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PrimeErective@startrek.websiteto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•U.S. border officials have caught more people with eggs than fentanyl this yearEnglish13·3 months agoMaybe they should try using honey
PrimeErective@startrek.websiteto Fediverse@lemmy.world•There's a clear up tick on daily users growing and we've crossed the 50k line as of yesterday! LETSSS GOOO!English1·4 months agoNice. What about if you back out to the main feed and then decide to go back to the comments later? This is where all other clients fail in my experience
PrimeErective@startrek.websiteto Fediverse@lemmy.world•There's a clear up tick on daily users growing and we've crossed the 50k line as of yesterday! LETSSS GOOO!English2·4 months agoDoes it save your position in the comments of a specific post? That’s my #1 criterion for an app. Boost is the only one that I’ve found that does it
PrimeErective@startrek.websiteto Fediverse@lemmy.world•There's a clear up tick on daily users growing and we've crossed the 50k line as of yesterday! LETSSS GOOO!English12·4 months agoIs Boost dead though? I love it too, but it hasn’t updated in a while
PrimeErective@startrek.websiteto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Canadians cancelling their American-owned Netflix subscriptions likeEnglish2·4 months agoDo you really blame them?
PrimeErective@startrek.websiteto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions?2·9 months agoThe first two have emphasis that imply something different than a simple question. Like you are asking a bunch of people individually, and you are directing each question at a specific person.
The last one would maybe be like, if the person did something weird, and you were sarcastically asking where the are from, to imply that they were raised by wolves, or something like that.
Point being, yes, you can ask like that, but it has different connotations than a simple question, which I think is where you would use the rising intonation.
PrimeErective@startrek.websiteto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions?31·9 months agoI’m totally with you. I think it is somewhat speaker dependent, but that is how I would say those questions.
What’s your NAme
How OLD (are you)?
Where are you FROm?
PrimeErective@startrek.websiteto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions?1·9 months agoI guess in this example, “who is your daddy?” Is the main question, which has a somewhat flat intonation, but contrasted to the emphasis in the second half of the sentence, it feels like a rise
PrimeErective@startrek.websiteto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions?2·9 months agoCould you give some specific examples of questions in English that would not be asked with a rising tone at the end?
PrimeErective@startrek.websiteto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality.17·9 months ago24fps vision is a lie told by Hollywood so they can save on film
PrimeErective@startrek.websiteto Music@lemmy.world•Electric Six - Gay Bar - Never saw the video for this before and it's hilarious. It's about as SFW as the song, which is "sorta?"English11·10 months agoI love Electric Six! My favorite musical fun fact of all time is that Jack White did back up vocals for their song Danger! High Voltage
PrimeErective@startrek.websiteto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do radio stations all seem to go on commercial at the same time?12·10 months agoI feel like the old guys in my area just talk about their health problems 😂
Something to look forward to, I suppose
PrimeErective@startrek.websiteto Music@lemmy.world•Chris Norman, Suzi Quatro - Stumblin' inEnglish1·11 months agoLove that this song seems to be getting a bit of a second wind
PrimeErective@startrek.websiteto politics @lemmy.world•Aging, incoherent felon refuses to drop out of presidential race21·11 months agoSwing states are often referred to as “purple” because they don’t consistently vote for just “red” or “blue”
PrimeErective@startrek.websiteto Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•Statue of Hermes found in a Roman sewer during excavation8·1 year agoOk, besides the sewers, what have the Bulgarians ever done for us?!
PrimeErective@startrek.websiteto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•By improving the performance of a Nerf gun, you "buff" it, which is ironic71·1 year agoI get that. Where is the irony? I think to be ironic there needs to be some air of unexpectedness. I certainly think it’s amusing to say that you were buffing a nerf gun, but maybe not unexpected
But I think Alanis Morissette would be on board
I started reading it because I saw it in The Last Of Us S2. Pretty good so far