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toriascreebs

HAPPY 10 YEARS OF (uk) TASKMASTER!

This took wayyyy longer than I would like to admit but I'm happy with it!

danielwaldorf

Speef is real to me. I'm sorry for that.

discoursedrome

OK this passage is goofy in numerous respects but I want to set that aside for a minute and just focus on one thing: "Speef" will always sound like a sound effect, but it's better if you spell it "Spief", right?

This is one of the things I find most peculiar about English: doubled vowels are connotatively infantile, despite being extremely common and the normal way to represent certain sounds which aren't themselves seen that way. It's not the sound at all, it's just the fact that the vowels are doubled! You'll observe that it only applies to digraphs and not to diaereses like "cooperate" or "vacuum". With core vocabulary this fades into the background, but it leaps out with unfamiliar names or words. That's why the British colonial use of "oo" to represent "u" sounds in non-European languages comes off as disrespectful, and (beyond the uncanny-valley effect) it's why English speakers perceive Dutch orthography as inherently ludicrous.

This is insane, right? There's nothing meaningful about whether a digraphic vowel uses two different letters or the same one twice, and as far as I can tell the sounds represented by -ee- and -oo- are totally arbitrary. This isn't written down anywhere and nobody teaches it to second-language learners, it's just this vague vibe you acquire from immersion. What the hell happened there

thestuffedalligator

They’ve been rebuilding the Tower of Babel, but this time they have a team of linguists on site. Every time God smites the builders and invents a dozen new languages, the linguists have a dozen decently sized translations in about a month and work can start up again.

The linguists have been really into it. They say the new phonemes are fascinating. As for God, I assume that at this point he’s just curious to see how far this goes.

somethingusefulfromflorida

To keep us on out toes, God gives the next group of builders an extra place of articulation called the flongus between the pharynx and the glottis, creating an entire new column of the IPA chart with sounds between sounds that are literally physiologically impossible for non-flongled people to replicate.

somethingusefulfromflorida

Improved symbols for the flongal plosives ("gacks"), flongal trill ("hacks"), flongal fricatives ("groans"), and and the flongal lateral approximant ("moans")

inthefallofasparrow

Update: The builders have now simply switched to communicating entirely through a universal sign language like they should've done to start with. No sounds need be spoken, flongal or otherwise. The Tower steadily rises. Be seeing you soon, God, you little bitch.

koth-harvest-final

update: the builders are all speaking different sign languages now

meshaamem-li

update: the builders are using signs that can only be produced with 4 hands.

lynx-girl

really efficient workers though, that last group

mortimermcmirestinks

so, it's been a couple of cycles, and now there's like 50 different subspecies of human with wildly varying numbers of limbs, mouths, places or articulation, and ribs (it's complicated) and they're all still working together. it's starting to look like god is purposely doing, like, a message on acceptance and shit. this is one of many reasons why we gotta finish this tower and Get him

mallalada

get yourself a main character whos two primary emotions are "little cunt" and "catatonic with grief"

potat-time

Bro's got two moods and two moods only

eethok

gadzooks! my game? It be'eth changed!

my-random-fandoms

thetrekkiehasthephonebox

Verified: Microsoft 365 gets massive 45% price hike — and it's all to do with AI tools (Tom's Guide - January 17, 2025)

mothwizard

oopsie i tripped and spilled my link to archive dot org's downloadable copy of Microsoft office suite for 2007, which features no AI tools and is a powerful word processor that still holds up just fine on windows 10!

gamechangershow

Honestly, the most hurtful thing was calling it "Game Changers"

Watch the full episode on Dropout

mortalityplays

if you spend your life bitching and complaining about the fact people are 'expected' to engage in the dreaded pointless banal '''small talk''' instead of learning to trade pleasantries with the people around you, you will never know the true and heady joy of doing a dumb bit with a complete stranger and as a result your soul will remain small

x-i-l-verify

#my favorite bit is when i wear my wrist braces in public and someone asks if I got hurt#and I tell them something patently insane #'I got into a Kung Fu Battle with the local canada geese' insane #and realizing that We Are Playing A Game #they will Yes And me #'Oh yeah they've been taking lessons from the squirrels' they nod #and within two minutes the lady cutting my fabric at the quilt store and I have a whole bit about the urban animals all being in rival dojo #The grandma behind me chimes in that the fat raccoons under her porch must be doing Sumo

sexysilverstrider

the group chat when i ask whos available to hang out next week

medusasstory

Honestly this is one of the best formatted jokes of all time.

elexuscal

"it's concerning if university students are genuinely struggling to read full adult-level books for class" and "don't overstate the reporting of a single news article" and "if this shift is genuinely real, it's reflective of broad curriculum changes in lower education levels, probably at least in part due to remote schooling during COVID, and doesn't mean the new generation is being willfully Stupid and Vapid" and "when reading for personal pleasure people should read whatever they like without shame" and "reading from a broad variety of genres, styles, and authorial backgrounds will improve your understanding of both literature and the real world" and "actively mocking people for their tastes in books does not encourage them to become more adventurous you're just being mean" and also "but seriously adult books are not just boringly pretentious nothingburgers padded with pointless sex scenes, and claiming they are just shows how little you've read" all can and should co-exist.

channelslam

i think about this like all the time

noknowshame

I’m watching Splash (1984) which is a romcom about a guy who falls in love with a mermaid, and when she chooses a human name she chooses Madison and guy says “that’s not a real name, but alright” which seems to imply that Madison was not a name until at least the 80’s and all girls named Madison are actually named after the mermaid. thought you should know

brbeth

I think...you might be right

brownheadedcowbird

what the fuck

finally-figured-it-out

There was a young man from Peru

Whose limericks stopped at line two

finally-figured-it-out

There once was a man from Verdun

genteelblackhole42

There once was a man from the sticks Whose limericks stopped at line six. They were fine till line five Then they took quite a dive — But the problem is easy to fix If you just ignore the last line, it doesn't even follow the rhyme scheme oh god I've really lost control of this thing I'm so sorry...

shredsandpatches

There once was a man

From Cork who got limericks

And haiku confused.

ruckuscauser

There once was a man from the sticks

Who liked to compose limericks

But he failed at the sport

Because he wrote them too short

rat-girl-big-tits

@limerickshere

fremedon

There once was a fellow named Dan, Whose poetry never would scan. When told this was so, He replied, "Yes, I know-- It's because I try to squeeze as many syllables into the last line as I possibly can."

paulgadzikowski

On Tumblr did lasses and lads Their way with fail poetry had. You're having your fun But you're fooling no one - It takes skill to do something this bad.

ralfmaximus

Tesla is tanking so hard it is dragging the entire EV segment's sales down into the negative. When you omit Tesla from the equation, EV sales are up 13% across the board.

Don't let anyone tell you EV sales are in a slump.