Are you confusing Scots and Scottish Gaelic? Scottish Gaelic is the one that’s spoken in the western isles, Scots is across most of the rest of Scotland, including big cities
Scots is hard to tell from English sometimes because Scots has undergone near language death, where it adopted more and more features from English as it was taken over, and Scots was regarded for a decent while as nothing but bad English
Was it Scottish English or Scots? The line between the two is blurry because intelligibility varies a lot
Is it? I tried checking in a dictionary but it didn’t list mídheas as a word and “deas” was defined as right/nice/honest, not just “good”
Apparently it also means “I don’t give a shit” in Spanish (specifically in Spain)
The main bluesky feed is also chronological, however, it has a desperate discover feed which is algorithmic (I think mastodon might have that as an option now?)
Oh my bad, I didn’t know that was the actual reason
Most other thorn-users I’ve interacted with were doing it out of an attempt to reform English spelling so
It’s not an anti AI thing and I have no idea why people keep repeating this misinformation
It’s an internet phenomenon, called Bring Back Thorn, which has been around since before LLMs became popular
In Polish, “United States” is Stany Zjednoczone, but the acronym is USA, even though that doesn’t match up at all
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Fun fact: in old English, /j/ (the sound in Yes) was written using a g (often written as ġ in modern old English transcriptions)
Make of that what you will
I’ve used nushell for several months, and it really is an amazing shell
It feels more like an actual language than arcane runes, and I can easily makes chains and pipelines and things that would be difficult in bash
Additionally, it makes a pretty good scripting language
What makes skibidi not a real word? Sure, it’s a nonsense word often used to replace other words, but it still carries some meaning, even if vague
Remember that linguistics isn’t just about high brow standard written/spoken language, it covers all types of language, including slang, body language and sign language
There are real linguists with real qualifications who have actually studied gen Z and gen alpha slang and gotten scientific conclusions out of it
I believe one linguist who studied it was able to either impress or embarrass a high school by speaking entirely in correct gen Z/gen alpha slang
What constitutes an “actual word”?
Kaikki pollari on paskiainen?
thing is, “sh” makes a different sound from “s”, so something like “serek” would work but not “shrek” I think
It’s important to keep in mind that the difficulty of learning a language is based on the languages you already speak. Finnish is a good example of this, as while Finnish children are able to learn it quickly due to its regularity, English speakers may struggle with how different it is (especially with some almost entirely unfamiliar concepts, such as the partitive case, which has no direct English equivalent)
Can you use blender on an iPad?
I hate the influence of English on everything now ngl
I’d also guess that the large number of vowels in English has to do with it, General American English has around 16 vowels (counting both monophthongs and diphthongs, other varieties of English have similar amounts)
I feel that when there’s that many vowels, the exact quality of the vowel is less important and thus they can shift around more