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The rules of the English language are like table manners. Some of them seem well intended (chewing with your mouth open is pretty disgusting and speaking in the passive voice usually makes writing indecisive and unclear). But it doesn’t take long for arbitrary laws to emerge that only exist to sniff out poorer people’s low education. Sipping soup from the end of the spoon rather than the side is like ending a sentence with a preposition, spelling doughnut incorrectly or falling to distinguish between “less” and “fewer" when ‘less’ seems to parse well and is more efficient to print. None of these things should made a difference, but it’s almost because the rules are unintuitive that they’re enforced so fervently. I stole most of my rhetoric from this Stephen Fry podcast and he’s way more eloquent than me, so listen to that instead of reading that earlier paragraph.
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ChairMaster posted:Japan has legit high suicide areas, it's not that weird of a thing to come up. They've got kinda a different relationship with suicide than we do. When I was in Southampton, I lived near a high suicide bridge. It even has an intercom straight to the Samaritans because it's such a problem. Most people just threatened/considered jumping, but a lot went through with it. Whenever news or conversation about a suicide off that bridge came up, I would always wonder if they were talking about one I'd already known about or if there had been another one since then.
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