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  1. Tarvos

    Question about cultures

    The difference between Spanish and Italian is much bigger than that between Scots and English, and the bigger problem is that English standard orthography is messy while written Scots (as far as that exists) is just basically written as it's said to some extent). A better example is me reading...
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    Question about cultures

    Fact of the matter is, if I hear a Scot speaking, I have to focus because sometimes your singsongy accents are confusing as hell. I don't have that if someone's speaking Canuck or regular old English from London somewhere. And isn't Scots just the baby way of writing what you hear when someone...
  3. Tarvos

    The "Fwee" Thread

    That moment when you feel like "yeah, she's never gonna send an email back" and then just when you're about to give up that moment of relief comes and you're like "oh fuck she didn't forget me" and you have to keep your emotions completely intact and try and not respond immediately! Also, I had...
  4. Tarvos

    Question about cultures

    There are a ton of Scots dialects and they haven't got any standardised orthography either. It's pretty funny. That said, when you hear a Scot speaking, it's not exactly standard English either. I still don't know what to classify Scots as. But it's definitely fun stuff - not tried my hand at...
  5. Tarvos

    Question about cultures

    Celtic languages are not dead, they're spoken. Tailsy and TES have discussed Scottish Gaelic and Irish - I myself am learning Breton which is spoken in France. There are plenty speakers, just look for them. mainstream education is crap and most people don't ever get out of language classes...
  6. Tarvos

    Question about cultures

    These cultures can continue to exist without them necessarily having to be independent states.
  7. Tarvos

    Ableist language

    Yeah my typing is a little bit ham-fisted lately.
  8. Tarvos

    Ableist language

    If they are used as a direct insult, sure, but it's not marginalising if I say "that's an insane amount of gold you've got stored in Fort Knox". Then it just means you sure got a lot of gold.
  9. Tarvos

    Ableist language

    Agreed. How large should the group be? I assume we are talking about things that refer to conditions such as deaf/blind/Down's syndrome/etc.?
  10. Tarvos

    Ableist language

    Because in a city, there are skyscrapers. People work in them. People live in them. People put signs on them. You can't account for every eventuality. Of course some triggers are going to be rarer than others, but my real question is: what is your selection mechanisms? Who are you going to...
  11. Tarvos

    Ableist language

    I agree that there's a boundary on the language people are supposed to use, and that being directly insulting is one thing, but what if my triggers come from the word "salmon"? Or "skyscraper"? What if I am altophobic and cannot deal with the idea of cliffs or skyscrapers and it sends me into...
  12. Tarvos

    Ableist language

    Naturalistic fallacy ahoy!
  13. Tarvos

    Ableist language

    I am not sure in how far the last paragraph applies to myself, but other than that I agree 100% with this post.
  14. Tarvos

    Ableist language

    I sense this forum might be an exception to that rule, Phantom
  15. Tarvos

    Child Discipline

    Spanking is for parents who can't control their emotions and have no authority over their kids and thus resort to force to keep them in line. If you have to resort to spanking, you're doing something else wrong first in the parenting. And parental psychology classes would be ignored like...
  16. Tarvos

    Rate the song above you

    She has the best voice I have ever heard in my life. This is literally so beautiful I do not have words. I want to cry every time I hear her sing. It's that powerful for me. And some of the words... And the musicality of the Swedish... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I can literally listen to this for...
  17. Tarvos

    Oldest Nicknames

    I don't read Homestuck. Problem explained I suppose.
  18. Tarvos

    Holiday wishlists?

    I get my presents tomorrow (because we can't celebrate Sinterklaas on the 5th this year). No clue what I'm getting.
  19. Tarvos

    Oldest Nicknames

    It's she. And for the record, I have it on good authority that I'm allowed to say this.
  20. Tarvos

    Oldest Nicknames

    No, Tarvos means something. Tavros is useless ;)
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