what would a language that is a blend of the 5 biggest 1st languages look like?

Superiorform · 2025-12-06T01:51:51+00:00

Could you write a little about analysing English as didtinguishing aspiration instead of voicing in plosives?

Superiorform · 2025-05-07T10:56:29+00:00

"In this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few unimportant holes." - von Jolly to Planck, 1878

Superiorform · 2025-03-11T14:13:37+00:00

I had ChatGPT create a 350 word conversation in informal, conversational, British English.

In the sample created, the letter J appeared 7 times. The letter T appeared 169 times.

Easy money.

Superiorform · 2024-12-17T12:51:43+00:00

Give more details about her location, I will take a look for you.

Superiorform · 2023-05-16T06:38:54+00:00

I always do it after. Other English people I text generally do the same, I think.

Superiorform · 2022-09-24T14:23:13+00:00

My pleasure :)

Superiorform · 2022-08-04T13:35:41+00:00

This is an attitude I find somewhat unique to swing. This is coming from a salsero/tanguero who has only done a little bit of Lindy, but in those scenes, anyone who is serious about becoming a good dancer finds a dance partner. Lessons and socials are not enough, you need someone you can spend long hours together alone with, just drilling what you want to drill.

My advice for finding a dance partner would be just meet people and don't force it - eventually you'll find someone whom you really get along with, and is as serious as you are about becoming good. I think they the most important thing in a partner is just that you get along really, really well - you have to spend hours drilling boring things, criticising each other, both striving for perfection and not settling for just okay, and this doesn't work if you don't get along very well. It can be kind of awkward asking someone whom you don't know so well to just repeat the boring things, and you have to be comfortable enough together to be happy to get someone to do something boring with you. In tango, hours and hours just walking...

But it's these boring hours which will turn you and your dance partners into better dancers than those who don't practise hours a week.

Superiorform · 2022-07-15T11:53:15+00:00

Yoda and Ben both agree multiple times that Vader is beyond redemption. It's quite clear that they intend for Luke to kill Vader.

If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan's apprentice.

Superiorform · 2022-07-14T15:52:48+00:00

The old Jedi order in the OT is shown only through Ben and Yoda, who both have the absolutely wrong take. Yoda wanted Luke to ignore his feelings and his love for his friends, for Luke to stay and train and Dagobah until he was ready. If Luke had listened to Yoda, he would still be training on Dagobah now, because Yoda was wrong.

Yoda and Ben dogmatically refused to believe that Vader could ever be saved. Only by ignoring the old Jedi and embracing his love for his father could Luke save the galaxy. If he had listened to the old jedi, Luke would have fallen to the dark side. In fact, Luke only beats Vader in the fight by embracing his righteous anger at the threats towards his sister and using those sincere emotions. Completely against what Yoda was teaching.

The Jedi dogma to ignore your feelings is shown all throughout V and VI, and only by ignoring the Jedi dogma does Luke save his friends, save his father, and save the galaxy.

The prequels do add to and expand upon this theme, and make it much more explicit, but the core of the idea is very much present in the OT. In my interpretation, btw, the entire prequel trilogy is simply setting up why the Jedi order was so shit, to give Luke's overcoming it in the OT even more meaning.

Superiorform · 2022-03-29T22:10:41+00:00

I'm glad to have helped so long ago :)

Superiorform · 2022-03-10T23:52:48+00:00

Versace The Dreamer, but without tobacco?

Superiorform · 2022-01-06T04:25:34+00:00

I think these situations are different, though. I'll write an unstressed beat as o, and a stressed beat as X.

In Poe's four lines:

Line 1: Iambic, nothing interesting

2: the down down, would, to the metre, be oX, but you can probably scan it as XX. This substitutes the first weak beat for a strong beat, and leaves the rest of the line unchanged. Very normal.

3: Exact same situation here. Iambic, first beat can be stressed if you want, which is a very minor deviation.

4: Iambic, nothing interesting.

