Oh well, life is suffering. But at least the suffering is bearable if it includes cats 😺

Sometimes I feel like Kika (my cat) might be doing this when I’m sleeping, because of all CLASH KLANK MMMRRRROOOOWN MRRRROOOOWN KPFAF! It’s usually because she rummaged my paper bin for new toys.

Sadly no amount of forehead kisses will prevent it. The most it’ll do is to make her look at disgust, as if saying “EEEEEWWW HUMANS HAVE COOTIES”.

DMZ-Black. It’s one of the cursor themes provided by default by Linux Mint. I see no reason to change.

This might be fake but goddammit it’s still funny.

Rome was dead the day that Octavian caenum fungus putridus paedicator SPVRCIFER! MERDICVLA LVTEA! guy backstabbed the Republic, and called himself “emperor”. *grumbles pro-Republic noises*

With 32 GB system RAM, Microsoft believes that the games can have more “breathing room”.

There’s no such thing as “breathing room”, dammit. Once you set up 32 GB as standard, shitty / assumptive developers are going to say “well, we assooooome users have 32 GB. It would be a waste to design the game to use less than that lol lmao”. Specially devs doing the same as Microslop, and using AI shitty code to pump out code faster than humans can desloppify.

System monitor says I’m running 12GB, but there’s a lot of unnecessary stuff open, and last time I restarted this machine is 4 days ago. Plus at this rate my computer is basically a server, and since I already have 32 GB I don’t care too much about memory management any more.

I found the recipe! Might try my hand at it, it’s Autumn here and the recipe looks good. (I might end using butternut squash instead though.)

In-App Purchases
Requires 3rd-Party Account
Uses Kernel Level Anti-Cheat
Requires agreement to a 3rd-party EULA

Smells like gacha from a distance. Hard pass.

Remember Electronic Arts defending lootboxes because it claimed they brought “a sense of pride and accomplishment” to players? So. That’s the sort of corporation we’re talking about. So it’s no surprise its marketing team tried to boss the creator around, to make something less true to their vision of the game but more marketable. Sex and gore sell; but if they fit that’s another can of worms, you know?

Dev team might want to find another publisher for its future games, though. Even if this one sells like ice cream in the desert, odds are EA will try to find ways to punish disobedience.

(It’s the first time I hear this band, and I’m fucking loving it.)

Let’s do it differently: Eisbrecher’s version when the A³ gaming industry dies, Bach’s when the pop music industry dies, and Evangelion’s when Hollywood does so. Deal?

As the western AAA gaming industry dies, I shall be playing Komm süßer Tod in its funeral. Which one depends on who’s the next kicking the bucket: this one if it’s the pop music industry, and this one if it’s Hollywood.

…now excuse me, I gotta finish Donkey Kong Country 2 again.

Minha segunda facul foi letras com habilitação em linguística. Queria ter trabalhado com isso, mas hoje em dia sou só um tradutor mequetrefe :P

Realmente o mistério é mais difícil de solucionar do que parece à primeira vista.

É geralmente assim com palavrão, a etimologia é sempre uma bagunça. Eles são usados constantemente então o significado evolui muito rápido, só que quase não tem registro, as pessoas evitam de escrevê-los.

Só pra te dar um exemplo. Um dos palavrões com etimologia mais bem estudada é o “merda” do latim. Sabemos ser herdado do proto-indo-europeu, e que os falantes de latim usavam-no direto, já que tudo quanto é língua neolatina herdou a merda. Mesmo assim a gente quase não sabe em que situações os falantes de latim usavam a palavra, porque quase nunca era escrita; só em uns epigramas do Marcial e umas pichações em Pompeia. (inb4 sim, é o mesmo “merda” do português.)

Com esses insultos é a mesma coisa. As pessoas evitam de registrar. E nisso a gente perde a história deles.

Nicknames are often erratic — cue to Juca (Joaquim), Chico (Francisco; no idea why the /ʃ/), Mafê (Maria Fernanda). I don’t know why, but I feel like they work through a different logic than simple shortenings.

Se incomoda se eu responder em português? Então, pra resumir a missa: tenho quase certeza que o xingamento (viado) vem do nome do bicho (veado). Motivos:

1. Em português é comum alçar [e o] para [i u] logo antes da sílaba tônica; principalmente em hiato, que vira ditongo, e o [i u] vira [j w]. (O nome técnico disso é “alçamento pré-tônico”, caso queira procurar papers sobre o assunto.)
2. Palavrões muitas vezes são escritos com uma ortografia mais popular, não-padrão, representando a pronúncia. Há outros exemplos disto; tipo boceta→buceta, foder→fuder, até mesmo caralho→caraio (e olha que [ʎ] “lh” →[j] “i” é bem restrito dialetalmente)
3. Há outras expressões usadas para atacar a comunidade gay, associando-os com bichos saltitantes; tipo “gazela”, “biba saltitante”, etc. Tem também “bambi”, mas essa é claramente derivativa de “viado”.

I think it also applies to expletives. Check for example ⟨vagabunda⟩* /va.ga.'bũ.da/; if there was some pressure to keep the stressed syllable it would be clipped into *bunda or *gabunda, but it’s usually clipped into ⟨vagaba⟩ instead. Technically the /b/ from the stressed syllable is still there, but the core /ũ/ ⟨un⟩ is gone.

*gotta explain this one to the folks here. “Vagabunda” means whore, promiscuous woman, etc. It’s highly offensive, way more than the nearest English equivalent (slut), it’s the sort of word to not use even in a joke. (The masculine “vagabundo” is depreciative but socially acceptable — it means lazy arse, do-nothing.)

For that pair of words (ES año vs. PT ano) this works, but note the correspondence gets really messy, it depends on the etymology of the word. A quick run-down would be:

Then for Latin intervocalic /n/ Spanish simply keeps it. Portuguese initially converts it into vowel nasalisation, but then changes it further on, it’s a bit messy:

• corōnam /n/ → ES corona /n/, PT corõa /Ṽ/→coroa Ø “crown”
• pīnum /n/ → ES pino /n/, PT pĩo /Ṽ/→pinho /ɲ/ “pine”
• manum /n/ → ES mano /n/, PT mão /Ṽ/ “hand”

For ES “ano” anus and PT “ânus” anus this doesn’t work, though. Portuguese didn’t inherit the word, but reborrowed it. And perhaps to avoid making it sound like “ano” (year), kept the Latin nominative ending. (If the word was inherited it would end as *ão or something like this.)

It does have a tilde but it’s mostly used over vowels, to represent nasalisation; e.g.

• ⟨mão⟩ /mãw/ [mɜ̃ʊ̯̃] “hand” vs. ⟨mau⟩ /maw/ [mäʊ̯] “bad”
• ⟨mãe⟩ /mãj/ [mɜ̃ɪ̯̃] “mother”
• ⟨limões⟩ /li’mõjs/ [li.'mõɪ̯̃s] “lemons”
• ⟨vã⟩ /vã/ [vɜ̃] “vain” (F)

For /ɲ/ (the phoneme written “ñ” in Spanish) it’s as you said, though: it’s spelled “nh” instead.

This suggests widespread homophobia if enough of them could combine their brainpower to form these few thoughts

Yup, that’s accurate. Welcome to Latin America and its macho culture. People don’t even get why those jokes are bad. Then when the LGBTQ+ community correctly points out that “a piada mata mais do que a bala” (the joke kills more often than the bullet), the default popular reaction is to claim “waaah they’re overreacting” (spoilers: they aren’t).