mollykatebritton.bsky.social
25. Teacher, reader, writer, survivor. PhD student writing about Alma Mahler. Feminist. Queer. She/her. All views my own. 🏳️🌈🇮🇪✡️
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it exists in the context of all that came before it
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The New Orleans one is a bit clearer - if you lived in that area, at that time, and had a surname that you could make, essentially, sound more French, you would, given the historically French upper class. It's an attitude that still exists today.
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In the eras and areas indicated, 'ah' would be the more common pronunciation for NY at the time, and the French inflection would be more popular, and was actually an indicator of class in that area/era.
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Unfortunately we can't know for sure, unless they have any relatives knocking around today(?). The only one I'm certain on is Gendel because of the Ashkenazic origins - that's the *only* way they would pronounce it. The others, it's safer to go on name trends at the time.
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These ones are from etymology rather than anecdote:
Ottarson would likely be ah-tar-son given his NY origins
Gendel would def have a hard G as it's Jewish (see Hendel, Engel, Mendel)
Boster would probably have the French inflection as that would be more common in the area
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I have heard someone say that name before and they said it like Uzhner (as in 'what's up?' 'the uzhe'-ner)
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C minor or E minor, no in between
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I think I just found my next design project...
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Average experience of womanhood
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Honestly I would just close the tabs or if they're physical move them off the desk. Then start writing, and if you really need them, make yourself find them again.
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If you have time until the deadline, take a walk, decide a narrower focus, and on return put 2/3rds of your research in another room.
If you don't have time, grab whatever is on top of the pile and go for it.
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I can't stop thinking about how he visited Freud to talk about his marital issues and then went home to Alma and said that Freud thinks that Gustav thinks of Alma as his mother... yeah and if all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
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this site does not allow for bean dad
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It was at 130k a few months ago so there is progress! We've just progressed backwards today lmao
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For some reason it still looks like this. The pages themselves are fine so I might just redo the contents page once this round of editing is done. :/
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It's so aggressively Hallmark but in the best way
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It's called Hannukah on Rye and it's about two competing deli owners coming together over the holidays
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This is such an elise canon event
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Misread that at first and thought you were quoting the poem
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My ex wrote a terrible poem about a girl called 'Holly' who he swore was absolutely not me despite her having all of my physical attributes and life story, and how he gave her the best orgasm of her life and she'd never have it that good again.
Reader, I did not finish once when we dated.
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mine has lesbians
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'why don't young people want to have kids any more?'
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Me, an Alma Mahler researcher, reading this