Loving consensual relationships are hot.

No no, that’s platter, a Plato is an egg laying mammal that is born when a duck and beaver love each other very much.

This comic is about LGBTQI+

Is there a website, or…? Purely scientific interest.

In prison? This man deserves a fucking statue, and that we do the same to him when it’s his time to go, send him off with the party of his lifetime.

Most countries prohibit sales of alcohol to minors, and when in doubt, the seller must ask for a form of ID. In the US, this is almost always a driver’s license, since there’s no national id card and state id isn’t mandatory AFAIK - people will use that though if they don’t have a driver’s license for some reason.

And nothing of value was lost that day.

You’re just elaborating and expanding on a part of what I said, while being an abrasive jerk, and ignoring everything else that didn’t suit your argument.

To the point in question, I never said academies invent the future of a language, only that they gatekeep the rules, which can include pushback against popular usage (the french academy is notorious for being very against english neologisms).

There have been cases where the changes are very substantial, like the Portuguese and French changes that happened (coincidentally) in 1990, for example, that push the languages in certain directions.

Take a cup of tea and relax a bit, and try not to argue the voices in your head.

Edit: I missed this point, let me address it:

All languages are organic and evolve naturally.

Have you heard of Esperanto, for example, or the concept of auxiliary languages?

What about artistic or fictional languages, like Tolkien’s Elvish or Star Trek’s Klingon or Dothraki or High Valerian from Game of Thrones?

None of them are “organic”, and as for evolving, it really depends but a language like Esperanto, assuming it is regularly used by a community, is very unlikely to differ from it’s textbook definition because it was specifically crafted to avoid the inconsistencies that we’re discussing and that arise from evolution.

You didn’t address a single thing from the original post.

It was highlighting how English is a very quirky language. You can explain it, obviously there are reasons why, but it doesn’t change the factual observation that English is a uniquely inconsistent language.

Most languages have some sort of academic body that dictates the correct usage of the language, and occasionally push for adjustments that resolve these inconsistencies. English does not, it’s a crowd sourced effort with the results being what we see today.

Many countries and languages share similar backgrounds to English - invasion by foreign peoples, large migrations, etc - yet they’ve settled most of their background into a consistent ruleset - there’s always exceptions and irregularities, but not to the level of English.

One of the largest sources of inconsistencies was the “Great Vowel Shift”, along with the invention of the printing press at roughly the same time, which standardized a spelling that didn’t reflect the massive ongoing changes in pronunciation.

This is a fascinating topic, but accusing others of ignorance for pointing out something that is a fact, is in itself ignorance.

What’s worse is that even in languages with common ancestry, the gendered pronouns are not necessarily the same - the same thing can be male or female across a border.

Nope. I don’t think that’s common at all. Maybe the occasional monkey reflex where my body thinks I’m gonna fall off a tree and yanks me awake, but that’s it.

Wouldn’t it be even more accurate to translate it as “You’re lying!?”. Not sure it would fit the “polite” tone, but then again, they’re about to be eaten by a tiger and/or a puma.

This reminds me of a LoL streamer who found this guy in a mostly abandoned server, and after a few sessions found out it was some dude from Venezuela playing on some potato pc and bought him a new rig. Kinda wholesome.

What a convoluted way of asking the teacher to spill the beans. I like it.

Also, where’s the topographic map of the region? How can you expect us to come up with something remotely accurate without knowing this, is the third dimension a joke to you, are we all dots of ink on a paper?

Back in 2015, the brothers pled guilty in Virginia to a scheme involving wire fraud and computers. Muneeb was sentenced to three years in prison, while Sohaib got two.

I’m not gonna say there were signs that these two weren’t the most law abiding of citizens to begin with, buuuuut…

Are you gonna go look for a duck?

I think that in Australia they’re considered an invasive species, at least some species, as they’re not native, breed fast, and devastate local ecosystems to the point they’re seen as pests.

In Europe they’re just part of the local fauna, and population numbers are well under control.

I cancelled my YouTube subscription when they increased the price by 50%, and I’m never subscribing again.

I haven’t bought a full price game in decades, unless it’s an indie/under €30.

I’m finally building up my PS4 game collection, for ages I had 2 games - RD2 and FFXV. Yesterday I got this in the mail, I paid less for those 4 used games than what Sony is asking for a digital copy of FFVII Remake in their store…

Care, that birth control won’t work without the missing string.

I’m not a fan of white skirts but that one I’d try…