tigeruppercut
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- Comment on Choose chicken. 6 hours ago:
I think this is related to why Japanese uses the same counter words for rabbits and birds. You can’t just say a number plus object in Japanese alone, because you need a counter word with it. So 2 bottles is “bottles 2 long things” and 4 pieces of paper is “paper 4 flat things”. Small animals are usually counted with the word “hiki”, so you’d say “salmon 5 hiki” or “dogs 2 hiki”, but birds use “wa” instead. I think rabbits are also wa so people could basically say “Uh, no we’re not eating meat, we’re just having some long eared furry birds.”
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 2 days ago:
I’ll second this. My issue with the entire series is that they’re smashing a ton of mechanics together (driving, fighting, shooting, etc) and everything is just functional but not great. Any time I was shooting I just wished I was playing a shooter. Any driving you did just made me wish it was a racing game.
Nothing was done well enough to make me want to keep playing. I think I put a couple hours into 4 and then 5 and lost interest.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 3 days ago:
I didn’t say “banks good”, I said “crypto bros (also) bad”. You don’t think the ones running the crypto schemes are also “greedy corrupt pedophiles”? Maybe you’re “heavily misguided”.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 4 days ago:
banks managed to convince everyone
I don’t think banks have been in charge of the countless pump and dump crypto schemes in recent years. And Bankman-Fried (despite his name) wasn’t running a bank.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I’m sure in daily life he goes by his professional name Mr. Richard.
- Comment on Ever create an account just to leave a negative review? 1 week ago:
There was a This American Life where an author got in his head about bad reviews on Amazon, so he clicked one of the profiles of people who’d given him 2 stars, and found that she had given 5 stars to a lavender polka dot cupcake stand. And from then the bad reviews didn’t affect him so much.
- Comment on Uh well actually- 1 week ago:
Thomas Kincade, vomiter of light!
- Comment on Language barrier 1 week ago:
The huge number of loanwords is a bit of a boon, but the benefits are canceled out by the small amount of sounds in the language. There are so many homophones and words with similar sounds that learning vocab is really difficult.
Also it was years before I found out that hambaagaa is a hamburger and hambaagu is a meat patty on a plate.
- Comment on Language barrier 1 week ago:
Sometimes it can be the opposite as well, because missing a key word or two renders all the other stuff you understood in the sentence basically useless. If you understood “He has a new X and he’s gonna try Y tomorrow,” you got everything except the gist, but constructing basic sentences doesn’t take all that much study.
Anyway, I’d recommend not trying to do Japanese through immersion.
- Comment on Depluralize 1 week ago:
We have managed to secure a much larger budget than usual, so we will certainly be able to outshine our rather underfunded 2014 production of Roald Dahl’s classic… James and the Peach. Or last Christmas’s The Lion and the Wardrobe. Or indeed our summer musical: Cat.
- Comment on Your grammar lesson for today 2 weeks ago:
I teach foreign language students and they often write about how their food was “very delicious”, and it always sounds so jarring to me. There are a lot of really strong words that native speakers tend to not use very with.
eg:
very difficult task / very monumental task
very good cooking / very superb cooking
very happy man / very elated manFor some reason intensifiers like so and such don’t have those restrictions:
The task was very/so monumental.
It was very/such superb cooking.
He was very/so elated. - Comment on Your grammar lesson for today 2 weeks ago:
It’s an older use, to the point that I’ve never heard it used. Merriam marks that definition as “old-fashioned” (which is a bit odd, because I thought they only used the archaic or obsolete terms).
The lazy sense is probably what’s meant from the old bible quote about “idle hands” related to the devil.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 2 weeks ago:
Zorg understood people in a way that Bezos doesn’t. All these billionaires are half robot weirdos.
- Comment on 2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you? 3 weeks ago:
Hi, are you me?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Pretty sure we’re all crying these days
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 4 weeks ago:
The US just pretends to be against it. In reality we keep guns legal so people can blow their own brains out when they get fucked by late stage capitalism. Suicide is the majority vs murder when it comes to gun deaths.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
There’s a dated idea in Japan that a woman over 25 is past her prime age for getting married, which was called “Christmas cake” because it’s like the leftovers from the 25th (they “traditionally” eat cake for xmas in Japan).
- Comment on Takes one to know one 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Can I offer you some cocks in these trying times? 4 weeks ago:
None of his bits have annoyed me but I guess I can see them coming off like that at times. This one at least had a direct connection to the gambling story he was talking about (and more recently dildos have been in the news from protestors chucking them at ICE) so it didn’t feel all that random.
Plus the giant one that stuck to his desk and wobbled was just perfect.
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- Comment on Don't blink 5 weeks ago:
I like how it has text saying “don’t sleep in your contacts” as if that’s the real issue, rather than this lady being an idiot. Like she slept in them and woke up the next day thinking “Oh well, guess it just dissolved in my eyeball, time to put more contacts in!”
- Comment on I might shit my pants just a little if I saw this 5 weeks ago:
Kinda = kind of, no?
- Comment on My Country music collection 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, and does bluegrass count as country? Because some people can absolutely shred on the banjo
- Comment on A handy graphic to bring you up to speed on the Katy Perry/Ruby Rose situation. 5 weeks ago:
she played batwoman
- Comment on this fat fuck getting McDonald's door dash at work 1 month ago:
In this case he actually did, although it was it a publicity stunt to promote his no tax on tips shit, which (of course) isn’t nearly as good in practice as the name sounds.
But nice to know the media is still using photos that make him look doofy as fuck
- Comment on Fuckin bummer 1 month ago:
- Comment on Google removed Doki-Doki Literature Club from the Play Store for depicting sensitive themes that violate their terms of service. 1 month ago:
If you don’t talk about
LGBTdrugsviolenceCanadiansmental health it doesn’t exist. Won’t someone please think of the children?! Let’s keep the internet safe for everyone. I’m starting a petition to remove any content not safe for anyone over 5. Please limit any naughty words to p*opy or d*rn. - Comment on 😎😎😎 1 month ago:
It’s not actually that common of a phenomenon
I actually thought this was specifically referring to recent data showing that grindr has a huge uptick in activity whenever RNC conventions come to an area.
- Comment on Space Honey 1 month ago:
Most water back in the day was at ground level, so if we could only rely on gravity we’d have had a hell of a time bending down to slurp it up.
- Comment on Ant warhammer 1 month ago:
There’s a great French novel about the life of an ant warrior who suspects a rival colony has developed a secret weapon. The original French title is The Ants but whoever brought it to the English market thought that wasn’t dramatic enough and so retitled it Empire of the Ants
