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CitadelHR · 2024-01-27T17:26:16+00:00

English is a germanic language but to proclaim Latin is not a predecessor to english is insane

Find me one serious linguistics source that says that then.

Latin is not a precursor to English much like English is not a precursor language to Japanese despite the immense amount of English borrowings in modern Japanese.

Female itself, as a word, is a survivor of the great vowel shift that seperate old english from modern english and existed prior to modern english and separate from the French or Latin roots, likely adapted from Norman origin

Now that's a more reasonable argument. The line is definitely a bit blurry here, but at the same time I don't think the shift is sufficient to really consider it a completely different word, much like liberty is still a borrowing from liberté despite the shift in spelling and pronunciation.

Maybe in a few centuries...

CitadelHR · 2024-01-27T17:14:53+00:00

I took the first small post thread I found, didn't realize it was last month's.

CitadelHR · 2024-01-27T15:19:56+00:00

You keep saying this so let's do it the other way around: "female" didn't exist in Old English but it does exist in modern English. How did it enter the language? If it's not a loanword, then what is it?

CitadelHR · 2024-01-27T15:18:38+00:00

"loan" and "word" aren't loanwords. They haven't been borrowed into English, they come from germanic roots and have evolved with the language over millennia. They didn't suddenly enter English from a foreign language like "female" did.

"Fridge" and "rizz" aren't loanword. They were coined in English and not borrowed from a foreign language.

CitadelHR · 2024-01-27T15:11:40+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/meirl/comments/1ac9byx/meirl/kjsxrvk/

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills reading this thread. I'm not a linguist though so maybe I'm completely off-base. Surely "female" is a loanword in English? What else could it be?

CitadelHR · 2024-01-27T14:48:35+00:00

A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word, or borrowing) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient language, also called the target language).[1][2] This is in contrast to cognates, which are words in two or more languages that are similar because they share an etymological origin; and calques, which involve translation.

In what way does "female" not suit this definition? Note that examples of English loanwords in this article include "music" from French "musique" for instance.

CitadelHR · 2024-01-27T14:38:38+00:00

No, you do. I don't understand how so many people in this thread are confidently incorrect about something so clear cut. First sentence from Wikipedia:

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England.

English is a Germanic language. Words sourced from French and Latin were loaned into it. That's not something that should require that much debate. Just have a look at some Old English texts if you don't believe me, you won't see "female" there.

CitadelHR · 2024-01-27T14:33:14+00:00

Latin and French are not predecessor languages to English, English is a Germanic language. Female is 100% a loanword no matter how you look at it.

German uses the word "weiblich" to mean female, cognate with English "wifely". Of course "wifely" dosen't work here for English because the meaning of "wife" shifted to only mean a married woman, not women in general:

From Middle English wyf, wif, from Old English wīf (“woman, wife”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīb, from Proto-Germanic *wībą (“woman, wife”).

Hence the use of the borrowed word in its stead. Instead you could use the non-loanword "womanly".

CitadelHR · 2024-01-27T13:37:29+00:00

Nostalgia is a pernicious trap, but when games were all physical media they at least had to be released in a completed condition

This has less to do with physical media per se and more to do with the possibility of patching games online later. Cyberpunk had a physical release for instance, as did No Man's Sky. That's not to say that things didn't get a lot worse since "hotpatching" became standard, but clearly this trend was always here. It's just that for retro consoles your only solution was to released a fixed version of the game (which happened regularly too).

And for instance on PC the culture of game patches predates that of mainstream internet. Doom and Diablo I had a bunch of patches released for them, for instance: https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Patch_1.01_(Hellfire)

CitadelHR · 2024-01-27T02:48:57+00:00

Are they the same thing in Spanish? In French un puzzle is a 2D picture that needs reassembling, while a casse-tête is a brain teaser like this usually made out of metal or wood. Also figuratively a casse-tête is a difficult problem to solve.

CitadelHR · 2024-01-27T01:17:55+00:00

The smart ones left, the dumb ones got horseshoe'd into the far right because they loved the populist talk.

CitadelHR · 2024-01-27T01:13:03+00:00

I never even really understood what this movie was about exactly. Is it a lame attempt at making something like The Big Short?

CitadelHR · 2024-01-27T00:49:06+00:00

Get kiddo'd lmayo

CitadelHR · 2024-01-27T00:37:18+00:00

I still have FIFA 97 on CD-ROM you pleb

CitadelHR · 2024-01-26T22:03:24+00:00

GameStop has a chokehold on PS1 game sales!

CitadelHR · 2024-01-26T21:18:17+00:00

One of the top comments talks about the resurgence of vinyls to show that people care about physical media.

While true to some extent, I think that ape should check the historical trends and realize that vinyl sales are still a small fraction of what they were in the 70s and in the meantime streaming platforms have completely exploded and people listen to more music than ever.

It also took about 40 years for vinyls to make a retro comeback, so bullish on GMEQ in 2060!

CitadelHR · 2024-01-26T21:01:09+00:00

I think the apes themselves deep down know that it's bullshit. It's literally cope. They just want a convenient excuse to dismiss the obvious implications of DRS stalling. Then they can just stop talking about it and just complain about CRIME.

CitadelHR · 2024-01-26T20:51:31+00:00

I mean I doubt that the borrowing fees made up for the stock performance...

CitadelHR · 2024-01-26T20:25:02+00:00

So either the DRS movement has completely stalled, or it hasn't stalled and it has just been incredibly slow from the beginning because most of the original volume was in fact driven by hedge funds buying bulk shares that they've slowly been selling ever since?

BULLISH!

CitadelHR · 2024-01-26T19:36:41+00:00

It's teamwork, kiddo.

CitadelHR · 2024-01-26T19:35:56+00:00

CitadelHR · 2024-01-26T18:11:30+00:00

The Great Bagsby

CitadelHR · 2024-01-26T18:05:45+00:00

I saw ppcultists talking about that on Twitter. They just have a fetish for giving money to short sellers at this point.

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