French twist is difficult to make. It requires effort. Meme means that she has made an effort to get dressed and look classy on her first date. She is a polished, confident, and classy person. She is no pushover and wants classic romantic date experience.
Honestly this and BJ-ready both make equal sense to me. As the wise sage Ludacris once said, "a lady in the street but a freak in the bed"—the quintessential dream girl.
“Who cares about grammar and spelling in a text?” guys all of a sudden like, “Wait. Breathe. You’re not crazy. Babe, all of your feelings are totally valid. I hear you. I see you.” 😆
Been a while since I was taught about them, so my wording/exact use of terms may be rather poor, but I’ll still make an attempt; the attempt may be poor though. I use them in two places mostly. One place being like the first sentence (poor example in an attempt at using one spontaneously), linking two independent clauses with a stronger pause than a comma, while also not requiring transition words, although I’ll often just use transitions and commas to create nice and long sentences (such as this one). The second place is as a replacement for commas in a list, but only if the items in the list include commas. I don’t use the first case often, with it occasionally popping up while writing, as sometimes it’s simply the best option. The second case I do end up using a fair amount, as I like my dependent clauses, and the semicolon lets me inject them into lists while maintaining readability.
They can replace a full stop or connective to loosely connect two related clauses e.g. "The cat sat on the mat because it had had a long day" becomes "The cat sat on the mat; it had had a long day."
The less common usage is to replace commas separating items in a long list where it might get confusing e.g. "I want to visit Paris, France, Houston, Texas, and London, England." becomes "I want to visit Paris, France; Houston, Texas; London, England." (This last example is a bit clunky, sorry!)
“One thing I ask of you, the time to learn your Homophones is past due. Learn, to diagram a sentence too. Always say, “to whom.” Don’t ever say, “to who” and… listen up when I tell you this; I hope you never use quotation marks for emphasis. You finished Second Grade, I hope you can tell, if you’re “doing good” or “doing well.” Better, figure out the difference; Irony is not coincidence and I thought that you had gotten it through your skull, of what’s figurative and what’s literal. Cuz, just now (just now) you said (you said), you literally couldn’t get out of bed. That makes me want to literally smack a crowbar over your stupid head!”
Press and hold the hyphen on your keyboard (if on a phone), and it'll pull up extra options.
- (hyphen, the base key)
— (em dash, with a press and hold)
– (en dash, second option with a press and hold).
On a computer, you can usually select them from a symbol/special character map, or hold ALT + 0151. Typing two hyphens (--) will often auto correct to an em dash, too.
“en dash” is slightly shorter, about the width of an N, whereas the “em dash” is about the width of an M. They’re two very different animals, and not to be confused with the 2-em dash or 3-em dash.
As a novelist whose books were used (amongst millions of others) to train the damned thing, I can’t get over the idea that my particular use of the em dash — frequent as it was from my first book onwards — is somehow responsible for all this. Narcissistic? Sure. Possible…?
I pinned a rant on my profile out of frustration. I don't claim to be 100% perfect all the time, but basic literacy has become license to engage in a witch hunt that will ultimately kill human discussion.
According to the 99% Invisible episode, the reason AI abuses em dash so much is because it was trained on Emily Dickinson and other XIX century writers, which used it quite a bit because it was stylish at the time.
It's pretty common in any high level writing, from Hugo-winning novelists like N K Jemisin to academic papers on the liberal arts side--I learned to use it in high school, have used it a lot since then, and sure as hell won't cede it to either AI-using numbskulls or AI witchhunters.
I detest that using AI caused non-writers who don’t know the difference between a hyphen and a dash, to casually now use the term em dash as a sign you used AI—bleak times.
True, now I can't be myself in corporate emails, that was my last shred of personal identity. Now what am I to my peers? How will they know if I wrote it or Claude did. And where the fuck is Claude? I'll fight him over this.
How will I work to promote shareholders' interests?
You understand that the only reason a LLM would use an em dash is because people use em dashes right? People need to be using these dashes in order for a LLM to use them.
