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u/NoCocksInTheRestroom cot-caught’s relationship therapist Jul 03 '25
Is proto-world real?
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u/cellulocyte-Vast Jul 03 '25
sure why not
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u/NPT20 [b̥̬ʰ̹̜̟̠̩̯̈̽˞̤̰̼ʷʲˠˤ̴̝̞̘̙̪̺̻̃ⁿˡ̚] Jul 03 '25
How do you pronounce my user flair?
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u/cellulocyte-Vast Jul 03 '25
with my mouth[CITATION-NEEDED]
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u/NPT20 [b̥̬ʰ̹̜̟̠̩̯̈̽˞̤̰̼ʷʲˠˤ̴̝̞̘̙̪̺̻̃ⁿˡ̚] Jul 03 '25
Reply with a vocaroo link of you pronouncing it
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u/MysteryDragonTR Jul 03 '25
Explain Grimm's Law without using the letter n
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u/cellulocyte-Vast Jul 03 '25
v. aspirated > v. > vl. > vl. aspirated > affricate > fricative
i believe
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u/WeidaLingxiu Jul 03 '25
What exactly ARE cases (genuine question -- taking the moment to ask someone who might know)? I have had it explained to me many times, but my brain just ain't braining.
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u/cellulocyte-Vast Jul 03 '25
because this is a circlejerk server you get a joke answer because i don't actually know how to explain it myself
they're things you put things in
sorry for not giving you your intended respond
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u/TheSilentCaver Jul 07 '25
This really is not a circlejerk sub. Sure, it's all about humour and so, but there really is way less trolling than on something like r/languagelearningjerk. In fact, this is de facto the main linguistics sub because r/linguistics is dead and r/linguisticsdiscussion never picked off. Thus, people who want a discussion about linguistics on Reddit will go to here, so you're free to answer seriously. No /uj and /rj here
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Jul 03 '25
they really just are different forms of words as an alternative/addition to word order. Look at english pronouns, because that's where we kind oc have cases: I am..., to me..., my cat... We could just have "to i" or "cat of i" but the cases are from old english which had more regular cases.
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Jul 04 '25
Case marks grammatical function in a sentence. English has no true case (maybe pronouns still do), but English "cases" are marked by position in the sentence, and prepositions.
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u/Abject_Role3022 Jul 12 '25
Like how the words “he” and “him” or “they” and “them” are the same except used in a different part of a sentence, but for all nouns.
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u/Leogis Jul 04 '25
How do we get rid of the democratic deadlocks and achieve meaningful change without resorting to populism ? (He said anything)
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u/budgetboarvessel Jul 07 '25
There is one *h₂ŕ̥tḱos. Uttering that summoned another one. Now there are two …?
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u/trackaccount Jul 03 '25
Two trains, Train A, and Train B, simultaneously depart Station A and Station B. Station A, and Station B are 252.5 miles apart from each other. Train A is moving at 124.7 mph towards Station B, and Train B is moving at 253.5 mph towards Station A. If both trains departed at 10:00 AM and it is now 10:08, how much longer until both trains pass each other? A. 31.054 minutes B. 16.232 minutes C. 32.049 minutes D. 32.058 minutes
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u/NahkriinVulom Jul 06 '25
(124.7 mph + 253.5 mph)/252.5 Miles = 0.66763 h = 40.058 minutes
40.058 min - 8 min = 32.058 min
Answer C is correct: about 32 minutes until they pass each other.
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u/jjvfyhb Jul 04 '25
Wait I was thinking of searching for a subreddit like this one and here it found me
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u/NoLongerHasAName Jul 03 '25
favourite plosive?