hakase
@hakase@lemm.ee
- Comment on turned them into their final form! 3 days ago:
That sounds amazing. I already eat spoonfuls of ground beef out of the pan when prepping for other meals, so why not?
- Comment on U.S. Copyright Office rejects DMCA exemption to support game preservation 3 weeks ago:
We’ll just do it anyway.
- Comment on Eating your feelings 1 month ago:
The TSA allows food though?
- Comment on Anon explains the 2nd amendment 2 months ago:
Or, y’know, Vietnam.
- Comment on Venom vs Poison 2 months ago:
Here’s my comment from the last time this came up (like a week ago):
“There’s been no meaning shift. The “possessive” and “envious” uses of jealous both date from the 14th century in English, and both senses were present in the ancestors of these words all the way back to Greek.”
It’s always been synonymous with “envious”, as far back as we can trace.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
This isn’t the case, because humans can handle significantly larger deviations from “comfortable” on the cold side than the hot side, so again Fahrenheit gets it pretty much right.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
This is horrible logic. If anything, it should be: you need to learn Celsius if you are doing science, but most people aren’t scientists and therefore don’t need to learn Celsius, so this isn’t really a problem that comes up for a lot of Fahrenheit users.
- Comment on Seriously. 2 months ago:
According to Wikipedia Rankine is properly used with the degree symbol, but sometimes is not by analogy with Kelvin.
- Comment on Yelp is making me get their app to confirm my restaurant reservation 2 months ago:
I just cancelled my gas station rewards program because they moved everything to a mandatory app. I will not use your app.
- Comment on children 2 months ago:
Lol, I spelled it “ov” on my spelling test.
- Comment on [I just watched] 13 Going on 30, chill rom com with Jennifer Gartner and Mark Ruffalo, what are your favourite movies in this genre? 3 months ago:
This is my favorite romcom.
- Comment on I need new glasses. The only insurance-approved place I can shop online will cost $250 with my needs. I went to a "cheap" glasses website that doesn't accept insurance: $250. Yay, America. 3 months ago:
I always just go to America’s Best. $80 for an eye exam and two pairs of glasses is hard to beat.
- Comment on Why doesn't the American market provide efficient and effective health insurance like it does for car insurance? 3 months ago:
Thanks for taking the time to write such an informed and in-depth comment!
- Comment on turkey 3 months ago:
It is difficult to pull a moral out of this story
Uh no it’s fucking not. Big corpos do whatever the fuck they want and see no real consequences. That’s it. That’s the moral.
- Comment on All jokers fault probably 4 months ago:
Instead he should be paying higher taxes so the city/state can ~have more money to build a bigger and stronger social safety net~ funnel more money to the organized crime syndicates well known to operate at all levels of Gotham’s government.
- Comment on I should be banned from using microwaves 4 months ago:
I have one of those and it’s cost me who knows how much time and effort. The only times I ever really use are 15 seconds (for melting butter), 50 seconds (for water for baking bread; 1 minute is too hot), and 1:45 for coffee (again, 2 minutes is too hot). I can count the number of times I’ve actually used the “push 1 for 1 minute” feature on one hand, and instead I have to press an additional “timer” button for absolutely no reason Every. Single. Time. I want to microwave something.
- Comment on Measurements 4 months ago:
Almost half of all English words are borrowed from French, dating from when England was colonized and culturally subjugated by the Norman French starting in 1066.
- Comment on Make it stop. 4 months ago:
When we played it you also had to go down on one knee, and the person unfreezing you had to sit on your knee while they flushed your arm.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Best admin. <3
- Comment on Anon gets calls from scammers 4 months ago:
Thank you for your service.
- Comment on Nobody dare Pluto Pterodactyl 5 months ago:
Unless you’re talking about Scots, the closest languages to English are separated by at minimum more than a thousand years, which is plenty of time for those constraints to change significantly.
I’d even expect different dialects of English to behave differently when adapting loanwords, because they already show plenty of phonotactic differentiation.
- Comment on Nobody dare Pluto Pterodactyl 5 months ago:
I have a private theory about that, actually (that is, not backed up by research yet to my knowledge).
I think this is due to accidental gaps, that some languages allow for clusters that just don’t happen to appear in those languages by an accident of history (e.g. they allowed them at one point but they were eliminated by a phonotactic filter that no longer exists in the language, etc.), so when they borrow a word with that string now, they can pronounce it no problem.
If you think about phonotactic constraints as being the result of constant rankings (as in models like Optimality Theory), this should even be predicted as a form of Emergence of the Unmarked (though stop clusters are pretty marked, so this would be more like “local” or “coincidental” unmarkedness).
I also think that studying borrowings like this would give us a more accurate picture of the overall constraint ranking of a given language than just restricting ourselves to native words.
- Comment on Nobody dare Pluto Pterodactyl 5 months ago:
What actually happened is that these roots were borrowed from Ancient Greek by paleontologists to form the word “pterodactyl”, not modern Greek.
In Ancient Greek, they would have pronounced both the “p” and the “t”, but “pt” isn’t a possible beginning of a word for English speakers, and so borrowed words that start with “pt-” (and “mn-” and a few others) have the first sound deleted as a repair mechanism to allow English speakers to pronounce them.
In modern Greek, “pt” consonant clusters that used to be pronounced as-is have undergone dissimilation - both “p” and “t” are stop consonants, so the “p” has instead become an “f” (which is a fricative, not a stop), to make the cluster easier to pronounce.
- Comment on George A. Romero's Daughter to 'Take the Torch' With New Zombie Movie 5 months ago:
God Emperor is where I always finish my rereads.
- Comment on His presence terrorizes this town 5 months ago:
That’s about a pound of cheese every two days. Pretty sure I could hit that number without any trouble at all.
- Comment on Anon interviews for a job 5 months ago:
I still cackle like a twelve year old every time that comes up in Duolingo.
- Comment on TBH 6 was kind of a downgrade from 5 5 months ago:
And 5 was a significant downgrade from 4.
- Comment on TBH 6 was kind of a downgrade from 5 5 months ago:
I’m still playing civ IV. With the direction the series has been going, it looks like I probably always will.
- Comment on Thou'st see-eth me rolleth, thou'st hateth 5 months ago:
Thou seest me rolling, thou’rt hating.
- Comment on Mesogynists 5 months ago:
A female meso?