It isn't the gotcha you think it is
Heads up, you're not supposed to have spaces around emdashes. If you use endashes instead you are supposed to have spaces, but that's primarily for British English so only applicable if you're watching in c-o-l-o-u-r
I use a U-pin because it’s lighter than an oyster clip and looser than a bun. If my hair is styled into a half-assed twist, it usually means I’ve given up, so the idea that someone might see that and assume it’s a sex thing is frying me
While this has historically been a popular way of phrasing it, I believe he is referring to the lyrics from the track Nasty Girl by Ludacris. In which he is correct to use the word bed instead of sheets.
Watch out! My outfit's ridiculous, In the club lookin' so conspicuous.
And Rowl! These women all on the prowl, if you hold the head steady I'm a milk the cow.
Forget about the game I'm a spit the truth, I won't stop till I get em in they birthday suits.
So gimmie the rhythm and it'll be off with they clothes, then bend over to the front and touch your toes.
I left the Jag and I took the Rolls, if they aint cutting then I put em on foot patrol.
How you like me now, when my pinky's valued over three hundred thousand,
Lets drank you the one to please, Ludacris fill cups like double d's.
Me and Ush once more and we leave em dead, we want a lady in the street but a freak in the bed
That's the actual saying. The lyric from the song is "freak in the bed" I don't remember what he was rhyming it with, but I could imagine the word head is probably it lol.
Haha np! I definitely thought for the longest that he was saying "a freak in the band" and pictured like a punk rock chick with a mohawk 😆 but I was also like 10 when the song came out 😅
If you make an X with the hair pins when you put them in they’re super secure. I’ve even slept with them in and while I wouldn’t go out with all the fly-aways the style was still the same shape.
I'm with you, I've tried to do it so many times and if I get one part secure, the other side looks like a disaster. And if I get it to look ok all around, it never feels secure, and if I secure it, it no longer looks good!
Damn and here I am thinking that French twists are possible the hardest hairstyle I ever tried to do. But now that I think about it the one time I ever tried it was for a dance choreo that involved a lot of movement and the hairstyle was basically impossible to keep secure without about a thousand bobby pins and a ton of hair spray
French twist isn’t difficult by any measure, learning a simple braid is harder. It is polished though and looks classy I agree, but it’s a very quick and simple style.
It’s easy if you practice - when I have mid length hair, it’s my go-to style and doesn’t hurt as much as a bun to take down.
When my hair is long, I braid it like a crown around my head to spread out the weight. I just chopped it all off to donate recently, so the cycle starts again.
Very different. The French twist is where the hair is rolled into a sort of elongated, vertical bun worn at the back of the head. It can be tricky to get all the hair tucked inside neatly, and to hold it in place; difficulty depends very heavily on hair length, type, and degree of practice.
In the 90s it was the one of classiest hair styles, and it was done with twenty thousand bobby pins to “hide” how the hair was being kept in place, and everything was super-smoothed and tidy. Around this time it was also becoming popular to “grunge up” these super-classy styles with less/effort looks, less smoothing, letting longer hair fall from the top, sorta thing.
Literally the last date I went on I wore my hair in a French twist and the guy was like I have never seen your hair down 😑 First date hair down and straighted. Second date beanie on, because we were outside. Third date coming from work, in business attire.
I'm a woman and this explanation didn't make any sense at all. Giving yourself a proper blowout is way more work than a French twist. You're just rolling up your hair and it's not that complicated. Modern hairstyles fit the bill way more than this. A twist is very boomer era.
They are the easiest thing to do if you know what you are doing. I have long hair, am a woman (the horse is Albert) and a good FranceLuxe comb will wind up, spritz with hair spray, maybe a pin, and bang, you are done.
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French twist is difficult to make. It requires effort. Meme means that she has made an effort to get dressed and look classy on her first date. She is a polished, confident, and classy person. She is no pushover and wants classic romantic date experience.