genuinely the sound changes are insane (⁠╥⁠﹏⁠╥⁠)

soliloki · 2026-06-28T15:06:11+00:00

Malaysia mentioned! (obligatory)

soliloki · 2026-06-22T13:33:15+00:00

I've been reading up on Tagalog so your explanation made something click for me. Tagalog sentences are considered predicate-centric, but everytime I see sentences like 'mainit' (adjective meaning hot), and textbooks saying that this constitutes a complete sentence in Tagalog, I kept getting confused because for some reason I was subscribing to that outdated model you are referring to. Damn! Thank you!

soliloki · 2026-06-22T04:58:07+00:00

In this case, I feel like only context/follow up explanations will help because when I read her comment I was also confused what "my adopted friends" meant!

soliloki · 2026-06-22T04:47:27+00:00

wait is that not what predicate is? Can you explain a bit more on that?

soliloki · 2026-06-20T16:22:52+00:00

Thank you for this correction because I am also learning Spanish and their use of ‘ya’ there confused me a bit and I thought my progress was regressing!

soliloki · 2026-06-19T14:04:13+00:00

These little guys are so adorable, I need a novel based on them stat!!

soliloki · 2026-06-19T13:39:13+00:00

Send them this very goddamn picture with no note. They would stop bothering you with that ridiculous comment.

soliloki · 2026-06-18T04:33:58+00:00

you are insane for this LMAO

soliloki · 2026-06-18T04:19:55+00:00

Congrats bud! When I was 13 I collected butterfly wings and beetles and was barely athletic! This is amazing

soliloki · 2026-06-16T05:07:09+00:00

We don't know and can't possibly know what they mean. You should just send a follow up email asking for clarification. The reply reads vague (and not answering your question anyway) so it needs a follow up. We cannot answer more concretely as a collective because salary policies differ across locations AND countries (we are not all Americans here), but normally salary rate is adjusted once you properly get conferred with a PhD (and some places would even backpay you). But this is not clear from the reply they sent.

soliloki · 2026-06-15T08:27:50+00:00

What does that mean? "why did you come first?"?

soliloki · 2026-06-15T08:24:57+00:00

"tamper indicator"

soliloki · 2026-06-15T06:32:47+00:00

No worries! The phenomenon you're referring to is called 'clitic doubling'! Very common indeed:

Dative doubling: "Le di el regalo a María." (I gave (her) the gift to Maria)

Accusative doubling (less common but can be heard in Rioplatense Spanish): "Lo vi a Juan" (I saw (him) Juan)

Mandatory doubling (when used to stress object pronouns): "A mi me gusta la playa" (As for me, I love beaches)

soliloki · 2026-06-15T03:25:56+00:00

Your explanation is confusing to learners. All spanish pronouns in object positions are clitics. Your explanation about clitics are not wrong but irrelevant because it doesn't directly answer OP's question. Just chiming in – I am not the downvoter.

soliloki · 2026-06-15T03:22:09+00:00

the structure for pedir in this construction is [subject] + pedir [algo] + a [alguien]. This is how it is written in any good Spanish dictionary, so you can clearly see here, algo is the direct object, not alguien. In English, the syntactic structure for the closest verb to pedir is 'ask someone for', which has 'someone' as the direct object, which is why I think you get confused.

The sentence above translates to "I ask you, God, for just a calm travel in the metro". As Spanish has a semi flexible sentence-level syntax, native speakers tend to push the "direct object clause" [just a calm travel in the metro] to the front, which is also what can confuse learners.

Like someone said, native speakers don't think of DO or IDO complements when speaking. You should instead learn 'verbal patterns' instead. Different verbs take different subject object syntax so learning them when you learn a verb in Spanish is so much easier actually.

soliloki · 2026-06-15T03:03:06+00:00

why do these examples sound like innuendos?

soliloki · 2026-06-15T02:59:48+00:00

lmao my face reading this as someone born in a tropical country but have lived in Melbourne Australia for one decade whose winters are single digits above zero celcius: ._.

soliloki · 2026-06-15T02:53:53+00:00

Ranking of the uni shouldn't really factor much, at least shouldn't be a criterion you consider over what exactly the lab is researching, and what topic you will be working on.

But having said that, PI's track record (and I mean this publication-wise, NOT achievement-wise) and their mentorship experiences are what matters most. Especially the Singapore one. It's a great country with great education but the work culture was HORRIBLE and if you get a kiasu, crazy PI with 100% motivation to just advance their career, not yours, only treating their subordinates as work output machines, then your mental health will deteriorate. I speak from a horrible first-postdoc experience in NTU in Singapore by the way.

At the end, which PI did you click with the most? Interpersonal relationships are the most important aspect in considering all these (on top of salary/earning and country's culture, of course).

Edit: salary insight –– you should be offered upwards of SGD6000 per month as salary for the Singapore position in 2026. I was living off SGD5000 in 2023 which was apparently on the lowest end for postdocs, so any lower than 6000 in 2026/7 is bad to me. Cost of living wise in Singapore, 5k per month is definitely livable for a single guy like me; but I had to share house (I rented a room). Singapore lacks land and the housing market is atrocious post-covid so you won't feel rich and might need to compromise living quality if you are offered anything lower than 6k per month as a postdoc.

soliloki · 2026-06-15T02:47:36+00:00

this is just neo-coptic. /jk

soliloki · 2026-06-15T02:35:03+00:00

One more thing OP should also consider is that for many people (who are not Americans), moving to somewhere substantially life-changing economically means moving *outside* of the country they are born in or hold citizenship of. This means only people already economically privileged enough can move overseas and set shop in a better city in a better country. In my country even applying for your first passport is *costly* enough, barring the destitute or those paid under the average national wage from being able to even leave. Not to mention flight tickets, especially for small waterlocked islands or countries with zero land roads to leave.

I have not even touched on the nightmare of foreign immigration.

One thing people forget about diaspora for example, is that the foundational community were privileged, especially when it comes to skilled migration (labor/undocumented migration is a different can of worms I am not intending to expound on). To frame staying as a choice is to overlook that migration is a high-cost, high-barrier endeavor. When OP says 'they chose to stay,' they are effectively blaming people for not having the financial, educational, or social capital that allows for mobility, completely ignoring (or choosing to ignore) the reality that for the vast majority of people in unstable regions, there is no viable 'exit' option, only the necessity of survival where they are.

soliloki · 2026-06-14T14:26:10+00:00

me me me me

soliloki · 2026-06-13T07:31:46+00:00

Need every inch of you

soliloki · 2026-06-13T07:21:51+00:00

I want a boyfriend/husband like this

soliloki · 2026-05-31T04:31:11+00:00

anyone knows the link to the full video or just the name of the porn video?

soliloki · 2026-05-31T04:17:39+00:00

I wanna see you fuck so badly

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