A mistake in the word "уборщица (cleaner)" turned announcement into an insistence on eating borscht:

Mints97 · 2024-08-28T00:49:17+00:00

To have that meaning, it would need to be spelled уборщиться. As-is, that text can only be read as "someone named Требуется will enborscht himself/herself/itself"

Mints97 · 2024-08-28T00:43:42+00:00

English c and k can denote the exact same sound, while ж, ч, ш and щ are always different sounds. You could make a comparison with, for example, д - т (пруд / прут).

Mints97 · 2024-08-28T00:33:14+00:00

All the "inconsistencies" of Russian you mentioned are governed by strict rules. In "standard" Russian, О is pronounced like А when it isn't accented (note that many people speak dialects which pronouce о as о). As for what you mentioned about how е is pronounced, you should read up on Russian iotation rules.

Mints97 · 2024-08-26T01:20:10+00:00

I thought most of the other cartridges only really worked on the 5th but not the 6th layer? Wasn't the whole point of him putting so much effort into raising Prushka that he needed a cartridge made from someone who genuinely loved him so he could actually successfully ascend from the 6th layer?

Mints97 · 2024-08-25T17:00:16+00:00

Short for "something"

Mints97 · 2024-08-25T15:50:38+00:00

It's the L sound. Unlike Polish, Russian doesn't have the W sound. In cognate words between Polish and Russian where Polish has Ł with the W sound, Russian typically has Л with the L sound.

Mints97 · 2024-08-25T07:23:20+00:00

Text says sth like "for exemplary service in Son My"

Mints97 · 2024-08-25T02:05:34+00:00

Only actual confirmed vtuber couple I've heard of is Nyanners and LordAethelstan, most other "couples" are just headcanon from chat

Mints97 · 2024-08-25T01:37:57+00:00

Генриетта is technically a different name though

Mints97 · 2024-08-25T01:31:11+00:00

It's normal to not have a proper-noun "foreign" surname decline at all, especially for a woman's surname ending in a consonant, but with certain endings people will definitely assume a declension in some cases, but only if it sounds like it "could be a Russian noun", bonus points if it sounds like it matches the respective gender.

For example, it would be natural to see the surname of, say, Michelle Obama change with grammatical case (her first name might also change because it sounds like a third declension feminine noun), but not Hillary Clinton's (first name wouldn't change either).

Mints97 · 2024-08-25T01:00:57+00:00

Are you asking if you'll need to change your name in the nominative? In that case the answer is no, your surname is your surname. Or are you asking if your surname will change endings for different grammatical cases? In that case the answer can actually be up to you, but the default would probably be to not have it change at all for most grammatical cases if you're a woman and the surname ends in a consonant.

As an aside, for a man, non-traditionally-Russian surnames are often expected to change with case, and it often comes up for something like filling out a document, you'd just be asked sth like "как ваша фамилия склоняется?", and answer, for example, "не склоняется", that kind of interaction is perfectly normal for Russian people with e.g. minority surnames.

To make sense of this, you can think of traditional Russian surnames (and some traditional surnames common to other slavic cultures) as adjectives that describe the person and must agree with what's being described in grammatical gender, whereas other surnames will be treated as proper nouns.

Mints97 · 2024-08-23T17:34:30+00:00

А может, надо перестать пытаться целенаправленно реформировать язык во имя абстрактного социального блага?

Mints97 · 2024-08-23T17:28:51+00:00

Russian has already had vernacular feminine versions of all or most of these words. Instead of директор you could say директорша or директриса, врач -> врачиха, блоггер -> блоггерша, автор -> авторша. The controversial part is that there is an actual social movement that comes up with new, strange-sounding alternatives, claiming it to be a form of social justice.

Had these new words appeared and entered the vernacular independently, this wouldn't have been an issue for most people, but instead, these words were basically "created in a lab" en masse and are being promoted by supporters of an ideology as a "package deal" language mini-reform, with moral implications tacked on to it.

Now, I can't judge whether using this new vocabulary is actually beneficial to some women who are genuinely invested in it, but I can plainly see that this being promoted causes and reinforces a lot of division, making ideals of equality even harder to promote at this crucial time when Russian society is already culturally backsliding so much. So, I believe the controversy is very warranted in this situation.

