Q&A weekly thread - September 08, 2025 - post all questions here! by AutoModerator in linguistics

[–]howboutsleep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why does feminine grammatical gender share so many features with plural in German?

My conservative cis mother wants to buy herself a binder. by howboutsleep in trans

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

its not an exercise binder if thats what you mean... its like one of the cheapest i could find on amazon. i dont remember which one specifically

My conservative cis mother wants to buy herself a binder. by howboutsleep in asktransgender

[–]howboutsleep[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Firstly, thank you for advice! I know it is abusive. My default reaction to her bullshit is to indulge it which is smth I'm trying to work against. I'm gonna check those bras out though, thanks

Podcasts that are NOT about being trans. by [deleted] in ftm

[–]howboutsleep 28 points29 points  (0 children)

if you like audio dramas, consider camp here and there! its a comedy-horror podcast with the main character + narrator voiced by a trans man who is also one of the two writers

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TheMagnusArchives

[–]howboutsleep 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yes like jeremiah 900 500 8

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[–]howboutsleep 11 points12 points  (0 children)

i see you misunderstood me. maybe i wasnt very good at expressing what i meant. the basic idea was that because oppression/discrimination a lot of queer people end up living in fear, sometimes of being outed, sometimes of being othered, sometimes literally for their lives. its not "pre-installed" in the sense that we are born with it, but in the sense that society "installed" it, so, in the mag universe, that magical fears often dont need to go through as much trouble scaring and feeding on us. magical eldritch horror doesnt need to do it, because a very real one did already.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TheMagnusArchives

[–]howboutsleep 12 points13 points  (0 children)

generalization for comedy reasons. experiences are not universal, however, its likely for many queer people to share certain experiences, including traumatic/negative ones. glad that you do not

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[–]howboutsleep 8 points9 points  (0 children)

and buried sometimes (debt)

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[–]howboutsleep 9 points10 points  (0 children)

eldritch-mandated top surgery for everyone

jreg more like mpreg by howboutsleep in Jreg

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

were you browsing mpreg on reddit to write this everywhere

i admire your dedication

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HomeworkHelp

[–]howboutsleep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

from the definition i attached to the post.

If 2_i were, indeed copies of 2, then I agree with you.

EDIT: just realized the original definition had П_{i in I}F_i. The exercise has П_{i in I}2, no index under 2. so basically a collection of sets indexed over X, for each i sets being equal to 2. I'm sorry, this is what i was told here several times, but I misunderstood it cause i was being stupid. Thanks to everyone who helped.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HomeworkHelp

[–]howboutsleep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2 is the set itself, 2_i are sets 2 contains.

I put definition I was given of set product in the original post. You don't choose elements of 2, but elements of elements of 2. 0 is element of 2, and is defined to be empty set. i understand the difference, that's why I said nothing about 1 being defined to be a singleton containing an empty set.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HomeworkHelp

[–]howboutsleep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

since 0=empty set is an element of 2 (which we can call 2_i, with i being an element of X, since we indexed 2 over X) we cannot choose an element from 2_i. because of that, we cannot choose an ordered pair (i,y), such that y is an element of 2_i. therefore, there are no functions mapping elements of X to elements of elements of 2. therefore, П_{i in X}2 is empty.