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big fan of unintuitive development indices. e.g. this is the top 10 of something, try to guess what it is:

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(it's not obscure or trivia, this is a real index that has real-world consequences)

will add hints if nobody gets it
March 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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
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
February 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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*
February 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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
February 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
February 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
welp that's it. biting the bullet and crossposting to bluesky now
January 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
im gonna start pronouncing it [ˈpʰækstn̩] for full english phonotactic dominance (no unfooted syllables constraint)
January 31, 2025 at 10:44 PM
May 6, 2024 at 2:50 AM