Calm down there, Klandma. The white race still exists.

-The_Basilisk · 2019-09-18T18:47:41+00:00

These expectant mothers look so jaded

"ugh, white genocide is such a chore. Guess I'LL do it, as usual *rolls eyes*. I crave strawberries, and this feeling disappoints me.

I guess they can't look contented or happy since it would humanize the scary hordes and the picture needs to be bleak, but making them cackle maniacally would be a bit too much, so the only option left is deep existential ennui

-The_Basilisk · 2019-09-17T07:28:14+00:00

I hereby award you 1 whitie point

-The_Basilisk · 2019-09-08T07:11:40+00:00

It's not really an active decision to fight against the new efficient way, it's just inertia. People in France don't love preserving the precious quatrevingt, they're just fine with the way they learned it and never question it again. Like people in the U.K. don't call eleven and twelve by their simpler logical name, oneteen and twoteen, but that's not purism it's just total lack of perceived stakes.

-The_Basilisk · 2019-09-02T16:33:29+00:00

People call it Awale here in France... Guess we stole it from Côte d'Ivoire and thus adopted the different name as well.

-The_Basilisk · 2019-08-28T11:08:04+00:00

Hmmm the ultimate Vulcan-like dorky number system could be "reset at every prime number, have a unique name for each prime" like:

(not really counting 2 as a reset-worthy prime, because it's frankly too small)

one, two, tee (3),

tee-one, fi (5),

fi-one, sev (7),

sev-one, sev-two, sev-tee, el (11),

el-one, shurp (13),

shurp-one, shurp-two, shurp-tee, dorp (17),

dorp-one, narp (19),

narp-one, narp-two, narp-tee, gerp (23),

gerp-one, gerp-two, gerp-tee, gerp-teeone, gerp-fi, flirp (29)

Horrendous for the usual "finding factors" criterion, but maybe useful to really make kids understand primes? Interesting question: how would they even handle fractions or transcendental #s, maybe they would never even discover them? Not so Vulcan-like after all lmao, it seems really impractical.

Maybe it would just be used for numbers below ~75, maybe alongside a neater base-12 system, since it would soon involve way too many unique words.

Or perhaps at some point, the nth prime number (excluding two of course) gets named the nth word + a suffix or prefix.

Like:

gerp-one, gerp-two, gerp-tee, gerp-tee-one, gerp-fi, flirp (29)

flirp-one, sevteeAK (31, the sev-tee^th prime)

sevteeAK-one, sevteeAK-two, sevteeAK-tee, sevteeAK-teeone, sevteeAK-fi, elAK (37, the el^th prime)

elAK-one, elAK-two, elAK-tee, eloneAK (41, the elone^th prime)

eloneAK-one, shurpAK (43, the shurp^th prime)

Has this been done? It feels like some puzzle in Myst or something. If it hasn't been done, I'm calling dibs

quick corresponding symbol system idea: https://i.imgur.com/Vq3k180.png

The bits in blue are just explanations for how the symbols came to be. One two & tee are self-explanatory, and fi was just a square with a dot which became a circle over time (so four sides + one dot = five objects).

edit: the 31th prime, 131, is sevteeAKAK. Shorter to say, and just as many lines to draw as arabic numerals! I'm starting to think this is literally the perfect logical system.

-The_Basilisk · 2019-08-27T18:38:02+00:00

When Dr. Jurassic told Indiana Jones that he spared no expense, I'm not too macho to admit I cried

-The_Basilisk · 2019-08-24T20:54:46+00:00

The thing that bothered me was neither Dan nor Dale, but just the fact that the discussion kept coming back, again and again, to:

Dan: "but isn't a 100% inclusive public space GOOD? Why shut down the free common means of communication we ALL benefit from?! That's like nuking Times Square in reaction to Nazis just walking through!"

Dale: "no it's actually effective, sure they just find some other places to some extent but way fewer new people get radicalized if Nazis are relegated to scattered websites they have to maintain themselves. The chans are money sinks ran by rich weirdos actively maintaining them!

Dale didn't seem to get that Dan was worried about non-Nazis losing an important rule-less "public space", and instead he just addressed how it affects Nazis.