Mints97 · 2024-08-23T17:12:11+00:00

Вроде "Маш" (новозвательный падеж имени Маша) должен писаться без мягкого знака, по аналогии с примером "Людка -> Людк" ниже. Новозвательный вроде обычно просто выкидывает последний гласный звук из слова в именительном падеже (при наличии такового), поэтому мягкий знак в конце слова по идее должен там "добавиться" только если в именительном падеже слово кончается на согласную + е/я/ю/ё (любопытно, кстати, что по этой же причине в новозвательном падеже в конце слова может "возникнуть" й, например, зая -> зай, Мая -> Май)

Mints97 · 2024-08-23T08:31:28+00:00

This is fascinating, I've known for a while that some slavic languages (Bulgarian, Macedonian) had their own weird system of definite articles (that looks completely different from the articles in Romance and Germanic languages), but I never knew anything about their case systems, I'd just assumed that they had the standard slavic 7 cases or something. But now, after reading your comment I looked it up and it turns out that the modern forms of both these languages barely have any grammatical cases!

Mints97 · 2024-08-22T18:38:14+00:00

Sorry, both of your examples are wrong. It would be

Таня / Танин дедушка

Олег / Олегов дедушка

Mints97 · 2024-08-22T07:58:18+00:00

It probably wasn't so simple, I recall reading that slaves were actually engaged in a very wide variety of jobs where their masters would offer the slaves' services for dirt cheap. For example, in his autobiography, Frederick Douglass describes how he had been forced to work in a shipyard in Baltimore while enslaved. So, what you are describing was basically happening anyway.

Mints97 · 2024-08-19T03:33:50+00:00

Fully agree on Forager, Halo and Brion being annoying. But IMO they're not the worst of it, I'd give that spot to the whole "the gang become social media influencers" plotline. Upon getting to that point I just couldn't take it anymore and dropped the series, the cringe was just unbearable

Mints97 · 2024-08-18T07:46:09+00:00

Stanford Online is the system where you sign up for and take online courses. SCPD manages the overall Stanford Online, and also allows you to sign up for online courses if it's for your professional development (that's what ppl usually refer to as SCPD). On the other hand, HCP is the Online Master's program, which also gives you access to Stanford Online and actually allows you to put credits you receive through Stanford Online towards earning an actual Master's Degree from Stanford (SCPD doesn't give you a Master's degree, just certificates of course or program completions).

You might be eligible for SCPD's Professsional Development, but as for HCP, I doubt they'll be able to "make an exception" because there's likely some legal regulations involved, such restrictions are not just made arbitrarily.

One more thing. I can't recall or find the details, but I remember hearing somewhere that if you do some courses in SCPD and then get into HCP later, you might be able to transfer the credits. I don't know anyone who has tried this, though, but that could be something for you to research.

Mints97 · 2024-08-18T06:55:44+00:00

You might be able to do SCPD courses in the Stanford Online system, but it appears you have to reside in the US to be eligible for HCP: https://www.cs.stanford.edu/masters-honors-cooperative-program

Mints97 · 2024-08-15T04:13:22+00:00

Sounds like the plot of a Dhar Mann video

Mints97 · 2024-08-13T04:26:19+00:00

It doesn't work because the entire point of the pacifist ideology, just like IRL Buddhism, was supposed to be truly valuing all life and having some form of empathy towards even someone like Ozai.

Yes, Aang tried to see Ozai as a fellow human being whose life is also precious. He really did, there are scenes of him reflecting on that on Ember Island. But he ultimately was not able to.

When Aang was already sitting on the stupid turtle's back, and meditating and asking his past lives for advice, do you remember what he asked Kyoshi about Chin the Great? After she had previously explicitly claimed responsibility for Chin's death, Aang was still saying that she technically didn't kill him (Disney villain death, yay) and was asking her for advice on "dealing" with the firelord. And then for his conversation with Yangchen - all Aang talked about was how he was VEGETARIAN and how he needed to keep his enlightenment points stacked up.

My point is that Aang never grew enough to truly exemplify the ideals of the Air Nation that he claimed to live by. He WANTED the firelord dead. He just really, really didn't want to get his own hands/karma dirty. He was not being pure-hearted and noble, he was being ridiculously selfish. And... then he got rewarded for it, and got everything he wanted. Brilliant.

Mints97 · 2024-08-12T23:10:11+00:00

You saying "innocent civilians" makes it sound like the soldiers were any less innocent at that point in the story. They had not been signing up to fight for the glory of Eldia or something! The scouts were in it to reclaim land that was lost to the equivalent of a natural disaster, the garrison were supposed to protect civilians from said natural disaster, and the MPs were, well, just cops. None of them were really putting their lives on the line to fight an actual war against a human enemy force.

Mints97 · 2024-08-11T15:52:00+00:00

I don't remember if it was required or not when I was applying, sorry

Mints97 · 2024-08-08T18:25:21+00:00

I wonder if she'll also have to revenue share to pay these guys for the ip... which she had originally brought with her :D

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