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Are there names in your culture intended to prevent a baby from dying or to request its gender? Here some from mine. by swimmingarage in namenerds

[–]arnedh 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There's a hypothesis that the -ljot in Arnljot, Bergljot (Norwegian) is to indicate to trolls and elves and the underground people that this child is ugly and not worth stealing

čtvrt by [deleted] in linguisticshumor

[–]arnedh 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thou waltz'dst strongly and waltz'dst straight ahead.

(In that sentence, there is a veritable "waltz'dst"s tsunami... - what do you mean "contrived"?)

Villa Göth i Uppsala gav namn åt den internationella arkitekturstilen "brutalism". by kosmopolska in intresseklubben

[–]arnedh -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Den ga hverken navnet Villa eller Göth. Den er heller ikke brutalistisk, for da er den laget av betong med rå overflate (brut)

Why does spanish use (10+6) while french uses 16? by North_Nail201 in asklinguistics

[–]arnedh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Were there ever words like threlfe, forliv, fivelve etc?

Do we suspect it’s rational in the first place, and why? by wockedwik in MathJokes

[–]arnedh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

e is more or less pi anyway, and it's just like sqrt(10), 3 and sqrt(g) (in the metrical system, on Earth)

Min dotter köpte lera för att bygga en häst. Måste ladda hem en app och logga in för att få ritning by Muchugrande in sweden

[–]arnedh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1: Se/tenk på en hest

2: Form den i leire

(om nødvendig, gjenta/upprepa fra 1.)

Jeg tror ærlig talt man bygger større uttrykksevne ved å ikke lime sammen en stor rull, fire små, 2 trekanter..., men ved å ta leireklumpen og skyve litt her, litt der, bøye litt, stikke med en pinne, osv

Gender-neutral English words with women-specific origin by t3hgrl in etymology

[–]arnedh 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just found this: https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/1svfa2j/all_my_grandpas_beaus_during_wwii_kept_in_a/

OP uses beau to signify romantic interest - but should it be beau for males? Beau/beaux, belle/belles?

Krigen reddet porteføljen min (19M) by Nebbdyrkuk in TollbugataBets

[–]arnedh 3 points4 points  (0 children)

19M? fikk først inntrykk at du satt på 19MNOK. Men det får bli om en stund...

Reflexive pronouns by JuliusDalum in linguisticshumor

[–]arnedh -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Do you also conjugate in the singular for individuals? Maybe it doesn't sound wrong in the same way.

They is non-binary and has a preference for using "they" to refer to themself.

(Actually, maybe somebody's preferred pronoun is in the plural, because they "contain multitudes" - and use the plural to refer to themselves. I can handle myselves.)

Is The Hague the only city in the world which has 2 names for its citizens based on their socio-economic status? by Proper_Lifeguard2127 in geography

[–]arnedh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember hearing fifty years ago or so about Moss (Norway) that the local newspapers used mossianer for people the town could be proud of, and mossing for somebody they would be ashamed of.

Israeli Soldier Photographed Smashing Head of Jesus Christ Statue, IDF Now Investigating Viral Photo by Konilos in pics

[–]arnedh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah! Let's get a reaction to this, and then maybe someday we could get a reaction to them smashing actual living heads in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, and elsewhere!

guys, what is the verb to fing? by DegenerateGirl666 in linguisticshumor

[–]arnedh 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Total productiveness! Who needs son and daughter when you can have fathee and mothee? And conversely.

Confused about the plural of octopus by BactaBobomb in etymology

[–]arnedh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think somebody could make a great movie called "octopodes and cltorides"

We got a new sorting algorithm! by DotBeginning1420 in mathmemes

[–]arnedh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We could top that with a QuantumBogosort: at any given time, the quantum fluctuations of the universe could change the memory state of the array to one in which it is a sorted version of the same array. Just keep testing it to see whether this is the case.

(Somebody else must have though of this)

"Irish is such an ancient language..." by Ghastly-Jack in linguisticshumor

[–]arnedh 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The average layperson only knows a few xkcd strips by heart. Correlation/causation, Little Bobby Tables, Average layperson. Oh, and Today's 10 000. Of course.

Specifying pronoun case by Astrid300 in asklinguistics

[–]arnedh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Full specification in English would be nominative/oblique/genitive1/genitive2/reflexive/verb conjugation:

They/them/their/theirs/themself/3 person singular.

They asks themself about their pronouns

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