I feel yr pain, I made a post exactly like your comment a few months ago

update pls

Isn’t that just how the language works though? Like, it sounds unnatural to say certain nouns without adding “the” to the front

Well the “naturalness” argument feels a bit iffy to me, but in the context of a specific language community, over time, things stick I guess. Like why do germans (I rly should say germanophones since austrians and the swiss do exist) say “der Iran”, or “der Jemen”? Who came up with that? Now it probably feels natural to them, but it was never preordained.

Spanish does that too, it’s why Das Kapital is called El Capital in Spanish but just Capital in English.

Im sure someone more linguistically minded can give the real explanation but in regards to your Capital example, its a peculiar feature of English in relation to the other western european languages where certain abstract nouns are not used with their articles. Like for example in English you can say “Love wins”, but in German you cant say “Liebe gewinnt”, you say “Die Liebe gewinnt”.

also its funny cuz nobody gets mad at the germans for saying “die Ukraine”. In fact theres a bunch of country names in german that get used with a definite article, like die Slowakei, die Turkei, die Schweiz.

shouldn’t this be reversed?

I feel bad for using so much water but I need my weekly bath for my mental health

While Tatyana endorsed the merger as a way to grow the Wildberries business, Vladislav came out publicly against the deal. Enlisting the help of Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin and Putin’s self-described “foot soldier,” Vladislav and Kadyrov released a video in which they accused Russ Outdoor of seizing Wildberries. In the same video, Kadyrov vowed to “return Tatyana to the family and protect a legitimate business.”

lol Russia is not a serious country

from all the things passed down

from all the apples coming before

damn you now the song is stuck in my head again

the leftovers. rly good shit.

yeah the movie didn’t rly meet my expectations but it did raise some interesting thematic/lore questions

would you rather have stretched jeans and a wife with a dump truck ass or unstretched jeans and a wife with Hank Hill ass? I know which one I’d pick

keep Blinken sounds like keep blinking. its a pun

I was hoping you could expand, what factions are they up against? The Clintonites? I don’t think there are any who don’t follow Obama as well, he did serve two whole terms, and Hilary’s credibility was, even if they say otherwise, damaged badly by her loss. I don’t think there are any PUMAs left. The so-called “progressives” or the squad? Pfft, hardly able to stop anything, let alone kickbacks.

wait rly? How tho

break a leg!

I mean def the most forgotten-to-the-sands-of-time game i’ve played is Wet. I rly enjoyed it at the time as a suburban teenager with nothing better to do, but I can’t recommend because in hindsight it was pretty mid and it didnt come out on pc, so you’d have to put in the extra work to emulate and its not worth it lol

dudes rock

a pastelwashed caste system? in my ostensibly-for-little-girls animated series? It’s likelier than you think

have you watched prey? Thought it was pretty neat. But I love all the movies, good and not-so-good. I recognize the high level of Alien and Aliens, but I still appreciate the schlocky fun of AvP and the later-era Predator movies.

The last Alien movies I saw were the Promethius films, which made all the supposed scientists act irritatingly dim-witted and not like scientists at all

yeah esp that whole sequence in covenant that ended in the lander exploding…no comment lol.

There was some conservative religious subtext about abortion and gender

couldnt you read prometheus as pro-abortion? Like they try to restrain her and force her to carry the “baby” but she fights back and extracts the thing out? Idk thats my reading of it thinking back on it.