alyssa @alyssa@cat.family
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Joined May 2022
poképosting
in this SS playthru i think i've already got more than enough sun stones from pickup to evolve every pokémon ever released which uses it to evolve
i expect to get many more
mentions a lot of fluids, language post
today sofi and i are exploring the contrasting meanings of use of english liquids as verbs. to water something is to add water, while to bleed or to milk or to juice something is to remove blood/milk/juice (except in certain metaphorical usages of juice).
to wine and dine someone is to give them wine (and dinner) but to wine is not really a verb in itself.
happy spooky valentines to all
thank you @Lady for finding pdfoutline for me (iirc)
low-key life-changing
reading hack: the writing style of gideon the ninth is way less tiresome in the spanish translation
@wallhackio correct, it is not a federal holiday (also not a state holiday in most states)
@wallhackio okay that is a conveniently very broad definition. will think on more recs tomorrow once i’m back home but for now Your Favorite Weapon, Brand New’s first album, is still i think my favorite of their albums and i did just travel from “Logan to Government Center” last week so it’s pretty top of mind. they’re definitely at their best with songs of anger and i think they were not above average for the genre in terms of misogyny.
@wallhackio also what’s your tolerance for bands that are low-key christian music
@wallhackio what do you consider to be emo?
it’s a little beautiful that the rival in HGSS (maybe also GSC, i forget) eventually evolves their Golbat to Crobat.
@Lady the indo-aryan languages seem like the main spot where it might plausibly be observable (due to combination of being one of the most studied families in historical linguistics and of having a very ancient literature on phonetics)
but yeah more modern synchronic observation seems more likely to turn up cases if it exists, and certainly we know of some ongoing cases of loss of conditioning environment resulting in phonemic split of former allophones from synchronic observation.
@Lady ah that corollary's an interesting point. see, this is why books about historical linguistics should talk about this issue :P
do you know if cases are known where a conditioning environment for allophonic variation was lost and the former allophonic variation was also simply lost rather than splitting phonologically?
@gaditb okay extremely cool pull, but ngl my second reaction (the preceding having been both my first and third reactions) was "damnit this also has no discussion of how or why they continue to fly the possibly formerly better route instead of a now more direct one"
nobody talks about how weird it is that a common way for phonemic distinctions in languages to develop is when there's a single phoneme that has different allophones in different context and some aspect of the conditioning environment for an allophone disappears but they keep saying the allophone in words that used to have the right environment and therefore they're now in distinction
like why do we keep using the old (former-)allophone instead of changing to what would normally be expected in that environment.
@Lady por alguna razón el castellano está en desacuerdo con vos.
food, argentina facts
in argentina things don't typically say something analogous to gluten-free ("libre de gluten", "sin gluten", etc.). more usually foods are labelled as "sin TACC", which is short for wheat, oats, barley, and rye ("sin" meaning "without")
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