Justin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿
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Justin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿@lemmy.mlOPto
Linguistics@mander.xyz•The great shift of English prose
2·2 months agoThank you for writing this: I have found that extremely simplified and chopped sentences are actually distracting and more difficult to follow once they become too atomized and short. It makes it hard to tell what the thesis is and what’s supporting material.
Justin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿@lemmy.mlOPto
Comics@lemmy.ml•Comics Artist Elena Mistrello Turned Away At French Border As Antifa
91·3 months agoThat is not a new development. As an American, I know that my people sometimes think of the French as left-wing generally, but there are very strong reactionary elements in their society.
How far are they looking to push that agenda?
Just read their webpage (emphasis added):
IP28 prohibits any activity—other than self-defense and veterinary practices—that intentionally injures, kills, or sexually violates an animal, many of which are currently legal because they are exempt from our animal cruelty laws.
It’s trivially easy to answer this question.
Justin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿@lemmy.mlOPtoMovie News and Discussion@lemmy.ml•"Technically, It’s The Fourth 'Look Who’s Talking' Film": An Oral History Of 'Pulp Fiction'
1·6 months agoHow so? When you read the article, what did you notice that was incorrect?
Justin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿@lemmy.mlOPto
Linguistics@mander.xyz•Language Log » Animal calls are not comparable to human speech
3·8 months agoSure but what I am struggling to understand here is that these sets of communication elements must have been generated in the first place by the animals that use them, so this resolves nothing really. Is there something I am missing here?
Justin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿@lemmy.mlOPto
Linguistics@mander.xyz•The World Has Millions of Colors. Why Do We Only Name a Few?
3·9 months agoRed, though? Blood. The colour might vary a bit, but nowhere as much. Black? Soot. White? Clouds, chalk. It’s simply easier to generate points of reference for those.
Too true and makes sense, but what confuses and vexes me is the idea that “yellow” would predate “blue”: Blue things include bodies of water and the sky (assuming the azure/cyan and royal blue/standard blue are the same color), but what important thing is there that is yellow that we need to talk about so urgently? Blue comes up with some foods, but it is rare and other natural phenomena like colors of a night sky, but I’m struggling to think of the reason why we needed “yellow” prior to that. Any conjecture?
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News@lemmy.world•Trump takes credit for 'good parts' of economy, blames 'bad parts' on Biden
4·10 months agoThis is elder abuse.
Justin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿@lemmy.mlOPMtoTypography@lemmy.ml•Font used in famous anti-piracy campaign was pirated
1·10 months agoWhat is “false”? The article doesn’t mention the word “copyright” at all.
Justin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿@lemmy.mlOPMtoTypography@lemmy.ml•Are Em Dashes Really a Sign of AI Writing?
1·10 months agoI routinely use mdashes. What is your operating system?
Justin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿@lemmy.mlOPto
Linguistics@mander.xyz•Language Log » Are all writing systems equally easy / hard?
2·10 months agothe Committee saw no pressure to introduce a phonetic system for Mandarin
This is particularly interesting to me: where did you get this?
Thanks for the thorough comment.
Justin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿@lemmy.mlOPto
Linguistics@mander.xyz•Language Log » Are all writing systems equally easy / hard?
2·10 months agoEasy/hard in which aspect? And how do we even measure it?
I’m confused as to if you read the article, since you point out Chinese characters later. Did you?
Justin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿@lemmy.mlOPto
Linguistics@mander.xyz•Language Log » Are all writing systems equally easy / hard?
4·10 months agoSimilarly, Cherokee syllabary and Hangul for Korean. The former was even created by someone who was himself illiterate!
Justin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿@lemmy.mlOPMtoTypography@lemmy.ml•More than 1,500 new fonts – including all-time favorites – come to Adobe Fonts | Adobe Blog
1·11 months agoDid you downvote this submission? If so, why?
Justin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿@lemmy.mlOPMtoTypography@lemmy.ml•More than 1,500 new fonts – including all-time favorites – come to Adobe Fonts | Adobe Blog
1·11 months agoDid you downvote this submission? If so, why?
Justin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿@lemmy.mlOPto
Linguistics@mander.xyz•The Foreign Language That Changed My Teenage Son’s Life
12·1 year agoIf you want to have a discussion about a topic it is your responsibility to provide a quick summary of the topic in order to set expectations about the subject.
It is not.
you decided to throw a hissy fit
I did not.
post the article without the paywall
I will not.
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