Venting thread

[Travis B.]

There’s a guy on Threads who is complaining that we call it “Havana” and not “La Habana” in English. People are replying to him talking about intervocalic lenition in Spanish and he is trying to deny it exists, citing his birth in Puerto Rico and doubling down when presented with evidence to the contrary.

Is this person one of those exonyms-are-bad people?

[Man in Space]

There’s a guy on Threads who is complaining that we call it “Havana” and not “La Habana” in English. People are replying to him talking about intervocalic lenition in Spanish and he is trying to deny it exists, citing his birth in Puerto Rico and doubling down when presented with evidence to the contrary.

Is this person one of those exonyms-are-bad people?

It appears so. He’s also from Cuba, where, according to him, /b/ does not lenite between vowels—despite evidence contradicting him. (He seems to believe that about Spanish in general.)

[Travis B.]

There’s a guy on Threads who is complaining that we call it “Havana” and not “La Habana” in English. People are replying to him talking about intervocalic lenition in Spanish and he is trying to deny it exists, citing his birth in Puerto Rico and doubling down when presented with evidence to the contrary.

Is this person one of those exonyms-are-bad people?

It appears so. He’s also from Cuba, where, according to him, /b/ does not lenite between vowels—despite evidence contradicting him. (He seems to believe that about Spanish in general.)

I wonder what his view is of the fact that we call Munich Munich and not München and Florence Florence and not Firenze in English...

[Man in Space]

I wonder what his view is of the fact that we call Munich Munich and not München and Florence Florence and not Firenze in English...

If you want to ask him, go ahead. I posted multiple YouTube videos of Cuban Spanish and finally got him to shut up about it.

[Raphael]

The current uncertainty whether the world will make it to the end of the year, or even to the end of the month, is very unpleasant for me.

[WeepingElf]

The current uncertainty whether the world will make it to the end of the year, or even to the end of the month, is very unpleasant for me.

I consider an end of the world within this year very unlikely. Sure, we have Trump's election victory, which is IMHO the worst political disaster since 1933, but the free world managed to stop Hitler, too, although at a monstrous price. So keep calm and carry on; this is not the end.

[Torco]

I think doomscrolling and paying attention too much to the news can have that effect of "omfg this is all going to blow up". i don't have any answers, except mentioning that ceasing to consume news is in fact an option and that i try to do it when it harms my mental health, but i totally understand how one might feel that keeping up with things is a duty or something like that. I think taking concrete self-protective or collective action is better: for example, when I got my europ passport I felt a lot more chill afterwards, even though I don't think I'll be using it a lot (just having the option to bug out is reassuring).

that being said, yeah, however many minutes to midnight we are, it's too close.