Don’t worry, the game was rigged from the start: it’s mostly all just PayToWin bullshit!

They probably meant fags as word for cigarettes

I scan over the descriptions to check for irregularities or significant identifiers. So your yellow lake would be noteworthy to me or if a person is described with long hair. I don’t mentally imagine a long hair person, but I try to remember it, so if later somebody sees a long haired person in the distance I know which character is referenced.

And yes if I don’t recognise anything noteworthy, I don’t make a mental note, it’s just a normal lake, nothing important to remember.

But that isn’t always working out for me. In Neverwhere the Marquis de Carabas is described as being pitch black. Which I fully didn’t get and so was wondering why all the fan art made him so black that you can’t recognise features. Because that was how he was described and I missed that important fact.

Gemma is wrong. Or at least I have never heard it as one combined word. As the examples themselves show, it is normally used as adjective+noun. And while you can combine it, I have never seen that till now.

And to OPs question: I don’t know any such word in the German language. It might be a regional thing or it might just be something Vonnegut invented himself.

From Wikipedia:

International Workers’ Day, also known as Labour Day in some countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement and occurs every year on 1 May, or the first Monday in May.

[…]

The 1 May date was chosen by the American Federation of Labor to commemorate a general strike in the United States, which had begun on 1 May 1886 and culminated in the Haymarket affair four days later.

Exactly, I’m of the same opinion.

If their seniority is worth anything, they will also have merit to prove it. And too often I experienced they reached a position not because but rather despite their own lacking merit.

It’s perfectly fine to not like it and as long as you don’t force your view on your daughter, you are not a bad person.

But you sure as hell are a bad person if you don’t accept your daughters stance. Because as long as it is known to and accepted by all participants, it’s nobodies business but theirs. Nobody gets hurt by it? Nobody should interfere.

Not true at all. Of course we also have a double s (look under Current Usage) in some words. “gewusst” is one of those words.