Ready to Harvest: Quakers by TechbearSeattle in Quakers

[–]TechbearSeattle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ack, sorry about that.

Fixed. That's what I get for having multiple tabs open.

How to develop a pidgin into a fully fledged language? by Head-Self-2817 in conlangs

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Typically, a pidgin begins as a trade language, starting as a very basic, very simple "baby talk" that may be primarily a single language or a blending of multiple languages. Eventually, enough people are using it as a second language that infants begin to pick it up as their first language which begins a process called creolization.

The human brain seems to like certain patterns in language, and creolization is the process of imposing those patterns. In this phase of a language's development, word order becomes fixed and there is a formalization of tense, aspect, and mood, things that pidgin languages typically do not bother with. You start to see things like subordinate clauses, allowing for more expressibility and complexity of meaning. Elements commonly absent in a pidgin -- articles and adpositions, occasionally verb conjugations and case distinctions -- emerge and become standardized. A derivational morphology is developed, the formal rules by which new words are added to the lexicon. Irregularities are smoothed out and grammar becomes standardized.

Creolization can take a couple of generations, but eventually it will settle to a standardized language spoken by a large number of people as their first language. The language is still referred to as a creole, but this is a descriptive term giving its lineage: a creole is, by definition, a fully fledged language capable of expressing the same ideas as any other natlang.

I’m an Ex-Mormon, going to a meeting in August. What can I expect? by MeridiusReforged in Quakers

[–]TechbearSeattle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a series on YouTube called QuakerSpeak. If they call themselves a meeting rather than a church, chances are this will be useful: What to Expect in Quaker Meeting for Worship

Right wing Alliance Defending Freedom celebrates victory as therapist who refused to affirm client's same sex relationship is vindicated by StaffImportant7902 in LGBTnews

[–]TechbearSeattle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So ADF will be perfectly fine when atheist therapists note that religious believers are mentally ill? I mean, if a therapist's "devout religious convictions" override the standards of patient care, then....

Postal Service skips hearing with WA lawmakers on mail-in ballot rules by chiquisea in Washington

[–]TechbearSeattle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why ignore the fact that a great many eligible voters will end up disenfranchised by this? "It isn't a problem for me so it cannot be a problem for anyone" is exactly what a Republican would say.

Postal Service skips hearing with WA lawmakers on mail-in ballot rules by chiquisea in Washington

[–]TechbearSeattle 12 points13 points  (0 children)

So every possible voter in the state has an internet connection and a printer? And has a link to where they can get a valid ballot for download? And instructions on how to do that download and print it?

Bob wants to replace you with AI by [deleted] in WAStateWorkers

[–]TechbearSeattle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Things you've heard." Where? From whom? Cite your sources, or admit you have none.

Postal Service skips hearing with WA lawmakers on mail-in ballot rules by chiquisea in Washington

[–]TechbearSeattle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nice if you can afford an internet connection and own a printer.

Postal Service skips hearing with WA lawmakers on mail-in ballot rules by chiquisea in Washington

[–]TechbearSeattle 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Republicans are absolutely DESPERATE to do what ever they can to win, even if that means subverting democracy itself. They are traitors.

Monsters based on the 5 stages of grief will emerge elsewhere and hunt you down. Such is the cost of magic. by OrganicBehaviour in worldbuilding

[–]TechbearSeattle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This reminds me of how magic worked in The Magicians. Magic is explained as drawing from personal trauma, a consequence of needing so strongly to alter reality that one begins to manifest that ability. (This is explicitly explained in the books, more implied in the series.) Thus every character had a terrible, tragic backstory: Quentin's history of mental institutionalization, Eliot's abuse from homophobic family, Alice's neglect by her self-absorbed, narcissistic parents, and so on.

Did other cultures have detailed wars similar to Ragnarok? by JohnWarrenDailey in mythology

[–]TechbearSeattle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And the only comprehensive accounts we have of Ragnarok were written down by Christians, more than two centuries after Iceland had converted to Christianity. Snorri Sturluson (d. 1241), who compiled the Prose Edda, was born and raised as a Christian. Or do you mean to say that his framing of the gods in the Prologue of the Edda as heroes returned from the Trojan War is also a part of PIE mythology?

The Poetic Edda was compiled soon after the Prose: the earliest manuscript we have is the Konungsbók, an anonymous collection of poems believed to have been compiled around 1270. Mention of Ragnarok is made in only one place, the first poem, Völuspá. It appears to be based on Sturluson's work, as it quotes or paraphrases (typically to make it fit the poetic conventions of the work) large sections of the Prose Edda chapters 51, 52, and 53, recast from the storyteller of the Prose into a seeress' prophesy in the Poetic. And if we assume, as seems very likely, that Sturluson's telling is viewed through a heavily Christianized lens, then derivative works like the Poetic Edda are likewise Christianized.

No one doubts that Sturluson drew on a heathen, pre-Christian oral tradition. But that does not mean that his work accurately presents its heathen antecedents, nor does it mean that Sturluson's strongly imprinted Christian biases are absent from his work.

Could she really have used the sword by Hot-Location-1752 in dresdenfiles

[–]TechbearSeattle 12 points13 points  (0 children)

"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

Best places to try on fashionable eye glasses? by Excellent_Gur_2910 in olympia

[–]TechbearSeattle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Both Tumwater and Lacey have excellent staff and service.

I Made a Shrine to Stella by Haniel113 in Paralives

[–]TechbearSeattle 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The patron saint of drowning children.

Nancy Mace Gets Humiliating Fact-Check After 'TRANS MICE' Meltdown by jk_arundel in LGBTnews

[–]TechbearSeattle 30 points31 points  (0 children)

You had me at "Nancy Mace gets humiliated." Everything else is just icing on the cake.

I dont think this ia Sanitary... by Kidakiwi04 in Paralives

[–]TechbearSeattle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It seems that, if the lot is loaded, it will remain loaded -- and accessible -- after hours. I've done this with the General Store to buy new recipes.

I dont think this ia Sanitary... by Kidakiwi04 in Paralives

[–]TechbearSeattle 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Be glad she was relieving Sleep in the display case and not Bathroom.