guyrocket

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[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

The simple answer I'm seeing on a quick review is that it is a way to simplify the complexity of the many possible nouns that could be uttered.

"LA pap"
"LE pep"

These are imaginary words but the articles will help distinguish them from each other for a native speaker. They sound similar but I know it was "pap" and not "pep" because I also heard "la".

Also, gender is just ONE of the many possible dimensions used by noun classes in language. There are also things like size and animate/inanimate that are used by languages.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_class

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

That is doubleplus ungood!

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That was interesting, but I think this explains it a bit better.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ljrtQtj4BOM&pp=ygUbTGluZ3Vpc3RpY3MgbGFuZ3VhZ2UgZ2VuZGVy

ETA: Good wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender

ETA: Lots more info, including interesting papers:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=linguistics+grammatical+gender&ia=web

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I think HD quality that I get sometimes on my cell phone is as good.

Even landlines were "tuned" to the audio frequencies that voices use. So they were also not full range audio.

But I do agree that overall it seemed like landlines had better audio quality.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Is that illegal?

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Do you recommend any particular card for 0%? Looking to do a balance transfer.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

I get that people don't like the smell of pot and/or cigarettes but is there actual harm from a breath or two of it occasionally? I suspect it is negligible.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Killing apps? It closes them when they're running or uninstalls them?

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I bought Pixel 8 for about $650 and installed GrapheneOS on it. Pretty happy so far.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I said I could, not that I would.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

No, Dr_Satan. I never do that.

But now I will, starting with YOUR post!

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