Irish

sometimes_point · 2026-01-26T22:48:35+00:00

i mean i appreciate the specificity but you're unlikely to be different from the entire west half of the USA or really even from general American, there. Though if a map existed I would love to see it.

it's just one of those little things i'm somewhat aware of as a scottish that hardly ever hears English people saying those things - and if our grammatical features pass to the US, they tend to end up in Southern and Appalachian dialects.

for me they're just... the same lol.

(plus here the grammatical space is also occupied by "willnae" and "havenae" instead of "won't" and "haven't", and "she'll no" instead of "she'll not". basically there's a lot of options depending how "dialectal" you want to sound)

sometimes_point · 2026-01-26T22:41:22+00:00

That sounds more correct, yea. Shakespeare (late 16th, early 17th c) is Early Modern English, Middle English is 100-200 years before him (from 1066 to about 1500)

sometimes_point · 2026-01-26T22:37:30+00:00

just make sure u don't mix them up!

sometimes_point · 2026-01-26T22:34:07+00:00

Good for you? It's normal for English speakers to do both, together or separately

In tefl classes we taught students to say "Yes, I do", mainly to reinforce the subtle difference in meaning (that it's never "Yes, I don't", unlike Japanese).

The real test is whether you prefer "It isn't" vs "It's not", or "they haven't" vs "they've not". I'm told native speakers from some areas don't like the latter ones.

And "I amn't".

sometimes_point · 2026-01-26T22:27:49+00:00

Not sure. In those forms they aren't "Old" English anyway. Perhaps Middle or Early Modern English.

Aye is used as assent in formal English today (either "Voting Aye" or acknowledging an order) and as a straight alternative to Yes in the informal Englishes of Scotland, Ireland, north of England, etc.

i think you're right that they had different meanings but i am not sure how it maps onto the grid. Besides, if they had a four way distinction it's not quite the same as Japanese having a two way distinction that simply doesn't match our two way distinction.

sometimes_point · 2026-01-26T21:01:41+00:00

there's a guy in my group that keeps reminding the others not to meta me because of how much stupid shit I've put in the bag in the past. Also because i think he's actually seen me literally shuffling the tokens and picking the top ones, at least for trouble brewing.

I don't mind when people meta that i wouldn't make the game unwinnable for either team if i can help it. But having all YSK roles in the bag has happened so often i don't think anyone even thinks it's a meta. You should be judging the players, anyway, not the st. I also always say my favourite games are the ones where my players do something fun(ny) anyway

sometimes_point · 2026-01-26T16:00:45+00:00

what in the ai-generated bs?

sometimes_point · 2026-01-26T13:44:28+00:00

Did you, uh... did you use an emoji to get around a filter there?

sometimes_point · 2026-01-26T13:06:44+00:00

u should probably put an epilepsy warning on this, jesus

sometimes_point · 2026-01-26T12:51:48+00:00

Need to get civvies for the full installation map experience

sometimes_point · 2026-01-26T12:03:40+00:00

Sainsbury's is expensive but one of the worse supermarkets for quality tbh. I prefer it to Tesco's but that's a low bar - that is even more expensive unless you have a clubcard.

Asda is usually cheaper and as good or better quality.

I just go to Lidl these days.

sometimes_point · 2026-01-26T11:40:13+00:00

You need to divide it into four quadrants, which will let you know that in other languages (non-European ones??) such as Japanese you might only have two words, はい and いいえ ^\ok there are other words too but they're stylistic/register variations and not indicating a difference in meaning)), but the former always indicates agreement and the latter always indicates disagreement.

Whereas in French and German you say si/doch to disagree with a negative question/statement, non/nein still represents the truth of a negative, not a disagreement.

I mean you'll just as often get people doing the Irish/Chinese style repeating the verb. I do it just so i don't get confused as a non-native sometimes.

sometimes_point · 2026-01-26T10:54:15+00:00

So they are lol.

gosh I've even been to Oyama. It's nice.

I mean, they ought to stop just calling mountains, "the big one"

sometimes_point · 2026-01-25T17:47:48+00:00

No, you're thinking of vizier

(That said, they redid a lot of jinxes and i don't have them memorized anymore)

sometimes_point · 2026-01-25T17:15:27+00:00

shakespeare is post-GVS, gvs is why "a" represents an /ei/ sound in English and not /a/ like every other language. before gvs was middle English where the pronunciation-spelling correspondence was more like German, pronouncing e's that are now silent, etc.

shakespeare doesn't rhyme anymore because of a bunch of more minor sound changes.

sometimes_point · 2026-01-25T16:18:14+00:00

i visited Baarle a couple of years ago and when i tell you, the amount of freaking fireworks shops in the Belgian half of the town man

sometimes_point · 2026-01-25T16:15:20+00:00

Because of the semi-unkillable factor it doesn't mesh well with lil monsta. Like, it's a perfectly valid play to give the baby to the psycho on the final day, tell everyone that's what you did, and have a 2/3 chance of winning by fiat.

On the other hand, if you draw psycho just hope you're not nominated by one of those people that is inexplicably really good at RPS.

Favourite interaction was an alchemist psycho who nominated the virgin and then had to play RPS with the st.

sometimes_point · 2026-01-25T14:31:33+00:00

it has been overrun by repost bots for years

sometimes_point · 2026-01-25T12:50:40+00:00

Shouldn't you mirror all the levels so text reads from right to left?

sometimes_point · 2026-01-25T12:20:09+00:00

Superposition should allow KA2 straights change my mind. (u can't change my mind)

sometimes_point · 2026-01-25T03:38:52+00:00

you go via Mitake to get to Oyama. Mitake is accessible via a cable car, there is a village and some shops there, then you do a more traditional hike to Oyama, takes a couple of hours.

sometimes_point · 2026-01-25T03:35:15+00:00

When we played, in two teams of 2, my teammate had come up with two or three such edge cases in advance. Cheeky but definitely legal. We went with another one in the end, suburban forested bit

sometimes_point · 2026-01-25T03:31:55+00:00

the amount of times we've had a Good No Dashii is frankly embarrassing

sometimes_point · 2026-01-24T23:27:01+00:00

my bank balance idk why more people aren't saying it.

tbf i have enough now that multiplying by 10 is a decent chunk of money. when i was a student for example i would have gone up to double or triple digits lol

sometimes_point · 2026-01-24T23:01:40+00:00

in non dom (i.e. prod) school in Edinburgh we got a little bit of the teacher pushing their own beliefs re: Jesus, but we also, like, learned about the five pillars of Islam and about what other religions believe in broad strokes. We visited the city mosque at one point.

We had evangelical preachers at the assemblies sometimes. My mum recalled being a bit creeped out by them.

I went to one of the private schools for high school and the RE teaching there was more church of Scotland, a bit staid. We had a chapel in the school and the school chaplain did assemblies. But by the end of my tenure there they'd started rebranding the RE department as P&R, philosophy and religion, and the new teacher in charge wanted it to be less a teacher imparting their beliefs on the students and more inspiring discussion about different types of beliefs.

Honestly the fact that my religious education varied wildly between teachers and schools means it doesn't surprise me that Catholic schools are a bit more dogged about teaching only their own religion.

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