Siva Kalyan @skalyan@mathstodon.xyz

@melissaboiko@scholar.social Maybe “verdura”?

@melissaboiko@scholar.social Also some varieties of Italian, I just remembered (I heard about this from a native of Ancona, but don’t remember if she was describing her hometown dialect or a different one).

@melissaboiko@scholar.social This, but with sentence-final “ne” in Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese.

@melissaboiko@scholar.social The closest that comes to mind is an essay titled “Who Flang That Ball?”. https://www.exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1791168

@Anaphory As must be obvious to you, my first thought was that this is Tolkien fanfic.

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@esoterica Hi! This link is broken (I think I've pointed this out before).

@elilla Is the image “sensitive content” because it might make the rest of us jealous?

@melissaboiko@scholar.social Huh, I always thought it was "mechakucha".

@melissaboiko@scholar.social Devoiced vowels still have formants! They may be harder to hear, but they can be heard.

@Anaphory Have you read Liu’s novel “The Three Body Problem”? It likewise relies on a deus ex machina, though is otherwise quite thought-provoking.

@melissaboiko@scholar.social Who's Thorfinn Kárlsefni?