tigeruppercut
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- Comment on Let’s slow it down a bit please 6 hours ago:
You can avoid thar by jumping directly to plaid
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 9 hours ago:
People should check out the 1 upsmanship podcast where a couple guys discuss which games are worthy of being uploaded to a “celestial hard drive” for preservation. It went patreon exclusive a couple years ago but there are still a lot of eps posted
- Comment on Had to look this up 1 day ago:
Distilleries also have the danger of exploding.
- Comment on Had to look this up 1 day ago:
The car bomb always sounded like it was referring to the events, but I was surprised to learn much later that the black and tan was also talking about something from history. I just assumed it was the colors of the beers.
- Comment on Epic Games Store users can now gift games to friends 2 days ago:
I think I bought maybe 1 or 2 games on sale in the years and years of free games I’ve claimed… does that mean epic marketing succeeded with me?
- Comment on Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike 2 days ago:
Lies, the internet isn’t tubes, it’s a small box
- Comment on Finally. 2 days ago:
Didn’t know this was about cloudflare and just figured OP was a couple months late posting about the new futurama season
- Comment on Thank you, Boston 1 week ago:
It’s def aggro driving but usually not stupid or insane. I never saw someone wildly cut across 3 highway lanes to make an exit til I moved to the midwest
- Comment on Milk 1 week ago:
Too bad we don’t have an active bertstrips on lemmy
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 1 week ago:
Spoken like someone who never built a hypertube cannon to fling yourself beyond the boundaries of the map
- Comment on green salad fingers 1 week ago:
!reallyshittycopper@lemmy.world
- Comment on Bä bä, vita lamm har du någon ull? 1 week ago:
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.
- Comment on Bä bä, vita lamm har du någon ull? 2 weeks ago:
How common would you say knowing names of baby animals in English are for most Dutch speakers (I’m assuming that’s what you speak because of your instance)? I’m guessing kitten and puppy are pretty common, but what about farm animals like calf, foal, lamb, piglet, or chick? And then you’ve got forest animals like cub, fawn, or kit.
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 2 weeks ago:
Yep, !sumo@lemmy.world
I think Aonishiki will continue to do well, and hopefully his countryman Shishi finds some more solid footing for himself soon. Also Kusano smashed his way up the ranks so fast they already changed his name to Yoshinofuji. Fujinokawa is looking ok for a newcomer too, just not quite as good.
I hope Hoshoryu can stay healthy for a few basho in a row, as Onosato needs someone to check his power. Having only one ozeki right now doesn’t help either.
Takayasu on the other hand I’d guess is pretty much done. He’ll still put up some wins for awhile, but I think the playoff back in March was his last shot at a yusho. I remember checking into winners older than 35 and there was only the smallest handful of guys who pulled it off.
Dunno about Kotoeiho but I’m hoping Takerufuji can get his shit together. It’ll be disappointing if his historic win last year isn’t followed by an exciting career.
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 2 weeks ago:
I think I’m one of like 3 sumo fans on here
- Comment on Pow-- 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if anyone’s done the math on the grip strength necessary to snap a rifle stock with your bare hands
- Comment on Don't try to stop me 2 weeks ago:
Hard to tell with the amount of pixels used but that could be a persimmon instead, leading to a comparison which has never been made!
- Comment on Soup 3 weeks ago:
I also like Thai “salad”, aka a pile of meat
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Know the difference 3 weeks ago:
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?
- Comment on This man is suffering 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t know they updated their logo to give the owl a vag wing
- Comment on How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades) 4 weeks ago:
I remember having to beg my folks to be able to call the Nintendo hotline a couple times during childhood when I was completely and utterly stuck in a game on NES. At least the people answering were pretty prompt–I don’t think it took more than 5 mins to get the info I needed.
- Comment on "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym 4 weeks ago:
I’m not entirely sure about how the pronunciations developed. I know that in modern Japanese there are only certain ways syllables can change their sound. Japan uses a syllabary rather than an alphabet, so for example they can only say the sounds bu and ra, but never “bra” because they don’t have a standalone “b”. Their syllables get modified in predictable ways, like ka can change to ga, going from a voiceless to voiced velar stop. In much the same way, the ho syllable can become po.
I don’t know much about the history of when nippon became nihon, but the article you linked has a short section on it
Japanese 日 and 本 were historically pronounced niti and pon, respectively. In compounds, however, final voiceless stops (i.e. p, t, k) of the first word were unreleased in Middle Chinese, and the pronunciation of 日本 was thus Nippon or Jippon (with the adjacent consonants assimilating).
Historical sound change in Japanese has led to the modern pronunciations of the individual characters as nichi and hon. The pronunciation Nihon originated, possibly in the Kantō region, as a reintroduction of this independent pronunciation of 本 into the compound. This must have taken place during the Edo period, after another sound change occurred which would have resulted in this form becoming Niwon and later Nion.
- Comment on Carrot 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, Japan has thick carrots and thin eggplants (which seem to have fewer seeds as well)
- Comment on Fact 4 weeks ago:
She accidentally an apostrophe
- Comment on Fact 4 weeks ago:
You’d attract MC Frontalot
- Comment on "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym 4 weeks ago:
They usually say Nihon instead of Nippon.
Some English used to use words derived from nippon as well but they mostly dropped out of the language not too long after WWII, prob bc nip is an old slur for Japanese people. There’s an ee cummings poem that refers to a piece of “nipponized steel”.
- Comment on I always wondered why hotel rooms had bibles 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I listened to his songs a lot as a kid as well. It was just jarring to hear the silly song guy repeat quack conservative conspiracies when I looked back into him later down the line, though like you say, not unexpected given his demographic.
- Comment on I always wondered why hotel rooms had bibles 4 weeks ago:
I’ve seen them occasionally in Japan hotels as well, but it’s pretty rare
- Comment on I always wondered why hotel rooms had bibles 4 weeks ago:
Ray Stevens went a long way from that song in 1987 to his one about how dems get dead people to vote for them in 2012
