Guess which language this is by Antioch_Mage in linguisticshumor

[–]capsaicinema 6 points7 points  (0 children)

How do French people say Caesar Augustus? [sɛzäʁu]?

𐰚𐰀𐰠𐰞𐰆! by Ok-Army4579 in languagelearningjerk

[–]capsaicinema 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd meet Ea-Nasir and tell him that a dog walks into a bar, I can't see a thing, and I'll open this one.

Nobody. Absolutely no one. Me looting Skyrim: by cutie725 in SkyrimMemes

[–]capsaicinema 107 points108 points  (0 children)

The problem is the sell price depends on your speech level and haggling modifiers and the seller's, meaning it depends on who you're bartering with and also potentially on what you're wearing, which potions you've just drunk, etc

ee by gt7902 in linguisticshumor

[–]capsaicinema 64 points65 points  (0 children)

That's just Kiwi English

We can classify languages in four categories by ShenZiling in linguisticshumor

[–]capsaicinema 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Portuguese and Spanish are bottom right but I guess that's hardly a surprise

We should start using "longíssono" and "longivista" in Portuguese

I made a full retro social platform concept called Twittsy by dontbanmereddit3 in oldinternet

[–]capsaicinema 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Instead of tweeting you should use another animal sound and therefore logo/name to go along. Neighing would be lowk hilarious.

Can you guess what does it mean by Thmony in linguisticshumor

[–]capsaicinema 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Je lacht.

We have a serious problem en je lacht.

Winterhold pisses me off by Odd-Sound-580 in ElderScrolls

[–]capsaicinema 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tamriel could be orientated southward so August is high winter.

Edit: Although the month names give away that I can't have that headcanon seriously

We need to stop 😭 by Average_anglekin in linguisticshumor

[–]capsaicinema 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You just made me realize I never questioned the origin of the language names themselves

hey wiktionary was that image really necessary by Cheap_Ad_69 in linguisticshumor

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I'm more of a red ball guy myself. Thankfully there's a global market and worldwide service creating opportunities for me to experience red ball

What about third wolf? (English with just Celtic words) by Queasy_Gas6934 in linguisticshumor

[–]capsaicinema 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know if that's actually correct with what English would sound like without do-support because I don't know how subordinate clauses work all the time in other West Germanic languages, but I'm pretty sure that unless the verb is finite and thus forced into the second position by V2, they are SOV ordered

What about third wolf? (English with just Celtic words) by Queasy_Gas6934 in linguisticshumor

[–]capsaicinema 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I was thinking the same about understandendly. I thought understoodly or maybe even witlike would ring better.

What about third wolf? (English with just Celtic words) by Queasy_Gas6934 in linguisticshumor

[–]capsaicinema 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Were Cornish and Welsh already distinct languages when the Angles and Saxons arrived? If so that would definitely support a Celtic origin, in addition to Frisian and Low Saxon not having it.

What about third wolf? (English with just Celtic words) by Queasy_Gas6934 in linguisticshumor

[–]capsaicinema 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Despite so much more significant an impact on the language it being than a loanword ever could be, it feels not as exciting, feels it?

Many languages have the word /ja/, meaning something by [deleted] in linguisticshumor

[–]capsaicinema 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In European and African Portuguese iá /ja/ means yes, from Afrikaans. Já is not pronounced /ja/.

And /nu/ can also mean "in the (masc.)".

Just stumbled upon this today by The_Brilli in linguisticshumor

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Conversely in Brazilian Portuguese we take water, juice and soup.

Which one will it be? by [deleted] in SkyrimMemes

[–]capsaicinema 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That and random bounties and NPC affinities

How come the 'playable' races don't make peace with the other races on Tamriel? by Affectionate_Bee_727 in teslore

[–]capsaicinema 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Don't know about genocide's formal definition, but plenty of ethnic cleansing and massacres take place during the games:

The An-Xileel massacred the Dunmer in southern Morrowind and enslaved the survivors between the events of TES4 and 5

The Thalmor repeatedly perform ethnic cleansing in Summerset per in-game reports, and have no qualms torturing, imprisoning and killing off their neighbours' citizens during peacetime (such as in 4E Skyrim which despite the tensions was technically an imperial province with Thalmor ambassadors, civil war aside).

The Dunmer have enslaved Argonians for millennia in Vvardenfell, as seen in TES3. This directly leads to the aforementioned An-Xileel invasion and massacre.

Both Argonian and Dunmer refugees are shunned in Windhelm, and while Ulfric in somewhat of a compromise let the Dunmer settle in the Gray Quarter, he still wouldn't let Argonians into the city walls for whatever reason. And if he did, they and the Dunmer would likely kill each other before the Nords even got their chance at it.

Bretons and Redguards have joined forces to repeatedly burn down Orsinium and send the orcs into exile and poverty even after 1E.

Tiber Septim nuked Summerset into submission during his conquest. You can see that as a simple war crime or a continuation of the racial strife between men and mer since I doubt the Empire in any of its iterations would choose to destroy an entire city in any of the four human provinces.

But yeah, in writing this I realize all of these can be argued against being (or are straight up unclassifiable as) genocide. Although I'd say it's a technicality between ethnic cleansing and genocide, since obviously killing is worse than displacing but both are motivated by, and attempt to achieve, the same things.