KSPAtlas

@KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library ⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  afaik Wikipedia shut down the Greenlandic language version to prevent this exact situation, apparently the language used there was getting very poor

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 528 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah I loved OneShot, good to see others playing it

  I also did all the runs and all the achievements, so I don’t have much to do anymore

  I played world machine edition so I might have missed out on the full experience, but I think WME did a fairly good job at emulating everything

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ashmelissaleigh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if this is exactly how it works in Irish Gaelic, but in Scottish Gaelic the reason there are so many silent letters is because of vowel combinations, broad and slender consonants and lenition

  The Scottish Gaelic equivalent of that phrase would be “Thig ar latha” i think, which funnily enough I don’t think contains any silent letters

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dłoń means something more like palm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In Polish, “ręka” can mean both arm and hand and which one it is is context dependent

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Empires have fallen for less. Like the Roman Empire, for example⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There is actually a rare condition where people have multiple penises I think

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨for ranked smoking only⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw a HDMI to 500 cigarettes adapter somewhere

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Are You⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same in polish - sztuczna inteligencja (SI) is a feminine noun

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's really pissed at me but I did exactly what he told me to do⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One simply يدخن

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t there a youtuber who made rat neurons in a petri dish play doom?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typical monopoly people⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We already do though, one’s color is another’s colour and one’s spelled is another’s spelt

  Those would be kuler and spelt in my dialect and writing system

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typical monopoly people⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve worked on it as a personal writing system for probably like a year or so now

  Y’v werkt on it az a personal ryting sistem for probabli lyk a jēr or sō nü

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typical monopoly people⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ðat wúd bē sō sili, hüever it wúd absolútli rúin ŪK-ŪS komūnikāshon

  Sum myt sā ðat’s a gúd þing ðō

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what seeing even more political posts on the shitpost community does to a mfer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pincushion shaped battery receptacle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Longing, Rusted, Seventeen, Daybreak, Furnace, Nine, Benign, Homecoming, One, Boxcar⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s kinda like like the plural form has also become a colloquial singular form

  Same with “a bacteria”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the HOA special⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you pronounce the gn like the gn in mignon or lasagna it’s almost pronounced the same

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d also guess that the large number of vowels in English has to do with it, General American English has around 16 vowels (counting both monophthongs and diphthongs, other varieties of English have similar amounts)

  I feel that when there’s that many vowels, the exact quality of the vowel is less important and thus they can shift around more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you confusing Scots and Scottish Gaelic? Scottish Gaelic is the one that’s spoken in the western isles, Scots is across most of the rest of Scotland, including big cities

  Scots is hard to tell from English sometimes because Scots has undergone near language death, where it adopted more and more features from English as it was taken over, and Scots was regarded for a decent while as nothing but bad English

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Was it Scottish English or Scots? The line between the two is blurry because intelligibility varies a lot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's interesting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI psychosis is real and damaging, I’m not sure if there’s any available help for it besides trying to stop the sufferer from using LLMs though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Jamaican accent just makes me smile⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah i had a really bad feeling about this post, it’s an actual language spoken by actual people who have been historically discriminated against, not just “weird english”

  The reason creoles look like weird english sometimes is because they’re the mixture of multiple languages

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it? I tried checking in a dictionary but it didn’t list mídheas as a word and “deas” was defined as right/nice/honest, not just “good”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even most Esperanto speakers have abadoned the ideology of Finvenkismo (the belief that Esperanto will become the primary language of the world, overtaking other languages) as it’s both unrealistic and has several flaws

  Esperanto is a flawed, Eurocentric language, and we should celebrate linguistic diversity, not treat it as a problem needing to be solved

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People in the UK Watching the The world using the internet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfun fact: a good part of the internet goes down every time there’s a football match in Spain, because the government gave a football league access to the national internet blocklist to stop piracy or smth and they put the entirety of Cloudflare on there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Macquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic face⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is this downvoted, it’s actually a real thing

  Linguists struggle to find an exact definition of what a word is because speakers of different languages have different opinions of what a word is, and some languages make the distinction unclear

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy DB Cooper Day to those who celebrate!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Wiseau was living in Poland at the time?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here's our word of the Day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are slashes being used to mark spelling pronunciation? Surely it’d be /ˈfʌk.toʊs ɪnˈtɔ.lə.ɹənt/

  Sorry I’m being a bit pendantic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good job!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  tak is more like yes, no is more like yeah

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good job!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, “no” meaning “yeah” in polish is kinda a funny coincidence

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ quarter⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  RISC-V is sooo cool I hope it ends up being used more in consumer products