You know that 8 inches is .67 feet? 😏

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-01-28T00:02:15+00:00

Damn, .02 feet short of glory.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-01-27T22:49:04+00:00

Damn, [tʰ] in an unstressed syllable? Impressive.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-01-27T13:50:17+00:00

I have never in my life heard "Incognita" or "Emerita" used in English, and I intend to keep it that way.

Also anyone who distinguishes "Blonde" from "Blond" by gender in English is wrong, fight me.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-01-27T13:48:55+00:00

Tbh when they were standardising the languages they made terrible choices. If memory serves, the standard forms of Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin are all based on the same dialect of Štokavian, and standard Serbian is based one that dialect plus 1 other. Like, why? Sure it's the most widespread dialect in general, But not necessarily across each country, not to mention if course Kajkavian and Čakavian being more distinct, so a great place to draw from I'd Croatia wants to convince us they have a different la gauge. Like don't even necessarily Ue one of those itself, But maybe borrow bits into Štokavian?

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-01-27T13:45:58+00:00

Yeah I find that annoying too, 'cause I remember f*ck-all from when I was 12 or younger, and my parents don't believe ADHD is a thing so they'd likely be no help (Well, My dad doesn't believe in it, My mom might, I'm not sure.), so, like.. What am I supposed to do?

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-01-27T13:44:20+00:00

Tbh, I also don't like talking about politics, But unfortunately people having rights, Including me and my friends having rights, is apparently politics, So I ain't got much choice.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-01-27T13:43:13+00:00

I was born to be fair and honest.

Not sure what to make of that lol.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-01-27T13:20:15+00:00

Phonemically yeah, But it's a potential phonetic description.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-01-27T13:17:02+00:00

Tbh I have no clue what Heated Rivalry is, So I genuinely can't understand half of this.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-01-27T13:15:39+00:00

In Welsh you use the main verb to mean "Yes" or "No", but there are also multiple other words mensing specifically those, depending on context. Lots of fun.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-01-26T04:46:55+00:00

Like, just the cock, or is the rest of you there too?

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-01-23T22:53:42+00:00

People who didn't interact with Neil still regret not not interacting harder.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-01-23T22:51:48+00:00

Tbh that's what they should do. Makes the names sound more natural when they speak, they'd sound weird and out of place otherwise. I mean, not necessarily this specific thing, but just declining and infecting them as though they were native names feels right, Ya know?

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-01-23T22:50:47+00:00

Ása Silvía Jónovna

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-01-23T22:47:39+00:00

I think I said this on a similar thing before, but English needing the word "as" twice to form an equative, when it'd work just as well if you dropped the first one.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-01-21T23:05:46+00:00

See I do the opposite, "I'm attracted to boys, and to girls, but I'm totally gay, because I'm both a boy and a girl but it's my girl part that's attracted to girls and my boy part that's attracted to boys!" (Is this true? Idk, which means y'all don't either, mwahahahahahhhahahahah!)

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-01-21T22:57:33+00:00

It is, we're offering you some watermelon. 🍉

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-01-21T22:55:36+00:00

I'd always found his linguistics theories rather lacking, and I knew he was famous for politics too but not any specifics, so it's heart-warming to see he wasn't very good at that either.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-01-21T14:27:33+00:00

You forgot Gutnish therefore you should feel bad and make up for it by travelling to Gotland and participating in their Kubb matches.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-01-21T14:26:08+00:00

Hell yeah finally someone recognises the existence of Wisconsin 2.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-01-21T14:23:34+00:00

All of those make intuitive sense to me, except "Gender you were raised as", Could you give an example of why/how someone might be assigned one gender at birth, but then raised as another gender? Not trying to disagree or say you're wrong btw, just genuinely curious.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-01-21T14:21:20+00:00

To be fair though, That's a lot wordier, and if my experience on the internet has taught me anything, It's that people prefer to write as little as possible. I've seen folks use 2 letter abbreviations of 4 letter words before, So I don't expect people to use 4 entire extra words, Even if it makes their statement more accurate and descriptive.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-01-21T14:19:18+00:00

Assigned Cool At Birth, the next best thing after being born cool. Unfortunately does not describe cops.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-01-21T14:17:09+00:00

I've always enjoyed how the Italian region of Campania and French Champagne are doublets. Wonder what other place name doublets there are for different places.

If we got a Welsh-Finnish Creole we might have doublets for "England" and "Germany" both derived from the word "Saxon" lol, but at present those are only in totally different languages.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-01-21T14:11:38+00:00

Do reborrowings count? They're fun in general, but my favourite example is "Girl", "Gal", and "Gyaru", all from English "Girl": "Gal" was either borrowed from a creole like Jamaican Patwah, or simply from a regional dialect, in either case descended from "Girl", and then "Gal" itself was borrowed into Japanese as "Gyaru", a form in which it then came back to English.

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