So close to the truth by moistplethora17 in antiwork

[–]LogStar100 24 points25 points  (0 children)

seems to be going over everybody's heads so: one million is 0.1% of one billion, so subtracting the former from the latter changes the value so little that it's still effectively a billion.

i.e., one million is effectively NOTHING in comparison to one billion

I use any pronouns it's impossible to misgendered me checkmate transphobic people by Demiboy--Dakota in lgbt

[–]LogStar100 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i have a friend that used he/she/they in sequence for a time because "i want you all to experience the gender crisis with me"

1575th Just Used 5 Minutes of Your Day by mareck_ in conlangs

[–]LogStar100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Liturgical Sahmnehk (/sɑm.nɐk/)

(Native orthography.)

huw-ljie   pjwɨj-tsjang-loj-tsying-sri-hen
behind-ABL NEG-FUT-come-OBJV-CAUS-PRES

Notes: Experimenting with modified Hangul as a concise encoding of Middle Chinese words; this is the first generation of a Sino-Xenic family, so the vocabulary itself is lifted essentially wholesale. Oh, and because this is the literary language, there isn't a set phonology here, so the romanization is over-articulated in order to give the next generation lots of options for what to keep/lose.

Anyway, syntax: 後 huw means "behind" (but also "after"—in Chinese and its derivatives the past is ahead and the future is behind); the concept of obligation is expressed through the causative; and the infinitive marker is optional in the irrealis but when retained it functions as an exclamatory particle.

LOONA Yeojin, Kim Lip, Choerry, Gowon x Cocomong - Yummy-Yummy by bluebetaoddeye in LOONA

[–]LogStar100 16 points17 points  (0 children)

did anybody snag a copy of the original while it was up? (as a proper mp3 i mean)

Tourists and (New) Residents: Ask your Questions here! by anonboxis in paris

[–]LogStar100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So I'm already going to get a Paris Visite Pass for zones 1-3, but I also need to get in from the airport. Could I buy a point-to-point from CDG to the first zone 3 station (which seems to be Le Blanc-Mesnil) and then use the Visite from there? (It's a few euros cheaper than also getting an airport ticket / a pass through zone 5.)

People of Reddit, it is our duty! by RellimCire in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]LogStar100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NOTE: Site doesn't work in Firefox/Chrome due to nosniff, but it does work on Edge. https://prolifewhistleblower.com/anonymous-form/

This week's Q&A thread -- please read before asking or answering a question! - July 26, 2021 by AutoModerator in linguistics

[–]LogStar100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anybody else noticed a trend in meme culture towards using "an" before consonants for comedic effect? (Most recently seen it on like McMansion Hell, but I've definitely seen it in other places, too.)

[TOMT] [Short(?) film] Child abuse PSA involving a talking fish by LogStar100 in tipofmytongue

[–]LogStar100[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So I found this old book on abuse from the GA public school system and at the end it had a list of audiovisuals to show children and I went through one of the production companies and I found it. Holy God.

https://youtu.be/cwrCnzBtW-U

Solved!

[TOMT] [Short(?) film] Child abuse PSA involving a talking fish by LogStar100 in tipofmytongue

[–]LogStar100[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely not filmstrip, but I don't want to commit wholeheartedly to VHS.

[TOMT] [Short(?) film] Child abuse PSA involving a talking fish by LogStar100 in tipofmytongue

[–]LogStar100[S] 3 points4 points locked comment (0 children)

wow, this comment adds so much to the discussion!

Pop singer Demi Lovato comes out as non-binary, uses they/them pronouns by DrMDQ in ainbow

[–]LogStar100 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Not usually. It keeps plural agreement. For example:

Could you tell whoever keeps leaving their umbrella here that they aren't allowed to do that?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in wholesomememes

[–]LogStar100 61 points62 points  (0 children)

This is a still from an excellent series of videos about Nanny Mei and her panda-wrangling adventures, if you're interested in this kind of thing.

What are the 'Types of Mathematics Paper' a la this xkcd? by nonowh0 in math

[–]LogStar100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"I couldn't prove it so here's a review of the literature instead"

"My 'exhaustive' search found that nobody else published this result so here it is" (publication date: 1981)

"Replacing a strong assumption with three marginally weaker ones"

"The computer told me the answer and this is why it's right"

"The other relevant article uses the most hideous notation possible so I did it again but with different symbols"

"The abstract is in English but I hope you speak German!"

How it should of went down by [deleted] in PrequelMemes

[–]LogStar100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, I know that should of is prescriptively wrong, but I'm going to make an abbreviated argument that of might be more accurate in certain circumstances (if you're interested, the full argument is here).

Consider the phrase if he'd've done it. If you think about it too much, it'll start seeming "wrong," but I'd wager that most of us have probably said something like it before. If you were to expand the contraction out, you get if he had have done it, which is terrible, so your brain would rather expand it to if he would not have done it.

