Yeah. And the thieves. After you give money or items, it just runs away. -_- But you're right. It's really fun! Having a guide on how to answer takes all the fun away, IMO.

It's the other way around for me! I'm from the Pacific Northwest, and I was confused for the longest time about why the phonetic guide in my old dictionary said "aw" for words like "caught" and just "o" for ones like "cot"—they're both /ɑ/ for most people around here!

Are American regional dialects classified by linguists as having different phonemes?

It's more of a rhetorical question, I'm just pointing out an important distinction. Obviously sex without consent is rape, and unconscious people can't consent. But I think it's not abnormal for couples to initiate (or I suppose continue) sex while one partner is unconscious, and it's important to remember that that's…

The Altaic language family that generally includes Japonic and Koreanic languages also includes Turkic and Mongolic languages, but not Chinese. For these Altaic languages, we're talking about a common ancestral language that's already several thousand years old, so if Mandarin isn't even in that group, then you…

There is no linguistic genetic relationship between Japanese and Chinese. Chinese is a monosyllabic tonal language. Japanese is a polysyllabic non-tonal language. They are as alike as Chinese and English. (Actually, Chinese and English might be a little more similar, since they both structure their sentences SVO,…

Being a Japanese speaker actually made learning Chinese even HARDER for me because I had a habit of using Japanese grammar while trying to learn Mandarin.

Yeah, linguists think that it might be most closely related to Korean, but it's still had a good two thousand years or more to develop on its own. There are plenty of words that have been adopted from Chinese, but linguistically it's very distinct.

So I can sort of understand that - it is almost like sleep-walking (sleep-fucking?) while showing the initiative. However, if we are talking about having sex with a spouse who is clearly unconscious - the conscious one doing the initiating - it gives me major creeps. Now, rolling over and waking your partner for…

I looked up the history of the Japanese language a little while ago and was surprised to find out that it is actually very much unrelated to chinese languages. It's thought to belong to the same family as some Turkic languages, but opinion appears to be divided.

Mr C. is a sleep sexer (along with sleeptalker and sleepwalker). He frequently initiates sex and seems 100% with it until the next morning when he asks me "umm, did we have sex last night?". It's easy enough to shut him down if i'm not into it though, so I've never found it to be coercive or rapey.

Actually no, Japanese is a linguistic isolate, the language is literally in a class of its own. And the Chinese script was adapted to service Japanese, so there was very little pronunciation crossover.

She is actually mocking Japan as Mandarin distinguishes between r and l. Ignorant and racist, two great tastes that taste great together.

I'm not sure if you have it where you live, but if you like green salsa White Girl Salsa is really good. Though, I recommend the hot, the medium is pretty darn mild, but the hot is genuinely hot. But, as with many of the other hot foods I love, it is the kind of hot where your mouth burns, your eyes water, your nose…

I don't think so.

I, too, was intrigued by this and went off to see what Google can tell me. Apparently, it's a real psych term for when psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism come together in one person. Unfortunately, it's also a term that MRAs appear drawn to (lots of links for dark triad + red pill) because women are…

Somebody pointed out in another thread that large genomic studies that rely primarily on mitochondrial DNA, since it's strictly matrilineal, would run into problems in distinguishing individuals down the line, which is a fair concern for the clinical research community (and unrelated to any religious handwringing).

They haven't been able to permanently kill anything that passed in the HoC since the 1911 Parliament Act.

From the New Statesman:

They can vote on anything that comes through. They are small enough in number that it wouldn't affect the outcome, but it's still fucked up they are there. I said bishops as if the Upper House has elected members— they don't. All 760 are un-elected yet they can vote on legislation. Good thing too many are usually…