I really do wish we’d cotton on to it and stop pointing the guns inward. I’m getting a little tired of fighting for the basic fate of my country.
Please, let this be the brief upheaval of the Principate followed by a period of stability and peace, not the long upheaval of the Crisis of the Third Century!
I swear I do more than correct idioms, but I think you mean “cotton on,” which means to come to understand. To “cotton to” something is to come to like it. They’re bizarrely similar, so it’s easy to mistake.
Have you ever read any Asimov? He modeled his whole Foundation series on the fall of the Roman empire. Impressively insightful extrapolations based on what, at times, feel like the decline of the West. That’s myopic, of course, as the whole intention of all this misinformation is to make us feel that way. At the end of the day, I know I got at least you and some fine lemmings here that see the whole picture.
I loved Asimov in high school! Not only did I devour his short stories and the Foundation series, but his histories of Rome as well! I haven’t read him in forever. I think I still have a book of his letters kicking around somewhere. He had such a pleasantly simple style for discussing very advanced concepts.
And his commentaries on Shakespeare and the Bible.
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I really do wish we’d cotton on to it and stop pointing the guns inward. I’m getting a little tired of fighting for the basic fate of my country.
Please, let this be the brief upheaval of the Principate followed by a period of stability and peace, not the long upheaval of the Crisis of the Third Century!
I swear I do more than correct idioms, but I think you mean “cotton on,” which means to come to understand. To “cotton to” something is to come to like it. They’re bizarrely similar, so it’s easy to mistake.
lmao, username checks out! I’ll change it, thank you!
Looked it up, this is probably what I meant. How bizarre that both combined mean what I meant, but ‘to’ alone has an entirely different meaning.
Have you ever read any Asimov? He modeled his whole Foundation series on the fall of the Roman empire. Impressively insightful extrapolations based on what, at times, feel like the decline of the West. That’s myopic, of course, as the whole intention of all this misinformation is to make us feel that way. At the end of the day, I know I got at least you and some fine lemmings here that see the whole picture.
I loved Asimov in high school! Not only did I devour his short stories and the Foundation series, but his histories of Rome as well! I haven’t read him in forever. I think I still have a book of his letters kicking around somewhere. He had such a pleasantly simple style for discussing very advanced concepts.
And his commentaries on Shakespeare and the Bible.