lovely_reader

I agree with everything you're saying, except my john is just down the hall...so when we're going, we don't need roads

Oh man, I envy your opinion of other people. Hold onto that as long as you can.

Internationally, most people mean the pro-corporate anti-regulation right when they say liberals. It's exclusively a U.S. thing afaik to equate liberalism with anything left of center, which causes a lot of confusion.

You're probably right, but you'd have to make it to court. Not everyone does..

Absorbent, because he's a sponge. Absorbent and yellow and porous. Obnoxiousness is just bonus.

Depends on which American you're speaking to. It's a big country.

More than one thing can be bad.

Was R2D2's narration intended to be subtitled...?

Public primary and secondary schools do not typically have stadiums.

Scratch is a simple drag and drop app kids use to learn to code. I've seen kids create pretty elaborate games with it. Maybe you could play with that and figure out if your concept is in fact simple enough to create on your own.

Wouldn't you be installing a new set of elites with incredible power, though? After all, someone has to count and interpret the votes. Hopefully the minimum number of people required to check and to balance is not larger than the maximum number of people capable of fruitful collaboration.

This may have more to do with the instructor of your second language, because pronunciation is taught. If your German teacher is French (or French Canadian) or learned German from someone who otherwise accented it in such a way, then that's how you're most likely to accent it. Only about one in five Canadians learn French as their first language, so outside of Quebec, they're really not secret French speakers masquerading as English speakers.

With French as Canada's second official language, though, it would not be surprising if the majority of Canada's foreign language teachers spoke French either first or second (but I say this without research or evidence, so it's just an irresponsible hypothesis.)