What we talk about when we talk about the unreasonable effectiveness

Without context ATM could be Asynchronous Transfer Mode or automated teller machine.

At the moment

I remember that the brother of my grandmother who fought in ww1 called it simply "the war" ("sa gherra" in his dialect/language).

English is not my language, is the headline grammatically correct?

It's a little awkward, but what it's trying to communicate doesn't really work well in one sentence.

As a native US English speaker, I would probably write something like "Austria opens the world's sixth longest railway tunnel: 27 year long project arrives on schedule and under budget."

That's a long headline, though.

Not by a long shot.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Me too! I'm about 40% through.

According to the quote investigator website, Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote is dubious.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/06/20/books/

And December is the tenth month of the year

It's funny, but not true. I apologze for the link in Italian.

https://www.ilpost.it/2025/04/22/avellino-promosso-morte-di-...

Get out of here with your "facts" - this is the internet and every meme is obviously true.

The example is the incipit of "The dangerous inheritance" by Izola Forrester

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/75383/pg75383-images.ht...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izola_Forrester

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