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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

TIL tortellini is a sandwich.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No, I have it the right way around. Artificial languages can be irregular, so your order doesn't follow.

No regular language can be natural, though, so if you come across a regular language, you can always correctly conclude that it's artificial through modus tollens:

"If a language is natural, then it is not regular. This language is regular, therefore it is not natural."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Lots of !badlinguistics in this thread (but some goodlinguistics too though!).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

You must resent every single natural human language then, since all of them show the exact same kinds of irregularities, for the most part.

And, if we all did decide to use Esperanto because it's regular (and therefore artificial), irregularities would inevitably be introduced within a single generation, because the nature of human language is to change, and that change will always result in irregularity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Here's the video for anyone interested. It's well worth a watch, and there are a couple of follow-ups as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

An excellent choice.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Probably a-ha's "Take On Me" if I'm being honest.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm an older millennial and I have no idea who Cypress Hill is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

TIL we actually live on the Bionis

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Too late. I've already switched all four of my home PCs to Linux Mint.

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