#syntactic

[helianthus21]

thinking about Armand in trinity gate or wherever watching Sybelle play piano while Benji and Daniel get into a "fight" about which of them is cheating in their game of chess, and letting himself smile softly to himself bc his family is here and he gets to have this now:')

[dreams-of-soft-rain]

the proof is left as an exercise for the reader <3

[mismagireve]

Jazz shot a glare at the ghost from just over the pages of her literature textbook.  He was, regrettably, an absolute dreamboat; a leather-clad greaser with immaculately styled hair and visible muscles bulging under his jacket.  Sharp jaw, high cheekbones, long eyelashes—he'd probably be dreamier if he didn't have a ghost's grey skin and red eyes. Or if she couldn't see the outline of the bookshelves through him. Or if she wasn't already completely fed up with him by this point in the day. Jeepers creepers, could this guy not take a hint? 

I FINALLY FIGURED OUT HOW TO MAKE LINK POSTS WORK AGAIN

hey i'm trying to write fanfiction again

[sonicblooms]

harper and eli tagged along with reuben to a local market :D

[cchanticleer]

I love it when you change one tiny thing in a game and it breaks stuff in unexpected ways

I wanted to see if i could make custom textures for story of seasons trio of towns and turns out if your body info is invalid you disappear but your massive head plants itself in the middle of the map

or who could forget the time when i was working on the robin mod and i guess the data for the enemy units broke in such a way that it replaced them with data for player units, but only if loaded from a quicksave

or a few weeks later when i was testing the mod on cfw and when i walked into the lottery shop, instead of loading the right room it showed the last map i had entered and then promptly crashed my 3ds (honestly shocked i got a screenshot of this one) i have absolutely no idea what caused this, it hasn't happened since

and i don't have very good example pics anymore but in at least gen 5 pokemon if you have a follower and use walk through walls to bypass the event that makes them leave they'll just stay with you indefinitely and that itself breaks a whole bunch of other shit. like if you enter an event that's meant to be a single battle only it'll force it to be a double battle instead, letting you catch -----

if anyone else has examples of shit like this i'd love to see it

[dykeofmisfortune]

the difference between house and wilson is that wilson is a gay looking straight guy and house is a straight looking gay guy

[risquemargay]

help a linguistics student with his homework!

hello all, i need to create a small glossary of specialized vocabulary specific to a group for my linguistics homework and i decided my group would be tumblr users!

if you could reblog/comment/send me an ask/etc. with any words you think are tumblr-specific or that tumblr uses in a special/distinct way, it would be greatly appreciated

a brief explanation/definition would be appreciated but is not required (i can do that myself tbh)

thank :)

[midnightsslut]

i know swifties are known for appreciating taylor’s lyrics, but i’m starting to wonder if the fandom has grown so large and her music so dense that a lot of people don’t understand what she’s saying at all. add the general trend of media illiteracy, the weird handwringing about whether her lyrics are autobiographical, and the increasingly popular view that you cannot see the author in the work, and a lot of people (largely not on here) are starting to have zero appreciation for the meaning of her lyrics beyond ‘this sounds pretty. that’s such a good metaphor!’ a lot of people are genuinely amazing at analyzing her music and post insightful takes, but the opposite is becoming prevalent as well imo.

[ephemeral-winter]

of course i have an accent everybody has an accent and mine is quote-unquote undetectable in most situations because it is bland east coast educated upper middle class white accent but what is much more interesting to me is how my SPEECH patterns are intensely jewish philadelphia. like there's so much leftover germanic stuff in there in my sentence constructions which we never had to get rid of during the long 20th century project of assimilation because of the pa dutch presence and so on which i simply did not realize until i spent significant time around new york jews. now every time i'm like wait why don't you phrase anything like i do

[coquelicoq]

