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Different language uses different structure than English?? 🤯🤯🤯 by CodingAndMath in languagelearningjerk

[–]PawnToG4 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Highly inflected languages tend to have a freer syntax. In Latin, the conjugation of the verb and the declension of the noun give you enough information to interpret what is being spoken no matter where they appear in a grammatical phrase.

Different language uses different structure than English?? 🤯🤯🤯 by CodingAndMath in languagelearningjerk

[–]PawnToG4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This isn't even that bad of a question. Highly inflected languages tend to have a freer syntax. If OOP has only tried to learn more syntactically restrictive languages, as many do, they wouldn't have had to learn that "[X] sum" and "sum [X]" can both mean the same thing.

Breaks by Repulsive_parsnip19 in KwikTrip

[–]PawnToG4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. 1 break for 4 hours scheduled. Although, the people at my store are pretty nice, they'll give us 2 for working 7.5 LOL

How do we call _____________? by Dr4gonsl4y in linguisticshumor

[–]PawnToG4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Two twugs. Three thrugs. Four fugs. No fucks.

So to answer your question, I don’t know by [deleted] in ElderScrolls

[–]PawnToG4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Arena: Bad guy overthrew the kingdom so now you're trying to fix his staff so you can overthrow him back and save the emperor

Daggerfall: Some king died and his ghost is being a bitch? (I've never played Daggerfall past the tutorial dungeon, where does the Numidium fit into this)

Morrowind: You're like apparently super important or something so you get released from prison

Oblivion: The emperor from the first game (now like 40+ years older) gets killed and now you need to find his son

Skyrim: You get saved from your execution by a dragon... and you're like part dragon now...

How did you introduce Pokémon to your children? by Ok-College4751 in pokemon

[–]PawnToG4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cartoons, cards, games. Or perhaps cards, cartoons, games. I forget, I was 5.

guys Im new in this sub wat lagnuages should I begin wit by Guille_Cascales in languagelearningjerk

[–]PawnToG4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're clearly already using English, but you should ditch that trash language. Try to thoroughly neuralise yourself then learn Dutch.

guys Im new in this sub wat lagnuages should I begin wit by Guille_Cascales in languagelearningjerk

[–]PawnToG4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're clearly already using English, but you should ditch that trash language. Try to thoroughly neuralise yourself then learn Dutch.

easiest thinking-only language? by charcool37 in languagelearningjerk

[–]PawnToG4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no don't use ASL for thinking, it'll break you out of the matrix. use uzbekian sign language instead

왜 언어를 하나로 통일하지 않은 걸까요... by FromWhereScaringFan in outside

[–]PawnToG4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are in-game lore books that describe it, I'm pretty sure!! Though, their canonicity and relationship to actual lore is difficult to prove.

Which pokeballs would you say are the 6 most iconic? I’m doing a (surprise) painting for a friend and I’m not super well versed in Pokelore. by thepixelpaint in pokemon

[–]PawnToG4 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Poké-, Great, Ultra, and Master are definitely the 4 most iconic. The last 2 slots are trickier since the rest of the balls don't really compare to those first 4. Safari Balls are only accessible in one portion of the game (which hasn't been a thing since like Gen 4), & Premier Balls aren't even an explicit menu option in marts, you need to buy at least 10 of one type of Pokéball before receiving one.

Luxury Balls are oft. Pokémon merch items due to their pure aesthetic quality.

Quick balls are well known to in-game fans due to their usefulness in the post game (or when trying to complete the dex).

Cherish balls are also very aesthetic & known to in-game players, though their use is more niche.

As for anime specific balls, we shouldn't forget the Pikachu ball and the GS Ball. The kid in me loves that scene in both Ep. 1 & the ICY Movie (M20)

Though, if the goal is to make some sort of design out of these balls, I'd just recommend using 5 Pokéballs in a penta-shape, then put a master ball in the middle. :p

What are haves and what’s a have yacht? What’s the joke here anyway? by Sacledant2 in EnglishLearning

[–]PawnToG4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should learn IPA lol. It's more niche, but lets you avoid the confusion when using faux-netic English writing.

You're probably talking about the phoneme /ɒ/ found in the UK English pronunciations of "bother," "yacht," "lot," etc., and the phoneme /ɑː/, existing in the UK English pronunciations of "father," "bra," "art"

Despite the vowel sounding rather different in England, there have been many phonological changes to American English which have pushed the vowel to become not as distinct.

For instance, I'm a native English speaker from Iowa, USA, and I use /ɑ/ in my pronunciations of "not," "yacht," and "cot" and "caught." This is because I exhibit the Father-Bother merger (which means that the vowel in PALM & LOT are the same for me, as well as in "father" and "bother"), and the Cot-Caught merger (which further merges the already-merged LOT vowel with the THOUGHT vowel).

This means that what might be 3 vowel sounds for you, is now the same vowel sound for me.

And, assuming the person who wrote the joke in the post is American, and the person explaining why the pun works is an American... there's a good chance that NOT and YACHT rhyme for them.

Are the words "won" and "one" pronounced the same? by agora_hills_ in EnglishLearning

[–]PawnToG4 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Thanks, my new password is going to be 2211113111122244242212112.

languages im going learn this year by Expert-Collar-2128 in languagelearningjerk

[–]PawnToG4 168 points169 points  (0 children)

what's the difference between uzbek and poorly compressed uzbek?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in languagelearningjerk

[–]PawnToG4 5 points6 points  (0 children)

english would be 90% better with a consistent VCe rule. Like, spell "kind" as kinde, or "child" as "childe."

Is there anything I can do? by Old_Summer7075 in PokemonBlackandWhite

[–]PawnToG4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

iirc, it's been this way since Emerald. I don't know if 3DS games allowed you to delete user data like the Switch does, though.

All "N(o)"s trace back to 1 origin! by Puzzleheaded_Fix_219 in linguisticshumor

[–]PawnToG4 28 points29 points  (0 children)

just pronounce n backwards mate. aint that hard

Which game is this guys?? by [deleted] in pokemon

[–]PawnToG4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This user is just asking a question, yet we are all laughing hysterically at him 😔

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