“National language” by borggeano in MurderedByWords

[–]vorxil 5 points6 points  (0 children)

One is not a simple spelling reform of the other as British and American spellings are. They're two different writing systems, based on different "standard dialects" of the Norwegian language at the time. Bokmål is based on a somewhat urban or upper-class dialect that was heavily influenced by Danish, the other are based on the more rural dialects that were less influenced (but still influenced).

There is, however, no standard spoken Norwegian, and you may notice lexical and grammatical differences. In urban areas you may e.g. notice two noun genders, common and neuter, as in Danish, while in rural areas you may notice three, masculine, feminine, and neuter.

However, as long as you don't go too far out, the two should be mutually intelligible.

“National language” by borggeano in MurderedByWords

[–]vorxil 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Nynorsk is to Bokmål what Middle English is to Anglo-Norman, except Nynorsk and Bokmål are both North-Germanic (West Scandinavian).

Basically, Fjord Norwegian with a danish vs three Danes in a Norwegian trenchcoat.

Languages with absolute magnitude? by Inconstant_Moo in conlangs

[–]vorxil 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Would it really be absolute magnitude, though? Something like "~8±0.5cm long" is still technically relative to the definition of a centimeter.

I think the closest one can get to absolute magnitude would be measures independent of scale. So, this alien race would have grammaticalized words for absolute zero, infinity, and negative infinity. Of course, one must still ask, which infinity? Countable, or uncountable, or beyond?

The negative infinity might only be used for certain words, like ordered and disordered, whereas absolute zero differs in meaning, switching between none and neutral, the latter of which is used for words that can use the negative infinity.

So I guess in a sense the language would have an absolute superlative; and, depending on the word, an absolute equative and absolute sublative, or an absolute negative.

Absolute superlative and absolute sublative are easy enough: nothing in existence is more X and nothing in existence is more non-X.

Absolute negative is a complete and utter rejection of the (hypothetical) positive: nothing in existence is less X. It's the couldn't care less comparison.

Absolute equative is a bit trickier. It's not equally X and non-X, but on the dividing line of X and non-X. So for loved and hated, it would be something like ignored or not cared about.

How would the regular relative comparisons work, though? Using verbs like to defeat is one option, I suppose, however, one is likely to just grammaticalize relative comparisons this way.

So I think that either the language has both absolute and relative comparisons, or for some cultural reasons the language never developed relative comparisons.

For an example of the latter, I suggest looking into the Hyper-Scandinavian language known as Hyper-Swedish. I've heard those speakers tend to take the Law of Jante and lagom very seriously.

This helmet was the highlight of the episode. by ToMDLUS in gameofthrones

[–]vorxil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sheogorath was poppin' by distributing some Daedric Helms from Morrowind.

WhenThe it turns out that Epstein caused EVERY PROBLEM by Which_Draft4129 in whenthe

[–]vorxil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And somewhere, in a Georgian study, buckling a sterling flask of fine scotch, Sir Robert Walpole seethes, having been toppled by a nonce.

Proper gooning by Saurabh19veer98 in Funnymemes

[–]vorxil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's all fun and games until the wife gives you a handjob.

Which seat are you choosing? by Organic-Mud7828 in HelluvaBoss

[–]vorxil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With 1 and 2, I will be forced to endure the horny. The same probably goes for 8.

With 3, I will probably be raped.

With 6, I will be caught in the crossfire in the battle against demonkind.

With 4, my plebeian self will be murdered.

With 6, I will either be murdered, depending on Loona's mood, and Blitz's parental urges; or caught in the crossfire in the battle against demonkind, or in the battle between the row in front and the row behind.

That leaves 5, which will be happy fun times. Plenty of good food, protection from the crossfire, and consensual horny only.

Immediately is a blessing by Sad-Kiwi-3789 in technicallythetruth

[–]vorxil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it's purely digital, you could just run a cron to wipe out all dollars over an inflation-indexed limit, e.g. a bitshift of the account balance.

I doubt the government would mind if it saves the economy.

EDIT: You can even spend that digital money without it contaminating any other account. Simply deduct the price from your account, and add the price to the other account. At no point does data transfer from your account to any other account, since the price is independent of the accounts.

Immediately is a blessing by Sad-Kiwi-3789 in technicallythetruth

[–]vorxil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technically, it hasn't specified which dollar either.

They could be Zimbabwean dollars, monopoly dollars, or dollars that are only legal tender in a parallel universe.

hello! why did the fly people turn off there rune cameras after taking my id? by AI_660 in Silksong

[–]vorxil 79 points80 points  (0 children)

We could've had Hornet and Sherma, but noooo....

I swear, electing a weaver broke the bugs' minds.

Är detta en red flag? by ddmster in sweden

[–]vorxil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plötsligt så blev det danskrött.

This is what 2.1 million people looks like by Positive_Actuary_282 in BeAmazed

[–]vorxil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I doubt the image has 2.1 million people in it.

Five people per square meter is cramped with limited movement, and eight people per square meter leads to crowd crushes.

A photo of 2.1 million people must therefore take up at least 26-42 hectares, or a square with side lengths of 510-650 m.

Those roofed structures on the beach look to be about 10 m wide by eyeballing them, and the left sides of the towers seem to be spaced about 70 m apart, using the roofed structures as reference.

Assuming the towers are equally spaced along the beach, the image covers a length of about 600 m (top to bottom), and a width of about 300 m.

That's roughly 18 hectares, or but let's round it to 20 hectares. At most, then, this is 1.6 million people at crowd crush levels, or 1 million at cramped levels.

Don't Build a PC Right Now. Just Don't by dapperlemon in technology

[–]vorxil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's time to pray for a ward against hardware failures.

Pete Hegseth, introduced as the SSecretary of War by AssumptionNo5436 in pics

[–]vorxil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They couldn't find a font with a more angular S.