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6 months agoI do not understand the reference.
Quimps [he/him]
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It’s certainly better than gerrymandering and literacy tests. I just find it almost impressive.
The Danish government once produced a commercial to encourage voting participation that had two separate explicit sex scenes and a decapitation. The commercial lasted one and a half minute.
5·6 months agoMy great grandad was a nazi collaborator, so it could always be worse. Luckily not in any huge capacity. He just got paid as a day laborer to help them build stuff, but it’s still pretty bad.
31·7 months agoI know a guy who worked on Alan Wake 2, the guy is a nazi. The DEI criticism of the game is endlessly amusing to me as a result.
5·7 months agoCW: Sex work, sexual violence
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I think we should believe people when they speak of their situation. I think it’s infantalizing to sex workers to tell them that they’re victims inherently and they just don’t know better when they talk of their own experiences. Sex work is exploitative in the way that all work is exploitative, and they are therefore in a technical sense engaging in sex under duress, but just as the best way to approach a worker to talk about their exploitation and unionization efforts is not to immediately compare them to galley slaves and make a 1:1 comparison between chattel slavery and your shitty job, it is not actually helpful to discussing the actual problems inherent in sex work to frame it this way unless we are actually discussing those who have been trafficked or who are in a particularly exploitative situation, and in that case the immediate thing to do is treat this as a distinct criminal case rather than as a discussion of the dignity of sex work. I realize that my perspective as a cishet white man is inherently limited, but the only people I know who have engaged in prostitution (I don’t know any former sex workers who did not engage in prostitution, and therefore cannot discuss the experiences of cam girls, porn actors, phone sex operators, strippers or any other kind of sex workers. Also these women were all white and uncoerced by anything except economic circumstance into taking the job. Which also limits their experience of course, but it is still superior to mine) have done so as a part time job they have either found pretty fulfilling or at least no worse than any other student job. I myself would feel gross “buying” the consent of someone, due to the fact that I don’t want there to be an open question of whether I am engaging in sexual exploitation of any kind when I engage in sex, and I find the question of whether you can truly consent to sex under economic duress a valid question. But I trust women when they speak of their experiences.
Edit: I am now observing that we are at the moment 3 He/Hims disagreeing with someone on their argument about misogyny. Which is one of those “Bad looks”.
A friend of mine is the only fan of a particular musician (No, really. He’s 99% of his listens on Spotify, almost all views on youtube and the only guy to buy merch). Despite this the musician absolutely refused to perform in the part of the country my friend is from despite being offered.
Anyway the musician released a new song and according to my friend it’s a huge disappointment. Which means this musician has disappointed 100% of his fans.
Sorry I just checked and saw all the demon names (in particular lügner) and was convinced, so i edited just as you posted.
And it’s like… all the names? I don’t think a single name I’ve seen so far isn’t just a random German word
EditQuery solved. They are just German words.
He fails the “didn’t also commit a sex crime” criteria pretty fucking hard
More like tamerLAME
12·7 months agoRoger is not part of pink Floyd and hasn’t been since the 80s
1·7 months agoIt is kinda neat that pinyin marks the suprasegmental phonemes of Mandarin in a way that’s relatively easy to understand (Tone markers), but pinyin is also very clearly built around Chinese (And it wouldn’t make sense for it not to be).
The problem with universality here is that you’d need not only to include all the different normal phonetic notations, but also all the various modifications like tone, stiff voice, creaky voice, and so on, and have people remember it, only to end up with a system of notation that is highly non phonetic for most users (Unless we just get rid of orthography/spelling) and has like 20 letters or symbols per language that aren’t used (It would of course be differrent parts of the new system you would never use depending on your language). So we’d be back to where we started in some ways, ahead in others, and also taking a step back.
I like Frankenstekn can only look in fear at what I have created.
Normally the D is “Valley girl” mode, except in the name Mads. In almost every other word where the D marks Stød you’ve got the gist. Kinda.
Like, okay, I don’t know if I can trust you with this. But the difference between the word “Dog” (Hund) and the word “She” (Hun) is this glottal stop/vocal fry. There is however also no way to know when a D marks this or when it’s a Th sound or a normal D sound
Danish uses laryngealization as a suprasegmental phoneme.
In other words Danish differentiates between words based on the absence or presence of an intensified “creaky voice” or glottal stop. In other words, whether or not you use an intense vocal fry (For a single vowel sound) changes the meaning of words and sentences. This phenomenon is called “Stød”. We differentiate between a word that has Stød and one that does not with a D (Sometimes). Technically the D is silent, instead marking a modification to another sound we don’t have a letter for. (Or in the case of specifically the word Mads, marking the absence of such a modification)
Edit: it’s like how in English you can change the meaning of a word through stressing a syllable, but it’s vocal fry/glottal stop
The easy answers is that the D modifies the A sound, the full answer involves teaching you about aspects of phonology that Danish shares with like indigenous Mazatec people, podcasters and like nobody else.
It makes total sense not to be able to make the Ø sound (Å is just the O in “go” and Æ is just the E in “Then”). That’s totally understandable. I’m just making a joke about the hypocrisy of my annoyance over Anglos feeling the need to insert totally unnecessary sounds into words, while also doing the same when speaking Greenlandic even after years of practice.
My bisexuality is so latent it’s a secret even to myself.