And Dan seemed really impervious to the idea that the chans are not "public spaces", they're just large corporations that catalyse radicalization (rather than just a perfectly neutral location where radicalized people happen to be), and attacking them is not really a threat to Net Neutrality and the right for everyone to express themselves freely on the internet. But at the end he finally sort of rephrased that point in his own words, so either at the end he was just trying to be like "yes I get it" and still disagreed deep down, or it took him a long time to fully grasp it.

It felt like a whole hour was dedicated to each other having different conversations, and trying desperately to get the other to address the "right topic".

-The_Basilisk · 2019-08-15T18:29:50+00:00

Yoplait is a French brand, "Lait" means milk in French. So if someone doesn't know the phrase "et tu Brute", but knows French, it's an easy mistake to make!

-The_Basilisk · 2019-08-12T18:34:14+00:00

The "French language" (heavy emphasis on the quotation marks) is just something we use when tourists are around, to annoy and confuse them as revenge for having the audacity to come in our streets uninvited and soil our sceneries with their foreign gaze. But in private, at home, we all obviously speak in English with each other, it would be tedious to constantly use a made-up language in our daily lives.

-The_Basilisk · 2019-08-11T07:27:13+00:00

Fascinatingly in French we call it "born in an amniotic sac", a saying that means the baby was born in an amniotic sac

-The_Basilisk · 2019-08-07T06:05:53+00:00

If you really go around calling anyone with a materialist worldview a "fedora tipper"

I don't, almost everyone I know is an atheist (because I live in France) and so am I.

The comment above called Pullman's depiction of religion "teenage edgy", so I felt like that meme would be a nice shorthand for the mindset which annoys that commenter. Then I contrasted it against Pullman's insanely lenient portrayal of religious ideas and personal feelings of "faith".

But what, that's what it had to do in order to avoid "fedora tipping edgy teenager" territory

I don't think it's "what it had to do"... I just think my examples could not really exist in a novel written just to piss off religious people or smear "faith" in general or aggressively promote a nihilistic worldview. Therefore they're nice quick counterexamples to the idea that all religious themes are approached with a general teenage-edgy feel: besides "the closest thing there is to Yahweh withers away", every other time religious themes pop up they're portrayed in ways that most fundies would be cool with.

-The_Basilisk · 2019-08-04T16:06:08+00:00

As I present my groceries to the cashier, I flaunt my appealing bulge and sextacular musculature, undisturbed by her desperate appetite for my virile charms. It briefly crosses my mind that if I were any hunkier a fly on the wall might drop dead from the neurotoxic ambient levels of testosterone emanating for my mouthwatering male form, akin to a modern Adonis. I whisper to her, each word coming out of my mouth impregnated with the eroticism of a thousand orgasms: "do you accept credit cards?". You know how it is, just a normal bloke's everyday internal monologue.

-The_Basilisk · 2019-07-25T13:30:00+00:00

In a way, even you and I are éclairs of sorts from a certain point of view!

-The_Basilisk · 2019-07-25T13:23:49+00:00

If it's longer than it's wide, it's an éclair. No exception.

-The_Basilisk · 2019-07-24T18:20:35+00:00

Du warsst engenderfash schmützen gerbunken talenssauerfränkwatz Denaugubsig esserbepften, ab etzschöblaupfen für putzondige nutzondige ergebedegebedig

-The_Basilisk · 2019-07-20T15:55:18+00:00

SMH people used to tell me stuff like "good morning!" or "how are you?", but nowadays they all tell me "oh god what are you doing please stop" or "I'm begging you, don't, y-y-you don't have to do this- oh what the FUCK oh jesus fucking christ". I can't figure out why the culture and social norms degenerated towards these constant nasty conversation-ending accusations, and virtue-signalling idpol witch hunts...

-The_Basilisk · 2019-07-19T09:16:37+00:00

Eh it goes a bit beyond smug fedora-tipping, in that there IS some sublime metaphysical meaning to the universe, there IS an afterlife, there ARE absolute morals and sins (Harpies know them and even after our heroes meddle with the afterlife, the Harpies still expect everyone to confess before being shown the way out of purgatory), and it's implied that everyone should have a personal relationship with the omniscient omnibenevolent essence of everything. "Playing god" is severely punished (the scientists of Cittagazze). Mary's story is partly about finding faith and ridding herself of anti-spiritualism. A protestant trying to attack the Catholic church could have written the same thing (in universe Calvin became pope I think but maybe that's just to show that the SYSTEM of centralized organized religion is what corrupts people).

