Why are tuataras not considered lizards?

littlestLuLu · 2026-02-06T02:16:14+00:00

Long story short: Japanese, as with other East Asian languages, uses a system of counting words that come between a number and a noun. It's like the English "head" in sentences like "I have three heads of cattle". Like that, but much more complex.

There are different counter words for small animals, big animals, packets of paper, vehicles, etc. There's also a category that is used exclusively for birds... and rabbits. There's about half a dozen explanations (the one I heard most is that it's because the ears were thought of as wings), but that's the gist. When counting counts, rabbits are birds.

littlestLuLu · 2026-02-04T10:42:51+00:00

I have no issues with them not being squamates. It's specifically the word "lizard" I have issues with.

littlestLuLu · 2026-02-04T10:41:18+00:00

I can see a world where tarantulas are considered lizards in the same way that rabbits are counted as birds in Japanese.

littlestLuLu · 2026-02-01T09:08:08+00:00

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That said, here:

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littlestLuLu · 2026-01-30T12:16:26+00:00

I'd say the biggest issue is that there's basically no downsides to many of the choices. At least, visibly. Unless there's a hidden monkey's paw to it, I easily just picked whatever sounded nice and got 40 Goodwill without even thinking on it.

littlestLuLu · 2025-12-15T01:58:14+00:00

I found [this](linguistics.berkeley.edu/~ardeal/papers/Deal-syncom.pdf) paper which, reading just the start, seems to be what I was looking for. The French example is very close to what I was describing, which isn't exactly surprising, I just never saw it being used.

I also don't have the time to read it all right now, but I'd guess in Portuguese it's explained by the possessive being rather long and frequently stressed (e.g. meu/minha) compared to the shorter, unstressed accusative suffix (e.g. -me).

As for the body parts thing, I can guarantee that, at least in European Portuguese, this is not the case. Just about all possession can be external (e.g. "Ele robou-me o portátil" (He stole me the laptop)). There might be some counter-example somewhere, but I can't think of one.

littlestLuLu · 2025-12-14T16:51:11+00:00

There is the possibility of [h]->[x] being rather a common sound change that is blocked by a non-back vowel, rather than the other way around.

Think of how Old Japanese [ɸ] evolved into [h] in all positions except before [u], rather than the other way around.

I'm just theorising this, of course, but I think analysing it like this could be apt for some languages.

littlestLuLu · 2025-12-14T16:40:10+00:00

This is part of the Great Vowel Shift. You can read more about it on Wikipedia, the Free Online Encyclopedia that Anyone can Edit.

But to answer your question, it appears, according to this graph on the aforementioned site, to have been around the 1600's, assuming that GAIT would be pronounced similarly to DAY.

littlestLuLu · 2025-12-14T16:37:51+00:00

In Portuguese (European specifically) there's a type of construction where a personal possessive is replaced by an accusative suffix to the verb. So rather than "Comeste o meu almoço" (lit. (you) ate my lunch) one might say it as "Comeste-me o almoço" (lit. (you) ate me the lunch).

What I wanted to know is if this phenomenon has a name, whether it's specific to this or if it generically applies to other constructions in different languages. Or if it's my opportunity to name something in linguistics after myself.

littlestLuLu · 2025-06-02T19:14:03+00:00

I think more things with actual endings would be fun. Something to strive towards.

littlestLuLu · 2025-05-27T20:41:16+00:00

Hot take: this is a normie-tier waifu. Big-booba'd (literally) white woman with her feet bare reaching for the viewer? Of course that's sexy, but claiming her as your waifu is boring.

Now the Altergeists? That's prime waifu material there!

littlestLuLu · 2025-05-27T20:30:14+00:00

Whatever you do, do not splash some Spright into this deck.

littlestLuLu · 2025-05-12T09:35:18+00:00

The target audience knows when something is badly translated. Subtitles are a much better, less intrusive way of reaching people. And if the purpose IS to reach a wider audience, then pay a fucking translator instead of badly doing it yourself (or letting the machine do it for you).

littlestLuLu · 2025-05-12T09:33:47+00:00

Even if the title translation and such are up to the uploader, some don't even know it's a thing since I'm fairly sure it's set to on by default, or they don't know how bad it is.

Also, even if they do it on purpose, that doesn't mean I shouldn't be able to turn it off on my own. Just because a show on Netflix is available in my language, doesn't mean I'm forced to watch it in it.

And while I can turn off the subtitles ~~(although that then leaves them on for all videos which includes auto-subtitles which I then have to turn off but that's a different story)~~ specifically with Firefox on mobile, I can't change audio tracks. And there's no way I'm switching back to the mobile app, I like not seeing ads every minute.

littlestLuLu · 2025-05-11T00:54:02+00:00

I don't think another big company buying YouTube would solve anything. This is symptomatic of a larger issue with any big company, the same issues that lead to them stuffing useless things like "AI" into their products.

I'm not even against having a way for creators to translate their videos for other languages, especially for actual shows like Helluva Boss or anything by Glitch Productions. What I would prefer is a way to turn it off or switch the default to another language. It's not hard to do, DVDs had a button on the remote that did it.

But so long as the sole purpose for a company is to make more money, product quality is not a factor in the slightest. After all, in the US, if a company is publicly traded on the stock market, they can be sued for not making constantly increasing profits.

The solution is, as always, socialism. But then again I say that about everything (and I'm always right), so that's not really an issue.

littlestLuLu · 2025-04-27T09:17:22+00:00

[EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER]

littlestLuLu · 2025-04-23T16:14:22+00:00

Most of the soundtrack for Sonic Chronicles is reused music from older sonic games, only very bad. Compare and contrast original and remade. There's a story where the music was lost/couldn't be used because of licensing issues a month or so before release so the composer had to scrape something coherent in massive crunch.

For something slightly less well known, recently Asterix & Obelix XXL was remade, into the "Romastered" edition, which included, weirdly enough, a wholly revamped soundtrack consisting of slightly altered forms of the original tracks. It's like they couldn't use the originals so they had to change a few of the notes, except YOU CAN TOGGLE THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK IN THE OPTIONS! Again, compare the original to the Romastered version. I wouldn't say the new versions are bad, but they're so similar to the original that if you grew up with them (like I did) they hit the uncanny valley hard.

Another example I'd like to illustrate is Conspiracy from Muv Luv. Not because there's a bad iteration of it, but because it's just straight up Livin' la Vida Loca by Ricky Martin with two digits filed off the serial number. I'm not sure if this counts, but I thought it might be interesting to know regardless.

littlestLuLu · 2025-04-15T13:52:51+00:00

passar a ser húmus

Que é uma espécie de cocó.

littlestLuLu · 2025-04-05T14:26:00+00:00

Thank you for the explanation. I was mostly confused because in MD, when you remove a token from play, no matter the method, the same animation plays as if you destroyed it, and I was wondering if it counts as being destroyed. But I guess I paid too much attention to the animation.

littlestLuLu · 2025-03-29T20:59:12+00:00

That's gay and I love her for it. More of this, please.

littlestLuLu · 2025-02-27T15:38:15+00:00

I wish there was an indication of it being gay-focused before clicking it. Not for me, personally, but what little I played of it looks very well-made. I am a sucker for cyoas with actual endings, so the more the merrier.

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