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3D Megadoodoo posted:Gaijin is English for "foreign in Japan". HTH. it still counts as Japanese. a reasonably well educated person or weeb would know the meaning, but it doesn't count as English yet. everybody under 18 knows the word baka now, but that doesn't count yet either. ninja is a really recent borrowing, but it's worked its way it. (wait, Wiktionary has gaijin listed, so maybe I'm behind the times. if I can play it in Scrabble I'll concede.) 3D Megadoodoo posted:Seriouspost: Have you ever seen an "English" dictionary? It's about 100% non-English words. That's why Anglophones like to go with the fallacy that English has more words in use than any other language. nah, it's not that. or not just that. it's that we for some reason include archaic words. the last word in the OED used to be zyxt, which is a dialect version of archaic 2nd person to see (thou seest). (that's an exception, since different parts of speech aren't usually recorded separately. (if they were, something like Turkish or Finnish would have the most words, with infinity.)) and on top of that, we draw from UK, Canadian, American, Australian, and Indian, so there are a lot of perfectly normal words for one group that another wouldn't use. (plus Scots gets lumped in, even though it's technically a different language.) iirc the average English-speaking person doesn't have an idiolect that's bigger than anybody else's, which is maybe a more accurate measure. anyway, it's vaguely analogous to the fact that all US-issued currency is still legal tender, so I could go to the grocery store and spend a silver dollar from 1800 as a dollar. in conclusion 
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Scots isn't a language, it's a series of made-up Wikipedia edits performed by an extremely prolific furry in North Carolina
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:Scots isn't a language, it's a series of made-up Wikipedia edits performed by an extremely prolific furry in North Carolina Ye ever wanty just wrap yersel up in tin foil nice and cosy and then just loving get right inty the microwave and blow yersel up tae gently caress
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:Scots isn't a language, it's a series of made-up Wikipedia edits performed by an extremely prolific furry in North Carolina one person in footie PJs completely hosed an entire language. welcome to the internet
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How did so many people manage to interpret "the Scots wikipedia mostly isn't actually written in Scots" into "the Scots language doesn't exist"? Or is it just one goon who keeps saying it all over the place, I haven't been keeping track
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I’ve definitely seen lots of responses around the internet along the lines of “this is a huge blow to the Scots language” rather than “I guess nobody cares about Scots wikipedia”
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Feb 4, 2022 15:44
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Snake Maze posted:I’ve definitely seen lots of responses around the internet along the lines of “this is a huge blow to the Scots language” rather than “I guess nobody cares about Scots wikipedia” google translate uses wikipedia as a part of its algorithm, so it's now compromised too
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:Scots isn't a language, it's a series of made-up Wikipedia edits performed by an extremely prolific furry in North Carolina e: beaten \/ Whoops! Most of this still applies to Scots, though it'd be closer to Swedish vs Icelandic than English vs Russian \/ Splicer has a new favorite as of 16:01 on Feb 4, 2022 |
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Splicer posted:I've seen this a bunch so I can't tell who's joking, but the Wikipedia guy didn't make up scots gaelic, he just didn't speak it. So the "scots gaelic" Wikipedia was just him taking the English articles and subbing in gaelic words that sounded like the English equivalents. It'd be like writing the Russian entries by putting backwards Rs and "-ski" at the end of everything. not gaelic, scots
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Snake Maze posted:I’ve definitely seen lots of responses around the internet along the lines of “this is a huge blow to the Scots language” rather than “I guess nobody cares about Scots wikipedia” because for a while people were just posting excerpts from scots wikipedia to laugh at them and go "ha, look, it's just english with an accent" which significantly contributed to the prevailing idea among people who don't really know much about it that it's not a real language
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mind the walrus posted:Sometimes it's better for the mail route, other times it's just a badly designed road. Either way the US loving hates pedestrians. What, because you have to walk?
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His Divine Shadow posted:What, because you have to walk? Because there's probably no pedestrian crossing for ten miles each direction, nor any sidewalk.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Because there's probably no pedestrian crossing for ten miles each direction, nor any sidewalk. When I lived in an apartment, there was a bus stop across the street. The nearest cross walk to that bus stop was about half a mile away (I had measured it for an exercise routine) so if you wanted to access the bus stop or go home after getting off the bus, you had to cross the street "illegally." There was a case where a kid was killed by a drunk driver doing just that, and the drunk driver went free because the kid was not using the pedestrian crossing.