Quelques semaines après la publication de son enquête, alors qu'elle regardait avec une émotion dont elle était la première surprise la tombe de sa confidente, Brigitte Bollème me dit qu'elle s'était demandé, exactement, dans le cimetière de ce petit village, sous un ciel sale de fin d'automne, si la défunte lui avait révélé la vérité. (La plus secrète mémoire des hommes, 2, 2e, II, p 212)

this sentence is a nightmare (which i think is probably on purpose, as it is the first sentence of the chapter and we at this point have not heard anything about any enquête or confidente or tombe and don't know what vérité this is referring to...i think he means for us to be confused right now on multiple levels) and i thought i finally got it but then realized i still can't account for the dont clause. "la tombe de sa confidente" is the direct object of "regardait" (took me forever to figure that out 😭), so if you move the sentence around, it becomes "elle regardait la tombe de sa confidente avec une émotion dont elle était la première surprise". okay first of all what is elle referring to in "dont elle était la première surprise". brigitte? émotion? surprise? is surprise a noun or an adjective? ohhh wait is it saying she is the first to be surprised by the emotion? yeah i think surpris(e) takes de (rather than, e.g., par) as preposition so that would account for the dont if so...brigitte était la première [d'être] surprise de l'émotion [qu'elle retentissait] alors qu'elle regardait la tombe de sa confidente? is that what we're cooking with here?

[pokemonunderdogtournament]

From running these, does it seem like older Pokemon tend to be more popular versus newer ones, or is it any pokemons game? I feel like I tend to see older 'mons winning in matchups against newer ones the majority of the time, but that might be some sort of confirmation bias on my end.

Whew ok! Sorry this took me so long to reply to. This kinda caught me right at the start of the busy period, and I didn't want to give it a half-assed answer, especially because I wasn't really super sure if I was seeing any notable trends. (Most of the time I dedicate to maintaining this event is spent setting things up instead of reviewing data!)

Here are some rough and probably not precisely accurate numbers:

For my health I don't have the time to write out proper descriptions, so hopefully my discussion will be helpful enough, especially because it can be fairly easy to draw some inaccurate conclusions from this specifically because it uses a lot of hard numbers vs ratios.

You can find that down here ⬇ (readmored for scrollability)

First table:

Gen 2 and Gen 7 (!) are performing the strongest overall. Gen 9 and Gen 5 (!!) are performing the most poorly. I figure Gen 9 isn't faring too well for a multitude of reasons -- most notably, I think, people haven't really had time to grow attached to these guys yet. To speculate on Gen 5, I have a few theories. Gen 5 introduced a lot of new Pokemon, interest gets spread out (though I am surprised that age-group nostalgia isn't helping it more along here...). If I recall correctly, a lot of the designs were also quite heavily critiqued, though I've never paid much attention to that sort of commentary.

I'm honestly surprised that Gen 1 is that close to even, but then I don't think it helps that a lot of the less popular designs keep popping up to be repeatedly swept... The data set isn't large enough to avoid being easily influenced by various sub-tournaments haha.

Second table:

This one looks at each generation and how it compares to matches where it was paired with older generations. Earlier generation results are less helpful because, for instance, Gen 2 only has to contend with Gen 1, but Gen 8 has to contend with Gens 1-7... I wasn't sure how to break this up more properly, and I've already spent so much time on this 😅 I could probably figure it out with time but I don't want to keep this ask on hold for like 3 more months. I think it's interesting to see how notably well Gen 7 performs here, like it has a notable number of wins though it's dealing with 6 entire generations.

Anyway, more red in the ratios (basically, more instances where Pokemon of a given generation lost to older gens more than they won) supports the hypothesis.

Third table:

Basically the opposite of the above. More green means more generations that fared better against the generations after it. Gen 5 is the only one who doesn't have this, but it's even. It's won as many Gen 6-9 polls as it's lost

Gen 8 being the strongest here is a little funny, but it just means that Gen 8 has been performing super well when specifically placed in contrast to Gen 9. The fact that there are so few polls in this category probably is why the ratio can get so high at all though.

