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Literally A Person posted:God how I long to be one of the important bi's who make the decisions about bi-ness. Homora Gaykemi posted:that's bi in the sky thinking
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My Lovely Horse posted:By now every single thing that ever existed must have its own article panically claiming IT'S NEVER COMING BACK because it's how you make new headlines innit. finally millennials will stop getting blamed for everything
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Blockade posted:Kubernetes, but for agriculture. haveblue posted:agriculture is tricky to do securely, almost everything requires root
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univbee posted:Do what my dad used to do: get on really well with the right butcher so they're willing to break the law for you, and do deer carcass body exchanges late at night in an empty parking lot like you're in the mafia getting rid of a body.
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Dont Touch ME posted:Bad faith is like when you overcook the bread and you think "gosh this is burnt, I can't eat it" so you give it to a homeless shelter. Disingenuous is like when you're learning another language that uses an unfamiliar consonant and instead of thinking how to position your mouth, you give up on learning the language.
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My favorite thing about Danish is that the native speakers don't even understand it. I've had to explain consonants to other Danes on multiple occasions, and I myself only recently learned that the particular glottal stop used for emphasis in Danish does not exist in any other language.
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Rust Martialis posted:Someone's tried Danish Usually the bigger risk on pastries is undercooking them
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May 3, 2020 23:24
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Pastry isn't even bread. What a dumb analogy.
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:My favorite thing about Danish is that the native speakers don't even understand it. I've had to explain consonants to other Danes on multiple occasions, and I myself only recently learned that the particular glottal stop used for emphasis in Danish does not exist in any other language. Danes aren't alone in having a ridiculous language. For example, one of the first and simplest phrases you learn in German is "sie sind". This can mean either "you are" or "they are", depending on whether "sie" is capitalised. So when it comes at the start of a sentence, as it very often does, not even a native German speaker can tell who you are talking about unless they're aware of the exact context. English, of course, stole all the most ridiculous bits from everyone else. That's why it's a language with almost no rules and a thousand exceptions.
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Shoes Hose Hoes ??? Glow Show Sow (verb) Plow Sow (hog) Dough Cough??
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Jedit posted:English, of course, stole all the most ridiculous bits from everyone else. That's why it's a language with almost no rules and a thousand exceptions. English was designed by a committee of well meaning idiots. After teaching English for about six months first thing I'd tell a new student was some version of "English is a stupid, stupid language. The rules will only apply half the time and even then they might not make sense. What's written isn't how it sounds and the pronunciation rules are also stupid. I'm so sorry you have to learn my stupid language. Now, lets spend half an hour learning how to say 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers', and then we can discuss how 'gently caress' can be substituted for a noun, verb, adverb or adjective, and why that makes sense". I think all my students appreciated that.
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Outrail posted:English was designed by a committee of well meaning idiots. Well-meaning? Have you seen the places where English originated? Every syllable was wrought from pure spite.
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Outrail posted:Pastry isn't even bread. What a dumb analogy. It’s those little animals were you can see the veins, right?
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Screaming Idiot posted:Well-meaning? Have you seen the places where English originated? Every syllable was wrought from pure spite. yeah and? now we all sound like a fuckin ned flanders orgy. every form of art, especially slam poetry, sounds way WAY cooler in other languages.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:yeah and? now we all sound like a fuckin ned flanders orgy. every form of art, especially slam poetry, sounds way WAY cooler in other languages. English poetry is only well-regarded because it's amazing anyone can make such a broken, awkward, hacked-together language sound at all pleasant. English literature is only well-regarded because the dudes that spoke English pretty much killed anyone else who tried to make their own literature, so it got a bit of a boost.
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english has the most words of any language and is therefore the best.
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Screaming Idiot posted:English poetry is only well-regarded because it's amazing anyone can make such a broken, awkward, hacked-together language sound at all pleasant. English literature is only well-regarded because the dudes that spoke English pretty much killed anyone else who tried to make their own literature, so it got a bit of a boost. NARRATOR: english poetry is not well-regarded.
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Outrail posted:English was designed by a committee of well meaning idiots. The Saxons, Romans and Normans were not a committee, and they were very much not well-meaning
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https://twitter.com/MerriamWebster/status/1255967459078799362
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y'ever think about how the feminine form of actor should be actrix
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Alaois posted:y'ever think about how the feminine form of actor should be actrix Actrix and Obgynix
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Is dominatrix already plural and we've just been using it wrong? What would singular be? Dominatri?
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no, dominatrix is the feminine form of dominator. the plural is dominatrices
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Dameius posted:Is dominatrix already plural and we've just been using it wrong? What would singular be? Dominatri? Dominatrices is plural.
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Alaois posted:y'ever think about how the feminine form of actor should be actrix the -atrix suffix is for words that end in -ator gladiator, gladiatrix aviator, aviatrix
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alligator, alligatrix
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I've said it before, English is the Calvinball of languages.
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Masturbator, masturbatrix.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I've said it before, English is the Calvinball of languages. That's not the best comparison because Calvinball's rules are made up as you go along. English is more like ten different people came up with their own sports and are now trying to play a match with each other on the same field.
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Bobby Digital posted:Masturbator, masturbatrix. Mistresbatrix.
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Triarii posted:That's not the best comparison because Calvinball's rules are made up as you go along. English is more like ten different people came up with their own sports and are now trying to play a match with each other on the same field. well except that everyone agrees that all the rules are valid simultaneously, except where two contradict each other, in which case you can do whatever you like
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Bongo Bill posted:alligator, alligatrix "Alligator" is a corruption/anglicization of the Spanish el lagarto, "The Lizard", and doesn't mean "one who alligates"  But who am I kidding, this is English and we could make "alligate" a verb if we wanted to bad enough
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Phy posted:"Alligator" is a corruption/anglicization of the Spanish el lagarto, "The Lizard", and doesn't mean "one who alligates" You just did. Well, I’m off to get some alligatin’ done.
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Wasn't Alligate a Twitter fiasco
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I try and I try, but alligate from you are attitude and excuses.
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:You just did. Well, I’m off to get some alligatin’ done. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligation
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poo poo, I thought I’d come up with something new. Oh, well. Alligate over it.
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