I know a guy who has extreme reactions to 11S globulins. It's really bad. I mean, his allergies are absolutely nuts.

as someone very aware the size of the anti-Walker protests of 2011 and the George Floyd protests of 2020, I'm not sure why small encampments of college kids -- much smaller than a block party -- are viewed as the salvation or the damnation of the country.

A Modern Occitan protest song by Claudi Marti. Translation mine

Now let the wind help me　with breath blown from a forge
And let the sea help me 　with waves that rage and roar
I'll cry out
All along the road 　I'll call upon the stones
The thickets and the ditches　 the forests…

Here's me reading a poem by Baudelaire that I've known by heart since I was a child. This poem was among the six pieces from Les Fleurs du Mal that were deemed immoral suppressed by censors after the first edition. The ban on its publication in France was not lifted until almost…

From Nizāmī Arūzī's 'Four Discourses'

....They knew that the king planned to stay there for that summer too. The army's captains and royal nobles went to Abū Abdullāh Rōdakī, the most honored man in the king's inner circle, who had his ear more than anyone else. They said to him…

A coffin clad with a child's face
A book 
Written in a crow's guts
A beast coming out, carrying a flower

A rock
Breathing in a lunatic's lungs

This is it
     This is the Twentieth Century.

— Adunis 'Mirror for the Twentieth Century'

It'd be truly comical to do with actual colloquial Persian expressions. Like I imagine seeing a cute baby and wanting to be all 'aww you're so cute' and ending up saying something like mūš bixwaraðat.

Subjectively I've gotten the sense that there's an incredible range in how forgiving of language learner mistakes people from Spanish-speaking Latin America are. My experience has been that, with Mexicans, you can literally speak the worst Spanish on earth and they just don't…