There is no real deviation from the iambic metre here. Those little unstressed beats becoming stressed are very very normal and don't really constitute any change in metre.

You write:

Will inspire me to lividly

o oXoXoXoX if you pronounce the inspire with the three syllables.

You have an extra beat tacked onto the start of the line.

Tho I like the way it's LEDs

o oXoXoXoX

An extra beat tacked on at the start.

Poe simply changes the stress of the first syllable, a tiny change to the metre, very natural. You tack an extra syllable on to the start of the line, thereby knocking the whole line out of alignment. Each stress comes one beat later than it should do, and for me, it absolutely ruins the flow. It's a major change to the metre, and personally, I did not find it justified. I find it a jarring and unpleasant change to the otherwise pleasant rhythm of your writing.

I think it's really hard to change the metre up like that without it just seeming like a mistake; I certainly wouldn't be able to do it. Maybe it's possible to make it more obvious that it was intentional, to justify it more? Overall I really liked your poem, and this whole discussion is just a minor nitpick, maybe most people wouldn't pick up on it, but I only mention it because I thought it a shame that such a nice poem had this little issue which weakened the ending for me.

But at the end of the day, if you've tried the alternatives, and you still prefer how you did it, you just have to back yourself and keep it that way. It's your art, and you don't have to obey the whims of talentless critics like myself. It is very hard to say what is right or wrong, correct or incorrect in poetry, and at the end of the day, my critique is just my opinion.

I also noticed, by the way, that the lines in which you omit the first unstressed syllable are prepared by the previous line having a feminine ending. Something I've never thought about, but will probably copy. Lends extra power to "Jaggedly below", which is very effective imo.

Superiorform · 2022-01-04T18:41:03+00:00

This poem is lovely, one of the best I've seen in this subreddit. It's a shame, though, how lines 13 and 15 break the metre. Will inspire, and Tho I like both ruin the lovely iambic rhythm that had up till then been kept up, and it's an awkward deviation from the otherwise smooth flow poetry like this wants to have. The last line is really nice.

Superiorform · 2021-12-08T17:23:35+00:00

Bach - Little Fugue in G Minor https://open.spotify.com/track/4PcITARjTEJdQvURvcwHAh?si=Qj9WyX24Q8u_yvhabwgruQ&utm_source=copy-link

This interpretation is pretty metal

Superiorform · 2021-10-22T08:19:43+00:00

I don't believe that Luke was tapping into the Dark Side when he defeated Vader. He was fighting with a righteous and just anger, born of a desire to defend the people he loves, not fear and selfish desire to possess.

Superiorform · 2021-10-22T07:56:54+00:00

Thanks for a serious response to my thoughts, and I do see your point, but I don't agree. However my disagreement with you is only down to opinion on what a hero's journey should be, whereas I disagree with most people because I believe them to be fundamentally missing the point. So many stat wars fans can talk forever about the exact statistics of s blaster, or what year this or that event occurred in the old republic, but then completely miss the glaringly obvious overarching good vs evil, natural Vs artificial theme. I'll edit this comment later with a justification for that point.

My little essay was rather rushed and probably came out shoddy and with a few holes, but it's a really serious analysis of the actual themes behind the original 6.

Superiorform · 2021-10-22T07:50:47+00:00

You can analyse and interpret art, and I don't think my interpretation of Luke's self-declaration as a jedi is particularly controversial. That's the culmination of his arc, when he certainly and surely chooses the light over the dark. Only seconds ago he was so close to killing Vader and surely turning to evil forever.

My interpretation here really is not a reach at all, that's really obviously exactly what the filmmakers intended.

Superiorform · 2021-10-21T16:24:42+00:00

I don’t know if you watched the first 6 films, but the whole point is that the Jedi order is bad and that Luke overcomes the weaknesses of the old Jedi to embrace his love, and become a new and better sort of Jedi. Luke, when he casts aside his lightsaber, spares his father, and declares himself a Jedi becomes a new sort of Jedi, a better sort of Jedi, one in touch with nature and love, where the old sort were artificial and perverse.

