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Amethyst Eventyr |
Recovering Linguist | Aspiring Musician, Cook, & Writer |
Trans | She/Her | Pan | Autistic | Leftist |
BS in Anthropology & MA in Linguistics

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Hello, I'm Amethyst — or Amy for short.

Linguist by education; musician, cook, and writer by choice. Also enjoy working with computers and playing tabletop games.

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pain in the neck

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Is it pretty cool from the POV of a speaker of some SAE language that "to be an X" is a sort of verb that can exist in some languages? Sure. But like... maybe don't be so hasty to say it "means" anything about the way that speakers of the language think or something.

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There's nothing special about "being a bay". Like... I don't mean to deflate someone's "meaning" that they think they've found in their ancestral language, but... it actually isn't that unusual for languages to allow nouns to enter verbal paradigms.

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Like... idk... maybe I'm just kind of a terminal nihilist or something, but like... I really loathe when people try and project mystical woo onto language. Language is language.

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who would win? all of the evidence of what actually goes on in the natural world? or one 400 year old dubious anecdote about a leg?

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on today's episode number 91764178934610764016 of 'anglophones being too stupid to read phonetically spelled words', we have 'yet another fucking instance of people reading the sequence ⟨ai⟩ as [eɪ]'. 😑

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conservative pundits: "tHe LeFt HaS sUcH uNrEaLiStiC gOaLs!!"

the "unrealistic goals" in question: literally things that several other countries already do just fine, e.g. universal healthcare, childcare, tertiary education, workers' rights, etc. 🙄

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the mormon church is a stalker cult founded on the word of a con artist

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War and genocide is not how you tikkun olam, and it's CERTAINLY not how you pikuach nefesh

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wow, so you're telling me that the colonizer church leader is a racist? gee golly i never would have guessed 🙄

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Rowling and her accomplice should go to jail for that picture

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information isn't real
it has no ontology
information is a construct
you cannot find a cup of information
it is something we project onto things

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@Autistic_Lauren depends how crowded they are. if i manage to get in at a time when there isn't anyone there, i'm okay with them. busy day? HELL NAH

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@Autistic_Lauren hate it. hate the taste. always have. fine to cook with sometimes, but disgusting on its own.

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Today is a good day for all of MAGA to get blown to smithereens 🎆

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I'm gonna say this, because I am sick of seeing her videos around. Kaelynn Partlow is a Trojan Horse. She promotes the abusive practice known as ABA therapy. While some of the substance of some of her videos is fine, what she promotes and practices on a daily basis is not.

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yes, apologetics is inherently dishonest. there. saved you a click and a whole lot of earpain listening to a certain not-so-inspiring vapid nitwit serial quote-miner who pals around with misogynists and homophobes

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So you're telling me that the people who made up a fake ancient language to fake translate from are going to bat mafia-style... for Legos...

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"But I just can't handle the ultimate meaninglessness of a nihilistic existence!!!"

Skill issue. Genuinely. Skill. Issue.