just learned the word “neoyorkina/o”, y.. prepared to be sick of me!
todo lo que yo voy a decir. 🙂↕️
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learn kr/éyòl for me, and i just might take you seriously! lmaoo
(“might” bc you don’t get a pat on the back for picking up another language)
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Stoney problem
Resentment
Made to crawl. On hands and knees. Under the jeering taunts of the trusties. Paid for their betrayal of one of their own for a few scraps of favour. Dog eat dog. And that corporal with his cane .. alongside Lang .. the constant threat. The savagery of the thrashing had eased. But for no reason he’d lash out. His target always Lang’s bare arse. The thong had slid up his crack. The…
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Grave
Lang – Condemned
He was beyond thought. He ought to be making out what was going on. He had enough pressure on him to need to be making a plan, devise a strategy for survival. His death sentence has been deferred .. Why? Transported to this facility .. by the look of his travel companions, some maximum security penitentiary, hard labour camp .. What for? It shouldn’t have surprised him to get…
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Investigators raid offices of former French minister Jack Lang over Epstein ties
Jack Lang Epstein Investigation: Raid on Former Minister’s Offices Explained
In a significant development in the transatlantic fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, French judicial authorities executed a raid on the offices of Jack Lang, the former Minister of Culture and long-time head of the Arab World Institute (IMA), on February 16, 2026. The operation, conducted by France’s National…
Investigators raid offices of former French minister Jack Lang over Epstein ties
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That’s a GREAT question!! I see that your favourite word is “tangentially,” which also happened to be mine for a while!
As a youth, I was quite fond of “phenomenal,” “quintessential,” and “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.” (Sorry, had to show off.)
However, at this moment, I’d have to give a shout-out to “reincarnation.” I’ve written a post on here, before, about how nicely and neatly “reincarnation” is composed of its respective parts.
Thank you for this wonderful question! You made my day brighter, and my linguist’s heart sing. :]
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Confident
Lang – Condemned
They’d chosen well. Some punk who simply resented Lang for his name. Who hated Lang because he himself was not born so well. Lang could defend himself till the cows came home … he’d been a soldier, nothing to do with his family’s deeds .. Fuckers like this prick would never hear. “Born with a silver spook up his arse” .. reason enough to torture Lang on this cross. Getting his…
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How the Epstein scandal brought down Jack Lang: ‘Everyone knew he never paid for anything’
How the Epstein Scandal Brought Down Jack Lang: ‘Everyone Knew He Never Paid for Anything’
Published: February 10, 2026 | Topic: Political Scandal, Elite Networks, Accountability
The abrupt end of Jack Lang’s distinguished 13-year tenure at the helm of Paris’s prestigious Arab World Institute (Institut du Monde Arabe, IMA) in February 2026 was not caused by policy disputes or artistic…
How the Epstein scandal brought down Jack Lang: 'Everyone knew he never paid for anything’
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Jack Lang, a central node in France-Morocco power networks
Jack Lang: The Central Node in France-Morocco Power Networks
The sudden resignation of Jack Lang as President of the Arab World Institute (IMA) in February 2026, following the revelation of his financial ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and a subsequent French judicial investigation, sent shockwaves through the intertwined worlds of European diplomacy, cultural patronage, and North…
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How I Imagine She-Ra’s Name Was Created
- Okay, so, we’re making a new hero
- And this one’s a GIRL! She’s a GIRL HERO!
- That’s a big deal. Let’s emphasize her gender.
- Girl hero, girl hero…
- “Hero”… “he” is a man’s pronoun!
- “She-ro!” A girl hero! A she-ro!
- “She-ro?” That doesn’t sound quite right. Sounds kind of stupid.
- Hmm
- Wait
- In some languages, words end with -o if they’re masculine, and -a if they’re feminine.
- Like Spanish! A pretty boy is “bonito,” but a pretty girl is “bonita!”
