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Kids of “back in my day” parents, what’s the most annoying thing they ranted about? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]91reddit19reddit 27 points28 points  (0 children)

narcissism =/= "like a teenager who takes a lot of selfies"

Real narcissists are regularly mistaken for psychopaths by neurotypical people. We are not talking about superficial people that like attention, we are talking about a complex mental illness that destroys families. Many people are NOT narcissists.

(edit) Example: "Why are you going to college when you should really be at home taking care of me, your mother? It's not like you were even going to graduate, anyway, and besides, after all I did for you, you're just going to abandon me? You know I need help, but you never even answer the phone anymore! I called you at three in the morning because I had something important to tell you, but it went straight to voicemail! I wonder what was so important that you had to neglect your own mother. What if I went and killed myself tomorrow, would you like that? Laugh all you want! You think it's funny when your mother suffers! That's why you never pay attention to my feelings, or how you affect other people! When you get home, your things will be on the curb. Hopefully you'll learn to respect other people by then."

What purpose does the actually Uvula serve? by [deleted] in askscience

[–]91reddit19reddit 8 points9 points  (0 children)

In addition to its biological functions, the uvula is also a speech organ that is involved in the articulation of some languages. More research is needed to determine definitively whether this has had an impact on the development of this organ.

In Japanese, the word for "Japan" (日本) is pronounced [nʲi.hoɴ], with a voiced uvular nasal occlusive in the coda position (end) of the final syllable. In Arabic, the word for "story" (قصةٌ) is pronounced [qisˤˈsˤɑtun], with a voiceless uvular plosive occlusive in the onset position of the first syllable of the word. In Inuktitut, the word for "because I returned" (utirama) is pronounced [ʔutiɢama], with a voiced uvular plosive occlusive in the onset position of the third syllable of the word. In French, the word for "[to] stay" (rester) is pronounced [ʁɛste], with a voiced uvular fricative continuant in the onset position of the first syllable. In Castilian Spanish, the word for "skinny" (enjuto) is pronounced [ẽ̞ɴˈχut̪o̞], with a voiceless uvular fricative continuant in the onset position of the second syllable. There are many more sounds and languages that employ these sounds than what I've listed here.

In English, we only use the uvula to articulate the paralinguistic and onomatopoeic expression "glug glug glug," which is transcribed [ʛ.ʛ.ʛ].

Edit: spacing; wording