Generation Gap Average:

This one's a bit hard for me to explain but it basically is concerned with how much the earliest generations perform against the latest generations, but close-generation matches take a lot of weight out of the end result. Basically though a smaller number means that the Generations aren't AS stratified. There's enough love for newer Gens vs older ones. This number hovered much closer to 1 for most of the data gathering.

Idk if this is helpful, but here's the formula:

=AVERAGE(ARRAYFORMULA(IF(B2:B-A2:A<>0, B2:B-A2:A,)))

The A col lists the winners and the losers are in B, so it's literally just averaging the difference between the winner and the loser. The best conclusion we can draw from this is that there is a preference toward older generations. If there was a preference toward newer ones, the number would be negative.

Old/New:

Literally just the number of older generation wins divided by newer generation wins, which you can see right next to that, so yeah older Gens, relative to the other Gen in the poll, have quite a bit of a lead.

Other notes:

In more recent polls, voting is actually skewing more toward later generations, but at the start, which notably voted on starters, voting was HEAVILY skewed toward older generations vs newer ones. It was unfortunately because I noticed this that I ended up having to collect data from all the (relevant) polls because those trends pretty strongly impacted the results...

Anyway! I don't feel confident to make any conclusions outright, but now at least we have an idea of what the numbers look like right now! Lots can be gleaned from this.

[mismagireve]

"Uh, big fan of Robin?" Danny asks awkwardly. The ghost looks perturbed. "It's not a costume.  It's a uniform.  And I am Robin." Danny snorts.  "Sure, and I'm the Green Hornet."

I don't know how to explain this.

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: A SHINING by Jon Fosse.

Reading this next! It's a shortie (to the tune of seventy-four (74) pages), and the whole thing appears to be one (1) unbroken paragraph, but, hey: at least there's punctuation, I guess? It's about a guy who's driving directionlessly, gets out of the car at a forest, and wanders around on foot as it starts to snow, and when he inevitably gets lost, he meets some weird glowing....entity. The jacket copy calls this "strange, haunting, and dreamlike," which. yeah. I'm here for that. Will report back on how this goes!

[lokifreign]

or wait rather than curious abt nationality i was wondering what the language was in your header, languages r kinda my own interest myself

I'm mostly American, my family sorta is sorta isn't; their culture wasn't american in the 60s & 70s but it's where I was born and reared & they've all americanized pretty heavily since then (their kids are all 100% USA namean)

when I was a child I spoke several languages & tended to run them together, Korean and German and Russian

the header is in Slovenian, which has been my special favorite language for about three years now ^_^

I cycle through language fixations; my all-time reigning favorite is Yoruba, it's sophisticated and beautiful and its accent in other languages is superb; Yoruba speakers are masters of picking up other languages too, admirable and covetous. Yorùbá sọ̀rọ̀ sókè jẹ́ ọ̀kan lára ​​àwọn ìró tó dára jù lọ tí ẹ̀dá lè dá!

Slovenian's shared words with Russian and Polish made it a natural area of study for me; I started using it in my writing and have been slowly letting it & Croatian & Serbian expand my understanding of that area of the world.

Ko govorim na glas (out loud), zveni Slovenščina zelo blizu ruščini; moja teta brez težav razume, kar je zabavno!

Cyrilica nekaterim povzroča težave, zato je slovenščina način za transliteracijo nekaterih od teh ruskih idej. The way a given language shapes my thoughts is of intense interest to me, I'm driven to find some combination of words that will work, that will fix it all.

[catgirltoes]

I think a really good gimmick blog would be one that finds all the loanwords in a post. Which would be about half of them, given the sheer ridiculous amount of loanwords English has.

[perdvivly]

Some deep asymmetry in the rejection of EFQ. Its acceptance certainly rules out a relevance criterion for material implication, but its rejection doesn’t necessarily rule out the validity of classical or strong kleene logics