These people are disconnected from reality and need real psychological help. In the meantime, this behavior is not acceptable for anyone in any kind of official position. Hell, this amount of deflection wouldn’t even be acceptable if he were trying to be a fucking barista.
No offense at all meant to baristas. You have likely worked harder than this clown ever will.
Yeah, I’m not sure it’s entirely relevant to the existing conversation, but maybe at least in part.
I don’t have anything to cite directly in front of me for other examples from non-English languages, but I know some work exists out there, particularly in cognitive linguistics. If I remember right, some papers under the “construction grammar” umbrella touch on this in an effort to explain relative preferences between what would otherwise be equally weighted constructions. Also look into works by Dryer and Haspelmath (together and separately) for similar discussion with a more typological bent.
German does have one typological distinction which might also play a role in how permissive it is with seperable prefixes: the verb-second constraint, which basically exists in the Germanic branch of Indo-European and only a handful of languages elsewhere. This is why German allows basic clauses which are SVO (e.g. Der Hund frisst den Fleisch), but as soon as there is an auxiliary verb, it looks more like an SOV hybrid with the main verb at the end (der Hund wird den Fleisch fressen), or fully SOV if a subordinate of a matrix clause (Wir glauben, dass der Hund den Fleisch fressen wird).
That doesn’t really explain why you have to do ich sage ab instead of the ungrammatical *ich absage, but having to move that ab to the end is at least reminiscent of having to move verbs in the same way. I don’t think there’s even an alternative, so extremely long examples persist by necessity.
There are also working memory constraints, or similar real-time processing constraints, at play which can affect how acceptable (in terms of native speaker intuition) some examples are.
I won’t get into the possible differences in the intervening structures (e.g. the relative clause), but as a mostly fair generalization: in these cases, the preference to split the verb into parts is inversely correlated with the number of intervening elements.
Something similar occurs without phrasal verbs but with indirect objects optionally expressed as prepositional phrases:
The similarities suggest that the pattern has more to do with heavy intervening phrases, or even more generally syntactic headedness, and not wanting to rebuild or finish building earlier structures later in the parse.
There is nothing else to do. We went beyond the tipping point on warming and those in charge didn’t listen. It only gets worse from here.
I love this. Hit me in the right spot. Thanks.
Yeah OK, I just had to read that twice to see you’re right.
The title is ambiguous (or perhaps vague, more accurately).
“doesn’t let me use my 32 char password” can be interpreted as:
it does not allow passwords of 32 characters in length, regardless of composition
it does allow passwords of 32 characters in length, which should be sufficient with or without special characters
In one reading, the special character requirement is the issue. In the other, the length.
Yay for English.
You can change your name to whatever you want. Imagine if your last name were Epstein, or Trump. No one would question your motivation.
This is a bit of an oversimplification.
If in the US, you can generally change your name at whim, usually after a petition and fee. But it depends on your state. Some states require a hearing to do a name change. Some require a publication, and some will only allow the change after a waiting period.
All states will generally deny name change requests which are deemed to be fraudulent (details of that depend on state), to avoid debt, or to be harmful/hateful to others. Sometimes the definitions of these terms is not terribly clear, in which case the state can simply deny it with vague reasoning.
Edit: ans apologies if this isn’t in the US. I’m not familiar with other systems.
+1 for heliboard.
GBoard has good recognition, but I’d rather my keyboard didn’t just siphon off whatever I type.
There are simply a lot fewer people on Lemmy. That’s to be expected.
I will say that the quality of conversation tends to be a bit higher on Lemmy. YMMV though.
I feel a lot less of the hive-mind effect on Lemmy versus Reddit. Not sure why that is.
No. Convenience always wins. Same reason people decided streaming is better than owning.
Some percent of those upset and boycotting will simply give it up. These things have about a 2-4 week lifespan. Then they’ll just miss their PlayStation and everything will be over, except they’ll own even less.