big fan of unintuitive development indices. e.g. this is the top 10 of something, try to guess what it is: 🇸🇨🇳🇷🇲🇩🇲🇳🇧🇧🇩🇴🇱🇹🇶🇦🇦🇲🇪🇪 (it's not obscure or trivia, this is a real index that has real-world consequences) will add hints if nobody gets it

speaking of which, are there any in-depth analyses of Ladino? as in the word-for-word translations of the Jewish Bible into Judeo-Spanish, not normal everyday Judeo-Spanish

m@mirative.moe · last yr.

imagine a bible corpus linguistics paper looking at the surprising typological feature of something but it turns out it's just because the translator's just overly poetic with it

once again, the categories of "straight" and "gay/lesbian" are practically useless in everyday discourse. all they tell you is who someone *won't* sleep with, and 9 times out of 10, the more important information is who someone *will*

a fun metagame with this is trying to get it to return a *specific* language i was able to get it to return Javanese, which was pretty impressive on the quiz's part

welp that's it. biting the bullet and crossposting to bluesky now

im gonna start pronouncing it [ˈpʰækstn̩] for full english phonotactic dominance (no unfooted syllables constraint)

@bnuyaminim.bsky.social whoops