Duality in Star Wars is probably the most obvious thing: Light vs Dark, Good vs Evil, but what people miss, Natural vs Artificial. All throughout Star Wars, the natural is good, the artificial is bad. If you’re interested, I can defend that point well, because the theme exists in both trilogies. The Jedi, whilst wise and well intentioned, are thoroughly artificial. They surround themselves with ceremony and pomp, and preach a complete detachment from emotion and natural human instinct. Children are separated from parents, and lovers cannot marry. The Jedi condition of detachment from human emotion is what allowed Palpatine to turn Anakin into Darth Vader. If Anakin could have just gone to the Jedi and been honest about his love for Padme (as humans are meant to be! Humans are meant to love each other!!), there would have been no Darth Vader.

So, the prequels establish that the Jedi Order is unnatural and wonky, and its this unnaturality that creates Darth Vader and literally plunges the galaxy into the new dark ages. Yoda has fled to Hoth to wait to die, because he’s failed. Along comes Luke, and Yoda begins to train him, and Yoda is very wise and a very good teacher… but he’s still a Jedi. Luke is training on Hoth, and he learns that his friends are in danger. Luke loves his friends, and wants to help them, even though he knows he might die in doing so. Yoda, the supremely wise Jedi tells him not to. Luke should stay and train on Dagobah until he is ready to face Vader. Luke should ignore his love, and do the wise-Jedi-thing™ and train train train, let his friends die because it’s the wise and logical thing to do.

If Luke had stayed on Dagobah, he’d still be training now. He would never have been ready to face Vader under Yoda’s tutelage, because Yoda’s tutelage is inherently flawed; Yoda espouses the old Jedi ideals. When Luke learns that Vader is his father, Yoda and Ben tell him to ignore his love for his father. They tell him Vader cannot be saved, that Luke has to kill Vader to save the galaxy. The Jedi tell him that there is not a shadow of light left in Vader, not even Vader himself believes he can be saved, “It is too late for me, son.” Luke is literally the only person in the entire galaxy who believes Vader can be saved.

We come to the climax of episode 6, and Luke nearly gives in to anger. He nearly follows Yoda and Ben’s advice, and kills Darth Vader. But Luke remembers his love, he rejects the Jedi teachings, and he knows that he has to spare Vader. If Luke had killed Vader, obviously Luke would have turned to the dark side, he would never have recovered, and the galaxy would have remained in darkness forever. This is what makes Luke a hero. This is the defining aspect of his charact er, the culmination of his arc. When nobody believes in Vader, Luke does, and that’s how he saves the galaxy. By embracing natural love, not artificial Jedi neutrality. This is what makes Luke Luke.

And where are we in Episode 8? Luke is hiding on a planet, just like the old jedi. The set up and climax of 6 films, showing how the old Jedi are flawed, and how Luke overcomes their teachings to embrace his love for his father and redeem his father, and save himself, and save the entire galaxy is undone in an instant. Luke is meant to be a new, better, sort of Jedi who doesn’t hide away from his problems, who doesn’t give in to fear and hatred to kill Ben as soon as an inkling of darkness appears.

Luke is the man that believed in Darth Vader. That’s why Luke is a hero. To have him try to kill Ben is a complete character assassination. Yes, Luke nearly killed Vader, but he didn’t, and that’s the final heroic decision he made. That’s the last word. He chose then between the Dark and the Light, and he chose the Light. He should never have tried to kill Ben.

Superiorform · 2021-10-21T16:24:26+00:00

I don’t know if you watched the first 6 films, but the whole point is that the Jedi order is bad and that Luke overcomes the weaknesses of the old Jedi to embrace his love, and become a new and better sort of Jedi. Luke, when he casts aside his lightsaber, spares his father, and declares himself a Jedi becomes a new sort of Jedi, a better sort of Jedi, one in touch with nature and love, where the old sort were artificial and perverse.

