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[quote name="TruthseekerSky6" date="2021-04-20 10:45:12" ] [quote name="saltypie" date="2021-04-20 08:23:05" ] Well I mean, language isn't a huge issue. Language truly is just different tones and noises strawn together to make sentences. There's even a whole language of just whistling, I'm sure growls and chirps would be no different. [/quote] Oh, language most definitely isn’t just a bunch of “tones and noises”. My brother is freaking obsessed with linguistics (the study of language, it’s a whole field) and he is always talking about cases and conjugation and grammatical evolution and stuff I don’t know about. [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language]Things that sound nifty on the surface are actually much deeper when you actually start digging.[/url] You can’t make a language just by stringing nonsense syllables together. [/quote] True true, grammar is important too Also the fact that a lot of languages are similar to others, or have roots from different languages. That's why the fact that the humans speak English is weird, since English is a mix of Latin + Greek + Anglo-saxon, but eh

[quote name="AmethystSeaWing" date="2021-04-20 11:45:07" ] [quote name="TruthseekerSky6" date="2021-04-20 10:45:12" ] [quote name="saltypie" date="2021-04-20 08:23:05" ] Well I mean, language isn't a huge issue. Language truly is just different tones and noises strawn together to make sentences. There's even a whole language of just whistling, I'm sure growls and chirps would be no different. [/quote] Oh, language most definitely isn’t just a bunch of “tones and noises”. My brother is freaking obsessed with linguistics (the study of language, it’s a whole field) and he is always talking about cases and conjugation and grammatical evolution and stuff I don’t know about. [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language]Things that sound nifty on the surface are actually much deeper when you actually start digging.[/url] You can’t make a language just by stringing nonsense syllables together. [/quote] True true, grammar is important too Also the fact that a lot of languages are similar to others, or have roots from different languages. That's why the fact that the humans speak English is weird, since English is a mix of Latin + Greek + Anglo-saxon, but eh [/quote] Yeah, my brother says English is a linguist’s nightmare, chock full of weird pronunciations, grammar rules, etc (see: the fact that we say [i]ran[/i] instead of [i]runned[/i]). [color=transparent][size=1][size=1][size=1]how did this get off topic lol

[quote name="TruthseekerSky6" date="2021-04-20 12:00:48" ] [quote name="AmethystSeaWing" date="2021-04-20 11:45:07" ] [quote name="TruthseekerSky6" date="2021-04-20 10:45:12" ] [quote name="saltypie" date="2021-04-20 08:23:05" ] Well I mean, language isn't a huge issue. Language truly is just different tones and noises strawn together to make sentences. There's even a whole language of just whistling, I'm sure growls and chirps would be no different. [/quote] Oh, language most definitely isn’t just a bunch of “tones and noises”. My brother is freaking obsessed with linguistics (the study of language, it’s a whole field) and he is always talking about cases and conjugation and grammatical evolution and stuff I don’t know about. [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language]Things that sound nifty on the surface are actually much deeper when you actually start digging.[/url] You can’t make a language just by stringing nonsense syllables together. [/quote] True true, grammar is important too Also the fact that a lot of languages are similar to others, or have roots from different languages. That's why the fact that the humans speak English is weird, since English is a mix of Latin + Greek + Anglo-saxon, but eh [/quote] Yeah, my brother says English is a linguist’s nightmare, chock full of weird pronunciations, grammar rules, etc (see: the fact that we say [i]ran[/i] instead of [i]runned[/i]). [color=transparent][size=1][size=1][size=1]how did this get off topic lol [/quote] There are parts of English that are easy to learn, for instance the fact that we only have one word for "the" while some languages have dozens, and the fact that are verbs conjugate very easily (like how Spanish has six different verb conjugations for just one tense, while English only ever has two or three). It's reading and writing it that's the problem, since we have so many rules and so many words that don't follow those rules. For most languages, you just need to memorize the rule and memorize the exceptions, but for English, they're all exceptions. Sorta. My dad immigrated to the US from Greece and I've been learning two languages for several years (Spanish for four and Greek for six or seven), so I'm sometimes able to look at English from a second language point of view lol

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i still need t read the full article
was a release date dropped?

[quote name="OrdinaryImage" date="2021-04-21 03:37:47" ] Anyone excited for the Netflix release that just got announced? [/quote] Y E S I literally squealed when I saw that the first ten episodes had been green-lit (40 mins. each, too!) No word about the release date yet, though

WHAAAAAAAAA

Yeah, ten forty-minute episodes. It’s going to be available on Netflix. I don’t have high hopes for it, though, seeing as it’s directed by DuVernay (not to anger her fans, but I intensely disliked her work with A Wrinkle in Time).

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Wait, there's going to be a Netflix show? :0