I think you’re confusing Harlot with Harlequin.

Harlot entered English through Chaucer in the 1300s and meant “vagabond” pretty much as far back as we can trace it, where it gets lost in Middle English / Old French.

The clown character of Arrleccino, ellided to Harlequin in English, was popularized by 1500s comedian Zan Ganassa.

Harlequin and other Commedia dell’Arte characters evolved over the next 300 years to eventually become pantomime, which wasn’t really codified as a discipline until the 1700s by which point the conventions of Commedia weren’t as prescriptive.

Around this time (1780s-1820s) the rise of performers like Joseph Grimaldi, who would participate in Harlequinades during Pantomimes would popularize what we would call “clowns” in modern parlance today.

source: I trained as a clown under the Gaulier style, with some experience as a Pierrot clown before that and as a Bouffon clown later.

he wrote and directed the musical Hairspray and the movie Pink Flamingos. Both of which are worth it if you don’t have a predisposition to hating campy, lgbtq+ or musicals.

please don’t associate me with deviants and reprobates like cops

Does this mean every second definition of a word in the dictionary is also a homonym? How different does it need to be?

“homonym” == “same-name”, so, yes by definition. it has the same name as another definition.

didn’t the French president use the wrong le/la/les for an animal recently?

I’m british and that’s exactly how I looked as a teen tbh except with baggy jeans

it’s war. pissing people off is par for course.

vs the wolf furries of Caesars legion

What about the Uniroyal tire, the Lansing Lugnut , and the JK welding screw?

bigger than a school bus describes a Bodega, the eiffel tower, Mexico, Jupiter and the entirety of the universe.

yeah but you’re not going to make me feel sympathy for JP Morgan Chase.

They should’ve cut back on their avocado toast if they wanted to run a successful bank

will try this out when back from vacation!

personally I think there’s actually such a big difference in “game” between short and long form they should be called different things.

Once I got the hang of game when i was on a house Harold team, things really took off for my long form ability.

thank you!

she is very sweet but also, yes, she has a mouth on her and is quite demanding

we kept the name from the shelter as it suits her, we assume it’s a Homeward Bound reference.

if they’re using class=“card” then they’re likely using something like bootstrap in which the CSS is largely handled for you anyway

love that you included a photo of a famously reclusive person

as someone with a personality, let me tell you a lot of Americans reallllllly don’t like you to have one at work. Especially if, like me, you are from another, non-American culture.

I am kind, funny, conversational with people - I ask about their weekends, I say good things positively, I say bad things seriously but gently. I am constantly in trouble for not “leading with the executive voice” in meetings.

There are a lot of other ways in - hence the disagreement.

In my city in the Southern USA, “game” is rarely if ever taught (except in the context of short form) and formats like the Harold are almost non-existant.

I have friends in the scene who tell me they’re happier without any game in their work at all.

There is a large chunk of narrative or similarly structured (montages, Spokanes, la rondes…) work