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(Spoilers ASoS) Series speculation on "The Rains of Castamere" in season 2 by OseOseOsein asoiaf

[–]kortochgott 0 points1 point ago

Whatever happens I hope they bring in Matt Beringer for a cameo on that one.

How I Imagine Australia After I've Been Browsing Reddit For A Year Or So: by OreoDrinkerin WTF

[–]kortochgott 0 points1 point ago

something something spiders something something upside-down something something matey

(spoilers all)Favorite quote from each book by perfectmin asoiaf

[–]kortochgott 3 points4 points ago

Exactly, I'm all for a little Game of Bone-ing in the story every once in a while, but if I wanted to read about a teenage girl swooning over a muscular man...

well...

...fuck it, I'm not making that comparison.

(spoilers all)Favorite quote from each book by perfectmin asoiaf

[–]kortochgott 2 points3 points ago

This whole quote is basically laying out the center philosophy for the whole series. Great stuff.

(spoilers all)Favorite quote from each book by perfectmin asoiaf

[–]kortochgott 3 points4 points ago

"Drogon. Dracarys."

I let out an audible "FUCK YES!" at this point and startled some senior citizens on the subway. I really hope we can expect more badassery like this from Dany in the coming books and less Daario-obsessment teenagery.

(Spoilers/Speculation ALL) What crazy theories would drive you crazy/blow your mind if they turned out to be true? by yay4hippiesin asoiaf

[–]kortochgott 1 point2 points ago

the similarities between the two that they both refuse to acknowledge would mean nothing.

Well, it could be put to some sort of nature vs nurture thing, although with a series that relies so heavily on heritage, incest, geneaology and family trees that would of course feel a bit contrived. I absolutely think that if GRRM puts this into the novel, it was not his original intention.

One year ago today, the world ended. by Nicosayshiin atheism

[–]kortochgott 0 points1 point ago

Imagine if he had foretold it to be this year instead. People would have shat their pants throughout the whole world Bible Belt during this weekend's eclipse.

Why is silence uncomfortable? by Borg_Chickin AskReddit

[–]kortochgott 0 points1 point ago

They are talking about the late Robert Jordan's unfinished magnum opus The Wheel of Time. It's a fantasy series which got quite out of hand so Jordan never had time to finish it.

I think a collaborative writer is finishing the last part right now. It's a good read if you have lots of spare time, and don't mind six or seven parallel plotlines.

It's 00:05 in Northern Germany, I'm listening to some blues radio station, smoking a cigarette. My dog is snoring. Describe your current setting & include the time! by vivakyussin AskReddit

[–]kortochgott 10 points11 points ago

00:27, suburb of Stockholm. Just done practicing some lines on my bass-guitar and off to bed in a minute. Kicking serious ass on Wordfeud.

I don't ask for much, really. It's like life should be: slappin' bass and kickin' ass.

Just a bowl of oatmeal by Samwiselyin funny

[–]kortochgott 0 points1 point ago

Why, that is actually a bowl of healthy, nutritious oatmeal.

My band just recorded our first demo...It might not be much but it takes me one step closer towards my dream. [Listen] by dunkleheitin Music

[–]kortochgott 0 points1 point ago

I can totally see myself being comfortably hungover to this. Dat mellow <3

Well, I'm fucked. by aceinthehole45in funny

[–]kortochgott 0 points1 point ago

Well, I have my keys and I have a pencil. However, since Game of Thrones has about 8 main characters, I think I'll be alright.

Non-Americans of Reddit, what was the day Sept. 11th, 2001 like for you? Story enclosed. by MAH-TEEin AskReddit

[–]kortochgott 1 point2 points ago

Oh oh! Swedish here. I remember exactly where I was when I heard about the WTC. I just got home from school and my mom said she wanted to see the news because she heard something about some plane colliding with some tower somewhere. Unfortunatly the 11th September 2001 was the day or old fat-screen TV decided to stop working.

We went over to our neighbours to watch the news instead. I will never forget when I stood there in their hallway, looking at their TV and saw the iconic image of that plane disappering behind the WTC tower only to slam into it seconds later.

Naturally I drew the connection that this was the reason for our set breaking down. Fucking hated bin Laden ever since. I loved that TV.

I Make Over 100,000 A Year Selling World of Warcraft (WoW) Characters AMA by ToonVendorin IAmA

[–]kortochgott 30 points31 points ago

Hope you'll see this :-)

Do you have some sort of back-up plan when/if WoW finally goes the way of AoC? Other games perhaps?

