I usually use ddg but sometimes it can’t find things in non-English languages whereas google has the results I’m looking for.

Oh I thought that was the channel making the copyright claim

I dunno anything about Enderman but I looked up the Japanese channel out of curiosity. Looks like there are some videos related to some kind of game called Star Rail and there are channels with スターレイル in the title, but I can’t find a channel specifically called 棺のスターレイル遊び (which means something like “play coffin’s star rail”)

I’m not entirely sure about how the pronunciations developed. I know that in modern Japanese there are only certain ways syllables can change their sound. Japan uses a syllabary rather than an alphabet, so for example they can only say the sounds bu and ra, but never “bra” because they don’t have a standalone “b”. Their syllables get modified in predictable ways, like ka can change to ga, going from a voiceless to voiced velar stop. In much the same way, the ho syllable can become po.

I don’t know much about the history of when nippon became nihon, but the article you linked has a short section on it

Japanese 日 and 本 were historically pronounced niti and pon, respectively. In compounds, however, final voiceless stops (i.e. p, t, k) of the first word were unreleased in Middle Chinese, and the pronunciation of 日本 was thus Nippon or Jippon (with the adjacent consonants assimilating).

Historical sound change in Japanese has led to the modern pronunciations of the individual characters as nichi and hon. The pronunciation Nihon originated, possibly in the Kantō region, as a reintroduction of this independent pronunciation of 本 into the compound. This must have taken place during the Edo period, after another sound change occurred which would have resulted in this form becoming Niwon and later Nion.

They usually say Nihon instead of Nippon.

Some English used to use words derived from nippon as well but they mostly dropped out of the language not too long after WWII, prob bc nip is an old slur for Japanese people. There’s an ee cummings poem that refers to a piece of “nipponized steel”.

https://allpoetry.com/poem/13587560-plato-told-by-e.e.-cummings

Yeah maga place looks like it’s up to 21 idiots sharing a brain cell now, whereas I think it was 12 a couple weeks ago. Wonder if there’s a critical mass for those fucks or if they’ll find lemmy too progressive to stick around. I guess they could just circlejerk on their own instance.

I couldn’t get that one either. TBF I think “numerical” is a poor description of a cell that has a letter involved, and would’ve been more accurate with “alphanumeric”.

Japan pronounces UFO as you-fo. It comes up more often than in English as well because those crane/claw machine games where you try to pull a prize out are called UFO catchers in Japanese.

Phrasing

It’s not new but there are balls made for bounce juggling that have a 90% bounce ratio

https://www.renegadejuggling.com/play-g-force-bounce-ball-60mm

Is that pie??

10-15 sounds pretty short tbh. It can take years to write a book, and then 10 years later a company can just make a movie out of it and doesn’t have to pay you shit for it?

Still dealing with USB superpositions in the future

Or running a tachyon beam through the deflector. Occasionally it’s an anti-tachyon beam.

“Hence the word… sabotage.”

[adjective] as

Kiwi phrase detected ;)

I remember liking the atmosphere and that it was a pretty quick read. Martin’s a fun author and I’ve enjoyed his stuff outside of GoT.

Best I can do is vampire paddle boats

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fevre_Dream

Do you know the Phish song?

https://youtu.be/IbhjxHR7ivs

He probably got rejected asking out a Latina in HS