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Sundays at Nonna’s Arts 

Sundays at Nonna’s

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My grandmother always frowned At her reflection. “La vecchiaia è brutta,” she would say  With a sigh as she looked down  At her hands, Where she saw deep folds and wrinkles  In her skin,  Like they were one of my grandfather’s shirts, Which she was unable to smooth out.   With resolve, she chose to drain the water  From her eyes into a pot, Where it began to boil The raw dough she kneaded With the valleys of her hands.  She served us dinner with tomato sauce From her veins,…

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The iPhone 12 leaves much to be desired Voices 

The iPhone 12 leaves much to be desired

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With the advent of the a14 chip and the new iPhone 12, you would expect leaps in performance, innovations, and an all-around better product than last years. But what we have seen in the last few days is none of the above. For starters, the improvements with the a14 chip is a negligible increase in graphics processing speed. Also, even though it is based on a 5nm topography, the efficiency has not gone up! This is truly disappointing because the primary reason for shrinking the dye size is for increased…

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Why Francophone Non-Binary Individuals Hate French Voices 

Why Francophone Non-Binary Individuals Hate French

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“Faced with the aberration of ‘inclusive writing’, the French language finds itself in mortal danger,” condemned a statement written by L’Académie de la langue française.    The “inclusive language” they were referring to was writing “directeur(trice)s” rather than “directeurs” in the case of a gender-mixed board of directors, since the masculine form always takes precedence over the feminine form, even when there is only 1 man among 50 women.     If you ever wondered why this grammar rule exists in French, it is because, in 1647, the grammarian Claude Favre…

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Emo, Scene, Goth or Punk? Voices 

Emo, Scene, Goth or Punk?

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If I had a penny every time people confused these genres…   First of all, scene is not a music genre, it’s just a fashion.  It’s characterized by bright colours, whereas emo, which is also a music genre, is often associated with the colour black.     In other words, scene kids will often have brightly dyed hair and neon clothing, which is why they are nicknamed “neon-emos”, whereas emo kids will often be dressed in black and have black hair.     This, of course, are the extremes of the two…

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