This is it really good description of Quebec french.

Tranna

When I lived in Japan, if I was out with my wife people would always speak to her (she was Japanese). My Japanese was reasonably good, and my wife said that there were no real issues with my grammar, vocabulary, or pronunciation, but still people didn’t understand me because I was a foreigner and they knew they couldn’t understand foreigners.

People were doing it 50 years ago too.

One feature you may have missed is the way Donaldson borrowed a huge amount of religious symbolism. The first trilogy is all about devotion to The Law, the focus of the Old Testament. The name “Covenant” is another clue.

The second trilogy is about sacrifice with clear references to the New Testament.

After that, I think Donaldson goes of in his own direction, and I don’t find those books as compelling.

I don’t think he is pushing a Christian agenda, or proselytizing on the sly, rather he is using well-known and influential symbolism, the basis for much of our culture, to backdrop the story he is telling.

That makes sense, because the music is repurposed from a musical that Meat and Steinman were writing.

Perry Rhodan

Just be prepared to catch up. They have been publishing weekly novellas since 1961, so they are well over 3,000 issues.

Oh, and if you want to go past the first 140 or so, you will need to learn German!

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Consider yourself lucky that you haven’t had thick green tea. It is super concentrated, a thick sludge, and even know some people who do tea ceremony in Japan who have trouble drinking it.

One quibble: the oil companies don’t need government subsidies in order to keep the price of fuel down. They are the most profitable corporations in the history of the planet. They need subsidies in order to keep things that way.

Numbers were often imbued with a mystical significance. For example, 40 with spans of time indicated that the time was chosen by God. 40 days and nights of the flood, the Israelites wandering in the desert for 40 years, Jesus going into the desert for 40 days.

People in groups of 12 were chosen by God. 12 tribes of Israel, 144,000 (12x12x1000) saved in the Rapture, 12 apostles, etc.

3 and 7 were similarly associated with God. Tions of examples.

Just picking a small nit: Matthew is not considered the oldest gospel, Mark is. There may be fragments of Matthew that are the oldest, but it is generally agreed that the writer of Matthew was influenced by the already-written gospel of Mark. Luke was written around the same time as Matthew, or a few (5-10) years later.

Not to mention that the United States allows dairy Farmers to use growth hormones that can pass into the milk. Apparently, American use of these hormones has dropped, but it is still permitted.

Here is a good explanation of that and other differences between Canadian and American dairy: https://albertamilk.com/ask-dairy-farmer/difference-canadian-american-milk/

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And it would burden Canada with a share of your $40 trillion debt. No thank you.

I think the subtext is, “it doesn’t matter, because they were Asians”.

I’m just pointing out that there is no corroborating evidence. As for what the mother witnessed afterwards, we still only have the sister’s book, not any direct statements.

Douglas may well have raped her, that would have been in keeping with the times and the power dynamics.

Natalie’s sister alleges that he did, but as far as I know there has been no corroborating evidence or other testimony.

I was married already when I met my now wife. My first wife lived overseas and we hadn’t been together for about 8 years.

Our two children lived with me, but we didn’t have a separation or legal custody agreement. Doing all of that internationally, getting all the documents professionally translated, court dates, etc. was extremely challenging.

So we waited several years until both kids were legally adults and we just had to deal with the divorce (which itself took almost 3 years) before making things official.

That said, my case is much less typical than a guy just lying about his domestic circumstances.

Vehicles are much more complicated than alcohol, though. There are assembly plants and parts suppliers on both sides of the border, and there is a transfer back and forth about six times in the production of a single vehicle. There is no way that Canada could simply ban American vehicles without jeopardizing our parts manufacturers as well.