Isochrony changes really fast, diachronically speaking

Makes sense. I suppose this very conversation is proof of that. Some people seem to be claiming some varieties of American English lack it, and certainly the video shows that the Influencer sociolect (if you can call it that) lacks it.

One thing I would add is that this video made it seem as though English is relatively unique in being stress-timed. But there were comments under the video from speakers of a wide variety of languages, including Norwegian and German (which, combined with English, suggests perhaps this is an ancestral feature of the Germanic family?), as well as Ukranian and Russian. So it doesn’t seem to be quite as rare as the video (perhaps unintentionally) implied.

Yeah, I think she’s learnt to keep her politics outside of her actual videos. She doesn’t want the broader audience knowing about how transphobic she is, because, well…many of them would stop watching.

It’s tweets, blog posts, Patreon, and the like, instead. Where only the most hardcore fans will see.

Unfortunately, she’s also a transphobe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfMFRdL_gTI

(I actually hadn’t seen that video before just now, and am watching it as I write this. I stopped following her in 2022 after she did a crossover with Tom Scott, which led to wider attention on her transphobia, and to her being dropped from Nebula. I assume the video will cover those, but it’s the discussion from at that time which I was already familiar with, not anything more recent.)

I actually do HEMA, and have had a lesson or two specifically on Thibault. What the above analysis misses is that while Dutch, he lived at a time when Spain ruled over the Netherlands, and thus exported its distinctive style of fencing, known as La Verdadera Destreza (the main style I study). Whether Thibault “counts” as Destreza or not is a bit of a debate among Destreza practitioners, but at the very least his style shares a fair amount in common. Most crucially for our purposes, is the extensive use of non-linear (i.e., circular) footwork, which, according to Destreza authors like Caranza and Pacheco, is ideal for countering the direct lunge popular with the Italians.

The article’s talk about high ground could be correct. I’ve not studied nearly enough Thibault to refute it myself, though I did note a comment under the article from someone who seems to have read it and refuted that claim. Regardless, it’s not necessary for the dialogue to make sense.

As far as extant English accents go, non-rhoticity is basically the default at this point. Most Americans and Canadians are rhotic, as are Irish and Scottish. Then a tiny number of English accents. That’s about it.

cross-posted from the sh.itjust.works community from over a year ago, just because I was looking at the most appropriate linguistics community to share stuff with and noticed I shared this there, although this is a much more active community.

Ah, but postage stamps are completely fungible.

I was thinking of the HTTP verb, you’re right.

You forgot the third group, !fuckcars@lemmy.world

Some even have sinks in each stall so you can go from wiping your ass straight to washing your hands

See, I emphatically do not want that.

If I could rely on everyone else washing their hands properly it would be great. But I don’t want to have to touch the stall door that has Aleppo been touched by people who haven’t washed their hands after I’ve washed mine. I want the hand washing to be the very last thing I do before exiting, preferably via a push door that I can push with my foot or in a spot that fewer other people would push it.

Why would someone on a help desk be expected to know what POST is? A software engineer, sure, but helpdesk? If it’s needed knowledge…that’s what training is for. Businesses’ expectation that people will come into the job already knowing exactly how you do things and never require on-the-job training is absurd.

Declaring war on a concept has never gone well for the states, has it?

Ftfy.

Hmm, I wonder…does “my favourite pirate streaming service” count as avoiding big tech?

There is a real systemic problem with healthcare. I dunno if it would have applied to Jobs, but with normal patients, the quick get-in get-out assembly line–like approach to healthcare means patients don’t feel well taken care of, which is a stark contrast to pseudoscientific woo-woo like chiropracty, reiki, naturopathy, and other “alternative medicine”, where the practitioners take their time and make the patients feel listened to. Is it any wonder that some people, especially those of minorities that have historically tended to be treated even worse by actual medical professionals (women’s “hysteria”, black people “feel pain less”, fat people “just need to lose weight”, etc ), are becoming more likely to embrace the thing that makes them feel good, rather than the thing that actually works?

IMO alternative medicine practitioners who discourage their customers from going to real doctors should be imprisoned. But the big problem is a lack of funding to real doctors to allow them to spend more time providing more personal care to patients.

Fwiw as far as the reasonableness of taking a bus 1 mile, that’s 16 minutes at a brisk walk. Less at a very fast walk. Depending on traffic, number of stops, etc., a bus could take about 10 minutes to go the same distance, probably less. So you’re definitely saving time, even if it’s not a huge amount. You’re also saving effort and sweat, depending on how fast you go and the weather.

When I was in uni, I would regularly walk the 1.2 km to campus. But I would catch a bus the 1.8 km (remembering that a mile is 1.6) to the shops. Because it’s a hot unshaded route with a significant uphill. Plus I had to carry the shopping. Whereas the walk to uni was flat, shady, and I rarely had to carry more than just a laptop. And also there literally wasn’t a bus that could take me.

So yeah, depending on how all the specifics fit together, I don’t see anything wrong with taking a bus 1.6 km.

If I said the variant of the Altaic hypothesis that includes Korean, can it be classed as a crack theory?

Avoid crack theories and pseudoscientific claims.

Aww but I love talking about Altaic!

You downvoting granda Tolkien?

in 21st century colloquial speech, a linguist would have to admit that, descriptively, “widely applicable” and “allegorical” are nearly synonymous

Ha. You’re the second person to have suggested that, so maybe there is something to it. But to be honest I’m not sure I agree. I don’t think I’d ever use the term allegory without authorial intent. (But to save repeating myself, I’ll just direct you to my reply to @dragonfucker@lemmy.nz.)

Or, at the very least, even if you are inclined to disregard authorial intent, there’s still a subtle difference between allegory and applicability in that allegory requires an almost direct one-to-one relationship between the text and various elements of the real world, while applicability can be much more subtle or broad strokes. Basically, applicability is a broader term than allegory, a superset.