"Grok" is from a book called Stranger in a Strange Land. It's... interesting but not my favorite. You might read it though if for no other reason than to understand the word haha

I think it's called Jablinski.

Why has the Africa Cup of Nations been held so many more times than the others?

Elaborate please?

I think the adjustment to the new format will make for a few deep dark horse runs from underdog teams.

The American system may not be terrible from a sporting perspective, but the politics is awful. Top-flight teams can be run poorly for years with basically no consequences, and if your team is uncompetitive then the fans just have to deal with that until your team fixes itself. In a pyramid system, your team at least drops to a tier where it will be competitive again.

POCH IN

You have no idea how much skinny guys hear this haha. I'm sure you mean well by it but at the end of the day you're making light of what is a struggle for a lot of people.

With that being said, if the financials are there then yeah OP should be building some muscle. I personally needed to be on 3000 calories a day to gain any weight at all. But I swear gaining 20 pounds (8 or 9 kgs) turned my dating life around unbelievably fast.

Ah, that makes more sense thanks

I've been feeling like it's been getting better, not worse. But maybe I'm not engaging in the posts where my thoughts are seen as controversial anymore.

Great point! I considered that when I started learning and have spoken to it with my colleagues here who are also learning the language as well as Basotho- native speakers. Basotho who speak English fluently mostly agree that English has a broader vocabulary.

I've observed that Sesotho relies on tone and emphasis on parts of words more than English. There isn't a whole lot of writing in Sesotho so I can imagine that the language hasn't needed to develop ways to be descriptive that couldn't be delivered with one's voice.

Moreover, when I speak with Basotho that aren't very proficient in English, I notice they very freely use words that a native English speaker would consider extreme, such as "perfect," for mundane things because there is no explicit difference in Sesotho between "perfect" and merely "very good."

The video I linked gets into it a bit that English is helped by being an amalgamation of several languages, and thus inherits multiple ways of describing a concept.

Unfortunately I do love those guys when they're not drowning our discord call with "RANGE!!! MAGE!!! POT NOW POT NOW!!!" so I will have to decline your offer. I wish you all the best in your pursuits.