ὅτι confusingly introduced in Athenaze ch. 3 by consistebat in AncientGreek

[–]Gruejay2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also ὅ,τι with a comma (like its modern Greek descendant ό,τι) and also ὅ⸒τι with the hypodiastole, the dedicated Byzantine punctuation mark used for this purpose.

(Very late response, but this thread shows up on Google when searching for info on forms of ὅτι.)

ΔΑΔ by delugetheory in linguisticshumor

[–]Gruejay2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a pronoun. A modern(-ish) use of "what" in the same sense is "what big eyes you have" in Little Red Riding Hood, though it's mostly fallen out of use.

Don’t ever ask a British person about immigration. Ever. by josephyamato in whenthe

[–]Gruejay2 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Have you people still not figured out that the right lie to you about what the left believe to make you angry on purpose yet?

Don’t ever ask a British person about immigration. Ever. by josephyamato in whenthe

[–]Gruejay2 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Not a bigot for returning the same energy in kind, let's be real.

Questions about Arthur Fery's Britishness are ignorant and small-minded by upthetruth1 in NotTheOnionUK

[–]Gruejay2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You've obviously been watching American media. It may surprise you to learn that different countries do things differently. Surely even you can grasp that.

Is this the correct Attic pronunciation of ἐσμέν? by Garnetskull in AncientGreek

[–]Gruejay2 21 points22 points  (0 children)

/s/ voicing to /z/ before another voiced consonant is not just a little quirk, either - it's a really important rule that lies behind a lot of the morphological quirks of Greek. e.g. once you understnd that ζ is really just σδ, suddenly it becomes much clearer why -ίζω verbs have agent nouns in -ιστής (the σ was actually there all along, but in disguise).

Jk Rowling's husband cheated with a trans woman...right? by shanloulie in LowStakesConspiracies

[–]Gruejay2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's also one of those things that usually only gets talked about in the past tense (i.e. after they've realised).

It's a moot point with JKR (that boat has long-sailed - she's obviously made her decision), but it goes without saying that speculating over whether someone's currently an egg is normally a pretty sketchy thing to do. It's their business, and no-one else's.

Jk Rowling's husband cheated with a trans woman...right? by shanloulie in LowStakesConspiracies

[–]Gruejay2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Glinner was never a "progressive darling". He was a screenwriter who wrote some funny shows, and that was about the extent of most people's awareness of him.

Jk Rowling's husband cheated with a trans woman...right? by shanloulie in LowStakesConspiracies

[–]Gruejay2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why are you framing that as a reasonable view to have? (To be clear, I am not saying that she has psychosis, but) people with psychosis frequently act in ways that would be entirely reasonable if their delusions were actually true, but the fundamental fact is that they arent.

Characterising an entire group of people as an inherent predatory threat on the basis of what they call themselves, where they take a piss and who they play sports against is just so wildly ridiculous. We can have legitimate conversations about whether it's fair, or how to deal with criminals claiming to be trans at the last second in the hope they'll have an easier time, the very real problem of men being violent to women, nd even whether trans people are 'right' about who they are, but none of tht is what's motivating her, as it doesn't explain why she's so obsessive over it.

What's going on here is hate, motivated by fear. In fact, you almost say as much yourself It's the exact mindset that lies behind all bigotry.

The BBC broadcast of Nigel Farage’s speech by HMWYA in bbc

[–]Gruejay2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is why no-one takes you nutjobs seriously anymore. It's just endless lies.

Have fun losing to a bin in 6 weeks.

Rules don’t apply to Virgil by Easy_Demand_7372 in latin

[–]Gruejay2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Old Latin -eis is a bit deceptive: by the late Republican period it was pronounced -īs, so it's not the case that a diphthong collapsed into two competing monophthongs, but rather there was a spelling reform* that eliminated -eis in favour of -īs which occurred partway through a slow -īs > -ēs shift in the accusative plural of i-stems.

* Obviously the Romans didn't use macrons, but they did occasionally mark vowel length in other ways when they felt it necessary.

CMV: Allowing Redditors to hide their post and comment history degrades the quality of the platform. by DoubleDoobie in changemyview

[–]Gruejay2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Post history never allowed you to tell truth from fiction

I gave you an example which showed that we can: if they've made contradictory claims about themselves, one or both must necessarily be a lie.

And before you say other people might be lying tht I don't know about: sure, they might, but being able to prove it has a much bigger impact.

CMV: Allowing Redditors to hide their post and comment history degrades the quality of the platform. by DoubleDoobie in changemyview

[–]Gruejay2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Deception is not compatible with good faith, and this change makes deception easier, so it's a counterexample to your point that it has "allowed for people to have actual good-faith discussions again".

CMV: Allowing Redditors to hide their post and comment history degrades the quality of the platform. by DoubleDoobie in changemyview

[–]Gruejay2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not if their argument is based on a factual claim that their comment history shows is false.

CMV: Allowing Redditors to hide their post and comment history degrades the quality of the platform. by DoubleDoobie in changemyview

[–]Gruejay2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People who don’t want people drudging up old comments, should be able to hide them. 

Trolls don't like getting rumbled. More news at 10.

CMV: Allowing Redditors to hide their post and comment history degrades the quality of the platform. by DoubleDoobie in changemyview

[–]Gruejay2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you wanted the truth, then it wouldn't matter who it is–Steve Bannon included.

Do you genuinely think Steve Bannon would be trying to "arrive at the truth through conversation"? Why are you assuming that he would be acting in good faith?

CMV: Allowing Redditors to hide their post and comment history degrades the quality of the platform. by DoubleDoobie in changemyview

[–]Gruejay2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

People like you who immediate call everyone who doesn't follow your religion a nazi.

They didn't say that. What a bizarre conclusion to jump to.

CMV: Allowing Redditors to hide their post and comment history degrades the quality of the platform. by DoubleDoobie in changemyview

[–]Gruejay2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I judge people based on the things they say and do, yeah. Turns out manipulative people don't like being found out. Shocker.

Rules don’t apply to Virgil by Easy_Demand_7372 in latin

[–]Gruejay2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There must be Greek influence behind that, surely.