Morti

@Morti@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t really a direct answer to the question, so I apologize for that. I hope it helps your understanding, though…

  German and English aren’t mutually intelligible, reading or listening-wise. Neither are French and English. English gets a large portion of its vocabulary from French and Latin, and French also gets a large amount of its vocabulary from Latin. This means that someone who can read English can likely recognize many of the words in written French, but not really enough to understand it.

  For German, English shares a lot of vocabulary, as well, but what makes these languages “closely related” is that they are both in the “Germanic Language Family”. They have a recent common linguistic ancestor. Essentially, while English and German may not have a large vocabulary overlap, sentence structure and grammar are similar and historically indicate a recent common language that they both diverged from. An English speaker can possibly understand written German, but it takes a lot of effort and understanding of the changes that occurred in the two languages as they diverged from each other.

  Last thing I’ll say is that the vocabulary that English barrowed from French and Latin (which makes up the majority of English vocabulary) isn’t evenly distributed among “genres” or frequency of use. More “fancy” words are likely French or Latin in origin (think science terms and other jargon), while common words are mostly Germanic in origin (think words like “and”, “the”, pronouns, etc.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Converting numbers is easy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a very fun implicit question!

  First, in decimal, there are 10 symbols: 0-9. When we count from 0 to 9, the next number is 10, not 00 (which is equivalent to 0).

  In base 26, there are 26 symbols (A-Z). If one wanted to use these symbols in the same way, A would be equivalent to 0, so 26 ir represented by BA, not AA. However, is AA is not the same as A, then we can represent 26 as AA instead of BA.

  Basically, in our typical numbering system, the leading digit can’t be 0, so, in a three digit number, there are 910 possible two digit numbers, and 10 possible single digit numbers. However, if the first digit can be 0, meaning, for example, if 03 is not the same as 3, there are 1010 possible two digit numbers. This second approach is what excel and google sheets use. Column A is not the same as column AA. Hence, you start with single digit column numbers (A-Z). Then you move to two digit column numbers (AA-ZZ), of which there are 26². The last column before triple digits is column 26+26²=702. The first triple digit column number is 26+26²+1=703. Neat!

  Comparing this to our system, the first 2 digit number is 10¹=10. The first 3 digit number is 10²=100. The first 4 digit number is 10³=1000.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF is a rural town in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Aight, so, we got cities/metropolitan areas, then we have the outer edge of cities called suburbs (could also be referred to as towns), then we got further out areas, which are rural, which have a lot of agriculture and wilderness.

  “Small” and “rural” are used as qualifying adjectives, and typically compound. Rural: generally far from near by cities, lots of wilderness/agriculture around. Small: not a lot of residents or amenities.

  Village is not a term that is commonly used, at least not where I’m from (midwest).

  Your village is our small rural town: low population density, lots of wilderness/agriculture, not a lot of buildings.