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marshmallow creep posted:When I lived in an apartment, there was a bus stop across the street. The nearest cross walk to that bus stop was about half a mile away (I had measured it for an exercise routine) so if you wanted to access the bus stop or go home after getting off the bus, you had to cross the street "illegally." There was a case where a kid was killed by a drunk driver doing just that, and the drunk driver went free because the kid was not using the pedestrian crossing. Hell, they'll lie about where people crossed, do whatever it takes to protect drivers. This country hates pedestrians with a vengeance.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Because there's probably no pedestrian crossing for ten miles each direction, nor any sidewalk. Does there need to be? Usually they bunch together mailboxes because the area in question is low density population wise, which also means little traffic.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Does there need to be? Usually they bunch together mailboxes because the area in question is low density population wise, which also means little traffic. this is America, so some developer will throw up a lovely exurban development out in the sticks with big banks of mailboxes and zero pedestrian infrastructure because it's in the middle of nowhere, and then over the next 10 years other developers will backfill the surrounding area with strip malls & more housing developments. there is still no pedestrian infrastructure and the big banks of mailboxes still exist but now there are several hundred multicar households in the neighborhood and everyone drives everywhere all the time so the traffic sucks.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Does there need to be? Usually they bunch together mailboxes because the area in question is low density population wise, which also means little traffic. If you're expecting pedestrians to cross a road, in a country that doesn't actively want pedestrians to die, you put a crosswalk there. Doesn't matter if there's one car an hour there. That car's driver needs to know to slow down and get ready to stop.
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speaking of roads, let's watch Anette chase a monster down one! Hitmen for Destiny #445: Manipulating mirage  ======================= Hitmen for Destiny #446: Teach throwing  ======================= Hitmen for Destiny #447: Show something  Bodycount: +original corpse piler host +master hippie +master rollerblader +master breath-holder +master gunman I guess? +corpse piler Son of Thunderbeast has a new favorite as of 18:10 on Feb 4, 2022 |
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to clarify, not only is Scots not a real language, but Scotland isn't a real place
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I'm starting to believe that any country whose name ends in land is a hoax...it just sounds too obvious!
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I've heard the reports coming out of "England" lately and that the place never existed and is a long-running joke being played on us is probably the simple explanation. Anyways, a comic from Italy, a country that does exist: The New Adventures of the Duck Avenger     I adore looking back on these and seeing things like ISPN modems being touted as an integral part of the futuristic sci-fi bullshit
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Captain Hygiene posted:I'm starting to believe that any country whose name ends in land is a hoax...it just sounds too obvious! Zulily Zoetrope posted:I've heard the reports coming out of "England" lately and that the place never existed and is a long-running joke being played on us is probably the simple explanation. You fool. You buffoon. The name "Italia" derives from the words for "cow-land."
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I'm a big fan of the "if there's doubt the reader would understand the joke, write it on the protagonist's tshirt" methodology
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:speaking of roads, let's watch Anette chase a monster down one! I had never heard of HfD or Thorsby before reading this thread, but I'm so invested. How is this so engrossing
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DrPossum posted:I'm a big fan of the "if there's doubt the reader would understand the joke, write it on the protagonist's tshirt" methodology 
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I'm going to post the rest of Necropolis in longer than one page chunks (on average, accounting for scene transitions) for pacing and so I'm not doing this for too long.   
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DrPossum posted:I'm a big fan of the "if there's doubt the reader would understand the joke, write it on the protagonist's tshirt" methodology normally I'd think this is an utter bullshit move but he's able to make it make things even funnier. I salute his prodigious talent
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Ditocoaf posted:I'm going to post the rest of Necropolis in longer than one page chunks (on average, accounting for scene transitions) for pacing and so I'm not doing this for too long. “All that she had was a weeping mother and a sleeping sister” that’s a lot to lose you dummy! Really liking Necropolis so far
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Absurd Alhazred posted:This table of butt-lickers and poo poo-eaters is SCANDALIZED, I'm sure. Plus you've got a whole food chain represented at that table!
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My cat has a very hard time holding cutlery and drinking wine during my dinner parties so I'm not sure the author knows animals well at all !
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 that's how it is with an image, always all CAPTION  achewood is a celebration of the English language  they got mega ding dongs in that restaurant's food
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Tree Bucket posted:That doesn't sound great. Tell me you didn't grow up in the boonies without telling me you grew up in the boonies Hell my home town didn't even have a door to door service for most of my life. And the post office was open from noon to four to better home Amazon doesn't ship via UPS Surepost because you're never getting a package again.
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Hup, bup bup! Hup...... Burger?
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Hupkin
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THANK Ronnie for "Cheeseburger"
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Paper Tiger posted:Hup, bup bup! Hush, now! I'm using the code. THE HUP CODE!
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HUP is comix royalty. It'd be a great sound effect for that Charlie-Brown-fails-to-kick-football thing.
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