GandalftheBlack
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- Comment on oof 18 hours ago:
I was considering doing a masters in Germanic linguistics (graduated last year). I would’ve enjoyed it, but I have a job now that lets me actually save up money, while still allowing me to indulge my academic interests in my spare time, and I’m certain I made the right choice. I know for a fact that at the end of the day, doing a masters would have ultimately meant one or two years’ delay to the start of my career and basically no advantage in the job market. Maybe this goes more for humanities students (although I imagine it’s also the case for a lot of STEM students), but I think this video by Dr Jackson Crawford is a really good sympathetic and pragmatic approach for people considering going into academia.
- Comment on Any nominations? 3 days ago:
Bouba and kiki
- Comment on electrostatic spider flight 3 days ago:
This is how our lizard overlords felt when humans first achieved flight
- Comment on freuidian slip 3 days ago:
I like to imagine [21] doesn’t mean the 21st citation, but rather that there are 21 citations for that statement
- Comment on Oh Kurt Gödel, you lovable logician freak. 1 week ago:
If you’re paranoid about food poisoning, maybe cook your own food
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Finally got Bannerlord a couple of weeks ago. After a bit of tinkering I got the GOG version running on Manjaro, so it no longer freezes randomly all the time. I’ll be honest, I don’t think it’s a massive step up from the original, especially given the wait, but I’m still really enjoying it and will definitely look into modding it at some point.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 2 weeks ago:
It will now be considered for debate in parliament, which is good but also doesn’t mean anything will come of it just yet.
- Comment on Arts & STEM 4 weeks ago:
In Europe we have GOG instead
G - science technology engineering maths O - ond G - gumanities - Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 4 weeks ago:
Imagine doing a Gate of Ishtar maneuver but with the pyramids
- Comment on Trump says UK is protected from tariffs ‘because I like them’ as trade deal is signed off 5 weeks ago:
If Trump likes us, I feel like we’ve gone wrong somewhere
- Comment on "workers" is a dehumanizing term 5 weeks ago:
Also, even if “people with job X” caught on, that wouldn’t actually achieve anything. The impression or image in your head that you get when you hear “people who work in a factory” vs. “factory workers” is the same, even if the wording deliberately makes reference to people.
I appreciate what the intention is behind it, just like with “people with disabilities” vs. “disabled people”, but it doesn’t address the societal issues that result in the actual discrimination/problematic views.
This is more of a theoretical argument, but from a linguistic perspective there’s a common misconception that language shapes our perception of reality, when in fact it’s the other way round. If you talk about subject X which is looked down on for whatever reason, the commonly used word for it can take on a derogatory tone, which leads to well-meaning people using a more positive word. This is commonly seen with words for women in patriarchal societies, and it leads to a cycle of neutral words becoming derogatory and polite words becoming the new standard, until that word becomes derogatory and has to be replaced in turn. None of this is to say we shouldn’t be careful with the language we use, and in fact it’s a good way of signalling respect, but I just want to highlight that adopting new terminology is itself won’t achieve much.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 5 weeks ago:
But if you’ve learned IPA you can read it just fine
- Comment on Someone had to mine all the metal for the coins that end up in jars 1 month ago:
Yeah, it was Fred. We should thank him more often.
- Comment on He's in the weather patterns 1 month ago:
- Comment on He's in the weather patterns 1 month ago:
He’s certainly much bigger now, or maybe just extremely flattened
- Comment on MEN. 1 month ago:
Thankfully he didn’t actually put in any of the dangerous ingredients,
- Comment on Your brain thinks... 1 month ago:
Tautocarcinisation
- Comment on I must confess I laughed 2 months ago:
Common misconception, it’s just dedicated to one
- Comment on Trump cuts tariff on UK cars; American carmakers not happy about it 2 months ago:
Fahrt of the deal
- Comment on The hills are alive with the sound of music! 🎶🎵 2 months ago:
This meme implies that birds and insects are not animals
- Comment on We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing. 3 months ago:
A jumper is a bad example, because it’s not just made up of sleeves.
A bra is a much better example. But I was never making an argument that all things made up of two parts are referred to as a pair, just my thoughts on the rationale behind cases where we do.
- Comment on We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing. 3 months ago:
I’d say it’s less of a grammar rule and more about how things made up of two similar parts can be conceptualised
- Comment on We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing. 3 months ago:
They’re made up of two similar parts which form a pair, unlike a jumper
- Comment on I've done it again... 3 months ago:
500g usually
- Comment on Can you see yourself cutting off by a generation of gaming? 6 months ago:
Yeah, im looking forward to picking up Witcher IV with all the DLC for £10 on Steam in a few years’ time
