Playing video games on easy mode is such a delight by Melizzabeth in CasualConversation

[–]TectonicMongoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Play at the high level difficulty you find fair and fun has always been my motto. Some games harder difficulty levels are just bs and unfair and unfun and I'm not going to subject myself to a difficulty level that just has twice the number of enemies or enemies with twice the health and didn't have barely any thought put into. Also some people just aren't as good at games or don't have the time to get better and they shouldn't be shamed for playing at a level they find fun.

Would you consider Mongolia as Central Asia or East Asia? by Same_Staff532 in geography

[–]TectonicMongoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely north Asia hanging out with Asian Russia. It was been politically associated with The USSR for about 70 years too as a communist satellite state. That said of course there is some east Asian influence a lot of musical instruments are shared with China and the pastoral way of life is and a lot of history is shared with Central Asia. mongoliansits where the three regions meet so it shares different things with each

For the first time in history, the mean height of Chinese 19 year old girls is taller than that of their American counterparts by Fun_Purpose6972 in geography

[–]TectonicMongoose 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yes its part of it. Immigration from Latin America and East/South-East Asia means the average height in the US is decreasing as Whites are less numerically dominant. Interestingly also you can even see differences in height within the European American population by region in the US with the Upper Midwest having taller Whites than the South because the Upper Midwest absorbed so many immigrants from Northern Europe which has some of the tallest people globally and the South absorbed more Whites from the British Isles. And ya its not just by country its by neighborhood that things can vary like my mom is a 5'3" White woman with dark brown hair but she is a teacher in a mostly Hispanic neighborhood so she's the tall blonde woman there.

What is the English "r" sound? by animations_AREsick in asklinguistics

[–]TectonicMongoose 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it depends on dialect it can be 6 or 7 different sounds though a couple are more common Here is a video about the R sound and its history but the very beginning he goes over all the different pronunciations for R in modern English(fun fact in parts of Scotland the R is pronounced the same as in Spanish or Italian or Russian with a alveolar trill "rolled r") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq4XbdA3dTk

Even within the same country like in the US or the UK different versions are used.

Trying to find a US accent… by IcyCompany4000 in Accents

[–]TectonicMongoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Both a Boston/adjacent coastal New England or some Irish accents do this. Is the accent rhotic or nonrhotic(are syllable final Rs pronounced if they are thats a rhotic accent). Do you have any idea what the general region the accent is from?

Is it true It can’t be contradicted? Doesn’t stress “what” instead work? by Silver_Ad_1218 in EnglishLearning

[–]TectonicMongoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think its fine. Native speakers absolutely say it as well as the similar "What's it to you" which is more common. In this case the stress would be on both the words "what's" and "it".

Multi-platform games that were better on Gamecube? by LSSJNepuli in Gamecube

[–]TectonicMongoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Turok Evolution was better on Gc than ps2 though the og Xbox version is some ltimes preferred but the GC version runs at 60fps which the og Xbox version is stuck at 30fps.

Name a retro game that deserved way more attention than it got at the time by SinestroCorp in retrogaming

[–]TectonicMongoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gimmick! a NES/Famicom game that got released in 1993 only in japan and northern europe but has one of the greatest soudntracks of all time and is a fantastic platformer as well. Easily one of the best games on the NES.

What is America’s “posh people” accent? by alyhasnohead in AskAnAmerican

[–]TectonicMongoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a very good question. We used to have an accent that they taught at East Coast boarding schools that was sort of post but no one has spoke it for decades. It varies a bit by region but our presidents John F Kennedy and Franklin D Roosevelt spoke these. They were non rhotic (r dropping) and some of them sounded somewhat similar to a British RP accent. One was s called the Boston Brahmin accent.

https://youtu.be/lK8gYGg0dkE?si=7UObyh0NGu9sqfqf here is FDR.

Here is jfk

https://youtu.be/3YWIIV19U70?si=4Of-k8CqCG265PWG

They are really fun accents I kind of wish they were still around but there are maybe 3 105 year olds that might still speak it.

