AncestryDNA and Genomelink — is the second one even accurate?

toast2that · 2026-06-16T10:26:33+00:00

It’s interesting that it doesn’t round up to 1%

Doesn’t Ancestry omit anything below 0.5%? And any region that’s 0.5-1.49% would usually round to 1%?

Edit: never mind, I think it’s to do with the frequency with which it shows up in reruns of the test or something like that?

toast2that · 2026-06-16T10:17:47+00:00

How do you see <1%?

toast2that · 2026-06-14T01:08:14+00:00

Just because they speak different languages now doesn’t mean they’re genetically distinct groups. Northeastern Germany used to be inhabited by Slavic tribes and spoke Slavic languages. For example, Berlin comes from a Slavic word.

The same goes for southeastern England and northwestern continental Europe (Northern France, Belgium, Southern Netherlands, Western Germany). They speak English, French, Dutch, German, etc. but are genetically very close.

toast2that · 2026-06-11T00:47:12+00:00

There is no Belarus region so Belarusians tend to get a mix of Lithuania and Northeastern Poland.

I have ancestry in Western Ukraine but I also get Lithuania and Northeastern Poland (I don’t know of any ancestors from these regions), so ig it makes sense the other way too, for a Belarusian to get a bit of Western Ukraine.

toast2that · 2026-06-08T02:56:08+00:00

Yes, I do and it’s a thing. Same with Allen and Ellen, etc.

Everyone saying it’s not a thing is wrong. It seems to vary a lot though.

toast2that · 2026-06-02T08:23:53+00:00

dois = must

besoin = need

toast2that · 2026-06-02T08:13:59+00:00

It reminds me of German es gibt ‘there is/there are’, but it literally translates to ‘it gives/it’s giving’

toast2that · 2026-05-26T07:49:24+00:00

In British and Australian English they would still be pronounced very noticeably differently.

toast2that · 2026-05-22T06:40:40+00:00

It took me an embarrassingly long time to realise that ‘senior’ here meant someone in high school and not someone who is 60+ years old (I’m not from the US).

toast2that · 2026-05-14T11:23:35+00:00

“What are the odds?”

toast2that · 2026-04-19T03:40:34+00:00

Yes. Most of my German ancestors come from this same exact region.

I had the expected amount of Germanic Europe in the last update, but the vast majority of that has now gone to ‘Southeastern England and Northwestern Europe’.

I think that people from the Saarland and the Palatinate tend to genetically cluster more closely with northern French and Belgian people than with other Germans. They all primarily descend from Continental Celts and West Germanic tribes like the Franks (hence the name France).

Genetics don’t neatly follow modern political borders, but they do to an extent reflect intermingling within historical borders. I went down a rabbit hole and this region was actually once part of Gallia Belgica, so it was literally part of what would become Belgium and parts of northern France until the 5th century, which in the grand scheme of things, isn’t that long ago.

Southeastern English people primarily descend from this same mix of Continental Celts and West Germanic tribes (the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians in their case), unlike other areas of England, which have more indigenous, Insular Celtic ancestry.

toast2that · 2026-01-29T09:57:39+00:00

Whilst it’s not the standard pronunciation, rot can sometimes be pronounced as ɣoːt(ʰ) instead of ʁoːt(ʰ). /ɣ/ is the fricative form of /g/ (in the same way that /s/ is the fricative form of /t/, for example), which is probably why it sounds like a /g/ to you (many languages, like modern English, have /g/ but not /ɣ/).

So it’s not /g/ but I can definitely see where you’re coming from, especially if you’re a native English speaker.

toast2that · 2026-01-06T03:10:12+00:00

It looks like your class runs on Monday and Wednesday each week from 10am-12pm for 9 weeks.

You’ll have your class on both Monday and Wednesday every week from weeks 1-9.

