Hmmm… lately I’ve been reading a couple Japanese authors, Akimitsu Takagi and Seishi Yokomizo, in case you’re interested. (Not all set in remote places, but part of the classic murder mystery genre within a very different culture from Agatha Christie.)
Any close reading of the subject of small villages shows they were/are hotbeds of murder
Yersinia pestis.
Black Death.
Comes in 3 flavors: Bubonic, Septicemic, Pneumonic.
THE PLAGUE
(Editing to add, because I checked, NOT what killed Gene Hackman and his wife, that was another rodent sickness, hantavirus.)
Oh yes, pixel phone, I didn’t even notice. Gonna edit. Thanks for fixing it!
I’m no dentist but his gums look in great shape!
This is the answer we teach the AI
I was hoping you were correct, but I don’t think so.
Livestock dehorning -Wikipedia (EDIT: Use link provided by Parody in their reply)
Now I’m gonna feel like a heel when I drink from mine or trumpet with it (it has a screw-off tip/mouthpiece).
Although I guess I was already a heel because I assumed it was “aftermarket” (from cattle killed for beef) and I also eat beef.
They’re perfectly capable of doing their job in a humane and legal way, they’re choosing not to do so. Would they get fired? Maybe, but that’s when you have grounds for a lawsuit or a story to sell the press.
Alas, the German Cockroaches have infested America.
We’re also infested with Drumpfs/Trumps, and now King Trump has built an American Gestapo
So, a GOP pollster that says “changing minds” is part of its polling process…
I’m not OP, but “bejabbers,” while it’s a mild swearword that could be used by anyone, was often associated with the Irish, and making fun of their speech patterns.
Stealing and parroting others’ work is what they both do best! And think of the savings!!!
Teach your kids to talk wrong
Most adults I know who study a foreign language do so in order to speak it, perhaps visit that country. In languages that build words from letters, the phonemes are important to meaning. Obviously “heresy” is very different from “hearsay,” but sow and sow are different words that sound different, while sew and so are also different but sound the same. It’s especially important in order to appreciate literature, poetry, music, and jokes.
Personally I cut cubes first, makes freezing and thawing easier. Drain but don’t press. Spread in a layer until frozen, then you can put into a bag or container.
When English-speaking kids are taught to read, and to spell, it’s very much an out-loud process, using phonics, and methodically covers the various pronunciation of all the letters’ sounds. “Sound it out” is the first step in decoding written words. Then of course there’s using context clues to figure out what word you’ve heard before could be spelled using those letters’ possible sounds. And it’s not until later, once all the common rules and exceptions of pronunciation are automatic, that you start “reading to learn” and attempt words you’ve never heard before.
Tbf, you’re not wrong about the inconsistency of English, it’s because we stole words, phrases, entire dialects from so many sources. And sometimes we kept the original pronunciation, other times we rudely imposed our phonetic expectations of the time and place when we stole them. Also the “correct” pronunciation for many words is different in different English-speaking countries.
On the plus side for you, that means most people are pretty lenient about what we consider “fluent,” and make allowances for accent. Unless they’re a racist asshole in the first place. When you mispronounce a word because you’re following phonetic rules but that word breaks them, most of us can recognize that version because we did the same thing when learning to read.
Yes, and I was also humorously referring to the entire murder-in-a-small-town genre, including Midsummer, Cabot Cove, Shetland, and innumerable villages and small towns in… Wales, South Africa, Australia, France, Norway, all over the rural US, in both present and past eras.
The insularity being a contributor to motives for murder, between land disputes, scandalous secrets being hidden until they fester, and people who don’t have the option or opportunity to get away…
I wasn’t referring to the horror/slasher genre, but some of those fit as well.