martin

Everyone talking about the DC Sub Guy, as if there are guys in DC who aren’t subs 🤔

(just finished the jacinthe arc and it's easily the funniest thing in any Pokémon game, like, try not to say mother challenge)

If I ever met Eva Longoria I would tell her that her name was almost an anagram of Evangelion

there's also the “fight jacinthe 500 times” method, which is boring but funny

i don't really care that lumiose city is in danger, i'm aura farming rn

why would zohran mamdani do this

(my shiny boy)

legends za photo mode goes so hard

(obviously Sarah knows this, just building on her point about word roots and where they come from)

And of course, native readings of kanji, which are like if English people started writing ‘bœuf’ but continued to pronounce it ‘cow’ sometimes.

The big difference being that while English reached the UK *after* the Romans pulled out, and therefore got most of its romance influence from French post-1066, Japanese has often imported the same kanji multiple times, which would be like getting Latin, something more like Italian, and then French.

The way I always explain it is that Chinese is to east Asia what French once was to western Europe. Simple words to do with peasant stuff are usually native, as is grammar, while more elevated stuff is completely different morphologically because it came from the élite, who used another language.

been learning lately, and I know I'm coming to Japanese through Chinese and all, but I genuinely find kanji to be wayyyyy easier than kana. my textbook starting with only hiragana is only creatingn extra work for me.

certain oomfs take note

well, not exactly I'm sure

babyyy

yes!

... Are we exactly the same height?

gotcha

yesssss it only really works with four players

does anyone wanna link battle with me and Nick sometime

he got one mega evolution and he liked it, it was enough.

look at this bulbasaur, so obedient. not like that horrible horrible charmander.

beautiful that it kept its meaning

what on earth

good for HER

(baby)

took my stupid dog son out for tea