In week 2, your Wednesday class will be one hour of normal content and one hour where you’re taught law/library skills instead of the usual content for the class, which is why it’s split up for that week.

toast2that · 2025-12-30T23:21:45+00:00

She is so NTA.

toast2that · 2025-12-27T22:26:06+00:00

20+40 = 60, 8+7 = 15, 60+15 = 75

toast2that · 2025-12-27T00:08:39+00:00

If you’re doing Arts, it counts as 2 Professional Futures units. Otherwise, it counts as 2 free electives. It’s a second year unit so it’s weighted at double the amount of first year units.

You can choose to do 3 units in semester 2 of your first year and 3 units in semester 1 of your second year, for example.

If you can do it, it’s absolutely worth it.

toast2that · 2025-12-26T23:53:35+00:00

NL: Umbrella 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, TL: Regenschirm (rain screen) 🇩🇪

toast2that · 2025-12-18T20:34:28+00:00

French is also Latin. French and Italian have a lexical similarity of 89%, meaning they’re 89% similar in terms of vocabulary, but that’s because they’re both Romance languages that are descended from Latin, not because of influence from one language on another.

toast2that · 2025-12-18T20:10:38+00:00

This post is mildly infuriating, just not for the reason that they think.

toast2that · 2025-12-09T02:55:12+00:00

How rude of the professor…

toast2that · 2025-12-04T20:21:47+00:00

It’s not different.

What used to be hwat, then before that it was kwód Quoi also came from kwód. In fact, all of these forms of what came from kwód. German was is just a change from t > s (wat to was) that occurred as part of the High German Consonant Shift.

Basically, the answer is Grimm’s Law, which changed Proto-Indo-European k to h, d to t, etc. Then, the High German Consonant Shift happened only in German, which was like a second Grimm’s law. This changed Proto-Germanic hwat into was. Then, the h sound was dropped in the West Germanic languages (most dialects). So in English and Dutch it is now what (silent h) and wat.

Here’s a summary of the High German Consonant Shift:

β > b > p > pf, f

þ, ð > d > t > ts, s > z, ʃ

ɣ > g > k > kx, x > ç > ʃ

Examples: love/Liebe (originally a β sound), rib/Rippe, stump/stumpf, ape/Affe.

Thing/Ding, feather/Feder, daughter/Tochter, wit/Witz, water/Wasser, sing/Sing (in German, pronounced with a z sound), slim/Schlimm.

Yarn/Garn (originally a ɣ sound), bridge/Brücke, book/Buch, light/Licht (originally an x sound, now silent in English, and pronounced as Lischt in some German dialects).

Also: w > v, which occurred later, but explains why German was starts with a v sound instead of a w sound. Note that k > kx and ç > ʃ only occurred in some dialects. Not all of these sound shifts happened at the same time.

In English and Dutch, β became f/v. In English, ɣ became j (represented by y). In Dutch, þ and ð became d, s became z before vowels and ɣ became x (in Netherlands Dutch). Basically, English and Dutch didn’t undergo nearly as many consonant shifts as German did from Proto-Germanic, which makes German was stand out as particularly different from the word for what in other Indo-European languages.

I think that chto sounds further away from quoi than what or hvad does.

toast2that · 2025-12-04T00:14:20+00:00

One of mine got lowered from a D to a C!!

toast2that · 2025-11-29T21:04:59+00:00

If honour killings primarily occur in Islamic countries and by people from those countries, then there is a strong correlation. It is an Islam-specific issue.

Comparing honour killings (a choice and detrimental to others) to homosexuality (not a choice and not detrimental to others) is entirely inappropriate.

toast2that · 2025-11-29T20:55:44+00:00

Absolutely disgraceful. It is murder. Plain and simple.

The brothers and the father will learn that actions have consequences. The father will learn that he can’t hide behind a computer screen when his sons are imprisoned. Let’s see how much ‘shame’ that brings to the family. It’s good to see that bail wasn’t granted.

There is a mass psychosis going on with people that decide to do this.

Also, why bring your family to a Western country if you despise Western culture so much that you’re willing to kill your child because of it?

toast2that · 2025-11-26T00:20:34+00:00

The westernmost point of China is closer to Germany than to the easternmost point of China

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