the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

it's kind of weird that the vowel in the english -ed past tense ending is never pronounced, but can be pronounced when the meter of a poem or song demands it and it doesn't sound odd to native speakers.

also the difference between the words learned and learnèd which i think is the only case of a diacritical mark being used in a native english word
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The ampersand & is itself a ligature of the Latin word et, which also means and.
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today we learned that they use a different symbol in Greek instead of an ampersand: ϗ, which is a ligature of the Greek word και, meaning and
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What exactly is the "is this anything" meme? I'm not sure we understand what it's trying to say.
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90s RPGs can be very obtuse sometimes. How were we supposed to know without looking it up that "the cave east of town" means "go west, then south, so you can come around back northeast and reach a hidden cave" instead of "head east and go into the cave" (you can't) or "find some secret way further into the tiny cave that's on the east side of this town that someone's running an armor shop out of" (there isn't one)?
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When something alludes, that's an allusion. Does that mean that an illusion is when something illudes?
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what kind of a review is this?
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visual puns!
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what ever even used 16-color mode anyway
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oh wait there's one
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fedi has no 16-color CGA fans apparently
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I wonder, has there been a study done on how long a music loop needs to be in a video game for players not to find it annoying? what factors affect it; can combat music be shorter than overworld music? does louder music need to be longer?
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is captain falcon ever playable outside a vehicle in his home series, or is that exclusive to smash?
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we have no idea what the opera Carmen is about so we always imagine it's somehow related to Carmen Sandiego even though that's extremely unlikely
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for three words formed by adding prefixes to the same root, the words evolve, involve, and revolve sure have very different meanings
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i don't feel right making a poll of it but i am curious if anyone has a crush on me
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yugioh
marioh
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