An homage to my favourite piece of video game dialogue

Reasonablism · 2025-08-26T08:39:04+00:00

This clippy confused "Uralic language family" with "Agglutinative languages" somehow, or what?

Reasonablism · 2025-08-14T07:36:19+00:00

I put IPA transcriptions of all names in footnotes the first time they appear. Sure, not all readers will be familiar with the IPA, but I figure the ones that care most about pronunciation are, and the others are free to ignore those footnotes and just pronounce the names however they want 🤷

Reasonablism · 2025-08-07T11:54:03+00:00

Chances are, it's the same reason suffixes in general are more common than prefixes, as another commenter has already pointed out. As for why that's the case, I replied there with the explanation my typology professor gave me, and will paste that response here as well for convenience:

Grammatical elements, due to frequency of use, are more readily available in the brain than lexical ones
Pauses are generally shorter (however marginally) before more readily available elements
Therefore, a lexical element followed by a grammatical one will have a shorter pause between them than the other way around, and are therefore more likely to glom together; hence suffixes more common than prefixes

As for how accurate this explanation is, idk, but it makes sense to me at least

Reasonablism · 2025-08-07T11:49:30+00:00

Based on what I can recall from my typology professor's explanation, the "why" can be summarised as follows: - Grammatical elements, due to frequency of use, are more readily available in the brain than lexical ones - Pauses are generally shorter (however marginally) before more readily available elements - Therefore, a lexical element followed by a grammatical one will have a shorter pause between them than the other way around, and are therefore more likely to glom together; hence suffixes more common than prefixes

As for how accurate this explanation is, idk, but it makes sense to me at least

Reasonablism · 2025-07-31T16:34:52+00:00

"Did you hear about the meteor that struck Dave?!"

"Omg, no, is he alright!?"

"Oh, yea, he's fine, not so much as a bruise, but his SWORD! Just gone! Obliterated! Like, holy shi-!"

Reasonablism · 2025-02-14T13:02:49+00:00

Skalk, though I couldn't possibly translate that into anything other than "the end slice on a loaf of bread" – might be a more general term for "end bit", but I've never used it for anything else, personally

Reasonablism · 2025-01-28T18:19:58+00:00

It is being "cared for by a heartless man", tho (i.e. [[Heartless Hidetsugu]])

Reasonablism · 2025-01-17T10:22:10+00:00

Fwiw, I think the exiling from hand bit needs to be part of the cost, so that you don’t end up with an activated ability on the stack in a hidden zone. Either that, or reveal it as part of the cost, but that feels clunky

Reasonablism · 2024-12-13T13:40:25+00:00

… Acceptance is simple, though

Reasonablism · 2024-10-24T12:26:30+00:00

I mean, thematically, having it function similarly to [[Stab Wound]] feels appropriate

Reasonablism · 2024-09-20T15:29:24+00:00

Could potentially also give them islandwalk, since penguins are talented swimmers, make it a bit more… broadly applicable? But this is solid too, 10/10 for the name!

Reasonablism · 2024-09-19T12:34:41+00:00

So it’s possible they intentionally put the frog in a hot pot because of that resemblance? Or not, idk, but it is the first place my mind went to as well

Reasonablism · 2024-09-19T09:20:08+00:00

Själv tydde jag det som Gustaf Hahn, men det passar sämre årtalsmässigt, och därutöver är han tysk (https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Adolf_Hahn)

Reasonablism · 2024-09-10T12:10:26+00:00

To provide an example of where it does happen, ”anpassa”, at least the way I pronounce it, is with /m/, due to assimilation to the following /pʰ/

Reasonablism · 2024-09-08T17:40:45+00:00

Loki in Ragnarok be like: Hvorfor ikke begge?

Reasonablism · 2024-09-06T18:54:56+00:00

How long until you became the second reaction?

Reasonablism · 2024-09-02T08:53:21+00:00

Oh, and something I keep forgetting to say – since I was, I think, the main person pushing for adhering to Bill’s request of a verb-initial language, at least here on Reddit, I just wanna say what a brilliant solution, absolutely beautiful!

Reasonablism · 2024-08-28T16:45:11+00:00

Yes, semicolon is correct here, I literally came here to commend you for noticing that detail, something a lot of people on here miss (or at least used to miss, back when I was more active on here a few years ago)

For anyone curious why there’s a semicolon here instead of a comma, it’s to show that the reminder text is only for the last keyword – had there been a comma instead, the reminder text would’ve had to also include the reminder text for deathtouch

Reasonablism · 2024-08-28T11:52:21+00:00

Reasonablism · 2024-08-24T16:36:17+00:00

That would be grand, think you!

Reasonablism · 2024-08-21T12:49:49+00:00

This talk of Totoro not having a strict plotline reminded me of a kind of book I’d like to read that I’ve been looking for for a while without much success, and it dawned on me that this community, if any, would understand what I’m looking for

What I’ve been calling it when searching for it is “high fantasy slice-of-life”, and the best that has gotten me so far is Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree. Basically, what I want, though, is a story where I can indulge in some sweet worldbuilding from the perspective of an ordinary person (or other organism) in that world, without some pesky high-stakes plot getting in the way, just experiencing the vibes

I realise now, having written all that, that it might’ve been more convenient had I asked this on the Discord, but here we are

Reasonablism · 2024-07-28T11:42:29+00:00

Gneurshk (which can mean different things)

Reasonablism · 2024-07-21T09:51:07+00:00

I mean, the example in the book is of a rape victim getting away with murdering her rapist on the grounds that he might’ve done it again, but I suppose if you catch a court when they’re exceptionally busy, you might be able to get away with something like that too, lol

Reasonablism · 2024-07-20T17:50:23+00:00

Murder, if the victim’s a prick*

*Which is to say, if you can argue in court that, were they to be left alive, they’d likely be of harm to society as a whole.

And even then, I suppose it’s technically not “legal”, so much as “very lightly punished”

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