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Eulalia!

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And me!

Like most worker cooperatives, it probably wouldn’t last a year.

Bleeding hearts always clot surprisingly fast when it comes to those they don’t like.

According to my mathematician wife, “it’s got the same problem most paradoxes do in that it’s self-referential”.

Apparently all Japanese is English if an English person is speaking it.

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We’re not talking about those words, I don’t play whataboutism.

Whatever you say bruh.

But fine, we won’t refer to any other loanwords. Instead, I’ll ask you to generalize whatever your position is: that is, can you provide a consistent definition of “English word” that will include what you consider to be English words and exclude “entrepreneur” and “schadenfreude” and any other words that you don’t think are English?

Apparently all Japanese is English if an English person is speaking it.

The linguistic explanation for what you’re getting hung up on here is pretty straightforward (though whether you accept it or not remains to be seen), but I’ll save it for later in the conversation to keep our discussion on topic in the meantime.

So answer my original question then. You know, the one that you dodged while calling me pretentious. Are the words I listed here English, or are they not?

A few notable examples that come to mind are Armenian (>90% borrowings from being ruled by speakers of multiple Iranian languages for over 1,000 years, to the point that it was even classified as Iranian until it was finally proven to be its own branch of Indo-European) and Romani, which has borrowings from tons of different languages and families. Lots of East Asian languages have tons of borrowings from Chinese, but they don’t often quite reach the percentages of English (>75% borrowings).

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Now I want to see a really good Gizmoduck cosplay.

I mean, communists are pretty famous for consistently doing the exact same thing…

Anything Xenoblade, but especially 1 and X.

I got bored of Undertale quickly, but the OST is an all-time great.

Shovel Knight is really good.

Anything by David Wise, especially Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2.

Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest has the best music in the entire series, don’t @ me.

The Grandia theme.

The Nier games have gorgeous music.

Just got my first Costco membership and looking forward to trying Kirkland beans for the first time. $15 for a 2.5 pound bag. Usually 8 o’clock is my go-to, but if Kirkland is close to comparable, I’ll probably switch.

Whoa, Zipf’s Law is right again!

Steven Pinker’s The Language Instinct is a famously great, engaging, and approachable introduction to the field of linguistics for anyone interested.

Everyone who actually buys a Switch 2 deserves exactly what they get.

This is one of those comics that feels like there’s a real story behind it.

No money for tankie admins.