Javi

Haha you’re not wrong!

I think a lot of people are going through similar if not worse, but I appreciate the sentiment nonetheless, thanks mate.

Fast approaching burnout tbh.

I work for an American firm in the tech sector. They’ve become enamoured with LLMs, and fired most technical staff around me (both UK and US based)… Now they ask what the holdup is regarding everything everyone else used to do. Eventually they realised they may have fired too many people, and so brought on a contracting firm to supply me with personnel needed. Meaning I need to train up 30 or so Indians remotely on systems I never really used in the first place.

Got a week off planned in Shropshire next week though. So just counting down the hours before I can escape the chaos.

+1 on the solar panel and a/c suggestion.

If you can’t afford to install central a/c. A portable unit will set you back £300 odd at Argos, and easily cool a room down (like an art studio, for example). just make sure it has a compressor or lists BTU measurements… otherwise it’s probably a water cooler in a trench coat, rather than true Aircon, and the British climate doesnt allow water coolers to work all that effectively.

I recommend them to lots of people who rent or can’t afford the renovation costs associated with A/C etc, and most are more than happy with results

“An EU” follows the rule @cyberwolfie put forward.

when saying EU; the word starts with an E sound phonetically… Indicating it should be An rather than A.

I wasn’t aware the rule was based on phonetics; I was one of the many under the impression that the actual lettering that is the defining article (much like OP). I think it’s due to being monolingual. English being the only language I know… a lot of the languages rules are known subconsciously.

IE: I knew it’s ‘a one’; rather than ‘an one’… But couldn’t have told you why, other than it doesn’t sound right.

Edit: why was this downvoted? Is admitting you didn’t know something considered bad now?

Europe is an exception to the rule as are others. As a native speaker I’d never even noticed this; but An European immediately sounds wrong; just like putting ‘an’ instead of ‘a’ UFO/unit/one etc… sounds wrong.

English eh, Why would it be consistent?