Headband? I use that told hold sunglasses when I run.
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I have a cloth hairband I wear to work out but it is not very stretchy. Maybe I could Macgyver (sp?) something with that and some hair ties, if I can find any that aren’t totally shot and about to snap.
The stretchy rubber bracelets I made for my art show last year would be perfect for this but they all sold. Hmph. Maybe I’ll order some more of those rubber rings, my chainmail supplier appears to still be in business.
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How have I never come across this before? This is amazing.
We create more data in a day than the world had amassed in total a few years back. Yet still I’m not entertained constantly. Obviously this is the world’s problem.
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The world is failing you. File a complaint with management.
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Have you fallen down the etymology rabbit hole yet?
This reminds me that my tiny complaint was that I was going to look up the etymology of a word and now I’ve forgotten what word it was.
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I spend so much time with etymology. My wife has 4 years of latin, I have 4 years of classical greek, and we both think ascribing meaning to sounds is incredibly arbitrary. So yeah, we have a lot of fun with “how the heck does this word happen?”
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Have you tried learning Etruscan? I haven’t but I read a few books about the Etruscans. It would be a good challenge because there are a lot of words whose meaning isn’t well understood due to how little of Etruscan has survived.
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Ooh, this could be fun. Sometimes I feel like I should dive back into french or spanish or japanese or german, but i tend to enjoy dead languages more.
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Other dead languages I haven’t learned:
- Aramaic (there are a bunch of branches of it, and some actually are still spoken today but obviously they’ve evolved from the dead versions)
- Coptic
- Ugaritic
- Sumerian
- Hittite
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I’m in a long line to get into the grocery store but I didn’t dress for standing out in the cold. Brrr.
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I’ve been cranky for like five days straight.
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Oh man, I tried to learn Sumerian when I was like 11 and I wanted to learn the most obscure language possible. My math tutor copied a textbook from the UC Berkeley library for me. I didn’t get very far. Like “big sheep” “good king” level.
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I love this so much 
I tried to teach myself German and French out of old books that the public library had when I was 15 or 16. I didn’t make it very far.
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You’ve seen this right?
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That’s seriously one of my favorites now.
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Somehow as an elementary ELD teacher who is doing “Distance Learning for All!” from my laundry room, my work now involves a lot of spreadsheets. You guys know how I feel about spreadsheets. I feel like Gollum with cooked fish. Stupid fat hobbits ruins it!
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I taught myself Hebrew as a teenager, but just the alphabet. That way I could keep a journal in English, written in Hebrew letters, so no one could read it.
It worked very well. I got more privacy at the time and now I can’t read my own journals.
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I’ve been teaching myself farsi out of a phrase book and YouTube and it’s more fun than duolingo. I think I’ll do urdu next, and then maybe back to Italian, Spanish and Portuguese .
I love the dead language speakers, but I’m motivated by being a master eavesdropper. tagalog will be useful too
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Having long hair sucks, but having short hair sucked more. Currently just very annoyed at my hair, period.
Also, I posted on the wrong thread first.
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