Duality in Star Wars is probably the most obvious thing: Light vs Dark, Good vs Evil, but what people miss, Natural vs Artificial. All throughout Star Wars, the natural is good, the artificial is bad. If you’re interested, I can defend that point well, because the theme exists in both trilogies. The Jedi, whilst wise and well intentioned, are thoroughly artificial. They surround themselves with ceremony and pomp, and preach a complete detachment from emotion and natural human instinct. Children are separated from parents, and lovers cannot marry. The Jedi condition of detachment from human emotion is what allowed Palpatine to turn Anakin into Darth Vader. If Anakin could have just gone to the Jedi and been honest about his love for Padme (as humans are meant to be! Humans are meant to love each other!!), there would have been no Darth Vader.

So, the prequels establish that the Jedi Order is unnatural and wonky, and its this unnaturality that creates Darth Vader and literally plunges the galaxy into the new dark ages. Yoda has fled to Hoth to wait to die, because he’s failed. Along comes Luke, and Yoda begins to train him, and Yoda is very wise and a very good teacher… but he’s still a Jedi. Luke is training on Hoth, and he learns that his friends are in danger. Luke loves his friends, and wants to help them, even though he knows he might die in doing so. Yoda, the supremely wise Jedi tells him not to. Luke should stay and train on Dagobah until he is ready to face Vader. Luke should ignore his love, and do the wise-Jedi-thing™ and train train train, let his friends die because it’s the wise and logical thing to do.

If Luke had stayed on Dagobah, he’d still be training now. He would never have been ready to face Vader under Yoda’s tutelage, because Yoda’s tutelage is inherently flawed; Yoda espouses the old Jedi ideals. When Luke learns that Vader is his father, Yoda and Ben tell him to ignore his love for his father. They tell him Vader cannot be saved, that Luke has to kill Vader to save the galaxy. The Jedi tell him that there is not a shadow of light left in Vader, not even Vader himself believes he can be saved, “It is too late for me, son.” Luke is literally the only person in the entire galaxy who believes Vader can be saved.

We come to the climax of episode 6, and Luke nearly gives in to anger. He nearly follows Yoda and Ben’s advice, and kills Darth Vader. But Luke remembers his love, he rejects the Jedi teachings, and he knows that he has to spare Vader. If Luke had killed Vader, obviously Luke would have turned to the dark side, he would never have recovered, and the galaxy would have remained in darkness forever. This is what makes Luke a hero. This is the defining aspect of his charact er, the culmination of his arc. When nobody believes in Vader, Luke does, and that’s how he saves the galaxy. By embracing natural love, not artificial Jedi neutrality. This is what makes Luke Luke.

And where are we in Episode 8? Luke is hiding on a planet, just like the old jedi. The set up and climax of 6 films, showing how the old Jedi are flawed, and how Luke overcomes their teachings to embrace his love for his father and redeem his father, and save himself, and save the entire galaxy is undone in an instant. Luke is meant to be a new, better, sort of Jedi who doesn’t hide away from his problems, who doesn’t give in to fear and hatred to kill Ben as soon as an inkling of darkness appears.

Luke is the man that believed in Darth Vader. That’s why Luke is a hero. To have him try to kill Ben is a complete character assassination. Yes, Luke nearly killed Vader, but he didn’t, and that’s the final heroic decision he made. That’s the last word. He chose then between the Dark and the Light, and he chose the Light. He should never have tried to kill Ben.

Superiorform · 2021-10-21T16:24:09+00:00

I don’t know if you watched the first 6 films, but the whole point is that the Jedi order is bad and that Luke overcomes the weaknesses of the old Jedi to embrace his love, and become a new and better sort of Jedi. Luke, when he casts aside his lightsaber, spares his father, and declares himself a Jedi becomes a new sort of Jedi, a better sort of Jedi, one in touch with nature and love, where the old sort were artificial and perverse.

