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Definitely, although I find it hard to think of Shady, and even Andrew, as other than that, but it's more a problem on my end about being too familiar with (and unhappy about) DC's stance at the time about non-white characters.

Fair enough, GL. Any kind of counter-stance in favor of diversity is a good one.

BTW, your favorite Legionnaire might be considered a coded South Asian character, with a name like Salu.

Funnily enough, I always considered her Spanish, although south Asian would definitely work for her.

I don't know if they ever went down that path of ethnicities too much in the Threeboot after changing Thom to be black instead of caucasian, but I wondered about Salu, as they seemed to make her ethnically a bit more ambiguous, and they gave Tinya a bit more color in her skin than they had in the past.

Tagalog (language in one of the regions of Philippines) has a vocabulary with many loan words from Spanish. That helped me get to the Spanish basics really fast

I can see that - I remember being confused as a child about the fact that a lot of the Filipinos that I knew were pretty fluent in Spanish until I was educated about the history.

Some of the central region languages are very, very, very similar to Spanish

As for me, Tagalog has different grammatical rules, but the similar vocabulary helped a lot

While Germanic languages are considered easier to learn from English, a lot of language courses insist theirs are easy as part of their marketing.

And some swear by immersion. Here, spend a week in this monastery or nunnery where they speak ONLY your target language…

Or language tapes while you sleep. Learn Mandarin while you snooze!

And have dreams of cranky old Chinese grandmas screaming at you!

Those are some funky dreams.

That was my reality growing up!

No surprise we've a poor sleepers thread on here.

That deserves to be bumped up

I really should. I'll look back on some of that lack of sleep as a golden age. Although not all. It's good we have threads like that to support each other. Places we can drop in and out of with no pressure to keep it going. Just somewhere to share on some topics, which can be a big help by itself.

Kinda like the trouble alert it rings when someone needs it, otherwise no pressure

Rings quietly, so as not to wake others up.

Peace and quiet are conducive to a feeling of serenity. Even temporary serenity is a nectar to be savored.

Serenity Now!

Is that a demand for another Firefly related film?

Fireflies is the name of a song too

That song is terrible, in my humble opinion.

Both can be true.

It is a demand for the Firefly series and that song is, indeed, terrible,

I agree, both are true

Surely some people like it?