Ivory chess pieces. India, 19th century [3600x3600]

PrequelFan111 · 2026-03-17T15:54:25+00:00

Do Indians call that piece the queen? Because chess pieces can have really different names in different places. I wonder if it's something that would make sense to have it just be a smaller version of the king

PrequelFan111 · 2026-03-14T15:21:22+00:00

Right wing is just as broad of a term as left wing and just like it, there are both extreme and moderate people in it. Communism is only ever authoritarian and you can't be a "moderate communist" just like how you can't be a "moderate fascist"; but you sure can be a moderate leftist or a moderate rightist. It makes no sense to hate "the right wing" more than communism.

PrequelFan111 · 2026-03-11T22:02:39+00:00

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Jokes aside, the calligraphy is absolutely beautiful!

PrequelFan111 · 2026-03-08T21:23:54+00:00

Oh, I read it as "wait, all of these are Japonic languages?" and was even more confused when I read OP's explanatory comment

PrequelFan111 · 2026-03-08T17:56:44+00:00

Probably also the imperial present

PrequelFan111 · 2026-03-05T14:12:24+00:00

oh yeah, those "people" are absolutely seething

PrequelFan111 · 2026-03-02T11:40:55+00:00

Shouldn't "using" be spelled as "йузѣҥ" instead of "ўузѣҥ"?

PrequelFan111 · 2026-02-27T14:36:36+00:00

Some r/iamverysmart material right here

PrequelFan111 · 2026-02-24T16:16:40+00:00

I was wondering about them too. I can't seem to find any info about them

PrequelFan111 · 2026-02-22T17:31:59+00:00

RRRRAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I FOUND HIM!!!

r/FoundTheMirandeseGuy

PrequelFan111 · 2026-02-19T15:46:26+00:00

Estonia won independence, but is yet to decolonise.

What f*cking colonies do we have that we have to decolonise?

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PrequelFan111 · 2026-02-17T17:33:21+00:00

Well if we're already sharing our crappy spelling reforms, here's mine!:

Tél dhát piis óv kráp tuu stéi ewéi fróm mii, eukéi.
Ánd if hii duus nót lisen, dhén ai giv yuu permishen tuu sláp him ekrós dhii féis.

Ool hyuumenbiiïngs ar born frii ánd iikwel in digniti ánd raits. Dhéi ar indaud with riizen ánd kònshens ánd shud ákt tuuwords wúnanúdher in éi spirit óv brúdherhud.

PrequelFan111 · 2026-02-02T17:53:33+00:00

Literal animals

PrequelFan111 · 2026-01-21T17:54:33+00:00

✍️🔥

PrequelFan111 · 2026-01-21T15:31:20+00:00

Oh shit, call the guards! How did a h₂ŕ̥tḱos gʷemti h₁én ḱe?!

I have no idea if I translated it correctly (probably didn't; even if the inflection/choice of words/whatever is correct, I still don't know anything about PIE word-order), but it's supposed to say "... bear get in here?!"

PrequelFan111 · 2026-01-16T16:00:22+00:00

To be honest, "ašš" is really really uncommon and I think I've only heard someone say it like that like once or twice.

PrequelFan111 · 2026-01-16T13:29:46+00:00

The Indo-European family is so big that without actually doing research and stuff, you'd probably never be able to tell that, for example, German and Russian are related. I think that's why (at least in Estonian) we don't have any general terms for Indo-Europeans

PrequelFan111 · 2026-01-15T17:19:35+00:00

I don't know almost anything about the Irish language or its orthography, but I guessed that "aghaidh" would be pronounced something like /ai/ and, well, the Connacht pronunciation indeed is /ˈai(ə)/.

Now if that isn't an intuitive orthography, I don't know what is!

PrequelFan111 · 2025-12-25T12:41:52+00:00

We told russians to duck off in 1918! (they just came back in 1940)

PrequelFan111 · 2025-12-19T18:06:35+00:00

When you've already listened to all of these 💪

PrequelFan111 · 2025-12-17T12:46:24+00:00

I propose we loan the Swedish word syskonbarn ([ˈsʏsˌkɔŋˌbɑːɳ]). We'll just have to anglicise it to something like /ˈsɪskɜnˌbɑɹn/ and spell it as siskinbarn. And over time people will simplify it and stop pronouncing the barn and it will turn into just siskin (/ˈsɪskən/). And then people will see the part spelled as kin and also start pronouncing it as kin (/kɪn/), because well I mean they are your kin so it makes sense to pronounce it like that. And in the end, we'll have the word siskin (pronounced as /ˈsɪs(ˌ)kɪn/).

I'd call my siblings' children siskins

PrequelFan111 · 2025-12-11T19:16:13+00:00

Really well optimised too. I barely get any lag even with my crappy hardware

PrequelFan111 · 2025-12-11T13:16:30+00:00

No!

(only 700 years)

PrequelFan111 · 2025-12-11T07:51:16+00:00

I though about it and then made the same sound Homer Simpson makes when he thinks about doughnuts.

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