I've never seen an errant apostrophe in gets before.
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
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Don't worry, theyll blame it on autocorrect. You cant blame the person not paying attention in basic English classes when autocorrect wont bother to ignore correct usage like get's
He get is it.
I never expected that my neurons could feel like a seriously twisted broken leg, but you did it. Congratulations.
Sorry in advance for the following wall of text, but it's a fascinating topic that aligns with what I studied at university (computational linguistics):
In neuroscience, that feeling you had is descibed by the term P600. It happens because your brain assumes correctness and re-reads the sentence to try and figure out different connections between the words. Then it eventually stops and realizes that the sentence must be incorrect. This ceases brain activity in some areas for a short time which leads to a measurable, positive brain potential. The process takes around 600 milliseconds, hence the name P600.
Another big and sudden brain potential change is the N400, an increase in brain activity (neurons firing means electrons moving, thus negative) with an on-set about 400ms after the stimulus. This usually occurs if the sentence is gramatically correct but subverts your expectation of what's coming next, so the brain re-reads parts of the sentence to check if there is something you missed. An example would be a sentence like "After a relaxing sunbath, Jane strolled through the old town center and went to the cigarette factory." The continuation is unusal and thus you feel like you missed some important information. When reading a word, your brain essentially loads information and predicts what could come next, which is called priming. "Dog" would for example prime contexts like animal, tail, waggle, pet, bark, etc. There is no exact list of course and it's an individual trait but there is significant overlap between people.
If you enjoy that tingly feeling, you can mix these 2 phenomena together and look up "garden-path sentences". Those are gramatically correct sentences that are hard to read because they use words with unusual grammatical roles. The prominent example is "The old man the boat", where man instead of being in the common noun phrase "old man" is instead attached to the more unusual meaning of to board a boat.
Sorry for the rambling and thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
I really enjoyed your post! Thanks!
As did I!
Please do more ted talks. That was fascinating
Glad you enjoyed it <3
my English classes were just "now class, when the author put 'he eats a sandwich' in his poem, he was really referring to the state of the 19th century and the abhorrent us-"
I had someone lose their mind over a simple correction of "could of" to "could have." You would have thought I kicked their dog. Some people take it so seriously.
HERE COMES AN S
Dang, she had a lot of nipple going on.
Those nipples would be in pretty strange places
Soap can definitely not be clean.
If you let it get covered in dirt, especially.
Looking back at this early Nů-Spock appearance, glad they toned down the makeup and slightly more Romulan hair. It's like he's doing a vaudeville era Trek.
I didn’t even realize it was actually from the show. I thought it was either fan art or AI.
Short Treks, they get stuck in the turbolift and kill time talking.
"I like funerals."
Realistically, the casket is eventually gonna rot and cave in.
Fun fact! Caskets in the US are sealed inside vaults, either concrete or metal, because they aren't strong enough to hold up to dirt anyway. Also most caskets are metal these days. They'll last long enough to be exhumed and moved elsewhere for land reclamation in a few centuries.
(A family friend runs a company that makes/sells the vaults)
No idea about modern Vulcan burials, though. They might be better off doing the Dune thing for the water.
Thanks for your knowledge, I was basing mine off of historical/archeological burial methods
Seems kinda selfish not to let the wood and body rot into the ground. That is the basis of the soil lifecycle is it not?
Oh it's absolutely a racket and a wasteful industry relying on sentimentality, religion, and mourning families.
I'd be all for throwing our corpses into grinders and (after some sanitation, no doubt) feeding crops or something, assuming any transplantable organs and any scientific work were done with them. But I'm certainly in a tiny minority.
Schrödinger's legs
New to ST, which show are the frames from?
So those are characters from Strange New Worlds (a truly amazing show) but the frames are from an episode of Short Treks called Q&A which takes place within the first few minutes of Spock beaming on board Enterprise for the very first time.
I did like those uniforms. Disco style, but TOS colours. I can see why SNW didn't use them, but it's a shame we only got a handful of appearances from them.
My headcannon here is that Starfleet Fashion Week is this highly competitive yearly event, with designers trying all kinds of insane things to turn admiral's heads. So there's this robust fashion industry vying for bragging rights for re-tooling all the Federation uniforms. All this stuff comes out of replicators anwyay, there's no reason not to change uniforms up every few years if they feel like it. Hence the outfit churn.
Which you can combine with real canon pretty easily.
From what I remember, Uniforms were not universal in Starfleet. Neither was the badge on your uniform.
You could have had all this fashion week stuff going on using each ship as a different runway
Groan.