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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

It sounds like a good idea, if you have the time+skill+money to do it.

Odds are that your instance won't be big. But at the same time, you'd have an easier time moderating it, specially if you only federate it with "cleaner" instances. (With "cleaner" meaning "that don't post content you'd remove").

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

We're in the same fart!!.

I'm still laughing at that. Sneaky!~

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Good-looking dark elves >> homunculi 100% of the time. Plus Takuto got some great early game bonus, research tends to be a big deal in this sort of game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

I use DuckDuckGo for that. Seriously. It's good enough for my purposes, and I don't need to create account.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Those flatearth weirdos would rather admit that the Earth is hollow than that it's a normal (albeit flawed) full sphere.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

"What's your favourite magical girl?" "Frieren, of course."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Cute chicken! Great idea to put it on the tree. Also, thanks for the help with the tree!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

The link doesn't load for me, it shows an error page. Thankfully the archive has the text in question.

Interesting run-down of the history of the expansion of the language. I must admit that I know practically nothing about Africa's linguistic landscape (specially not for modern languages!), so for me it was highly informative.

But in the mid-19th century, as demand for ivory and enslaved people expanded, local trade routes in central Africa became incorporated into a global network centred around the Indian Ocean.

This reminds me Nahuatl and Tupi in the Americas - due to colonisation they also expanded a bit, over other local languages. But unlike Swahili their expansion was short-lived (eventually the Iberian crowns enforced Spanish and Portuguese).


I also recommend people who are interested in the language to give the Swahili grammar Wikipedia page a check, IMO it's fascinating.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

That's a great summary. It covers practically all sources of inconsistency (sound changes, internal variation, etymological and fake etymological pressures, cosmetic-O).

Additionally there's a small less-known rule that content words typically have 3+ letters, so sometimes you see "spurious" letters being added in. The link exemplifies it with ebb, add, egg, inn, bee, awe, buy, owe.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Julie and their son are démodé - Juma shows us the future! Glory! Fashion! Grass in the butt!

EDIT: what am I saying, mon Dieu? I didn't realise Julie was going for a retro look!

Such acclaimed design deserves to be celebrated for more than just a fade!

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

Cute duo is cute. And they clearly feel safe with each other, enough to play fight.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Gotta be honest with you: I'm partially at fault of this, too.

It's simply too easy to hop into [email protected] and criticise the decisions others take. I do this all the time, but I almost never take into account their burdens.

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