Weiss def didn’t make that decision, she’s just the face following marching orders from above. She sucks, but let’s not pretend like she has any real power

Just drink lava

https://youtu.be/m7KXCpEpyL8

Is your proposal that you wanna clink 2 coffee cups with steam coming off the top together?

At least they usually use 脚 for leg and 足 for foot, even if they’re homophones.

Any languages have both? Like Japanese has ashi(no)yubi [foot('s)finger], and although yubi is technically digit it’s much more common to use it for finger. Then there’s also tsumasaki, literally meaning nailtip (or point, end, head, etc).

to me what is really surprising is that some languages found it necessary to use two words to describe what is essentially the same fucking shit.

I mean, you can start calling all sorts of body parts the same shit, and some of them even have words already. Like we say arms and legs, but we could also say upper and lower limbs. We’ve got knees and elbows and shoulders, but they’re all just joints.

Now I’m wondering what languages have the fewest words that could describe the entire body, as in once you break down the word “body” into any number of parts (without using the word “body”, like upper and lower body), how many other words are needed? I think in English you couldn’t get away with anything less than head, neck, torso, and extremities (although one might argue that the latter refers only to hands and feet so you’d have to put limbs back in as well).

And the people constantly complaining that schools don’t teach critical thinking are the same ones who think English class is worthless. Textual evidence, do you speak it?!

This probably came from a country with transliterations that don’t line up very well in English. Like Japanese doesn’t have an English r, so one of the ways they do it is to elongate a vowel and alarm would become alaamu. But sometimes they have a long vowel with no r, like smoke is sumo-oku.

When they go to write in English it’s not clear whether that long vowel represents an r or not, and they chose to add it in smoke and drop it in alarm. I still run across a smorking room from time to time.

On a very special episode of Star Trek…

“Hot” is a strange way to describe something without capsaicin. I’d go with sharp, or maybe at a stretch I could possibly see spicy.

You can also make black garlic, and it becomes fairly sweet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_garlic

Just wait til WhoJesus’s face appears in burn marks after taking the roast beast out of the oven

I was today old when I found out a yew is an evergreen and that I grew up around them (because I remember squishing those berries as a kid). Because they have needles I thought they were some kind of hemlock, and I had it in my head that yew leaves looked something like a willow’s.

It’s the same idiots who said being gay is unnatural, completely ignoring the multitude of gay animals.

There’s no “UK accent” (nor “us accent”)

There is an accent called General American (GenAm), however.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American_English?useskin=vector

WUH

Is that a German or English w?

It’s always interesting watching those big guys move. Not too many sumo fans around here and we didn’t manage to post much the last couple tournaments but you can always check out !sumo@lemmy.world

I think they can at least go from the front. If the sumo guys can do it surely it’s possible.

something like that happened in London in the early 19th century

There was also a molasses flood in Boston in 1919

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood?useskin=vector

I still play doom, although I try a lot of newer wads. It’s crazy that there’s basically 30 years of free content people have been creating since it came out (even if most stuff much past 10 or 15 years old can feel kinda dated and not so interesting to play).