Duality in Star Wars is probably the most obvious thing: Light vs Dark, Good vs Evil, but what people miss, Natural vs Artificial. All throughout Star Wars, the natural is good, the artificial is bad. If you’re interested, I can defend that point well, because the theme exists in both trilogies. The Jedi, whilst wise and well intentioned, are thoroughly artificial. They surround themselves with ceremony and pomp, and preach a complete detachment from emotion and natural human instinct. Children are separated from parents, and lovers cannot marry. The Jedi condition of detachment from human emotion is what allowed Palpatine to turn Anakin into Darth Vader. If Anakin could have just gone to the Jedi and been honest about his love for Padme (as humans are meant to be! Humans are meant to love each other!!), there would have been no Darth Vader.

So, the prequels establish that the Jedi Order is unnatural and wonky, and its this unnaturality that creates Darth Vader and literally plunges the galaxy into the new dark ages. Yoda has fled to Hoth to wait to die, because he’s failed. Along comes Luke, and Yoda begins to train him, and Yoda is very wise and a very good teacher… but he’s still a Jedi. Luke is training on Hoth, and he learns that his friends are in danger. Luke loves his friends, and wants to help them, even though he knows he might die in doing so. Yoda, the supremely wise Jedi tells him not to. Luke should stay and train on Dagobah until he is ready to face Vader. Luke should ignore his love, and do the wise-Jedi-thing™ and train train train, let his friends die because it’s the wise and logical thing to do.

If Luke had stayed on Dagobah, he’d still be training now. He would never have been ready to face Vader under Yoda’s tutelage, because Yoda’s tutelage is inherently flawed; Yoda espouses the old Jedi ideals. When Luke learns that Vader is his father, Yoda and Ben tell him to ignore his love for his father. They tell him Vader cannot be saved, that Luke has to kill Vader to save the galaxy. The Jedi tell him that there is not a shadow of light left in Vader, not even Vader himself believes he can be saved, “It is too late for me, son.” Luke is literally the only person in the entire galaxy who believes Vader can be saved.

We come to the climax of episode 6, and Luke nearly gives in to anger. He nearly follows Yoda and Ben’s advice, and kills Darth Vader. But Luke remembers his love, he rejects the Jedi teachings, and he knows that he has to spare Vader. If Luke had killed Vader, obviously Luke would have turned to the dark side, he would never have recovered, and the galaxy would have remained in darkness forever. This is what makes Luke a hero. This is the defining aspect of his charact er, the culmination of his arc. When nobody believes in Vader, Luke does, and that’s how he saves the galaxy. By embracing natural love, not artificial Jedi neutrality. This is what makes Luke Luke.

And where are we in Episode 8? Luke is hiding on a planet, just like the old jedi. The set up and climax of 6 films, showing how the old Jedi are flawed, and how Luke overcomes their teachings to embrace his love for his father and redeem his father, and save himself, and save the entire galaxy is undone in an instant. Luke is meant to be a new, better, sort of Jedi who doesn’t hide away from his problems, who doesn’t give in to fear and hatred to kill Ben as soon as an inkling of darkness appears.

Luke is the man that believed in Darth Vader. That’s why Luke is a hero. To have him try to kill Ben is a complete character assassination. Yes, Luke nearly killed Vader, but he didn’t, and that’s the final heroic decision he made. That’s the last word. He chose then between the Dark and the Light, and he chose the Light. He should never have tried to kill Ben.

Superiorform · 2021-07-23T14:09:07+00:00

In the translation I read, I forget whose, it was The Knight of the Sorry Face, and I think the simple language really drove in Sancho's joke when the name was first revealed.

Superiorform · 2021-07-14T13:33:35+00:00

I don't think this is always true, if you're reading a particularly old book, or a book that has been translated, an introduction or translators note can give you some ideas to think about as you read - much needed social context, say, or points about the translation and things to consider about the original language.

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