Lol, I spelled it “ov” on my spelling test.
Lol, I spelled it “ov” on my spelling test.
I always just go to America’s Best. $80 for an eye exam and two pairs of glasses is hard to beat.
Thanks for taking the time to write such an informed and in-depth comment!
Still not buying a Samsung.
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What’s good for the goose is good for the gander I suppose. I wish we didn’t ruin people’s livelihoods for bad/unpopular opinions in the first place, but we seem have agreed as a culture that that’s what we do now, so ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
It is difficult to pull a moral out of this story
Uh no it’s fucking not. Big corpos do whatever the fuck they want and see no real consequences. That’s it. That’s the moral.
Since the article won’t let me access it for “security purposes”, that’s not very helpful.
I have one of those and it’s cost me who knows how much time and effort. The only times I ever really use are 15 seconds (for melting butter), 50 seconds (for water for baking bread; 1 minute is too hot), and 1:45 for coffee (again, 2 minutes is too hot). I can count the number of times I’ve actually used the “push 1 for 1 minute” feature on one hand, and instead I have to press an additional “timer” button for absolutely no reason Every. Single. Time. I want to microwave something.
Almost half of all English words are borrowed from French, dating from when England was colonized and culturally subjugated by the Norman French starting in 1066.
When we played it you also had to go down on one knee, and the person unfreezing you had to sit on your knee while they flushed your arm.
Unless you’re talking about Scots, the closest languages to English are separated by at minimum more than a thousand years, which is plenty of time for those constraints to change significantly.
I’d even expect different dialects of English to behave differently when adapting loanwords, because they already show plenty of phonotactic differentiation.
I have a private theory about that, actually (that is, not backed up by research yet to my knowledge).
I think this is due to accidental gaps, that some languages allow for clusters that just don’t happen to appear in those languages by an accident of history (e.g. they allowed them at one point but they were eliminated by a phonotactic filter that no longer exists in the language, etc.), so when they borrow a word with that string now, they can pronounce it no problem.
If you think about phonotactic constraints as being the result of constant rankings (as in models like Optimality Theory), this should even be predicted as a form of Emergence of the Unmarked (though stop clusters are pretty marked, so this would be more like “local” or “coincidental” unmarkedness).
I also think that studying borrowing adaptations like this would give us a more accurate picture of the overall constraint ranking of a given language than just restricting ourselves to native words.
Not on lemmy.ml there isn’t!
What actually happened is that these roots were borrowed from Ancient Greek by paleontologists to form the word “pterodactyl”, not modern Greek.
In Ancient Greek, they would have pronounced both the “p” and the “t”, but “pt” isn’t a possible beginning of a word for English speakers, and so borrowed words that start with “pt-” (and “mn-” and a few others) have the first sound deleted as a repair mechanism to allow English speakers to pronounce them.
In modern Greek, “pt” consonant clusters that used to be pronounced as-is have undergone dissimilation - both “p” and “t” are stop consonants, so the “p” has instead become an “f” (which is a fricative, not a stop), to make the cluster easier to pronounce.
Qualcomm really does want to become Intel.
That’s about a pound of cheese every two days. Pretty sure I could hit that number without any trouble at all.
And 5 was a significant downgrade from 4.
I’m still playing civ IV. With the direction the series has been going, it looks like I probably always will.
I just cancelled my gas station rewards program because they moved everything to a mandatory app. I will not use your app.