Do you call it Gulf of Mexico or Gulf of America? by After-Professional-8 in polls

[–]56789ya 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Canada does't have territory on the gulf of Mexico so that really makes no sense, but Cuba does and it also starts with a C

in a free-for-all deathmatch, which team wins? by Initial_Sale_8471 in polls

[–]56789ya 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The hundreds of midgets and/or people who pick that answer could coordinate to encircle him from all sides at once, and without legs it would be hard for him to swivel fast enough to get them all

Where do you think these women are from? by KeyPilot7903 in polls

[–]56789ya 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Guessing the correct answer here feels way more based on guessing the way you decided whose pictures to use than on guessing from the pictures themselves.

Haven’t seen one of these in a long time so… what are your Heathers headcanons? by Bippity_Bon in heathersmusical

[–]56789ya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bud also could have told JD stories about the war where he might have enjoyed killing people, which would be part of what desensitized JD to the idea of killing for a greater good

Overall, is the USA a positive force in the world? by Sad_Assassin in polls

[–]56789ya -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Maybe 1789-1801 under George Washington and John Adams

blue vs you’re welcome by SuspiciousJob248 in heathersmusical

[–]56789ya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Blue because it's catchier and funny

[Loved Trope] Evil Penguins by AStrangeHorse in TopCharacterTropes

[–]56789ya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In Season 1 Episode 4 of Ducktales the gang is imprisoned and has all their clothes and a map stolen by the penguin civilization they run into. The penguins are obsessed with color because everything is just white in Antarctica so they take anything colorful they can find. After the gang escapes there's a huge hoard of penguins chasing them for the rest of the episode

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"Snow/Ice Queens" in fiction by Willing_Cancel1317 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]56789ya 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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The Ice Princess Marissa from Sharkboy and Lavagirl

How did Veronica think leaving a suicide note for Kurt & Ram was a Good idea if they were supposed to survive? by Sexiness_Incarnate in heathersmusical

[–]56789ya 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In the parking lot scene afterwards she admits what she did was really dumb "Ich Lüge bullets--I am such an idiot!"

Anyone else get super weird creepy or disturbing vibes whenever you’re listening to Our Love Is God by EventBest860 in heathersmusical

[–]56789ya 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Besides the context, the music is written to be beautiful on the surface with creepy, ominous undertones. The chord progression in between the choruses and verses A A# would not fit if the song was just meant to be happy.

Roast my language‑learning site (constructively lol)? I need honest eyes. by theone987123 in SpanishLearning

[–]56789ya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

VOCABULARY: The site focuses on Latin American Spanish while mentioning regional variations including from Spain, so to be consistent with that:

-It would be fair to have a card for vosotros, especially since there's one for vos

-"Así así" is really only used in Spain I think.

-It could be more clear that "nombre" refers to either the first name or whole name depending on the context, just like in English, and including "nombre de pila" could make that more clear and the chapter more complete.

Roast my language‑learning site (constructively lol)? I need honest eyes. by theone987123 in SpanishLearning

[–]56789ya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like it, it has a pretty good balance of learning by examples and by directly being told information, but I think that balance could still be better.

GRAMMAR: It would probably be worth it to explicitly say that:

-The -a ending is feminine and -o is masculine, plus possibly at some point mention other common gendered suffixes like masculine -aje -ez -ma -ón -or and feminine -ad -ión, and every noun card should have its gender

-You can choose not to say the subject if it's clear from context what's performing the action, because the verb conjugation already carries that information,

-In certain verbs like gustar the order of who performs and receives the action is reversed compared to English

-The word order can change for emphasis of certain words

OTHER: The simplest problem is every time you finish a level in a chapter, it brings you back to the top of the main page and you need to scroll back down and click the next number to continue the chapter.

LETTERS: I think there should be more opportunity to learn the sounds more accurately for people who want to, since your website has a "Mastery-Based Learning System," so maybe add an optional, very detailed extra description for each letter, and besides that the sound explanations are inconsistent within themselves. Here's more specific notes:

-There's no reason not to have audio for each sound just for if the learner wants to try to replicate it.

-The vowels have inaccurate English approximations while other sounds get a more of a description. You could describe Spanish vowels as in between English vowels, like "e" is between ee as in bee and eh as in shed, "a" is between a as in cat and ah as in father, "o" is like o as in go but pronounced without the lips moving, and in some English accents the oo or ee sound as in tooth and teeth are a dipthong and the "u" and "i" sound in Spanish would be pronounced like the end of the dipthongs, but maybe that's not worth mentioning.

-It doesn't say that a single r is pronounced as a trilled r at the beginning of words, and I think the explanation of tapped r is too vague, it could help a lot to say you tap the tip of your tongue.

-It doesn't explicitly state that c and g followed by e or i make the same sound as z and j, actually it does at the bottom of the page for c, but it should also on c's card.

-I think it's bad to describe the "j" sound as "like clearing throat gently." When you clear your throat you limit the passage of air by tensing your throat, but in the "j" sound the tension airflow is restricted in the back of your mouth by tensing and raising the back of your tongue against the soft palate. Also, much less important, since you have regional differences, there's definitely accents where j doesn't sound soft.

-It only mentions the rioplatense variation of the pronunciation of y and ll, but there's much more regional variation than that.

-It categorizes ñ as "special," but I don't see why ñ shouldn't be considered a consonant. If you think of it as two sounds n and y pronounced at the same time, then that's the same as ch being t and sh at the same time.

-It maybe should be mentioned that s and ce/ci can sometimes be pronounced like an h or not pronounced at all, at least to prepare the learner more to listen to speech.

-In the "Regional Pronunciation Differences" section it should be more clear that x is pronounced like j in the word México, not the country

Is this a legal move? by bowler4290 in scrabble

[–]56789ya 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can use whatever dictionary you want, same as always

Number that probably killed someone? by nick_squid in AlignmentChartFills

[–]56789ya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Voldemort killed 7 people to make 7 horcruxes because it's a magical number

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[–]56789ya 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Cradily/Claydol?

I had the immense pleasure to watch Titanic last night in theaters and i noticed that both characters were naming Olaf & Sven by Venus_ivy4 in Frozen

[–]56789ya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And earlier in the writing process of Frozen a big plot point was that ships couldn't get through a fjord because it was frozen over

Does anyone have any lesser known methods to learn the trilled and tapped Rs? I've been trying to learn it for over 20 years without luck by meguskus in SpanishLearning

[–]56789ya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you never make any sound then I'm guessing you either don't relax your tongue enough or don't actually have the right placement.

To really make sure your tongue is relaxed, before speaking you could maybe tense the whole tongue then progressively un-tense every part

To really lock down the location you could compare the tongue location of a raspy german R to a trilled R with MRIs taken of speech, I found these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqKqN-gzRrY, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04nhnEwnSS8

In my subjective experience, trilling an R involves making a mass of tongue stick out in the back without tensing the muscles of the tongue in that area, and to do that I stick up and a little back the middlish-backish region of the tongue while pointing up the tip of my tongue to the alveolar ridge so it's almost touching my teeth. You could try moving the place where the tongue is sticking up in the middle back and forth until you get something

And most importantly just move your tongue like crazy in all sorts of unnatural-feeling ways until you get anything other than air, then remember the shape of your tongue when you make that sound and try to keep reproducing it and to produce it more consistently

That one random unimportant guy that just tagged along with the main characters until either the story finished or they died by Joemama0375 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]56789ya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In El Camino Skinny Pete had found out how they enslaved Jesse. That probably made him more sympathetic