Zylon
6518
French pluralizing its adjectives is so weird.
Spanish does it too, as does Italian, so it’s certainly a generalized Romance language thing. Now that I think about it though, German declines its adjectives differently for plural nouns as well, with the wrinkle of “strong endings” and "weak " ones thrown in to boot. (ein kleines Kind “a small child” das kleine Kind “the small child” kleine Kinder “small children” die kleinen Kinder “the small children” --and that’s just in the nominative (subject) case!). I’m thinking English might be the wild exception to this among most/all Indo-European languages, but if someone knows different please enlighten us.
Yes, English and German are dumb. Next question.
schurem
6521
In Dutch adjectives are not pluralized or anything either. Een klein kind, twaalf kleine kinderen. (One small child, twelve small children).
Well, what is the -e in “kleine” from the second plural version if not a pluralization of the adjective?
(sorry for the digression, but languages fascinate me)
Nesrie
6523
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/chief-capitol-police-were-unsure-about-using-force-jan-6/ar-BB1dZ9Tt?li=BBnb7Kz
She also says officers didn’t understand when they were allowed to use deadly force, and that the less-than-lethal weapons that officers had were also not as successful as they believed they would be.
It’s pretty incredible. So all across the country, deadly force is used on unarmed black people frequently enough that we still have protestors going on years later after some of the highlighted cases came to light. … but if the Capitol is under siege, they’re just not sure. It’s like we have a set of laws for one group that and not the other.
Now I did not want more deaths on Jan 6, but I do not know how anyone can look at a statement like that, and look at the faces of literal children that have been slain by the police and not see clear double standards.
vinraith
6524
While the events of the last few years have already long since convinced me that 1) that double standard exists and 2) I’ve been blind to it for far too long, I don’t see how anyone can look at the reaction to the capitol insurrection and come away with any other conclusion. It could not be more bare-assed obvious.
So innocent. Happy go lucky.
Someone must have called her a Nazi on a message board at some point in her past. Now we can see the results. Such a shame, really.
Well, look on the bright side. Now there’s an entire generation of non-POS young men that will know to avoid her like the plague despite the fact that she’s kinda cute.
She’ll get plenty of ‘romantic’ fan mail in prison from Aryan Nations types.
Matt_W
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English has a whole four regular verb tenses, no adjective modifiers, no formal/informal tone, etc. We do a heap of work by stuffing other words around our verbs and rely on subtle phrase shifting, pacing and word choice to signal things like tone and subject. It’s a fucking mess.
