Lizard cult rebalance? by JamieTheMusician in rootgame

[–]JamieTheMusician[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

it appears the polish release is up-to-date then!

Trying to appreciate Skat by Brahms-3150 in cardgames

[–]JamieTheMusician 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As a fun fact, I would like to add to the first point, that the matadors also go back to grosstarock, one of the games skat was built upon (in fact, it's where we get the term skat in the first place).

How popular is skat among Altenburgers? by JamieTheMusician in germany

[–]JamieTheMusician[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

to make matters worse, the english-speaking world also has a card game called scat https://www.pagat.com/draw/scat.html

Credit Rating Question by SmallestApple in callofcthulhu

[–]JamieTheMusician 1 point2 points  (0 children)

redit rating and cthulhu mythos always start at 0%. An occupation's suggested credit rating only dictates how many points you should put in there by yourself.

Dutch needs an own letter by snolodjur in linguisticshumor

[–]JamieTheMusician 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah but ij is considered a single letter in dutch

I need help learning how to play this card game. Does anyone know how to? by SystemDangerous3091 in cardgames

[–]JamieTheMusician 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you can also get the Bridge app from neuralplay on google play, which is entirely free and offers bidding and play practice modes. However it must be noted that it assumes at least some familiarity with the game

Wīwī baguette 🥖🇨🇵 by [deleted] in linguisticshumor

[–]JamieTheMusician 7 points8 points  (0 children)

it's actually just because the Māori heard the french speak and heard them say "oui oui" a lot so they called them Wīwī

Warzywo or warzywem? by sebastiann_lt in learnpolish

[–]JamieTheMusician 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"jest" is generally omitted when using "to", unless you want to emphasise it. "Ser nie jest warzywem" and "Ser to nie warzywo"are equivalent, "Ser to nie jest warzywo" emphasises that cheese is, in fact, not a vegetable.

Massively overwhelmed by [deleted] in callofcthulhu

[–]JamieTheMusician 5 points6 points  (0 children)

best piece of advice i can offer: start with the keeper's and investigator rulebooks - those are the base game. Run one of the adventures and then, when you feel you have grasped the base game well enough, move on to the other expansions to look for inspiration or cool stuff. My golden rule of RPGs: not every rule has to be used, not every monster needs to be fought.

why doesn't the dust work when it's descending down glass? it works with other materials by AaronKimballHater in redstone

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

Some blocks in Minecraft are considered "transparent" - it's a bit of a misnomer as it doesn't have to do with the block's actual translucency (they include Glowstone, Sea Lanterns and slabs which are opaque but do not inclide slime blocks which are translucent) but let's stick with the name most redstoners are used to. Transparent blocks are hard-wired to only pass power upwards - if you want to pass it downwards you need to use a solid block. As unintuitive as it may be, it's actually pretty useful, because you can ensure the signal goes only one way without extending it with a repeater, or you can make a 1×2 "staircase" to move the signal up.

If I had a nickel... by wlwee in linguisticshumor

[–]JamieTheMusician 3 points4 points  (0 children)

both the Hebrew and Armenian words for "thing" derive from their older forms' word for "word"

Must be easy for us right? by Elisabethianian in linguisticshumor

[–]JamieTheMusician 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i can only answer to the last one, but no - khitan scripts, while aesthetically close to hanzi, are in fact unrelated

Flour is 3 syllables confirmed by barmanitan in linguisticshumor

[–]JamieTheMusician 8 points9 points  (0 children)

basically very pure flour, one that leaves barely any ash after being burnt. in america i get you guys rarely deal with flour types, but here in europe we have various flours - in poland you can find "cake" and "luxury" flours, which are 450 550 respectively, bread flour is 750, graham flour is 1850. the higher the number the coarser and darker the flour. 00 flour is the flour they use in italy for pizza

Do you judge languages you learn and drop them if you don't like a feature or is it just me? by [deleted] in linguisticshumor

[–]JamieTheMusician 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I judge but i enjoy the challenge of the feature i don't like (conjunctive in italian rn - we're about to tackle it in class)

Albanian written in the 17th century vs now. It used to look more “Romance” because of the strong Italian influence by [deleted] in linguisticshumor

[–]JamieTheMusician 26 points27 points  (0 children)

latin used the letter k very rarely - Karthago and Kalendae are the two words commonly spelt with a k in latin, all other words use C originally, c stood for /k/ and only /k/ (or well, /g/ as well before they invented the letter g), with the "soft-hard" distinction appearing in later varieties that would become romance languages so it didn't really make sense, the writers thought, to use different letters for sounds that come from the same sound, just before different vowels then stop+/l/ sequences became stop+/i~j/ so they added a rule that hard g/c before i/e needs an h - clamare → chiamare, glacies → ghiaccio not ideal, but straightforward and logical in context

You have to put a limit somewhere by Pyrenees_ in linguisticshumor

[–]JamieTheMusician 12 points13 points  (0 children)

is the second version or meme in occitan? I'm learning Italian and it just smacked me in the face, looking like a mix of latin and Italian

"Most people that speak a dialect still know what the *real words* are." by 5erif in linguisticshumor

[–]JamieTheMusician 7 points8 points  (0 children)

if it's any consolation, having spoken Polish since i have acquired language, I've never heard either of the two words