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@shoofle @akjcv originally, the earth had no roads. but when many people walk in the same way, a road is made

@aescling i think it’s at least a little insensitive to take something deeply rooted in japanese history and culture (and a fair bit of trauma) and then go “this is about this thing me and my white friends do as a hobby”

@aescling hosting massive cons with thousands of attendees is a hallmark of societal rejection

@aescling what does this have to do with furries

@aescling how so

@coriander looks a lot like the library of congress’s version but who knows i guess when there were additional pressings https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmassbookdig.evileyethanatolo00park/

@aescling @alyssa fucking your meowscarada is a grind?

@aescling @alyssa kimty i saw you posting every day about touching grass

@aescling @alyssa i play pokémon as an RPG not an esport

@alyssa @aescling no i just like dunsparce

@alyssa @aescling yeah i think “here is a somewhat limited selection of available pokémon and you have to make them work together” is interesting, but would PREFER a system that occasionally gave you “whoops, the only pokémon from dark cave you can use is the 1% encounter rate dunsparce”

@aescling why does anyone do any challenge run

@packetcat you can learn a fair bit of linguistics just from wikipedia, legitimately

philosophy is a lot harder; i don't trust the internet for that

@packetcat wikipedia has lots of examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_class

@packetcat gendered nouns are problematic but the more general form—“noun classes”—can be kind of cool

indo-european languages settled on two classes, tied to natural gender—boring

but some languages have as many as 12, and some distinctions are a lot more meaningful—animate versus inanimate, for example (English has this in “it” versus singular “they”)

compare measure words—i’m glad we say “a drop of water”, not “a piece of water”, even tho there’s no reason for it—noun classes are just a further level of grammaticalization on top of this concept

but tying it to natural gender is silly; they should have not done that (there is evidence that the original distinction was “concrete” VS “abstract”)