- Hence… “she-ro…”
- … “She-Ra.”
- Brilliant! That’s the right name for a girl hero.
- Because it means “Hero (But Girl)”
- “She-Ra :)”
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Ensign Lang and Timothy Lang: the Untold story
Today on “‘Voyager’s’ (lack of) Continuity,” we discuss Ensign Lang. A woman in Season 3 and early Season 4; then a POC man from mid-Season 4 onward, with the first name of Timothy.
The female Ensign Lang (Deborah Levin) plays a significant role in “Displaced,” Season 3. She appeared before that in “Blood Fever,” and afterwards in “Year of Hell” (Season 4.) She was seen operating Tuvok’s security station in his absence more than once, indicating that she was a Security Officer.
The man pictured above (played by Sylvester Foster) first appeared as a security guard in “Scientific Method.” He appeared as a Security Officer many more times, finally being identified as “Crewman Lang” in “Warhead,” at the end of Season 5.
Then, in “Imperfection” (early Season 7), Tech. Timothy Lang appears in a list of Voyager’s casualties.
Memory Alpha presumes that “Tech Timothy Lang” is the same man as “Crewman Lang.” But this isn’t confirmed, as far as I know.
How many Langs we got on this ship anyhow?
Lang is a common surname. But Voyager’s relatively-small crew is comprised of people from all over Earth, plus a few other planets. That lowers the probability of the same surname appearing twice by coincidence. Still not implausible though.
Since it’s the 24th Century, one might think that there’s one Lang who underwent some physical transformation. Lang could be transgender (and transracial?). Lang could be an alien who “regenerates” like in “Dr. Who.” But if so, then Lang transformed more than once, because in “Relativity” (Season 5), we’re shown that this man was already a crewmember in Voyager’s second year in the Delta Quadrant.
…however, he is never called “Lang” in that episode. His name is never clarified in that episode at all.
This opens up another possibility: this man’s last name was originally something else. Then, prior to “Warhead,” he married Ensign Lang, and took his wife’s surname. It’s the 24th Century after all.
I never cared for the idea that the ten main characters were the only ones having life-changing experiences, while the rest of the crew just pressed buttons for seven years. I like to think that the Langs had a full story playing out over the course of Voyager’s journey. They fell in love on Voyager, and got married some time before “Warhead.” Timothy wanted to leave his old surname behind, for whatever reason. (Maybe he had issues with his family; or maybe he was an orphan assigned a surname that never meant anything to him; who knows.) Then, some time prior to “Imperfection,” Timothy died. Maybe he was a casualty in “Equinox,” or maybe he died in the battle against the Borg in “Unimatrix Zero.”
Or maybe two boring humans with the same common surname boarded Voyager in “Caretaker.” And pushed buttons for seven years.
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Tensions
Lang – Condemned
The din pressed against him from all sides, a suffocating, vibrating wall. It wasn’t just loud, it was total. A sensory flood that drowned out everything. His sanity faltered. His will buckled. His mind reeled, slipping toward a frantic, animal panic as the shrieks kept coming, kept rising, kept tearing through him with merciless precision.
Would it never end?
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Mạ people from the Lang Biang Plateau region of Vietnam
French vintage postcard
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Isolation
Lang – Condemned
Lang didn’t need any confirmation for the cruelty of this regime. He’d felt it on his own body. A barbaric flogging, shown in public, just for some photo-op. And again, electrocuting these prisoners .. cruelly punishing them for speaking out, no less than you would have expected from tough-nuts like these … And they’d kept Lang apart from them, separated. Because he was worse…
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Hard nuts
Lang – Condemned
He’d not had much chance to consider it. It had come as a surprise when told he wasn’t being executed immediately, his ordeal was being deferred. Sent to some “secure facility”, for some indefinite period. No one was going to tell him why, not scum like him. Only when seeing the company he was going to keep .. these tattooed hard-nuts, broken noses, thugs .. only now did it hit…
