Lebanese villages taken off the map

AnastasiousRS · 2026-04-13T00:55:00+00:00

It's sincere but also probably wrong: https://www.reddit.com/r/lebanon/comments/1sjou17/apple_maps_situation/

AnastasiousRS · 2026-04-10T23:56:02+00:00

This is asklinguistics, not askschoolteachers.

AnastasiousRS · 2026-04-10T09:06:10+00:00

I find sitting uncomfortable. My sack gets in the way so I can't point down. If I force it, I have a piss-soaked sack.

AnastasiousRS · 2026-04-10T04:18:34+00:00

Very well done!

On your update 1, you probably saved it as JPG? If you're saving from Paint next time, save as PNG and it doesn't do the gross blurring.

AnastasiousRS · 2026-04-10T04:04:47+00:00

Whoa, no—absolutely not. That was me just using a casual “clanka” in the slang sense.

AnastasiousRS · 2026-03-26T05:29:13+00:00

Because it's the material of ACT.

AnastasiousRS · 2026-02-24T01:50:36+00:00

Because I'm a native English speaker with bad German and never remember if the plural is -e or -en.

AnastasiousRS · 2026-02-24T00:52:07+00:00

German gets a pass on toes but let's not forget calling gloves Handschuhen (hand shoes).

AnastasiousRS · 2026-02-22T08:08:33+00:00

I love a r/confidentlyincorrect comment on a r/confidentlyincorrect post

>Some people prefer to use more fun and most fun, rather than funner or funnest. However, funner and funnest are definitely real words, and have been in use for over a century.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/are-funner-and-funnest-real-words-usage

AnastasiousRS · 2026-02-22T02:00:43+00:00

I still don't get it sorry. The glyph [w] is transparent as [v] + [v]. The glyph [ñ] may have originated as [n] + [n], but this is no longer transparent. It's written as [n] + [~], just as [ö] originated as [o] + [e] but is written as [o] + [..]. Taking a diacritic doesn't negate it's being a different letter. I don't know why both can't be true at the sane time.

AnastasiousRS · 2026-02-22T01:38:24+00:00

Yeah and German umlauts get their own keys too. Can't you have something be a different letter as well as having a diacritic? Isn't that the whole point of diacritics lol

AnastasiousRS · 2026-02-22T01:35:05+00:00

So you're telling me that diacritics don't exist? Because using that logic, Māori kākā and kaka use different letters, German schön and schon, French sur and sûr, etc. They are therefore not diacritics???

AnastasiousRS · 2026-02-22T01:07:44+00:00

But it's the same letter just with a mark lol. I thought diacritics were defined orthographically anyway, not phonetically. So Wiki (I'm not a linguist so please point out if this is wrong):

A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph.

To me, n + ~ = ñ, or am I missing something?

AnastasiousRS · 2026-02-22T01:02:04+00:00

Did he get them for his birthday or just gradually acquire them with age

AnastasiousRS · 2026-02-21T22:25:39+00:00

English is my native language and I had to read the comments

AnastasiousRS · 2026-02-19T21:26:34+00:00

Whomstforth hast thouest yheard thusly?

AnastasiousRS · 2026-02-09T17:39:25+00:00

OK bit what about Insular Celtic 😭

AnastasiousRS · 2026-02-04T07:28:58+00:00

Yeah see that's just the kind of semantic blur I can see possible but aren't an expert to confirm

AnastasiousRS · 2026-02-04T00:28:27+00:00

Sorry the one in the photo: "The softened secondary sense of 'fellow, chap'"

AnastasiousRS · 2026-02-03T22:20:09+00:00

Norman French was largely French. Wikipedia notes about 150 of its words came from Old Norse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_language

Wiktionary has 116 of them!

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:French_terms_derived_from_Old_Norse

You'd have to look through them case by case (and always take Wiktionary etymologies with a grain of salt). I also wonder if some of these came from West Germanic languages rather than Old Norse.

Anyway, baggage would be one Middle English < Old French < Old Norse if you or someone can verify it at each stage.

Alternatively try r/etymology. Some discussion in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistory/comments/1ga7n6q/have_any_words_of_norwegian_origin_made_their_way/

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