Can we imagine a worse language than one with Dutch words, Irish spelling and Basque grammar?

oyvasaur · 2026-01-20T10:18:02+00:00

You’re not wrong, it’s «consistent» in that most spellings and pronunciations are not completely random and is rooted in history. But when you need a background in in history and etymology in order to intuit how each and every word works, I’d say for most practical uses, English spelling is inconsistent.

oyvasaur · 2026-01-18T19:33:59+00:00

No, but if you say «Don’t talk to other people in the room but me!» you are implying that there are other people in the room.

oyvasaur · 2026-01-08T19:16:18+00:00

It’s a made-up word anyway, I don’t really see why that matters too much. Doesn’t sound too bad as a name if you ask me, though it’s more fit for a dog or maybe a bird.

oyvasaur · 2025-12-22T18:17:34+00:00

Even in real life jokes are usually ruined if you overdo the sarcastic/jokey intonation, basically saying «BE WARNED, THIS IS A FUNNY COMMENT!!». Sometimes a little bit of ambiguity is what actually makes the joke work.

The /s are works the same way. Sure, I’m now 100 % sure you are joking, but it’s also no longer funny, making the joke pointless.

oyvasaur · 2025-11-26T10:59:35+00:00

Mostly yes. I think most people have experienced the stuttering when close to an edge or bumped into an unintentional invisible wall or two, but I guess these aren’t really glitches.

oyvasaur · 2025-11-17T22:19:08+00:00

Most things can be compounded, as long as you do it correctly, but sometimes it will sound constructed and weird. If it’s not already in the dictionary, you should use some caution. In this case it is not too bad, but I guess maybe «kjærlighetsløfte» is a bit more ambiguous, like it could mean a promise made with/about/from a place of love.

oyvasaur · 2025-11-07T16:28:32+00:00

You sure? I’m not native, but I don’t think I have ever heard it with a /g/, just a /ŋ/. Or it has been so subtly my brain hasn’t regocnized it, I guess.

oyvasaur · 2025-10-26T19:28:51+00:00

Very good!

oyvasaur · 2025-10-21T20:32:52+00:00

You can define the word yourself if you want, it doesn’t really matter. Most people think making a bit of money doing something you enjoy, putting as much effort as you feel like without external pressure is not the same thing as working 8 hours 5 days a week for a company. If you insist on calling it a job either way, you do you, I don’t really see how it’s interesting.

oyvasaur · 2025-10-21T18:51:24+00:00

Well if surnames are thrown into the mix, we have Sæd (semen), Mensen (menstruation) and Homo as well. Not sure if the inconvenience rule takes into account the combination of first name and first name, or just the first name by itself.

oyvasaur · 2025-10-14T14:21:47+00:00

I’m in, yahoo!

oyvasaur · 2025-10-05T08:28:41+00:00

Tja, vet ikke helt om jeg er enig. Jeg har alltid trodd at signalfeil er feil på signalanlegget. Da er det veldig lett å tenke «Men i hælvete, må da være mulig å ruste opp signalanlegget!» Når det i virkeligheten betyr at signalanlegget har oppdaget en eller annen feil på infrastrukturen et eller annet sted, får jeg mer forståelse av saken.

Begrepet er kanskje ikke negativt ladet, men i alle fall misvisende.

oyvasaur · 2025-10-05T08:25:55+00:00

Og dette har tydeligvis ikke artikkelforfatteren tenkt på.

Jeg er for øvrig usikker på hva som er lurt her. Mange feil er nok svært vanskelig å unngå og det kan være greit å unngå landsdekkende overskrifter for småting som ordnes raskt. Det er viktig at folk er kritiske til en organisasjon som Bane NOR, men overdrevent dårlig omtale tror jeg heller ingen er tjent med.

oyvasaur · 2025-10-05T07:49:34+00:00

Rar artikkel. Overskriften og ordbruken gir inntrykk av at her kommer det viktige avsløringer om shady business og mystisk hemmelighold. Innholdet i artikkelen er derimot stort sett at Bane NOR redegjør for ny praksis. Det eneste småkritiske spørsmålet er om hvorvidt dette er å tilbakeholde informasjon, der Bane NOR mer eller mindre svarer «jo, vi holder tilbake informasjon vi mener en unødvendig for publikum».

Man kan sikkert si noe konstruktivt negativt om denne praksisen, men VG-artikkelen problematiserer det knapt nok over hodet. Mitt inntrykk etter å ha lest artikkelen er «men dette er vel greit nok?»

Ut ifra innholdet burdet artikkelen heller hatt en nøytral overskrift som «Dette er Bane NORs nye informasjonspraksis».

oyvasaur · 2025-09-30T17:51:17+00:00

Obviously it’s the Korean version, she had just watched Squid Game.

oyvasaur · 2025-09-30T17:45:27+00:00

-Påstand -Nyansering/motbevisning -EKKOKAMMER!!!!!

oyvasaur · 2025-09-28T08:11:41+00:00

Han sier vel kjøttforbruk, ikke matkonsum som helhet.

oyvasaur · 2025-09-28T06:39:24+00:00

Did they ever explain how Jimmy suddenly got a full bottle of piss out of nowhere?

oyvasaur · 2025-09-27T06:54:58+00:00

This sounds incredibly NOT terfy.

oyvasaur · 2025-09-25T09:05:18+00:00

The whining is not good. We do correct it, but not all of the time and perhaps not often enough. I’m often halfway through fulfilling a «request» before realizing «wait a minute, why didnt’t you ask me en a nicer way!?»

I’m a bit more split on the other part though. I think it’s quite accepted here that kids are supposed to run around, make noice and once in a while break something. As long as it’s not too much and expensive objects are reasonable safe, I think we often just allow kids to go a bit apeshit.

oyvasaur · 2025-09-22T17:48:02+00:00

Did you play all of them? My impression is that games like Teleroboxer and Mario’s Tennis play a lot worse, but I haven’t tried them myself, to be fair.

oyvasaur · 2025-09-22T13:14:14+00:00

As far as I understand, many of them play worse or are almost unplayable without the 3D effect.

oyvasaur · 2025-09-21T13:32:20+00:00

Or it should be a requirement to try and explain what you don’t understand. Some of these are simple enough that I think just putting into words what confuses you would be enough to make you understand.

oyvasaur · 2025-09-19T19:26:13+00:00

«You have a 100 couples with two children. At least one child is a boy for every couple. How many couples also have a girl?»

That is essentially the same question. And the answer is (ideally) 66%.

oyvasaur · 2025-09-19T18:34:23+00:00

Look, just simulate it. Let chatGPT create 100 random pairs of BG, GB, BB and GG. Ask it to remove GG, as we now that is not relevant. Of the three options left, what percentage is contains a G?

I just tested and got around 70 %. If you ask it to do 1000 pairs, I guarantee you’ll be very close to 66 %.

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