Sometimes one person's inability to understand looks like another person's inability to explain.
-- Dilbert --
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I don't understand English. I suspected I didn't understand, but I didn't know how completely I didn't understand until I took the ESL (English as a second language) teacher training. For example:
changer
hanger
anger
Angie
Why are they all pronounced differently? What makes the "g" and "a" different?
I don't understand.
I do understand why the Québécois insist on speaking French. At least there is consistency in pronunciation. There are rules!
Speaking of pronunciation, I watched a video yesterday, a kid demonstrating how to do something. Every other sentence started with, "Ima". Like "Ima put this in the bowl, then Ima mix in the powder, then Ima add some water." It took me a few minutes to realize that he was saying "I'm going to" (I think...).
It's no damn wonder English is so difficult. We don't even speak it any more.
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I have a plan of attack.
I'm going to make an appointment with a specialist in blood vessels, and find out about why it hurts so badly when anyone messes with my veins, why they blow out and shut down, whether there is some way to make it easier to have blood drawn and to get contrast dyes, and get some details about my "fragile capillaries" and exactly how dangerous it would be to have the kidney stone zapped.
Then I can maybe make some educated decisions on what to do next.
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I don't understand the fascination with pedestal sinks in the bathroom. They're like granite counter tops. You ain't got a high class house without 'em.
Why?
Granite (or any stone) counter tops don't make sense because they stain unless you constantly reseal them, are high maintenance, and their density is unforgiving if you set a piece of fine china down a bit too hard.
Likewise, pedestal sinks make no sense whatsoever. There's no room on top to set anything down. That was ok when bathrooms were huge - usually because in the dawn of indoor bathrooms, they were converted spare bedrooms. There was plenty of space for cabinets and counters next to the sink.
Somewhere a long time ago, as bathrooms became designed into new houses and therefore became smaller, someone looked back and forth between the pedestal sink and the cabinet that had to be also in the room for storing or setting things down, like the toilet paper, shaving items, tooth brushes and toothpaste, soap dish, drinking glass, combs, blah blah, for which there was no room at the sink, and said, "hey, let's combine them! Let's cut a hole in the cabinet top, set the sink in, and then we'll have lots of convenient space to set the things we use at the sink!"
Brilliant! Like sliced bread!
Now middle-class bathrooms are tiny, and people want to stick a pedestal sink in a tiny room that has no space for a separate counter or cabinet - simply because pedestal sinks are fashionable.
It makes no sense to me. Hell, I want the biggest sink cabinet and countertop I can get!
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