What kind of education do you have?

Really made me ಠ_ಠ when you said that you actually told Ghostcrawler about this right to his face o.O

I'm curious, Reddit: what was the name of your childhood stuffed animal? by oogewin AskReddit

[–]kortochgott 2 points3 points ago

To this day, neither I nor my parents have any idea why I choosed to name my teddybear 'Tom'.

ELI5: How do modern search engines like google work? by creep1010in explainlikeimfive

[–]kortochgott 3 points4 points ago

I've wanted to do this since I learned Python. Fuck. Yea.

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If you want to be sad, take a scroll through this thread. by brancronin linguistics

[–]kortochgott 0 points1 point ago*

Well, first year university student, so hardly an expert of any measure, but I feel hooked enough _^

In any case, I think the problem is how grammar is thaught in schools, that it is a static field and nothing can be done or challenged about it, which is not a good mind-set if one is going to make some science.

Additionally, language is something that people use every day. So I suppose it feels quite mundane to most people to research about something as everyday-ish as language as opposed to, for example, physics or chemistry.

If you want to be sad, take a scroll through this thread. by brancronin linguistics

[–]kortochgott 2 points3 points ago

Granted, I am as much a descriptivist as anybody else here and I have understood that people basically think that the job of a linguist is actually that of a prescriptivist. Though I much rather have prescriptivism, which at least is a form of discussion, than no discussion at all. Lingustics isn't as big a field of science as it ought to be, and if at least one person from OP's thread starts exploring language, then that's not a loss at all in my book.

What type of word seems to be the most important in spoken word? Is it different in different languages? by mecrioin linguistics

[–]kortochgott 2 points3 points ago

That is a though question, partly because you ask one question in the title and another in the post, but mostly because it depends on your definition of "importance".

Anyway, here's some interesting information on word-classes and relative importance of those in different languages:

  • There are languages where adjectives could be considered "less important" because those languages don't have adjectives! (or at least very few). Instead of saying "the red car" or "the car is red" those languages could for example use a verb: "the 'red-ing' car" or "the car is red-ing". EDIT: Although I should add, since you used those as specific examples, that nouns and verbs tend to be pretty much universal across languages.

  • I don't know what your main language is or how many languages you speak, but a great amount of languages lack an equivalent of the word 'is', for example in the clause: "the car is red". This is called a copula verb or simply copula. I guess you could say that copula verbs are "less important" in some languages, but I quite sure a lot of people on this subreddit would disagree. After all, what's really important here is not the word itself, but the relation between subject (car) and the predicate (red).

  • An important thing to know about languages is that they mark words differently - they have different morphology. Chinese for example, doesn't mark their words at all (it's an isolating language), but Russian has several forms for the same word depending on its syntactic or semantic role in the context. For example: book is always "shu" in Chinese, but depending on if the book was the subject of the clause, the object or the direct object it would have different cases in Russian, eg. knig-a (subject or nominative), knig-u (direct object or accusative), or knig-e (indirect object). I don't speak Russian though so there may be more and they may look slightly different. Either way, my point is that in some languages this kind of marking (case-marking) can represent what are complete words or phrases in other languages, prepositional phrases in English sometimes become simply one word when translated to for example Finnish.

Wow, that's a lot of words o.O

I have absolutely no idea if that answered your question or not, my terminology is probably not spot on either, but any rlinguist is welcome to correct it.

TL;DR: What words are important in some languages may be less important, or even redundant, in other languages.

If you want to be sad, take a scroll through this thread. by brancronin linguistics

[–]kortochgott 0 points1 point ago

I don't get this attitude from this subreddit. This is not the first time I see a post about language in another subreddit recieve flak from here because it violates basic lingustic assumptions/methodology/theories, or because of extreme prescriptivism in the post.

Why is it so bad, and why should I be sad, that people care for language and find it interesting? Isn't it better that people make stupid jokes and play with language than care less for it?

That's what made me interested in languages, and thus lingustics: "Oh, some people say it like this, but I say it like that! Heh, that's interesting."

Don't we want more people to start pondering the great mysteries of language?

What song THAT TELLS A STORY can you never listen to enough. by LuckaGamerin AskReddit

[–]kortochgott 6 points7 points ago

The Green Fields of France - not originally by Dropkick Murphys, but their version is beautiful. Otherwise anything from their last album tells a story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_G4eq9Fudc

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