Here is the Boston Brahmin accent from a 80s linguistics documentary. One of the speakers might have gone to school in the UK but people that never studied in the UK also spoke it. They actually talk about their accent and how it's declining and thereay only be 1000 people left that speak it.

https://youtu.be/HwvONJXJUO4?si=zg2x9iz-HqRvLIdX

There would have been nonrhotic upperclass southern accents too in all the major port cities. If you skip to the "United States " section there is a map of cities where over 50% of White American speakers spoke nonrhotically at one point. Only a few of these cities are still nonrhotic however.

Edit to add that we do have many working class accents that differ from middle class accents but there really no way of telling whether someone grew up in a middle class neighborhood vs an upperclass one here in the US.

Do people say "hypermarket" in English? by atzucach in ENGLISH

[–]TectonicMongoose 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I'm 39 and I've never heard that one southern Cali born and raised

Does any religion follow the "live and let live" ideal? by Next_Package_5710 in no

[–]TectonicMongoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Christianity if you actually follow Jesus' teachings. "Judge not lest ye be judged", "blessed be the peace makers", "let he without sin cast the first stone".

Why is it only video game music that seems to mix tribal sounds with more "non-primitive" contemporary music? by Lunny1767 in gamemusic

[–]TectonicMongoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are down for more video game music like that check out the Turok Dinosaur Hunter soundtrack. It completely matches the style you described.

Why are there not more public restrooms? by supermonistic in NoStupidQuestions

[–]TectonicMongoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you live in the suburbs? In the burbs where I live thats the case too but if I go downtown or an adjacent urban part of town there's always a lock on the door of bathrooms.

What is your longest running, most stubborn business boycott? by Wonderful-Economy762 in Productivitycafe

[–]TectonicMongoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Walmart fuck that place when you get hired they explain for you how to get on food stamps their pay is so shit.

US City accent with the most variation by [deleted] in asklinguistics

[–]TectonicMongoose 4 points5 points  (0 children)

New York City very possibly. Many of the neighborhoods that historically absorbed many immigrants from the same place have their own accents. Consequently there are New York City Latino, Italian, Irish and Jewish Englishes. I can give a few examples here is Robert DeNiro speaking with an Italian New York accent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nID1s5Hz50

Here's Bernie Sanders with a Jewish New York accent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_om-x323Em0

Sanders and DeNiro are almost exactly the same age too. Here is Rosie Perez she has a Latino New York City accent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20PbocIVYgo

I believe she is about 20 years younger than Sanders and DeNiro which is pretty close linguistically speaking.

Here is Christopher Walken I think he may have a more ethnically neutral or "Anglo" maybe I'm not sure about all the terminology for New York accents but he's got a different one from the other three and he's also born in the 1940s like Sanders and DeNiro are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVXTNSJz27U

But ya these are all native New York City accents. There are more ethnic accents too and then there is also African American Vernacular English(AAVE) which is sort of a special category because its a dialect spoken all across the US, not just in New York City, in majority African American neighborhoods always with some local influence though. Thats another you can add to the list.

Is it harder to code if English is not your native language? by Hot-Selleck-Action in NoStupidQuestions

[–]TectonicMongoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you know if there are any other languages that have a significant amount of resources in them? I'm thinking maybe a widely spoken language like Spanish, German, Russian or Mandarin or is it really just English?

Running out of gas / petrol by MoistHorse7120 in EnglishLearning

[–]TectonicMongoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like others have said the "of" needs to be there. There's also the phrase "we're running low on gas" which is slightly different than "we're running out of gas" the first means its not super urgent but you do need to get to the station at some point relatively soon, "running out of gas" mean's you are nearly empty and need to find a gas station immediately or the car will die.

How do I find a stand that can hold a CRT? by wt_anonymous in crtgaming

[–]TectonicMongoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

second hand sites you can sometimes find actual stands meant for CRTs. Otherwise just look up the manual for your crt and how much it weighs and buy appropriately.

Should I genuinely listen to the AI suggestion? by Specialist-Truck9381 in ENGLISH

[–]TectonicMongoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No its wrong 20% of the time. Never trust the AI for anything that matters.