KSPAtlas
@KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on A Jamaican accent just makes me smile 1 hour ago:
Yeah i had a really bad feeling about this post, it’s an actual language spoken by actual people who have been historically discriminated against, not just “weird english”
The reason creoles look like weird english sometimes is because they’re the mixture of multiple languages
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 9 hours ago:
Is it? I tried checking in a dictionary but it didn’t list mídheas as a word and “deas” was defined as right/nice/honest, not just “good”
- Comment on why 3 days ago:
Yeah, a lot of european languages have a three gender system: masculine, feminine and neuter
Proto-Indo-European, the language which most European (and some South Asian languages) originate from, had a three gender system
Even English used to have a three gender system before it disappeared in the Middle English period
Despite the name, the neuter gender tends to not be used for people, although in some languages (such as Polish) the use of the neuter gender to refer to non-binary people is gaining traction
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I know that, I’m just referring to it as runic thorn due to the fact that thorn evolved from it
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I haven’t seen runic thorn used with Latin script, but I like the look ngl
- Comment on People in the UK Watching the The world using the internet 1 week ago:
Unfun fact: a good part of the internet goes down every time there’s a football match in Spain, because the government gave a football league access to the national internet blocklist to stop piracy or smth and they put the entirety of Cloudflare on there
- Comment on Happy DB Cooper Day to those who celebrate! 1 week ago:
I think Wiseau was living in Poland at the time?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
yooo Niko oneshot
Curious, do you just play TWM or do you use some kind of setup to play Oneshot
- Comment on Here's our word of the Day 2 weeks ago:
Why are slashes being used to mark spelling pronunciation? Surely it’d be /ˈfʌk.toʊs ɪnˈtɔ.lə.ɹənt/
Sorry I’m being a bit pendantic
- Comment on Good job! 2 weeks ago:
tak is more like yes, no is more like yeah
- Comment on Good job! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, “no” meaning “yeah” in polish is kinda a funny coincidence
- Comment on Steam 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on I'd love this 3 weeks ago:
Those don’t look like dictated messages imo
- Comment on Goodnight sweet prince 3 weeks ago:
Is Powerline ethernet based off of the same tech?
- Comment on I smard 3 weeks ago:
Finally
Language dependent maths
- Comment on Law 4 weeks ago:
Wasn’t the “inuits have dozens of words for snow” thing kinda disproven? Afaik they only have like 5 or something, the reason people were saying there were so many is because Inuktitut, Greenlandic, etc are polysynthetic languages, meaning you can pack a LOT of information into one word (it’s possible to make complex one-word sentences for example). This does mean that there are a lot of words based off the root for snow, which is where people got the idea
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
That’s because “ph” is a combination of two letters to make a single sound
Using the IPA, an alphabet designed for writing down sounds of words, where one sound tends to correspond to one letter, “phlegm” is /ˈflɛm/ and “phlegmatic” is /fleɡˈma.tɪk/
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
That’s perfectly fine, as long as others understand you the exact was you pronounce it doesn’t matter
I was just saying what tends to happen, not what always happens
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
The reason why the p in “pterodactyl” is silent is because the consonant cluster /pt/ isn’t allowed as the initial part of a syllable
When words are borrowed into English but have consonant clusters like this, English simplifies the cluster (in this case, /pt/ becomes /t/)
However, if the consonant cluster is preceded by a vowel, it splits up and the first consonant becomes the coda (final part) of the preceding syllable
So while it might have been he-li-co-pter in Greek, it became he-li-cop-ter in English
This also explains the silent g in “phlegm” and why it’s pronounced in “phlegmatic”
- Comment on Let's learn some words in the Finnish language 5 weeks ago:
The first part works better with a polish ESL accent compared to a more native one btw
- Comment on Let's learn some words in the Finnish language 5 weeks ago:
One of the polish words for luck is “fart”
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It’s photoshopped, it comes from an earlier picture posted here with pierogi
- Comment on I approve 5 weeks ago:
You mixed up singular and plural, thou was used for singular/informal situations and ye (you) was used for plural/formal situations
- Comment on I approve 5 weeks ago:
That’s not a verb
- Comment on A little known fact that may describe YOU 1 month ago:
Thanks for telling us a joke is a joke
- Comment on I approve 1 month ago:
Are there any situations where the second person singular forms of a verb are not the same as the plural ones?
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 1 month ago:
Just give it up you’re not winning this argument 😭
Anyone sane would have realised this is a useless thing to fight over
Either that or you’re a troll
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 1 month ago:
Devolving to linguistic prescriptivism just proves you don’t have an argument anymore lol
- Comment on If only we knew... 1 month ago:
I have faith that it’s possible to reform at least some of them, even if it’s not everyone
A lot of what gets people into these beliefs is environmental factors and the beliefs of those around them
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
Oh my bad, I didn’t know that was the actual reason
Most other thorn-users I’ve interacted with were doing it out of an attempt to reform English spelling so