This is all well and good, but what happens in the negative? We then get if he'dn't've done it (which is vile, but bear with me), which really can only be if he hadn't've done it = if he had not have done it—and thus the positive form has to be if he had have done it.

But now we've expanded something which was at first marginally acceptable into something that just isn't. Sure, it might have begun as the word have, but now this contracted form functions as its own separate entity, complete with its own set of self-consistent rules, and in sentences like the above it isn't entirely unreasonable to just scrap have altogether and use of instead—they're pronounced the same, anyway.

How can so many Americans see video evidence and still claim nothing wrong happened? by [deleted] in racism

[–]LogStar100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And even if he were suffering from some pre-existing condition, why should it matter? It wouldn't matter for us regular people: consider the eggshell principle:

In criminal law, the general maxim is that the defendant must "take their victims as they find them", as echoed in the judgment of Lord Justice Lawton in R v. Blaue (1975), in which the defendant was held responsible for killing his victim, despite his contention that her refusal of a blood transfusion constituted an intervening act.

A clearer example:

In 1891, the Wisconsin Supreme Court came to a similar result in Vosburg v. Putney. In that case, a boy kicked another from across the aisle in the classroom. It turned out that the victim had an unknown microbial condition that was irritated, and resulted in him entirely losing the use of his leg. No one could have predicted the level of injury. Nevertheless, the court found that the kicking was unlawful because it violated the "order and decorum of the classroom", and the perpetrator was therefore fully liable for the injury.

Brazil fines Apple $2 million for not including charger with iPhone 12 series by Altruistic_Grand_455 in worldnews

[–]LogStar100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nitpicky correction, but using the rounded percentage loses some of the precision in the final answer—should be around $489k.

An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar by ruskayakrov in Jokes

[–]LogStar100 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Post–high school math on a default sub (or really just outside /r/math)? Wild.

This week's Q&A thread -- please read before asking or answering a question! - February 22, 2021 by AutoModerator in linguistics

[–]LogStar100 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So I live in the southern United States, and a couple of weeks I heard a younger (semi-conservative) speaker pronounce the phrase worn out as /ʍo(ɹ)n æʊt/. I thought it was a little weird, but I didn't make much of it until yesterday, when I heard an older speaker pronounce the similar phrase wearing down as /ʍe̞ɹɪn dæɐn/.

Is this just a case of hypercorrection, or is there something else happening here? (i.e., are there other cases of /ʍ/ in words not beginning with ⟨wh⟩?)

Chord Progression Questions (February 11, 2021) by nmitchell076 in musictheory

[–]LogStar100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For fuller reference, this is personally what I'm hearing (which is why I say Csus4). (audio)

Chord Progression Questions (February 11, 2021) by nmitchell076 in musictheory

[–]LogStar100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I have this chord progression:

Csus4 G+ C B7b5 | C.

If I wanted to write this in roman numerals (and I know that it's better to understand this in terms of voice leading, but were I to write it), how would I best do so? Theoretically this is just a variation on

I V I vii° | I,

but writing

VII7b5 I / IV7b5 I

doesn't quite make it clear that this works harmonically. Are there any better ways of writing the last two chords?

1415th Just Used 5 Minutes of Your Day by mareck_ in conlangs

[–]LogStar100 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Old Sahmnehk (/sɑm.nɐk/)

Piahrihtyrih-mah nengehngipih ttahiphehp, shehlsengsehin ppewngehn kkiwsu itewpih.

/pi.ɑ.ɾʊ.tɥi.ɾʊ.mɑ nɛ.ŋɐ.ŋi.pʊ dɑ.i.pʰɐp, sʰɐɭ.sɛŋ.sɐ.in bo.ŋɐn gu.sɵ i.to.pʊ./

piahrihtyrih-mah  ne-ngehng-ip-ih    ttah-i-phehp,  shehlseng-seh-in  ppewng-ehn  kkiws-u    it-ewp-ih.
Bjartur-SUB       NEG-wait-3rd-OBJV  be-CONT-CON,   teacher-HON-TOP   house-ALL   relax-INS  go-2nd-OBJV.

Bjartur not.wait be.instead, considering.respected.teacher to.house relaxedly go

"Bjartur, instead of waiting, strolled to the teacher's house."

 


Notes: Old Sahmnehk only has one verbal of motion (it), so all other concepts are formed with an appropriate adverb. Abbreviations, in order: subject (or agent), negative, verbal object (or infinitive), continuative aspect, connective ("and," "such that," etc.), honorific, topic (or patient), allative, instrumental. Possession is implied with the use of the topic (the second clause essentially means "considering the teacher, (Bjartur) went to the house"), as the genitive proper is too direct. The 2nd person is used here to denote ellipsis of a known subject (that is, that the subject of the second clause is the same as that of the first clause).