Devil’s advocate doesn’t just mean “advocating for bad things”, it specifically means advocating for a point you disagree with in order to find holes in the argument and patch them. A holey argument isn’t gonna get far

Bring it back but exclusively for insults and rudeness

When you’re getting annoyed at people you can just start thouing them

Yeah, a lot of european languages have a three gender system: masculine, feminine and neuter

Proto-Indo-European, the language which most European (and some South Asian languages) originate from, had a three gender system

Even English used to have a three gender system before it disappeared in the Middle English period

Despite the name, the neuter gender tends to not be used for people, although in some languages (such as Polish) the use of the neuter gender to refer to non-binary people is gaining traction

I know that, I’m just referring to it as runic thorn due to the fact that thorn evolved from it

I haven’t seen runic thorn used with Latin script, but I like the look ngl

The more i look into different languages, the more i feel different languages are just as complex as each other, with complexity put in different places

Even most Esperanto speakers have abadoned the ideology of Finvenkismo (the belief that Esperanto will become the primary language of the world, overtaking other languages) as it’s both unrealistic and has several flaws

Esperanto is a flawed, Eurocentric language, and we should celebrate linguistic diversity, not treat it as a problem needing to be solved

y-up ftw

It’s easier when writing 3d renderers cause the x and y coordinates of the 3d points eventually become the x and y coordinates of the 2d points on screen and it’s easier to keep track of

Also, a lot of Scots use American spellings sometimes because of internet influence

Fun fact: if you take the displacement between your current position and the exact place where you were born, and divide it by your age, you can get your average velocity

Unfun fact: a good part of the internet goes down every time there’s a football match in Spain, because the government gave a football league access to the national internet blocklist to stop piracy or smth and they put the entirety of Cloudflare on there

Z was temporarily removed from the latin alphabet, and when it was readded, it was added to the end

It was likely caused by the transition from right-to-left to left-to-right writing

So basically, while Egyptian hieroglyphs didn’t have a specific writing direction, boustrophedon was a very common system, where you’d start writing in one direction, and then switch direction on the next line (so the first letter of the second line is right under the last letter of the first line).

The Phonecian script, however, started to stick to right-to-left for writing. When the greeks first adapted the Phonecian alphabet for the Greek language, they wrote in right-to-left and boustrophedon. When writing boustrophedon, they would flip the letters to match the writing direction. When left to right started to gain popularity, the flipped letters were used, and left-to-right is now what is used in the Greek alphabet and its descendants.

Why is this downvoted, it’s actually a real thing

Linguists struggle to find an exact definition of what a word is because speakers of different languages have different opinions of what a word is, and some languages make the distinction unclear

Yeah as a polish person I got what they meant but I found it offensive

If a US official is sent to The Hague, doesn’t the US government have a law that gives them the ability to invade the Hague and take them back?

The Catholic church has a very strong grip on Polish culture (and often government), which is what drives a lot of things like this

I think Wiseau was living in Poland at the time?

Have you done the clover after finishing the game thing?

yooo Niko oneshot

Curious, do you just play The World Machine edition or do you use some kind of setup to play Oneshot