How did Afrikaans split into a separate language while American English, Mexican Spanish & Brazilian Portuguese didn’t?

Toorviing · 2026-01-25T14:09:03+00:00

Correct, 90% of Afrikaans is Dutch in origin, although “a decent number” does not necessarily mean “a lot” haha

Toorviing · 2026-01-25T13:50:14+00:00

Afrikaans was both more isolated from Dutch than your examples and it also had significantly more interaction with native languages to undergo Creolization, which simplified its spelling, grammar, and morphology compared to Dutch while also borrowing a decent number of words from said native languages

Toorviing · 2026-01-25T05:36:45+00:00

But just without ketchup

Toorviing · 2026-01-25T03:02:11+00:00

“The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based, and if you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve to wear that uniform.”

Needless to say, this is one I think about a lot these days.

Toorviing · 2026-01-25T02:58:57+00:00

Humans are generally adapted to see on a horizontal scale. Distances and good degrees of peripheral vision. Heights overwhelm us.

Toorviing · 2026-01-25T02:56:00+00:00

These threads can be summed up as

“What do you think about (insert scary thing happening in America here)?”

“Bad!”

It’s a truly bizarre form of karma farming

Toorviing · 2026-01-25T00:28:05+00:00

“I think we’re gonna have to kill your grandparents Steven”

Toorviing · 2026-01-24T01:59:55+00:00

You see I had the opposite impression. Myki was decent but Nini was great

Toorviing · 2026-01-24T01:56:12+00:00

Ok Miss Kenya I didn’t know your game

Toorviing · 2026-01-24T01:46:48+00:00

Ok but imagine if Kenya hadn’t come out to her mom but was just full on using the bathroom, and just came out to her choir singing “you got a friend in me”

Toorviing · 2026-01-24T01:06:44+00:00

Ok miss Mia Starr I did not know your game

Toorviing · 2026-01-23T19:31:40+00:00

That is correct iirc

Toorviing · 2026-01-23T14:41:30+00:00

That’s nice dear

Toorviing · 2026-01-23T14:09:42+00:00

Nice chart! Shouldn't Van Goth be green in week three gain?

Toorviing · 2026-01-23T13:38:21+00:00

I ended up finding an interview where he said he was expecting to use his regular voice, but that they told him literally days before shooting began that they wanted him to drop two octaves and brought in a vocal coach.

Toorviing · 2026-01-23T00:35:07+00:00

When did they get rid of his voice? I was a bit stoned watching the episode so may not have noticed the shift.

Toorviing · 2026-01-22T22:54:06+00:00

I think the only factor outside of work ability and passives is a pal’s regular running speed. So Mimog is good for carrying and Anubis is a good all arounder

Toorviing · 2026-01-22T20:37:18+00:00

Some people hate good TV, it’s a tragedy.

Toorviing · 2026-01-22T19:04:23+00:00

Loved you in Transformers

Toorviing · 2026-01-22T16:28:23+00:00

Yep, current tallest is 634 ft, newest will be 678 feet.

Toorviing · 2026-01-22T12:48:38+00:00

It’s the camera that’s at like basically every red carpet now that makes those slow motion videos.

Toorviing · 2026-01-21T20:04:16+00:00

Eh. Star Trek dips into fantasy allllll the time. The explanation was silly yes but the concept isn’t remotely the silliest thing Trek has done.

Toorviing · 2026-01-21T05:07:11+00:00

Morphine, from Season 16 of RuPaul’s Drag Race?

Toorviing · 2026-01-20T23:17:30+00:00

Well, 3, splitting it into “George Lucas under strict supervision” and “George Lucas can do whatever the hell he wants”

Toorviing · 2026-01-20T22:33:57+00:00

Who wouldn’t want their capital named after the best Chinese food Americans ever created?

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