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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Domino's pan, double cheese, light sauce, extra pepperoni. I've tried deep dish in Chicago, New York style in New York, traditional pizzerias in Italy, and countless overpriced "craft" places from all over North America, and nothing I've tried even comes close.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Upvoted for the appropriate Salt and Sanctuary reference.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm an older millennial and I have no idea who Cypress Hill is.

[โ€“] [email protected] 69 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Too late. I've already switched all four of my home PCs to Linux Mint.

[โ€“] [email protected] 129 points 4 months ago (7 children)

I switched my four home computers to Linux Mint this week. Windows is just more trouble than it's worth nowadays.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Most phonologists I know would probably use wedge for most of these since they're stressed, because schwa is usually considered just an unstressed allophone of a bunch of different English vowels, and not an actual phoneme itself. Also, I have syllabic l in tunnel and barred i in cousin.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Starts typing gibberish in Microsoft Word because the magic hand still hasn't told me how to get started coding.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

It's only permanent until they decide that it isn't.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

You wouldn't download a culture...

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I can only speak for his linguistic works, but it's odd how much clearer and more straightforward his earlier works are than his later ones. Syntactic structures and Aspects of a Theory of Syntax are easy enough that I'd even recommend them to Introduction to Syntax students, but starting with Lectures on Government and Binding things get increasingly obtuse to the point that I'd always recommend reading "translations" of his later works rather than the works themselves.

Edit for full transparency, since this comment is getting upvoted while Chomsky is getting blasted in the comments here: Don't get me wrong, all of Chomsky's linguistic work is incredibly brilliant. He single-handedly brought about a complete paradigm shift in the field of linguistics. G&B with all of the bells and whistles added by other researchers in the 80s and 90s is still the closest we've come to an actual explanatory theory of syntax, and X-bar theory is probably the single most elegant, ingenious innovation in the history of linguistics.

And that's just syntax. I haven't even mentioned how he and Morris Halle revolutionized phonology a few years later with The Sound Pattern of English, or how he also revolutionized grammar theory with the idea of context-free and context-dependent grammars the year before publishing Syntactic Structures, and all of this somehow still understates the enormous import of Chomsky's linguistic work.

If anyone has any questions about Chomsky's linguistic work, feel free to ask, and I'll respond as best I can.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Aw, I really like wholesome greentext.

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