You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
So I'm conducting my little Sims experiment, and I think one of the Sims is broken...
All the Sims are hydrophobes, so I put a pool across the floor so that they would have to swim to get food. One of the Sims swam across, got a quick meal, walked across the pool to the stair side, then got back into the pool and began swimming in the pool...
So I'm conducting my little Sims experiment, and I think one of the Sims is broken...
All the Sims are hydrophobes, so I put a pool across the floor so that they would have to swim to get food. One of the Sims swam across, got a quick meal, walked across the pool to the stair side, then got back into the pool and began swimming in the pool...
these articles kind of bug me. like sure spelling bees are an american thing but english is hardly unique in being hard to learn the orthography for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jōyō_kanji
We think it’s a nuisance that so many European languages assign gender to nouns for no reason, with French having female moons and male boats and such. But actually, it’s us who are odd: almost all European languages belong to one family – Indo-European – and of all of them, English is the only one that doesn’t assign genders that way.
this is false. PIE had gender but not every descendent does. persian doesn't, afrikaans doesn't. armenian doesn't. and the non-IE european languages don't all have gender
Also what I find is interesting is that several of the things they mention aren't universal. Lots of English dialects (including, uh, mine) drop "Do" from the beginning of questions.
well, that's true of pretty much any feature. but that one's worth mentioning since I think it really is unique to english, though of course other languages have special particles marking question-ness.
Also what I find is interesting is that several of the things they mention aren't universal. Lots of English dialects (including, uh, mine) drop "Do" from the beginning of questions.
I do that as well >_>
I also tend to drop the word "are" from questions.
Instead of saying "Where are you going?", I say "Where you going?"
i mean i like language history. the meat thing is cool. the long words thing is cool. but english is really not unique as being formed crole-style and we shouldn't say or imply that it is.
my fave example is when the western xia rushed to adopt something like chinese characters and fucked it up so bad that writing a six takes like ten strokes
Dutch is close enough to English I once listened to a Dutch song and it took me at least 30 seconds to realize it wasn't heavily accented english, because I could understand several bits.
I was reading the ingredients of my fruit smoothie, and the tune of "Twelve Days Of Christmas" popped into my head.
The ingredients are, as written on the carton: 44 sweet grapes, 2 ripe bananas, 1 crunchy apple, 8 plump strawberries. 1 zesty orange, 11 juicy blackcurrants, and a hint of 1 zingy lime.
i mean i like language history. the meat thing is cool. the long words thing is cool. but english is really not unique as being formed crole-style and we shouldn't say or imply that it is.
my fave example is when the western xia rushed to adopt something like chinese characters and fucked it up so bad that writing a six takes like ten strokes
wow that 9 is even worse, that's like 15 strokes. Ain't nobody got time for that
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Actually, I should be donating blood on a regular basis, seeing as I have a rare blood type.
It's just... The needles...
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Got two hours to kill before I meet my new mentor.
wtf.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I didn't kill my mentor, but I did learn how to actually use the library resources. Sorry, no deaths today.
...
Yet.
Told you there were some deaths on the horizon.
And I'm Flowey. Flowey the flower!
All the Sims are hydrophobes, so I put a pool across the floor so that they would have to swim to get food. One of the Sims swam across, got a quick meal, walked across the pool to the stair side, then got back into the pool and began swimming in the pool...
This article is interesting.
I also tend to drop the word "are" from questions.
Instead of saying "Where are you going?", I say "Where you going?"
"Are you going out?" becomes "You going out?"
"What are you doing?" becomes "What you doing?"
my fave example is when the western xia rushed to adopt something like chinese characters and fucked it up so bad that writing a six takes like ten strokes
The ingredients are, as written on the carton: 44 sweet grapes, 2 ripe bananas, 1 crunchy apple, 8 plump strawberries. 1 zesty orange, 11 juicy blackcurrants, and a hint of 1 zingy lime.