockets fit a phone - properly fit it so it doesn't fall out if you have to run for a bus or a train?

Exactly, I want a pair of functional jeans, not too skinny, not stupid flared with handy pockets for phone, keys, wallet

I do not want to go rummaging on niche shops or to buy online and have the faff of returning things that don't fit

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The rest of the thread is basically assuming that people like you don't exist. It was sarcasm (thus the /s).

The problem is the length in men's trousers which doesn't fit shorter women. But yes, I have 'mens' hoodies and other items which tend to have great big pockets...

And this isn't limited to jeans. If you take an average hiking coat men's ones also have more and better pockets to women's. And we do not take handbags on hikes.

Even as a cis man, a lot of men's clothing doesn't fit me. It all seems to be cut for skinny rock climbers, with slim chests, broad shoulders, and long limbs. The brands that aren't, are cut for people shaped like meatballs. I've just accepted that all my clothes cost extra to get them tailored.

isn't Discord a bit like IRC used to be?

How do I connect to a self hosted discord, and then connect it to my friends self hosted one?

And where do I get the RFC for the protocol so that I can write my own compatible implementation?

IRC isn't a product. It's a standardized protocol sufficiently simple to implement in a day or two.

I don't see the point of this article...

Two things in different languages have similar names. so what?

Portugal's Constipacao isn't English's Constipation

Italy's Carrozza isn't Portuguese's Carroca

Spanish Embarazada isn't English Embarassed...

To add to your examples, in portuguese (and no other language I know of) the word "exquisit" (in portuguese: esquesito) means something odd, awkward. In all other languages it means a delicacy or something really delicious. I'm sure we were the ones to corrupt the meaning, perhaps for the common folk those delicacies were so rare or unattainable that they would be "odd" food.

Other examples would be:

Spanish oficina (office) and Portuguese oficina (workshop).

Spanish largo (long) and Portuguese largo (wide) or even music's largo (slow), although the music one is probably part of most languages by now so it's a matter of semantics.

Spanish asignatura (subject) and Portuguese assinatura (signature).

Spanish carpeta (folder) and English carpet (alfombra).

Spanish librería (bookstore) and English library (biblioteca).

Spanish parientes (relatives) and English parents (padres).

Although they share origins, Italian calzone is not Swedish kalsonger, Swedish husbonde is not English husband.

But but but constipação and constipation are the same thing.

One is a cold The other is well, constipation...

if you say in Portugal you have 'a constipação' you mean you have a cold...

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constipa%C3%A7%C3%A3o links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold

I see. In Brazil constipação has both meanings, although it's mostly used with the same meaning as the English version.

In Spanish constipado means a cold or having a cold but according to the DRAE constipación de vientre means well… constipation.

Or you could use resfriado which means a cold but also contains the lexical morpheme/root -fri- (frío which means cold) so it might sound nicer and be easier to remember.

Well, I have learnt something new today...

In Portugal it would be Obstipacao or Prisao de Ventre

Because one came from the other?

We have a rule of no phones at the table. Unless it is for a purpose - while in the middle of conversation if there is a question we can't answer we will check the phone. ("what does a giraffe sound like?" "what does the gallbladder do?")

Otherwise, yes I will use my phone while the children are in the park in the sandpit or playing around. If I was helicoptering over them all the time, they wouldn't explore the climbing frames alone - and i do keep an eye in case they fall but want them to have the confidence to do it alone

and they see how the phone can be useful - want an expensive toy in the shop? let's check the phone and see if we can find it cheaper... - are we lost? let's learn to use a map... - how do you say x or y in a foreign language?

so, let's stop the mum (mom) guilt...

That sounds like reasonable phone use to me whereas the article seems to hint at using a phone instead of engaging.

How about dad's phone?