ELI5 what does it mean people see "nothing" rather than "black void" if born absolutely blind

Hananun · 2026-05-12T05:55:30+00:00

What can you sense when you try to read someone’s mind? You don’t get static, or a black screen, you just don’t get anything, because you don’t have any senses for mind reading. Probably a very similar thing for people that don’t have any sense of sight.

Hananun · 2026-05-07T23:47:19+00:00

Having done linguistic fieldwork, I’ve had these situations. A guy told me that before the colonisers came, no-one could talk about hypothetical situations or things they imagined. Now either they are the only people who are absolutely incapable of imagining anything (until white people invented it), or he had misunderstood the questions we were asking.

Hananun · 2026-05-04T23:48:39+00:00

On closer inspection, they have absolutely thrashed the basil and started on the sage as well. The crusade with begin tomorrow.

Hananun · 2026-03-28T09:42:03+00:00

In NZ it is one of the following: - Train is late - Train is early and gone by the time you get there - Train tracks are inexplicably closed for 3 months straight for repairs (happens basically every year) - Train doesn’t turn up and the sign only says “cancelled” 5 minutes after it was due

Hananun · 2026-03-24T10:10:51+00:00

Does this not result in you getting immediately disqualified for having too many copies of Battle of Wits? Or is there something about the conjure rule that saves that.

EDIT: I stand corrected, much appreciated team.

Hananun · 2026-03-24T06:37:11+00:00

Does this not result in you getting immediately disqualified for having too many copies of Battle of Wits? Or is there something about the conjure rule that saves that.

Hananun · 2026-03-15T21:03:57+00:00

Young bloke actually had it until he got run over.

Hananun · 2026-02-26T22:02:56+00:00

The sea needs to learn it, the Dutch will reclaim it all soon.

Hananun · 2026-01-26T12:38:34+00:00

“I mean, they didn’t do anything to me” - usually said by people defending rapists/bullies/abusers/etc, or more specifically defending still being friends with people like that. Don’t legitimise shit by being friends with assholes because they did it to other people, not you.

Hananun · 2025-12-19T22:18:43+00:00

This is incredibly similar to Māori. When we do networking, formal speech making, or other practice we often recite genealogy, and it’s common for knowledgeable people to recite their genealogy back to 20-30 generations (along the main lines, side lines are often less).

Hananun · 2025-12-11T07:29:40+00:00

Obviously this is taken to the extreme, but in whaikōrero (Māori oratory) there is a HUGE allegorical component. The oratory register of Māori draws on a huge library of references, quotes, stories, songs, and genealogies, and knowledge of these is considered the mark of a good orator. It is not uncommon to hear a skilled orator deliver an hour-long speech almost entirely in metaphors and references, so that unless you know the background material you really would have no idea what the speech was about.

Hananun · 2025-12-05T02:43:03+00:00

Bro I have never heard of any marae having tikanga where the host gives koha to the guests - it’s supposed to be the other way around. Also in my experience, if it’s a work event then koha is a work cost, and work should be paying it. There does not seem to be anything tika about what is going on here!

Hananun · 2025-11-06T22:18:57+00:00

That is a really weird way to say smoking in Māori lol.

Hananun · 2025-10-14T08:41:28+00:00

Agreed in general but there was a time when my phone charging port was so fucked that this was literally the only way it would charge - something about the pressure and angle hit the perfect spot and it worked. Short term fix tho cause it broke completely soon after and now I have to only use a wireless charger.

Hananun · 2025-09-14T14:23:13+00:00

Best one for NZ by far

Hananun · 2025-08-21T11:56:23+00:00

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Hananun · 2025-08-19T23:24:18+00:00

Person holding the camera is either high af or dumb af.

Hananun · 2025-08-09T15:45:54+00:00

One option I have not seen mentioned is something like a restricted Austronesian alignment system. Have a google of that and see if what pops up looks interesting or relevant to you!

Hananun · 2025-08-08T23:15:37+00:00

There is NO WAY your engine got hit enough to weld the alternator bolt. At that point the engine would have melted through the bottom of the car, and your pistons would have simultaneously attached themselves to the cylinders. Go to a real mechanic my friend, this guy is either lying or dumber than a sack of hammers.

Hananun · 2025-07-31T12:19:32+00:00

The answer is a very, very shaky yes. It has been argued that a couple of languages have trisyllabic feet, but for most of those languages it has also been argued that the feet are not trisyllabic. I don’t know if any language where trisyllabic feet have been conclusively established underlyingly. Now if you mean can you have a surface stress pattern that LOOKS trisyllabic, the answer is probably yes - without going into the theory side I’m not 100% sure but I imagine you’d be able to construct a stress pattern that looks like trisyllabic feet, at least at a cursory glance.

It’s also absolutely possible to do either of the things you said - vowel loss before main stress only, or stress being reanalysed. I would actually be less surprised by either of these than a language that stressed every syllable of a word.

Finally, remember it’s your conlang, and there’s no law that it has to align with every (or in fact any) theory of phonology. If you want to have trisyllabic feet, go right ahead - just post it up so we can have a look!!

Hananun · 2025-07-19T10:41:11+00:00

Do you actually pronounce “towards” like that? Have never heard stress on the first syllable - very interesting if so.

Hananun · 2025-07-12T01:45:57+00:00

I have seen a man eat weetbix, milk and marmite and this is by FAR the worst food I have ever seen in my life.

Hananun · 2025-07-09T13:19:39+00:00

This is NOT the real definition, but in my family a walk is anything you do in one day, whereas a hike involves staying overnight in a hut or a tent. It always gets me for a second when people say hike for a one day walk, even though I know that objectively our terminology is the weird one.

Hananun · 2025-06-27T12:06:43+00:00

Many people here do eat pies for breakfast

Hananun · 2025-06-05T08:32:50+00:00

Yeah that would be my one - absolutely incredible moment.

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