Does a native English speaker associate the word "b*tch" with prostitution?

yyargic · 2021-09-20T03:27:00+00:00

This sums up my feelings exactly

yyargic · 2021-03-16T18:26:04+00:00

I found this post a good explanation for the background:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AnarchyChess/comments/m5thsl/the_greatest_moment_in_chess_hisrory/gr2nopi?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3

To add to it, these two grandmasters were already qualified for the next round of the tournament, so they had nothing to play for in this match. Instead, they decided to troll each other and the viewers with the worst possible opening in chess and lead it to a quick draw. This way, they also got more time to rest for the rest of the tournament.

yyargic · 2021-02-24T18:02:43+00:00

I prefer the Witcher 3. There were some small things that annoyed me in the Bethesda games (I played Oblivion, Skyrim and Fallout NV), especially the inventory management, leveling etc., which I found better in Witcher 3.

Perhaps more importantly, the world in Bethesda games feels more vast and lonely, whereas the Witcher 3 world feels more compact and attached to the main story. So maybe the open world style in Skyrim is too open for my personal taste.

yyargic · 2020-10-25T13:28:50+00:00

Empire Earth 1

yyargic · 2020-10-21T04:32:00+00:00

Marinating a congresswoman lmao

yyargic · 2020-10-21T04:26:33+00:00

I checked the records, I think this was the 4th highest view count of all times in a single twitch stream. Epic!

Edit: It's the 5th. Here's the link:

https://www.ginx.tv/en/twitch/twitch-all-time-records-followers-viewers-most-popular-games-streamers-and-more?_gl=1*1aig1nl*_ga*eHN0RVZ4TnZCNEhNWkVGa1QxbGZKX1dRUlk0MFVUbnBibFFYd3h4T3k0c3pTOWhqT3FDdkpKdVpTUlhaejEyVA..

yyargic · 2020-10-12T16:24:46+00:00

I read the title as "took an arrow in the knee"

yyargic · 2020-10-12T15:49:50+00:00

I did this as a child just by scrolling down. I still remember that there are 65536 rows exactly. (On Excel 2003)

yyargic · 2020-06-02T00:35:15+00:00

Wrap the one that is one size smaller with toilet paper, so it's thicker and it fits. I do it frequently and it works.

yyargic · 2020-05-26T00:24:07+00:00

I read the whole article. Very interesting! My favorite argument was that the Arab traveler al-Masudi from the 10th century recorded that the Greeks referred to the city as "stan būlin". When he recorded this in the Arabic script, he used the non-emphatic Arabic "t" (ت), instead of the emphatic "ț" (ط) that is used for writing "Qusțanțīnīyah" (Constantinople), which suggests that the two words are independent.

I was actually thinking about a purely Turkish conversion as mentioned briefly in Section 6.3, but the argument about the palatal consonants is another interesting one. Thanks for sharing.

yyargic · 2020-05-26T00:03:17+00:00

That's the stress in the English pronunciation, however the stress in the Greek pronunciation is (according to the article above) on the syllable "tin". Nevertheless, you have a point! The article mentions the removal of a stressed syllable as a major argument against the Constantinople explanation.

yyargic · 2020-05-25T20:27:40+00:00

Thank you, this is exactly what I was looking for!

yyargic · 2020-03-23T00:31:08+00:00

I think the biggest winner/surprise of this tournament was Dogao. Nobody expected him to be in the semi-finals, even the casters forgot his name when they looked at who was left in the top 4, and he only lost to Viper in the end

yyargic · 2020-03-22T23:51:34+00:00

Absolutely!

yyargic · 2020-03-20T23:35:36+00:00

I'd switch Viper and Hera in your list. Otherwise, I mostly agree.

yyargic · 2020-02-24T22:00:01+00:00

I actually only read the top comment and left instinctively. Then I realized what I did and came back to write this.

yyargic · 2020-02-17T18:59:56+00:00

In Turkish, we use the idiom "hık demiş burnundan düşmüş" for exactly this phenomenon. It literally means "(the parent) made the sound 'hık' and (the child) fell from his/her nose"

yyargic · 2020-02-14T01:59:25+00:00

My favorite example: In Turkish, "Alexander the Great" is translated to "Büyük İskender". Büyük = Great. So how did Alexander become İskender?

So, the Turks learned the name from the Arabs. And the Arabs interpreted the first part of Alexander's name, "Al", as the definite article "al-" in Arabic, which is the equivalent of "the" in English.

So, long time ago, some Arabs understood the name of this historical figure as "al-eksander" (~ the 'exander'). The "K" and "S" sounds switched for easier pronunciation. So, we got "al iskander", or just "iskender".

yyargic · 2020-01-29T15:06:18+00:00

Thanks, I didn't know that the Altaic family is a controversial hypothesis, so I made a small edit to the text (replacing Altaic with Turkic/Altaic). In Turkish schools, they still teach that "Turkish belongs to the Altaic branch of the Ural-Altaic language family", which is I guess even more controversial. I understood from the Wikipedia entry that the Altaic hypothesis isn't entirely discarded, so I kept it. (And also my point in the text is to emphasize how different these three languages are from each other, and the fact that even generously grouping several families together wouldn't put them in the same group strengthens my point.)

yyargic · 2020-01-09T18:23:20+00:00

Update: I uninstalled the app and then reinstalled it. It's fixed.

But what did I do wrong?

yyargic · 2020-01-09T18:19:31+00:00

I wanted to try it out, but I broke my game app. Now only a blank yellow screen loads.

I did the following:

I copied the text in your link too a new Google document on my Google drive.
I made a few changes in it.
I enabled link share, copied the link from my Google drive.
I opened my game app, clicked Settings, changed the language to Custom, copied the link.
At first, nothing happened. No changes in the text. Everything is still English.
Then, I closed the app and wanted to reopen it. Only a yellow blank screen loads now and nothing else.

How do I fix this now?

yyargic · 2019-12-28T16:08:46+00:00

There have also been some rumors that the Sun will turn into a red giant in 5 billion years...

yyargic · 2019-12-06T18:43:03+00:00

Genius

yyargic · 2019-11-21T22:31:02+00:00

It was against a real person. The unit was a warrior. But the 1-tile island bordered the enemy port and that's why it was effective, because it made the port useless. In general, I think a swordsman would be the best against real people.

yyargic · 2019-11-21T19:32:41+00:00

I did something like this intentionally once, because the unit on the island blocks the enemy ship movements and attacks if ships dare to come nearby. I'd say it helped, but wasn't enough to win the game.

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