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"Painstacking" is starting to look right to me.

Most of Jessa's "charming" anecdotes seem to involve the boys throwing scripture in people's faces and being judgmental little shits. The family must be so proud.

Does she ever! I know lot of people, even those who attended real schools, don't know the difference between serial adjectives and cumulative adjectives, but many folks pick it up from, um, reading. "Young, adult ladies" is particularly egregious. You can even hear that no comma is needed. Jill, honey, if you're a lurker, here's a primer: young adult ladies = no comma young, misguided ladies = comma

It's m-y-s-e-l-f. Sorry, couldn't resist. I'll show myself to the prayer closet.

Former minister's wife here. They need to using their house for ministry purposes if they're taking advantage of the sweet household tax deduction. It doesn't take much to satisfy the IRS, though. My husband was only a music minister, so he didn't do much counseling. We'd invite new choir or orchestra members or other volunteers over for dinner and have one or two meetings a year at our place. We could write off not only our house payment but also utilities, lawn care, repairs, even cleaning supplies. DISCLAIMER: I'm not defending the American tax code, but we felt like we'd have been dumb not to take advantage. We never got audited, but I would have been ready with every single receipt. Sorry, topic? Some if not most of those renovations and new furnishings are going to give the Seewalds a nice tax break. With all those kids, I bet they're going to be sitting pretty next January!

OK, but there's nothing ungrammatical about "I and my team." Putting I second is just a convention...borne out of politeness, I think.

I just nearly died of secondhand embarrassment over that ridiculous hat. And you just know he's so proud of it.

Hundreds if not thousands of tracts? Geez, it's a shame there no scientific way to keep track of how many tracts you give out. Guess we'll never know.

Fair point. I apologize, @Ljohnson1987 , for suggesting a value judgment that wasn't there. As others have suggested, I've encountered multiple variations of Ken and a fair number of feminine names produced by adding -a to a masculine one. I'm also one of those people who consciously avoided choosing baby names that were too trendy.

How is Kenna a less valid name than McKenna? People like what they like. Personally I find it odd to start a given name with "Mc," but that's just me I'm pretty sure the baroness was safe with Max haha! He's widely considered a gay-coded character.

Of course the baby was playing near a shelf of binders with nary a toy in sight. Of course he wasn't napping on a schedule. Of course no one perceived he was exhausted and put him down in a suitable sleeping space. Of course Jill unselfconsciously posted this with no clue how bad it looks.

(and my other angels) She literally put them in parentheses.

There's a difference between a dialectal variation and "incorrect" language. Certainly it's fine if someone consciously chooses to set aside the pronunciation or grammar they grew up with. But to imply that people who use a dialect do so because they don't know better is a little problematic.

That is.... bizarre.

...walking on gravel. One of the more disturbing things I learned from the parade footage is that there are two of those hideous flag shirts.