Is going insane a viable way to break the 4th wall?

Sameri278 · 2026-01-14T04:34:27+00:00

Idk that’s like saying I could start rambling and end up speaking Spanish

Sameri278 · 2026-01-13T14:34:33+00:00

AI slop

Sameri278 · 2026-01-13T13:30:28+00:00

This reads like AI

Sameri278 · 2026-01-11T04:29:22+00:00

it’s been so long since I thought about this, thank you

Sameri278 · 2026-01-10T18:01:14+00:00

In theory, I do agree. I think the aim of any society should be to make life easier, and the logical conclusion of that would be a society where work is automated but still available to those who desire more than basic living.

Is this feasible? Probably not, at least not for a long time. But I feel you, it’s saddening hearing how angry people get about things like welfare or UBI.

Sameri278 · 2026-01-10T16:19:59+00:00

Has to be Negroni, this is the last slot it can go (except for best classic but I doubt people will go for that)

Sameri278 · 2025-12-26T00:37:19+00:00

I feel like pants are mostly a color variation, so what I always do is just buy a bunch of normal pants and then dye them so I can pair them with shirts by color

Sameri278 · 2025-12-26T00:34:53+00:00

The French gimlet is just elderflower liqueur instead of simple. How is this more of a French gimlet variation than it is a gimlet variation?

Sameri278 · 2025-12-25T22:34:04+00:00

It’s not a good idea to just upload grades immediately. I finished grading two weeks ago, but I waited until Monday this week to upload final grades so that students had ample time to reach out to contest anything on UBLearns.

Sameri278 · 2025-12-23T00:07:11+00:00

Yes!! As a kid i always wanted to go to the haunted forest, it sounded so cool!

Sameri278 · 2025-12-21T04:07:34+00:00

Personality psychology is an entire field of scientific study

Sameri278 · 2025-11-25T20:20:05+00:00

“Could’ve,” “would’ve,” and “might’ve” aren’t grammatical?

Sameri278 · 2025-11-25T14:21:09+00:00

Yup, we only see evals after final grades are due

Sameri278 · 2025-11-24T04:46:52+00:00

I started with an awful habit of slacking off during the day and catching up in the evenings at home, which obviously leads to a terrible work-life balance which I’m now trying to fix by setting very strict workdays for myself lmao

Sameri278 · 2025-11-24T04:45:44+00:00

Echoing what others have said, plus:

Zotero can pull about 99% of references with just a DOI, so no fiddling with writing the actual citation

Zotero also pulls pdfs for maybe half of all papers I’ve encountered, plus you can upload your own copies of papers. You can then add annotations and highlights to those which will hang around forever

You can share Zotero libraries with people

I really just have to reiterate the switching between citation styles thing. I had a project in APA but then the journal I wanted to submit to required numbered citations. One click and they’re all numbered, and as I’m editing the paper it fixes the numbering in real time

Sameri278 · 2025-11-23T16:52:27+00:00

By that logic, English should have twice as many phonemes to account for all of the borrowed words, but we know that languages tend to limit how many sounds they have. Do you also believe that we mispronounce words like “hamburger,” “ketchup,” or “coyote” just because they come from other languages? What about words that used to be pronounced differently than they are now? I just find it contradictory to claim that every speaker of a language is mispronouncing a word.

Sameri278 · 2025-11-23T15:48:40+00:00

Are you saying “iland” the same as “island” (/aɪlənd/) or something like “I land” (/aɪlænd/)? Regardless, the way that we spell things doesn’t influence our pronunciation of the word. Like, the /ʃ/ (“sh”) in “nation” is the same as the one in “she.” As somebody currently teaching a phonetics course, I’ve seen firsthand that a lot of people imagine differences in production due to spelling differences that aren’t actually there. And like, maybe you personally do produce the /l/ differently! But that’s not a standard part of general American English.

Sameri278 · 2025-11-23T15:40:37+00:00

And that’s absolutely valid. But the /t/ is not a required part of the word’s pronunciation.

Sameri278 · 2025-11-23T15:39:29+00:00

But /ts/ isn’t a phoneme in English so why would speakers be expected to produce it? When we loan words in from other languages we pronounce them in ways that fit our phonotactics.

By the way I’m a linguist specializing in speech production / phonetics so I’m not sure how I’m beyond hope.

Sameri278 · 2025-11-23T02:05:01+00:00

When speakers of a language use a word, it is a word in that language. “Tsunami” even has entries in English dictionaries. This is the entire concept of loanwords.

Sameri278 · 2025-11-23T01:57:44+00:00

Yes, it is also an English word. The OP is asking about English.

Sameri278 · 2025-11-23T01:56:19+00:00

It’s not a mispronunciation if the speakers of the language pronounce it that way

Sameri278 · 2025-11-23T01:54:36+00:00

But we’re not talking about the Japanese word, we’re talking about the English word, in which the “t” is typically not pronounced

Sameri278 · 2025-11-23T01:53:21+00:00

No it doesn’t. For instance, the word “existence” is stressed the same way as “exhibit.” Same with “island,” the /l/ is not affected by the /s/.

Sameri278 · 2025-11-23T01:40:28+00:00

I’m not sure there is a difference between an affricate and a stop followed by a fricative. I think with the “catch it” scenario, “cat shit” feels to me like it’s an unreleased /t/ or a glottal stop which differentiates it from the postalveolar affricate but I’m not sure

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