[personal profile] spiralsheep
Seasonal: and a bonus happy Old English Goddess of Spring Invented By A Christian Monk weekend! ;-P

Music: local Brummies have been breaking out the vintage Black Sabbath recently for obvious reasons, especially Paranoid, 1970, their second album (and second within a year) featuring three classic "heavy metal" songs with Geezer Butler's lyrics - one supportive of mental health problems, one discouraging drug-taking (especially heroin), and their best known which is an anti-war song specifically targeting the wars that politicians inflict on the rest of us:

"Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor"

uKanDanz covers War Pigs with Asnake Gebreyes singing in Amharic (brave guy):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kVYdLjoyPE

And then there's Ozzy Osbourne's anti-war Crazy Train, 1980, especially beloved in his native Birmingham. Live, 1981, with Randy Rhoades:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui79Uf817YA

"Millions of people living as foes
Maybe it's not too late
To learn how to love
And forget how to hate"

Easter Break..

Mar. 31st, 2026 11:42 am
[personal profile] flaviomatani
Getting up on a Tuesday at 9:00 am is so much better for my delicate constitution ( 😃 ) than getting up at 5:15 am. Only one lesson (here at home) today. And returning an air-fryer that I'd bought a few days ago which stopped working half way through making dinner last night. For now, coffee and arepa with buffalo mozzarella (because I'm a mongrel South American/Italian). And avoid the news, just in case.
[personal profile] pseudomonas

Still (ha!) being confused by that thing where yet and still are roughly synonyms (massive difference in register notwithstanding) and "not yet" and "not still" are verging on antonyms. ("not begun" vs "already ended"). 

I always have a lot of trouble thinking through yet/still esp when trying to translate stuff. 

I *think* it *might* be  

still X = yet X → "X began at some point in the past and continued to happen until [now]"  (where [now] is either deictic or anaphoric "on wednesday it was still raining")

and then:

not still X → "!(still X)"  [*]    "she is not still learning the guitar"
not yet X → "still !(X)"  [**]   "she is not yet learning the guitar"
still not X → "still !(X)"          "she is still not learning the guitar"
yet not X → "still !(X)"  [***]  "she is yet not learning the guitar"

but my head hurts a bit now. Obv I'm not including non-temporal uses such as "yet" meaning "nevertheless".

I think this is probably same thing as that weird English quirk where "must not" ≈ "may not" but "must" != "may"; the "not" scopes oddly with "must (not X)" vs "(may not) X". But there it's kinda easy to bracket them as above. The "verb not" → !(verb) thing is archaic, but I see how it got there.

But with not-yet the "not" feels like it scopes to an argument it's not adjacent to. I know, idioms gonna idiom non-compositionally, but still. (ha again)

[*]  with implication that X definitely has happened in the past but has now stopped, even if a very literal pedant could pretend that it could include the situation where X has never happened (and hence is continuing not to happen.)

[**] nuance difference ofc; "not yet X" implies very heavily that X is expected to happen at some point; "still not X" doesn't imply it nearly as strongly. But the directionality in time is the same — hasn't happened in the past, might happen in the future.

[***] and sounds dated verging on archaic. "yet not" I think is basically reserved for non-temporal uses ("it was damp yet not raining").

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