biggujo

One day I needed to choose a new nickname. I’ve had different nicknames in the past, none of them stuck. They were either too complicated, ugly, or hard to pronounce. I’ve identified some of the rules that I found useful and can recommend today to everyone: Consider only [a-zA-Z0-9] ASCII symbols. There should be no special symbols, such as underscores or asterisks. They are relics to me. It also excludes diacritics. Even though most modern environments accept non-ASCII symbols and diacrticis,…

Yesterday I was attending a language course. At one point we were asked to rewrite a poorly written letter in groups. What could go wrong? The communication. The letter contained a sentence “We went to picnic.” We needed to make it polished. We had a time limit, so I quickly suggested rewriting it as “We went on an evening picnic with our company.” The group was startled by my evening picnic suggestion. How could you hang out in the evening? Should be impossible. You could watch a movie, walk a…

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