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JohnnyEnzyme

@ JohnnyEnzyme @piefed.social

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Founder of European Graphic Novels, Aug '23 on Lemm.ee.

"Man rests from one labor by doing another." That also works for managing chronic pain, as I've discovered...

  • Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is?

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  • languages that lack a set of rules to correctly pronounce every word ever are mental illnesses.

    Yeah, I don't know enough about French grammar and pronunciation rules, but I think part of the problem comes from them trying to maintain a written language that got left in the dust by the spoken language ages ago. So instead of updating the written one, they chose to 'preserve history' and add a landslide of little rules explaining separate cases, not just for pronunciation, but in a hugely systemic way. Native French-speakers have actually complained to me about that occasionally.

    I could give you any Spanish word you don’t know and you wouldn’t miss pronounce it.

    I love that about Castellano, just that some regions speed it up so much that I can barely catch it.

  • Mulan (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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  • My god, that is ridiculously awesome.

    Destroyer of the Internet! (at least for today)

  • Gorilla Zoe - Summer Of The Flying Suacer

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  • Gorilla-head Jones is my mentor in life.

    This is perfect.

  • Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is?

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  • Well.. I mean... what later become "English" branched off from its West-Germanic roots, long ago, and never did become "High German." So theoretically, as an English-speaker, I have great familiarity with modern French, and we share the same basic sentence-structure as with modern German. Some of that is actually true. In practice, I could not be more of a complete dumbass upon those languages.

    TBC, I can speak Castellano and Français like someone with heat-stroke, and I can vaguely understand Dutch and German.

  • Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is?

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  • Like learning Norwegian (bokmål) while living on the west coast.

    In all honesty, I'd be absolutely terrified of trying to learn a Nordic language, which is absolutely NOT due to the lovely Nordic people I've met across the years.

    It's a "me" problem, and case-closed, please.

  • Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate - Leiden Medievalists Blog

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  • Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate - Leiden Medievalists Blog

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  • Thanks! But haha, that's it? That's the main critique?

  • Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate - Leiden Medievalists Blog

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  • TL;DR?

  • Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is?

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  • a lot of swallowed and mumbled consonants

    This has been my experience learning French. The written language and the spoken one are pretty wildly out of tune, with up to ~5 letters at the ends of some words either not pronounced at all, or heavily swallowed.

    Learning the pronunciation of Castellano (i.e. a sister language) was vastly easier for me.

  • Dabbla & Sumgii - Nobody

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  • The pink, cheerful theme is downright hilarious paired with all the weirdness and wildness going on.

  • Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

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  • So, based on their name up top in yellow, I should be looking for a band named XROVYSHÆGTH? :P

  • Honey and mustard chicken on pasta

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  • Just cook on the stove with water, about 12min or so.

    They're a little gummy, which you can remedy by placing in a strainer and rinsing them. Re-heat as needed via method of choice, such as microwave, air-fryer or stovetop.

  • Men At Work – Cargo

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  • Such a light-hearted, playful cover for a band that had already become a massive success only a couple years earlier.

  • Honey and mustard chicken on pasta

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  • Oh whoops, yeah, I need to pay more attention. Cheers!

  • These frozen soy sausages taste extremely bland when I prepare them. Anyone got ideas for how to properly do them?

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  • I went through something of a 'veggie sausage' phase, but I later got to thinking that they're probably nowhere near as healthy as they might seem. Not just because of the high salt content, but because they're also highly-processed, and highly-processed food just isn't that great nutrition-wise, in general.

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  • For a game-changer, try steel-cut oats as a substitute for rice. Unlike rice, it retains most of its fibre and vitamins, doesn't contain arsenic, doesn't screw with your blood sugar levels, and also has a relaxing effect.

  • Wait... Is Chewbacca a Spacesquatch?

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  • Victorian Headless Portrait (manipulated photography of the late 1800s)

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  • Damn and wow. I'm familiar with stuff like inserting paper fairies in to photos (which famously fooled A.C. Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes), but ordinarily think of photos as being very serious in tone from this era. Pretty hilarious that some people got up to this stuff...

  • Women's basketball team, Smith College, USA, 1902

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  • Something I just looked up is that peach baskets were evidently gone at the college level by ~1906, in which time they transitioned to metal rims with nets. Funny, I thought they lasted longer, with the quaint tradition maintained of needing someone to climb a ladder and fetch the ball every time a basket was scored.

    But yeah, I don't think there's any question that the things you mention happened, just as they've pretty much always been happening across all significant sports. So I had GPT focus on the 40's-50's era, and it's claiming that after the shot clock, the two biggest reasons were: 1) coaching started to favor faster inbounding and transitioning from defense to offense, leading to higher scoring; 2) fouls were called more aggressively on defenses, which formerly were evidently very physical with holding and hacking offensive players.