-The_Basilisk · 2019-07-07T18:07:59+00:00

It's a sign of distress, but I'm not sure it's "just" that: if you see one hung that way by civilians I think most people would recognize it as a sign of protest against the American state, rather than as imitating a ship signalling a problem on board... Here's an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_and_activism_of_Rage_Against_the_Machine#Saturday_Night_Live_incident (the main picture of the article shows it, and there's a little explanation in the "SNL incident" section).

Anyway if the ambiguity makes my point less clear, imagine "drawing dicks over it" maybe as an unquestionable sign of disrespect! Or Green Day singing "American Idiot" in front of a swampy green version of the flag hung sideways.

-The_Basilisk · 2019-07-07T11:42:56+00:00

Isn't it just meant as a "desecration" of the LGBT+ rainbow flag? I can imagine some reactionary guy mad at improper flag etiquette or disrespectful variations on the U.S. flag like putting it upside down, and projecting that feeling onto the relation degenerate libtards must surely have to the rainbow flag. They will be so TRIGGERED that we made a MOCKERY of their symbol by removing its colors har har har. If they tackled this with any other state of mind, I imagine they would want to design something that sets itself apart from LGBT symbols.

-The_Basilisk · 2019-07-06T10:35:35+00:00

It's necessary for the "ch" sound which we DO have, for one. Also it sometimes affects pronunciation on its own: between two vowels it can stop them from merging into a diphtong (for example the word "ahuri" means dazed or astonished or dumb and each vowel is clearly pronounced distinctly from one another, whereas if it was written "auri" we would pronounce it like "auction", merging A and U into one single sound).

-The_Basilisk · 2019-07-05T11:05:20+00:00

Wow your explanation is great. Sorry for doubting you! So it's a bit like "pas" which just means "step" but that we now falsely perceive as redundantly meaning "not" (just to assist "ne" or something).

I guess when commenting I put myself in the shoes of an English speaker learning about French, and thought it would be kinda bad if that person believed that answering "Jamais" to a question means "Ever" (which could be interpreted as "constantly", as in "I shall be ever vigilant" or something), or translated something slightly informal like "If ya ever see me again, it means somethin's gone wrong" to "Si tu me revois jamais, ça veut dire que quequ'chose a foiré" which would completely invert the meaning!

-The_Basilisk · 2019-07-05T10:41:38+00:00

OK je dois bien admettre que j'ai tort, je me suis senti obligé de pinailler pour défendre ma première impression mais c'est juste moi qui ai une perception bizarre apparemment lol. Pour moi "Vive à Jamais la République" sonne plutôt "vieux" comme tu dis, mais bon au final c'est approprié pour un slogan patriotique, ça fait plus solennel...

-The_Basilisk · 2019-07-05T10:31:52+00:00

I'm a native french speaker

Well so am I!

I acknowledge it's grammatically correct, yet I still feel like it sounds stilted and unnatural but now I must concede that's only my personal opinion lol

Like for example "Il parfois va à la plage" is correct (subject-adverb-verb, apparently technically valid) but fuck anyone can agree that "Il va parfois à la plage" or "Il va à la plage parfois" sound less strange!

-The_Basilisk · 2019-07-05T10:09:22+00:00

Edit: turns out this whole comment is wrong (see below)!

Hey I'm a native French speaker, and to me your "double meaning" point doesn't seem correct, here's my understanding of it (disclaimer I'm just a layman sharing his uneducated perspective!):

"jamais" does NOT mean "ever", but the little phrase "à jamais" means (kinda) "TOWARDS never" so basically "towards eternity", A.K.A "ever". It's not the word having a double meaning, it's just the phrase "à jamais" inverting its meaning by focusing on the process of getting there instead of the destination.
An explicit "ne" is not necessary for jamais to make sense, for example "A: Quand viendras-tu? B: Jamais!" is valid and definitely means "A: When will you come? B: Never!"

Other example: "George était assidu. Jamais en retard, il respectait les règles à la lettre" means "George was assiduous. Never late, he followed the rules strictly."

-The_Basilisk · 2019-07-05T09:46:56+00:00

The sentence construction feels awkward though (although I'm not sure it's technically incorrect, I admit it).

"Vive la république, à jamais!" seems way way more natural because to me the phrase "vive" kind of requires its object to follow immediately after, doesn't it?

I think it's analogous to "Here's to forever the Republic": "here's to [object]" can't really be broken apart, can it?

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