#eloquence — Public Fediverse posts
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I spent 2+ hours on the phone with Freedom Scientific because I cannot get #JAWS #screenReader to figure out when to read with the #English (#US) voice and when to read with the #Spanish voice. There are three options for language detection: markup, text-based, and AI. I found a Spanish voice (Juan) that I was okay with, and I can manually switch, but that's a *lot* of extra work.
They tried to tell me that the #eloquence voice had all the #languages, but we couldn't make that work, either.
I'm trying to take Elementary Spanish because I need two semesters of an intermediate level language for my communications major.
This exhausted me for the rest of today.
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ORDRE TU (Gabrielle Althen)
ORDRE TU Rose qui me regardez, présence sans son nom, rose penchée qui me tendez le monde, vous tremblez. Et je vous prie encore, silencieuse très nue, mon admirable en vain, de penser pour moi qui pense mal à vous. * Enveloppe du silence, mutisme du solstice, le rayonnement pourtant d'une rose dans l'or absent, où l'éloquence écoute. * Signe, cette rose, toute seule contre un ciel abandonné des ors mortels de l'automne. Mes mots se sont enfuis, que l'opéra […]https://arbrealettres.wordpress.com/2026/08/31/ordre-tu-gabrielle-althen/
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But, as we have seen, many people try to conceal their poverty of thought under a flood of verbiage.
[Aber freilich suchen viele Schriftsteller gerade unter dem Wortüberfluß ihre Gedankenarmuth zu verbergen.]Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher
Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. 2, ch. 23 “On Authorship and Style [Über Schriftstellerei und Stil],” § 283 (1851) [tr. Saunders (1890)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/schopenhauer-arthur/…
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To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.
[Viele Worte machen, um wenige Gedanken mitzutheilen, ist überall das untrügliche Zeichen der Mittelmäßigkeit; das des eminenten Kopfes dagegen, viele Gedanken in wenige Worte zu schließen.]Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher
Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. 2, ch. 23 “On Authorship and Style [Über Schriftstellerei und Stil],” § 283 (1851) [tr. Saunders (1890)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/schopenhauer-arthur/…
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