If it feels weird, it’s probably because most people who speak English use a neutered gender term to describe a spider: ‘it’.

Not too many people use it for pets like dogs or cats, or even zoo animals like… penguins, because we distinguish the male from the female.

In the English language, it’s quite difficult for an common person to determine whether a spider, a fly, or a cockroach is a male or female.


Side Note: It doesn’t feel as weird in several other languages (including Arabic, French, and Spanish) because the pronoun is embedded in the language.

If you come across someone who speaks English as a second language, you might catch them using a pronoun when talking about a spider… or inadvertently using the wrong pronoun for your pet cat.

Refer to three different examples below:
Arabic: عنكبوت يترصد; the (male) spider is lurking
French: une araignée; the (female) spider
Spanish: una araña; the (female) spider

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No, you wouldn’t, because ‘I’ follows a preposition in this case; the preposition (or words that introduce information to the reader) is ‘with’.

The correct sentence is, “Hey, Tim, [do you] want to come to the milk bar with me?”

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‘And’ is the first word of this sentence.
‘But’ can be used in this context.
So long, everybody!

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Here is an infographic version of the Adobe report (2012).

(The original source can be found here.)

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This is true. They are “well-positioned”… on websites other than their own!

The This Old Marketing podcast’s co-host Joe Pulizzi mentioned this in his commentary of the article:

Buzzfeed […] built this multi-million dollar valuation on the back of the fact that this wonderful social audience, this large social audience on Facebook, Twitter, and now Snapchat. And they were able to monetize that with the type of content that you can expect from Buzzfeed […] They are freaking out [now] because their audiences are owned by other people […] and you’re not going to be able to reach your audience the way that you used to, because [those social media platforms] are going to make you pay for advertising; they’re not going to let you go through that organically.

This is what happens when (as Robert Rose and Joe Pulizzi mentioned in their previous podcast) “renting your audience” out to other platforms is a core part of your business model. When a company leverages someone else’s platform over which they have no control, it gets quite difficult to meet your projections, because no one has a clue what could happen in the future (both in terms of competition for advertising, or the content marketing industry in general).

As a result, they are pushing a new form of marketing hard: email.

As you can see below, they now want people to sign up for their newsletter.

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“She’s Always in My Hair” is one of Prince’s most beloved b-sides. It was originally released on the Around the World in a Day single “Raspberry Beret”. (It was later re-released on the “Paisley Park” single.) Like much of the material recorded for Around the World in a Day, the song finds Prince blending psychedelic rock influences into his sound.

Despite its b-side status, it grew to be a fan favorite via its inclusion on The Hits/The B-Sides in addition to its status as a staple in Prince’s live shows from 1993 to 2015, as well as D'Angelo’s iconic cover from 1997.

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Schilling tweeted an image in August 2015 that contained an image of Hitler with the following text:

It’s said only 5-10% of Muslims are extremists. In 1940 only 7% of Germans were Nazis. How’d that go?

The former Major Leaguer also added that, “The math is staggering when you get to true [numbers].”

The meme was swiftly deleted by Schilling, but was re-uploaded via screenshot for everyone to see. Shortly thereafter, Schilling was suspended from commentary duties by ESPN.

Side Note:

In his analysis of the meme, Politifact contributor Jon Greenberg concludes that the statement is Mostly False. He references the book, The Nazi Party 1919-1945: A complete history and writes that the 7 percent figure “might be close for the more limited fraction of Nazi supporters who formally joined the party, but it ignores the Nazis’ electoral domination in 1932 and the popularity that came after the first military victories in 1939,” which results in a much larger figure in the 35% range.

With regards to Muslim extremists, Greenberg uses the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Homeland Security Project to indicate that 0.01% are Muslim extremists.

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The comment reads as follows:

A man is a man no matter what they call themselves. I don’t care what they are, who they sleep with, men’s room was designed for the penis , women’s not so much. Now you need laws telling us differently? Pathetic

(Retrieved from FTW)

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If by “post” you mean “share,” then this is not true.

Later, he admitted that he shared the photo, but it was meant be a post that “ONLY [his] friends could see”.

(The Facebook post has been taken down.)

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