Jeg blir kalt en norskamerikaner: jeg er fra Norge og er barnet til en innvandrer fra USA som selv har norsk arv. Så jeg er kanskje ikke en norskamerikaner på den samme måten som deg, men jeg har fortsatt et forhold til den norskamerikanske kulturen i USA.
Erika2rsis
joined 2 years ago
It is a little known fact that the portal gun was originally developed for the purpose of signing around corners
NZ and UK use it too. I think I first learned it from a Brit.
The word I use most often aside from American is Seppo, which is derogatory rhyming slang (sep + -o, from septic tank → Yank → Yankee)
Insert that manga frame that says something like "male crossdressing is by definition something only men can do, and therefore it is the most masculine act there is"
And you don't seem to understaaa-aaand
No, it's supposed to be read boustrophedon! /j
Then what are you even talking about?! Who are the "people of NATO" and why is it bad to wish death on them?! My whole point is that it should be permissible to wish death on people in positions of power and privilege, and regardless of if "people of NATO" refers to "organizational staff/soldiers" or "citizenry of member states", that would be the case. Do you disagree with this premise and if so why?!
You have been a good admin, so please forgive me for being so forceful.
Edit: And what happened to the comment about "death to Nazis and transphobes"? I don't see it anymore. You didn't remove it, did you? That would reflect very poorly on your administration if you did.
Honestly, if I were in your shoes, I would allow "wishing death on the people of NATO". And I grew up with ol' Jens as my homeland's prime minister! I've got American soldiers in my backyard and Russia declaring my dear Norway to be "hostile" twice!
It's like, I just cannot really imagine what "wishing death on the people of NATO" even means. Who exactly would wish for the extermination of the citizenry of exactly 31-to-be-32 nations because of their membership in one specific organization? Are people out here wishing death on the people of the European Union as well? "Down with the people of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact?" Or are the "people of NATO" supposed to be those who willingly chose to support this organization through personal involvement in it?
It's easier for me to imagine maybe that people from Hexbear were expressing loud contempt for the imperial core... But if the citizens of the richer part of the Walled World feel uncomfortable because of that, then even for an instance that "want[s its] community members to be guided by compassion and empathy for others.", I just could not bring myself to care if I were an instance admin. As a citizen of the imperial core, if people in the imperial periphery want to talk about how much they hate people like me, even if they go so far as to say "death to Norway", then let them. In fact I said "hell yeah!" when I saw the Mapuche graffiti reading "GUERRA A NORUEGA" when I learned about Statkraft's decades of violation of Indigenous rights in Chile.
As a gentile, Jews can tell me to drop dead; as a white person, BIPOC can tell me to drop dead; as a sedentary person, travelers can tell me to drop dead; as a sighted person, blind/visually impaired people can tell me to drop dead; as a hearing person, deaf/HOH people can tell me to drop dead; as someone who unfortunately still eats meat, vegans can talk serious trash about me for not kicking the habit already; and so forth. And contrariwise as an autistic trans person, I should be free to talk as much trash as I'd damned well please about neurotypicals and cis people. Part of reckoning with one's privilege should be understanding that those oppressed by systems that one personally benefits from shouldn't have to show you any respect. They should be allowed to get mad as hell and tell one to drop dead! Putting up with that is real respect. Putting up with that means that you understand the hierarchies at play in your life.
That is my opinion: That if we are not allowed to use even the harshest words towards our oppressors, that we will only be a community that preaches the aesthetics of empathy and compassion, rather than living it as fact. I have absolutely enjoyed my time as a Blåhaj Lemmy user, I wish for this instance to grow and flourish, and I wish for this to be my criticism of your administration.
I think the big problem is that you seem to believe that the reconstruction of PIE is done according to whim: The reconstruction of proto-languages like PIE is done using what's called the "comparative method" (that's your magic word to look into) and is continually refined based on new evidence, taking into account the age of the evidence (i.e. Gothic, Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, Hittite, and Latin texts would be closer to PIE than modern languages) and the observed trends of how languages have tended to change over time since the invention of writing. So the reconstruction of PIE is very scientific in fact, and the reconstruction of laryngeals in PIE in like 1879 actually correctly predicted the location of ḫ in the descendant Hittite language, loooong before that language was deciphered in the 1920s. So if PIE is bogus we wouldn't expect it to have any sort of predictive value, but it clearly does!
As for the use of PIE, or proto-languages in general… Well, they can help chart out human migration, they can tell us about the development and spread of technologies and ideas, they can tell us about what ancient societies were like, they can help us decipher undeciphered descendant languages, and things like that. And for learners of modern languages, historical linguistics like proto-language reconstruction can help explain why certain grammatical features in a language work the way they do. For instance, I've noticed that Russian verbs often end in strikingly similar ways to Latin ones, because they share a common ancestor.
A final thing: PIE was not spoken by "Europeans" 6,000 years ago. PIE was spoken by an unknown culture — the leading theory is the Yamnaya culture in what is now Ukraine and Russia — and then spread out across Europe and much of Asia in a series of migrations. Following these migrations, the communities of PIE speakers grew isolated from one another and had their common language gradually diverge into many different languages, which gradually diverged into new languages in turn. A notable thing is that when the Proto-Indo-Europeans migrated westward into the bulk of Europe, there were in fact already people there who spoke their own completely unrelated languages. Only one of those "paleo-European" languages has a surviving descendant today, that is Basque.