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Cake day: August 20th, 2023

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  • Ah interesting, so you pretty much knew all the common ones except kid. I guess it’d be a lot easier in general if English just had an affix for a baby animal. I’ve been trying to learn Japanese because I live in Japan, and they just attach ko- to something to make it a baby (like dog is inu and puppy is koinu).

    Although Japanese has its own set of weird naming conventions because you can’t just use numbers to count stuff, and instead you have to say the name of the group the object falls into. Like “one pencil” would be “pencil one long thing” and “one dog” would be “dog one small animal (non-bird/rabbit) thing”.

    BTW a kit is a baby fox, beaver, rabbit, squirrel, and a few others.









  • Beyond disappointed that none of our resident fart accounts have commented in this thread. Clearly the clarion call of the wind broken by the fart golems haven’t yet echoed deep enough into the halls of lemmy to reach their noses.

    @Fartswithanaccent@lemmy.world
    @Fartographer@lemmy.world
    @I_fart_glitter@lemmy.world
    @Satansmaggotycumfart@lemmy.world






  • Agreed, but it’s still a tough line to draw. Here’s a scale:

    We’ve got some problems, and it’s probably because of “someone”.
    Aren’t the X suspicious? We should keep an eye on them.
    All the X have rights but it’s their fault for all our problems.
    We should give jobs to everyone before all the X.
    We should expel all the X.
    We should genocide all the X.

    At which point is it ok for the cops to come have a conversation with you?