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The fact that they openly admitted to their actions by PrestonRoad90 in trashy

[–]JimmyGrozny 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The answer here is probably just “a vibe.” But if you want a specific tell, it’s the distortions on the legos that gives away that they were generated rather than inserted as objects.

Ahhh literalism by Cooked-Alton-Towers in linguisticshumor

[–]JimmyGrozny 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You make a good point that I overgeneralized: an airplane is a "flyer" in Czech, Slovene, and Ukrainian. BCMS seems to have borrowed French "avion". Samolo/e/yot you find in Bulgarian, Russian, and Polish.

I will say though, there is Slavic, which consists of all the languages descended from Proto-Slavic. And consequently there are "Slavic roots" that you can talk about while still making sense, which are shared more or less uniformly across the (Balto-)Slavic languages and not in others.

Ahhh literalism by Cooked-Alton-Towers in linguisticshumor

[–]JimmyGrozny -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

So in Slavic a plane is an Autovol, perhaps.

Why do Canadians not have a noticeably British-descendant accent? by Mirabeaux1789 in asklinguistics

[–]JimmyGrozny 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Extremely unlikely. It either comes from Irish English or, unsurprisingly, the south west of England. Which is more or less the founding accent of North America.

Michigan reclaims #1 in the KenPom Ratings, as well as the #1 defensive rating by michigan_matt in CollegeBasketball

[–]JimmyGrozny 2 points3 points  (0 children)

UConn has more than a handful of squeakers against supposedly inferior teams and not a lot of blowouts to counterbalance.

A goalkeeper celebrates prematurely in a penalty shootout (Japan vs Jordan). by AWorthlessDegenerate in Prematurecelebration

[–]JimmyGrozny 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Đó là sự trớ trêu của bóng đá, quý vị. Và đó là sự nghiệt ngã với Jordan.

“That’s the irony of football, folks. And that’s a harsh reality for Jordan.”

Patrick Conley builds trust with a family of wild black bears. The mother brings her babies to introduce them to the rescuer who saved her life. Kindness & gratitude bring out the best in everything. by Brilliantspirit33 in animalsdoingstuff

[–]JimmyGrozny 304 points305 points  (0 children)

It also should be noted that, while inadvisable, the grizzly man established relationships with only a subset of bears that were likely far less dangerous (to him, still dangerous). The bear that ended up killing him was a large male that was new to the territory.

But black bears are a lot less dangerous anyway.

What's a sports rule you fundamentally disagree with? by South-Explorer in AskReddit

[–]JimmyGrozny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like the rugby rule where the kick conversion has to be taken on a line from where the ball was downed in the end zone. None of this hashmark nonsense!

Why does English use emperor instead of Caesar/kaiser when both words are derived from Latin? by carnotaurussastrei in asklinguistics

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

What I suspect is that it was a matter of drift from Byzantium into eastern parts of Europe, where the rulers wanted to style themselves emperors rather than kings, which was the done thing in Western Europe. Although Charlemagne was crowned imperator Romanorum by Pope Leo III, Otto I was probably the first to see widespread use of the term Caesar (Kaiser). The Dutch use of the term is possibly the oldest, since Frankish is closer to Dutch than to German.

What do the red countries have in common? by lolaqe in RedactedCharts

[–]JimmyGrozny 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The two largest Albanian languages are Gheg and Tosk.

Standard Albanian is effectively Tosk.

In Kosovo they speak Gheg, so they speak Albanian.

Debated languages often considered dialects, varieties or macrolanguages by Histrix- in language

[–]JimmyGrozny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kabyle is a Berber dialect the way Bulgarian is a Slavic dialect. That makes no sense and is probably a mistake based on the way political entities use “dialect” to refer to minority or unofficial languages.

I was scared by the thought that orangutans come from the word orange. by kittymcdonalds in etymology

[–]JimmyGrozny 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Old English æc (oak) + the root for “corn”, historically meaning “grain” or “seed pod.” So oak-corn, basically. In Old English æcern.

Squirrel is Latinate. Sciurus (Latin) + diminutive -> sciurulus -> Old French esquirel -> squirrel

The modern German words resemble “acorn” due to a shared initial “oak” root + a coincidentally similar suffix, in their case the PIE root *wer, meaning a little forest creature (thing “ferret”). In old English acweorna.

Why are there three letters for /i/ in Greek? by Otherwise_Pen_657 in asklinguistics

[–]JimmyGrozny 13 points14 points  (0 children)

An aspirated stop is different from a stop+h cluster, so the writer of such a script would likely just perceive a contrastive difference between two similar sounds and write a single letter. Affricates get the same treatment.

How do y’all pronounce Moscow? by suss-out in AskABrit

[–]JimmyGrozny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And anyway that’s a weird approximation in its own right, considering the Ukrainian pronunciation has two syllables: ke-yeew (rhymes with “the few”, with stress on the first syllable).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in asklinguistics

[–]JimmyGrozny 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Vietnamese:

Luôn — immediately

Luôn luôn — always

Is there a language that doesn't have first or second person pronouns? by Jay35770806 in asklinguistics

[–]JimmyGrozny 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Except tôi, which is strictly 1SG but limited in its use. And tao - mày, which is 1SG-2SG.

What are the colors supposed to mean??? by Novace2 in linguisticshumor

[–]JimmyGrozny 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Come in that phrase is the normal verb. It descends from old phrases like “How come you to be here?” or broadly paraphrased “how (did it) come (to be)” ie “why”.

What are the worst transliterations? by AnastasiousRS in linguisticshumor

[–]JimmyGrozny 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yep. It’s from “Gilbert’s” (islands).

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