Brandon

SF // Berkeley Linguistics '21 -- Minesweeper high score: 72.62

[Nathan Ruser @Nrg8000]

Miss. reported vote over time

[Brandon @brandon_a_yu]

@averageguy_99 Explaining the concept of a book to an American

[Brandon @brandon_a_yu]

@bryancsk @t_andy1856 French just conveys this kind of generalized "imperative" using the infinitive form

Since it's more of like a broader call that something should be done or an instruction, not a strict "YOU should do this"

[MLB @MLB]

The Los Angeles Dodgers

[RedditCFB @RedditCFB]

Amazing: Justin Wilcox grabbed the referee's mic to plead with the Cal fans to stop throwing the cards they use for card stunts on the field because they keep getting penalized for it😂

[Brandon @brandon_a_yu]

@razibkhan Unlike genetics, there's no equivalent of "genes" or "base pairs" that fundamentally make up a language... you can borrow words, or morphemes, or elements of syntax, but you can't quantify what % of a language is foreign

I'm sure someone is trying, but it'll need novel methods

[Brandon @brandon_a_yu]

@RamPalanati Re: mission

[Robert Fruchtman @_fruchtose]

Kevin McCarthy being removed as speaker reaffirms the sad truth that Bakersfield will never attain the mandate of heaven.

[Brandon @brandon_a_yu]

@iskra_bsky @nise_yoshimi At the time of initial English contact, Mandarin hadn't fully undergone that palatalization yet, so the sound that's how <q> was actually pronounced "ts"!

[Brandon @brandon_a_yu]

Truly horrifying, the day you realize the Brits got it right about how to spell Aluminium

[Sad eagle noise]

[Brandon @brandon_a_yu]

Bodies of water ranked by how good the cuisine is of neighboring cultures

-Pacific Ocean 🐠
-Mediterranean Sea 🫒
-Caribbean Sea 🏝
-Indian Ocean 🌶
-Atlantic Ocean 🍖
-Baltic Sea 🤢

[Brandon @brandon_a_yu]

We need to have a societal conversation about what exactly the white stuff at the bottom of those shark gummies is

[Brandon @brandon_a_yu]

The only thing cringe about this is that he's a couple hundred years too late - you can't just be a rich guy who Muses anymore

But if he had written this in like 1650 he'd have been called the Father of the Enlightenment and we'd all be reading his philosophical works in school

[Logan Paul @LoganPaul]

I figured out the universe

[Brandon @brandon_a_yu]

As a n*rmie, am I a bad person for genuinely rly enjoying it when the TSA precheck line is longer than the Poor Person one?

[Brandon @brandon_a_yu]

Girls are millennials

Boys are gen z

[Brandon @brandon_a_yu]

Omg this is so me

[Brandon @brandon_a_yu]

LET'S GO BRANDONS!! 🇺🇸🦅💪

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

A 26-year-old hero by the name of Brandon Tsay is responsible for disarming a gunman in Monterey Park, California – an act of incredible courage in the face of danger.

I called him to offer him my – and America's – profound thanks and respect.

[Brandon @brandon_a_yu]

I am become Fukuyama, ender of history

[Brandon @brandon_a_yu]

If there was a way to combine the encyclopedic but undirected knowledge of Geoguessr guys with the context-lacking wisdom of Gen X parents

Humanity would be unstoppable

[Brandon @brandon_a_yu]

I wish there was a Eurovision or World Cup-style thing where we could get politicians from different countries to run against each other

I wanna see who's better at getting votes: Boris Johnson, Netanyahu, or that South Korean cult lady