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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Forest Grove, Beaverton, Oregon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCshu A Chinese script only women invented/knew. But spoken variants would make for interesting accidents for trans people. Native speakers would likely feel that other languages hinder their natural masculinity/femininity by lacking such clear sexes. Imagine slightly different languages for moods. One could have cultures that idolize cool logic, but using that form when showing strong signs of specific emotions is strongly discouraged. Or the opposite. Passionate people that reserve the calm language for unimportant subjects. I would and could only use that one for sports while a fan would use the excited form.
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Kyïv, Ukraine
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Well, in a way English already does that compared to other languages, having gender-agnostic first- and second-person pronouns, gender-agnostic verbs (even verbs that the speaker applies to oneself!), gender-agnostic adjectives, and gender-agnostic numerals (ordinal, counting, distributive and even such ones as 'both'), which seem like awkward features when they coexist with a strong push for conflating merging/conflating social gender and linguistic gender.
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Join Date: Sep 2007
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Japan also split after the introduction of Chinese characters (kanji). Men, especially the educated elites, used the regular form, while women tended to use the cursive form, which developed into the Japanese script called hiragana -- also known as onnade, "women's hand".
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Alsea, OR
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https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-06-...re-zombie-drug (Old article, but still a relevant wierdness...) |
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Meifumado
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Beware the Hunger Stones!
Sinister 'Hunger Stones' With Dire Warnings Have Been Surfacing in Europe Mysterious outlines of ancient societies have revealed themselves across the seared landscape, but it's not just traces of ghostly architecture resurfacing. So too are grim words of warning. Inscribed boulders known as 'hunger stones' are reappearing in Czechia after a prolonged drought afflicting Central Europe, AP reports. These hunger stones traditionally sit below the water line of the Elbe River as it flows through the town of Děčín in the country's north, but with water levels hitting record lows in Europe, the rocks and the words carved into them have been exposed once more.
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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Just the flip side of Tsunami Stones.
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Upper Peninsula of Michigan
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Well flip me sideways, an off-the-wall theory turned out to be basically right for once.
Those U.S. diplomats in Havana and Guangzhou suffering the mysterious, hard-to-pinpoint neurological issues? Turns out our doctors now think it really was a microwave attack, using something called the Frey effect. The original goal, for use in your atompunk games, was either mind control (by inducing delusions that spurred desired behavior) or long-term subtle physical damage (by inducing slow injury to the nervous system). Communication is also a possibility (the beam can be very tightly focused, and needs no discoverable receptor other than the human body), but the side effects might be a bit too much for any but the most occasional usage. Note that these effects are separate from the painful, skin-deep effect employed by Microwave Area Denial systems, which simply induce a burning sensation. |
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Forest Grove, Beaverton, Oregon
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So the one real aspect is that intense microwave radiation can cause auditory hallucinations followed up with a boat ton of wild speculation based on that.
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Forest Grove, Beaverton, Oregon
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https://www.livescience.com/42862-pe...h-created.html
When I first saw a meme based on this, I assumed it was utter BS. I have no words.
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Join Date: Sep 2007
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There's always the classics.
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blueberry muffin, fermi paradox |
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