Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

@aescling @alyssa no but obvious cognates that have a very different implication in english are usually the ones which one remembers

either:

• your latin classes were wholly impractical and never taught you how to say “this bothers me”, or

• a whole classroom of high school students were taught the word “molestō” and didn’t Immediately Make It A Big Deal

and either of these options feels sad to me

@aescling @alyssa i thought you took latin???

@coriander @wallhackio @aescling eh i think totk is substantially a worse game but

@wallhackio did you skip on new horizons or

@aescling @Satsuma señor clod

@aescling @Satsuma no hablo inglés

@aescling @Satsuma https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Fidough_(Pok%C3%A9mon)

@wallhackio it means flower baby but it’s a pokémon

@wallhackio have you seen the flabébé episode of pokémon journeys

@aescling @wallhackio @Satsuma coffeescript is an alternative syntax for javascript but javascript is the ORIGINAL alternative syntax for javascript

@aescling @wallhackio @Satsuma well the more historically correct way of thinking about it is that Javascript has added syntactic molasses for manually doing the operations that it was always doing under the hood, but the even more enlightened understanding is that all of javascript is syntactic sugar for the ecmascript specification language, at which point the difference between “an operation which does a thing” and “sugar for the thing itself” is semantically meaningless