KSPAtlas

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd love this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Those don’t look like dictated messages imo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodnight sweet prince⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is Powerline ethernet based off of the same tech?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I smard⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally

  Language dependent maths

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the polish words for luck is “fart”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s photoshopped, it comes from an earlier picture posted here with pierogi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I approve⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not a verb

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A little known fact that may describe YOU⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for telling us a joke is a joke

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I approve⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Devolving to linguistic prescriptivism just proves you don’t have an argument anymore lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If only we knew...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not an anti AI thing and I have no idea why people keep repeating this misinformation

  It’s an internet phenomenon, called Bring Back Thorn, which has been around since before LLMs became popular

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helpful guide⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently the sun’s spectral absorbtion lines were discovered 4 years before the song was made

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This looks like hell to clean

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, yeeeees, YEEEEEEEES⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a “big main instance” effect that seems to form unfortunately

  And the barrier to transferring instances is quite high

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poor doggo⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  EXACTLY, English has diminutives like many other languages

  Also, slang terms are as “correct” as any other words, the only difference is the context where you use them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FUCK⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It wasn’t as bad for me as some people say, I had no sleep paralysis monster or anything

  It was more just “wtf I can’t move my body anymore”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FUCK⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember having a lucid dream like once

  When I realised I was in a dream, I suddenly got very scared about being in a dream (like ???) and forced myself out of it, giving myself sleep paralysis

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A roundabout⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a real thing that happened in the town of Rąbień in Poland, a drunk driver was speeding down a road, hit a roundabout and flew through the air, before landing in a graveyard

  Miraculously, the driver made it out alive, but the car was totalled

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sunlight special⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fried egg is more common, no idea why they did boiled

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A roundabout⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  car getting launched through a roundabout in Poland

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oopsie Daisy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There has to be some kind of limit, otherwise a single atom of plutonium would ruin an entire mug