Michael Webb

English ALT & clarinettist

[Michael Webb @mikewebb22]

@PeteFiutak @P_Taker_70 Teams would just pack their own box with defenders. There would be no pressing. Just defending until the ball goes out of play or to the goalkeeper. Offside is what allows teams to press high. Breaking the high press is what leads to the moments you just described

[Michael Webb @mikewebb22]

@Samuel596837360 @MetaReflexive Maybe Dune could top it (simply because it's more recent)

[Michael Webb @mikewebb22]

@InfinitySodas @Sipowicz1042 @MetaReflexive Arrival. Hard to think of a worse great movie to only catch 20 minutes of, you really need to watch the full thing

[Michael Webb @mikewebb22]

@Greatgramcrackr @Visuljkoo This is partly a failure of tutorial, though. I'm guessing if they had included tutorials on jump dodging and strafing in the Cave of Knowledge, a lot more people would try them in boss fights.

[Michael Webb @mikewebb22]

@Graograman87171 @madokamujica I mean, we again get onto the topic of what is a word? Most of those are essentially two words. An adjective plus a noun.

[Michael Webb @mikewebb22]

@themustardthe @ishkander_ @zanyfen By the way they usually don't say it as 7 morae either. It comes out as more like 'shikuseben' with the u being devoiced. So really it's like 'shikseben'. Source: I teach in a Japanese elementary school and hear it many times a day

[Michael Webb @mikewebb22]

@themustardthe @ishkander_ @zanyfen You're right, better to ignore actual use of language and focus on what you made up in your head. Would be weird to incorporate real language development into linguistics, for sure

[Michael Webb @mikewebb22]

@themustardthe @ishkander_ @zanyfen That's great and all, but they all say six seven, not roku nana

[Michael Webb @mikewebb22]

@lukeisamazing @salamandah_pala I'm not sure 'marginally better than Ancient Sparta' is a good bar for modern civilization, but maybe you disagree

[Michael Webb @mikewebb22]

@flamecycle @usanewshq That's the reason we have seatbelts, and why passengers might need to hold onto something when the car is turning.

[Michael Webb @mikewebb22]

@KuwaCos I mean, by this logic, hyperspecific is a compound word. So is 'compound'. So is 'beautiful'. What's your point here? Words are formed from other words, that's why they have meaning. Doesn't make them any less interesting; quite the opposite

[Michael Webb @mikewebb22]

@moultano These just sound like Ozian words (from Wicked)

[Michael Webb @mikewebb22]

@blaugranafrogs @fantohm2 @WholesomeMeme If the translation is 'beef water', the machine translation misread 牛乳 as 牛肉水. I could see how on a package which is probably bent and being read at an angle that that could happen.

[Michael Webb @mikewebb22]

@fantohm2 @WholesomeMeme Chances are they took a blurry or distorted picture, so Google Lens misread the kanji.

[Michael Webb @mikewebb22]

@melv028 @witchesflight He's probably getting royalties out the wazoo, not exactly good business for him to criticise

[Michael Webb @mikewebb22]

@daanjiji @sival84 @AllanRicharz @SchulMozart No, that's slightly different. wasei eigo are katakana words which are made of English sounding words but were actually coined in Japan. For example ベビーカー(baby car) for a stroller/pushchair. It's not simply loan words from English. (wasei literally means made in Japan)

[Michael Webb @mikewebb22]

@Boxy_FT @Xenophon789 Right, we English speakers would never do that. Our pronunciation of ball, apple, king, beef etc. are exactly like the languages we borrowed those words from! No differences at all!

[Michael Webb @mikewebb22]

@_Vilek @TendoZhenshi Hmm it's ambiguous but I think both strength and kindness are referring to Radahn. Their afflicted selves is likely referring to Miquella & St Trina. They're kind of one being but two selves.

[Michael Webb @mikewebb22]

@ani_pat_chip @RealPostFolder But that would be zero consequences for the kid. They would just learn that they can get away with anything they want.

[Michael Webb @mikewebb22]

@0deko4head They mixed up さわる (sawaru - touch) and すわる (suwaru - sit).