What does 'lazy Ls' mean in the following sentence: 'Augustus and Isaac were sitting on the floor in gaming chairs shaped like lazy Ls, staring up at a gargantuan television' ? From the 'The Fault in Our Stars' by John Green. Thanks in advance for any of your answers.

Could someone explain what "there is something to recommend" means in the following text from the "The fault in our stars" by John Green: "Throughout the book, she refers to herself as the side effect, which is just totally correct. Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible. So as the story goes on, she gets sicker, the treatments and disease racing to kill her, and her mom falls in love with this Dutch tulip trader Anna calls the Dutch Tulip Man. The Dutch Tulip Man has lots of money and very eccentric ideas about how to treat cancer, but Anna thinks this guy might be a con man and possibly not even Dutch, and then just as the possibly Dutch guy and her mom are about to get married and Anna is about to start this crazy new treatment regimen involving wheatgrass and low doses of arsenic, the book ends right in the middle of a I know it’s a very literary decision and everything and probably part of the reason I love the book so much, but there is something to recommend a story that ends. And if it can’t end, then it should at least continue into perpetuity like the adventures of Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem’s platoon." Is it something like "there is a reason to recommend"? Thanks in advance for all the answers!

Ma destination de voyage préférée Si on me demande où je voudrais partir en vacances demain, je choisirai l'Afrique. Ce continent beau et un peu dangereux m'attire depuis plusieurs années et pour des raisons bien personnelles. À la première place, j'aime beaucoup la nature et les animaux. L'Afrique est la patrie des êtres les plus majestueux de la Terre - les éléphants. J'avais l'honneur de connaître un représentant de leur famille qui s'appelait Artaïda et vivait dans le zoo de Sofia. Notre rencontre a exercé une très grande influence sur moi et a provoqué mon désir de savoir plus sur son espèce. Plus tard, j'ai eu la possibilité de lire beaucoup sur la vie politique et sociale des pays africains lors de mon travail pour une entreprise internationale. J'ai compris à quel point l'Afrique a souvent souffert à cause de certaines décisions prises par les pays développés. Mais j'ai aussi découvert qu'il y a des gens qui sont prêts même à risquer leur vie pour contribuer au développement de l'Afrique. Un tel homme est Laurence Anthony qui a créé la réserve naturelle Thula Thula en Afrique de Sud. De cette façon, il a pris part à la préservation d'une partie importante de la faune sauvage locale. Parfois, je rêve de visiter exactement cet endroit. Et même si très souvent, je ne me sens pas réellement prête pour une telle aventure, je suis heureuse seulement grâce au fait que Thula Thula et ses habitants existent.

Hi all! Have you seen the new artificial intelligence ChatGPT? https://chat.openai.com/ What do you think about that? It answers questions and can even check a text for mistakes.

Could someone explain what "squatter" means in this text, and provide an entry from a dictionary, if possible? "It seemed as though Won-tolla were fawning on them to come ashore; and “Turn and take hold!” said the leader of the dholes. The entire Pack flung themselves at the shore, threshing and squattering through the shoal water, till the face of the Waingunga was all white and torn, and the great ripples went from side to side, like bow-waves from a boat." The extract is from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. Thanks in advance for any answer!

Could someone explain what is the meaning of the expression 'throw casts' in the following extract from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling? "You will remember that Mowgli had left the village with the heavy weight of Shere Khan’s raw hide on his shoulders, while Akela and Gray Brother trotted behind, so that the triple trail was very clearly marked. Presently Buldeo came to where Akela, as you know, had gone back and mixed it all up. Then he sat down, and coughed and grunted, and made little casts round and about into the Jungle to pick it up again, and all the time he could have thrown a stone over those who were watching him." I have the Bulgarian translation of the text and, there, this is translated as moving in different directions. But the dictionary doesn't have such meaning of the word 'cast'. Could it be rather a turning of the eye in a particular direction ? Thanks in advance for the answers!

Could someone explain what is "the rail of the Mall" in this extract from The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling? “Yonder,” said Purun Bhagat, breasting the lower slopes of the Sewaliks,bw where the cacti stand up like seven-branched candlesticks—“yonder I shall sit down and get knowledge”; and the cool wind of the Himalayas whistled about his ears as he trod the road that led to Simla.1 The last time he had come that way it had been in state, with a clattering cavalry escort, to visit the gentlest and most affable of Viceroys; and the two had talked for an hour together about mutual friends in London, and what the Indian common folk really thought of things. This time Purun Bhagat paid no calls, but leaned on the rail of the Mall, watching that glorious view of the Plains spread out forty miles below, till a native Mohammedan policeman told him he was obstructing traffic; and Purun Bhagat salaamed reverently to the Law, because he knew the value of it, and was seeking for a Law of his own." Thanks in advance for any answer :)

Could someone tell me what "laid clothes" / "lay clothes" mean? The extract below is from the Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. I also heard that expression in Alf, which means that it is not old-fashioned (in the series where Alf meets Larry). At last he went to England on a visit, and had to pay enormous sums to the priests when he came back; for even so high-caste a Brahmin as Purun Dass lost caste by crossing the black sea. In London he met and talked with every one worth knowing—men whose names go all over the world—and saw a great deal more than he said. He was given honorary degrees by learned universities, and he made speeches and talked of Hindu social reform to English ladies in evening dress, till all London cried, “This is the most fascinating man we have ever met at dinner since cloths were first laid.” Thanks in advance for your answer!

Could someone tell me what is the meaning of the verb "trollop" in this piece of poetry: "We haven’t a camelty tune of our own To help us trollop along, But every neck is a hairy trombone (Rtt-ta-ta-ta! is a hairy trombone!) " This extract is from Her Majesty's Servants in the First Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. Thanks in advance for your help!