Looks like the followup ancestry feat is more applicable to this image. I do like the idea of it costing an ancestry feat to get though. Implies it’s a feature some nephilim have, but not the majority.

Oh that’s good, because I was gonna say, tieflings don’t have prehensile tails in the Realms.

So for example, “an ewt” became “a newt” or “a eke-name” became “a nickname”.

I think you might be right about what agglutination is in your description, but not in this example. Examples I’m seeing are more like “-s” to make something plural, or “anti-” to say that something is against something else.

Some Wikipedia:

Analytic languages contain very little inflection, instead relying on features like word order and auxiliary words to convey meaning. Synthetic languages, ones that are not analytic, are divided into two categories: agglutinative and fusional languages.

So unlike what I thought previously, agglutination vs fusion is not what we care about here, synthetic vs analytic languages is. English’s practice of creating compound words like “cellar door” is analytic. A more purely analytic language would probably not say “two cellar doors” but merely “two cellar door”. And an antihistamine would be a “histamine opposer”. And German’s famous “words created by shunting other words together” is not really agglutination, but morphologically the same as what English does (seemingly called “inflection”, if I’m reading this right), just with different orthographic rules.

Which I guess brings us back to the question: what does Sending count as a word? My instinct is to say that the way English puts spaces is a good baseline to follow, not least because the creators of D&D are anglophones. What, then, would Donau­dampfschifffahrts­gesellschafts­kapitän be? Probably 5. But if you asked the average German speaker (non-linguist) “how many words is Donau­dampfschifffahrts­gesellschafts­kapitän?” what would they say?

I’m not a linguist so I could be wrong, but I think that they would tell you that there is a difference between agglutination (what German does) and adding adjectives as separate words (what English does), even in spoken language. But I also know that even defining “word” in a strict linguistic sense is difficult, so 🤷‍♂️

If Cruella was written with a K, it would be pronounced the same, too

I suspect that’s why NATO uses Charlie. No other letter is pronounced ⟨tʃ⟩ with any significant frequency in English.

Of course the CIA would say that.

Same on Dvorak.

Though the custom coder’s Dvorak I use while programming has a dedicated ! key. Shift still needed for : though.

I won’t deny, I’d miss Mexican food. Sure, a kebab is basically a burrito, but the differences are enough that it’d be a shame to never have either one.

But I do find the barbecue thing weird. Australian barbecue is close enough to American to be a more than acceptable substitute (although perhaps I’m biased). Korean galbi is amazing, though quite different.

The thing is, Australia is only slightly better as regards motornormativity and individualism. But the American concept of school buses is rather foreign to us. Most kids are either driven to school or take the same public transport that everyone else uses.

My take is that it’s about complete meals, as they exist today, with the region that the meal is associated with. So I would put tikka masala in India, even though it was technically created in the UK. My guess is your Dutch Indonesian version is probably the same as that, and should go in D. Or would most Dutch people say “this is a Dutch meal”?

But you’re definitely right that it’s very fuzzy.

I saw a much more interesting problem not too long ago, which had much clearer lines. It was only about using ingredients native to either the new world or old world. Choose new world and you get chocolate, tomato, and potato. Old world means you miss out, but you do get wheat and rice.

I’ll be a little tempted by G because of Barbecue, but Korean barbecue is pretty great as well

Galbi is great, but don’t forget you also get Australian barbecue. Which, while not exactly the same as American barbecue, is much more similar to it than galbi is.

It’s astonishing to me that in a country as car-brained and individualistic as America, school buses are so ubiquitous that not only is everyone familiar with them, they’re even familiar with how their design changes for different minority groups.

Oh huh. And this is common enough where you are that people use it as a metaphor and people broadly understand its meaning?

short bus rider

A what now?

Yeah it’s hard to say for sure. It looks to me like northern Greece (Greek Macedonia) is probably in C, but the Greek islands, the Peloponnese, and Attica are probably all in D.

Most of Korea (including all of South Korea) is in D, so there’s no value add from C there.

D is literally the only answer.

Greek, Turkish, Arab, Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, Japanese. If you want something more western, there’s Australian for some classic bbq or fish n chips. There’s also a tiny sliver of Italy.

There’s no date on it, so I’m just gonna assuming that this is the true origin of COVID.

Homo sapiens* the s is not for plural.

But it’s a good thing you clarified that you meant H. sapiens, since there’s a strong argument to be made that earlier Homo species are also human. (And also that battles were had even before the divergence of Homo from Hominini.)

It’s probably tuberculosis. Seaside trips were a classic part of the doctor’s recommendation for consumption.

There’s even some evidence that vitamin D (which is produced when your body is exposed to sunlight) may help slow TB infection.