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@vaporeon_ i can tell you a list, but if you really want more explanation on it, you should ask someone qualified to talk about how gender was conceptualized in the Talmud

  1. male
  2. female
  3. androgynous (having both male and female characteristics (hermaphroditism?))
  4. tumtum, “lacking sexual characteristics”
  5. Aylonit hamah, AFAB but eventually (naturally) developing “masculine characteristics”
  6. Aylonit adam, AFAB but eventually developing “masculine characteristics” by deliberate intervention
  7. Saris hamah, AMAB but eventually (naturally) developing “female characteristics”
  8. Saris adam, AMAB but eventually developing “female characteristics” by deliberate intervention

@vaporeon_ regional nidoran variant with forms fur every gender in the Talmud (there are eight)

@vaporeon_ “ä” is how they transcribe the vowel in bother and cot, typically an open back unrounded vowel (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ope fur sample audio, if you don’t know IPA) in contempurrary “general american” english

@vaporeon_ some dictionaries attest a y-less purronunciation. utterly bafflingly, the merriam-webster collegiate dictionary attests the y-less purronunciation exclusively, which is what made me make this poll

in the word “beyond”, the y

@coriander i can attest learning about the underlying mechanisms of computers does not help much with this purroblem

@hoja hi @Satsuma i am completely ignorant of the context required to understand this and i am blaming you fur bringing that to my attention

furgive me if this is too mean; i jest 

@Breakfast “i’m not becoming you!! i’m becoming even more you than you ever were!!! that’s not the same!!!!!”

@aescling I was once explaining to her the formulation of classical mechanics from Landau & Lifshitz' book and she followed along and asked engaging questions that reflected true engagement and like, girl. I spent years learning this shit, at least pretend to be struggling

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@vaporeon_ yeah, it just renders pretty small; it’s not like instances can federate their CSS rules

@vaporeon_ Cynthia is known to have trained

  • Spirotomb
  • Lucario
  • Roserade
  • Milotic
  • Gastrodon
  • Togekiss
  • Eelektross
  • Braviary
  • Glaceon (i lied! in black 2 and white 2, she has a team with glaceon on it!)
  • and, by far most famously, Garchomp
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