thebigslime

joined 9 months ago
[–] thebigslime@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Endonym vs exonym is a universal truth of contact between speakers of different languages. It is in no way unique to English.

[–] thebigslime@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Poor Puerto Rico

[–] thebigslime@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I read most of Homer's Odyssey my sophomore year of high school. My teacher had us skip some chapters for some reason. It's plenty readable at that age, translation depending.

[–] thebigslime@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Make it hurt, Danes.

[–] thebigslime@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The first model run of Switches had an SOC hardware flaw that was Nvidia's fault.

[–] thebigslime@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Origin characters aside, Jaheira can definitely get it.

[–] thebigslime@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Do is the root of a key in movable Do solfeggio. In the most natural key, C, Do would be C. Basically, solfeggio is relative, not absolute. Most instrumental pedagogy use absolute pitches in North America. Vocal pedagogy has more use of relative pitches. This makes sense, as many instruments have absolute means of playing most notes. The voice does not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solf%C3%A8ge?wprov=sfla1

Edit: Don't ask me why A isn't the root of the most neutral key. No idea why it's C.

[–] thebigslime@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Better Off Ted

[–] thebigslime@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Great Britain is a stone's throw from France but their use of French loan words is attrocious.

[–] thebigslime@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Circa 1990 didn't get smartphones as teens. The iPhone launched on only AT&T in the US in 2007. We were all locked into 2 year contracts back then with LG Envys and Motorola Razrs.

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