You mean…THIS?! Yes, this is the very document referenced in the meme above.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aAzlkVUOzaV5OzhcMSTeERNV9jpLLW0N/view?usp=drivesdk

Yup. That phenomenon is called “analogical change”. The opposite happens too though! For example, “person” and “parson”.

Actuallyyy…

Goose comes from Old English, where they pluralized [go:s] (think “goes” with a soft S) by adding [iz] (like “ease”).

When saying [go:siz], it was kinda hard for the mouth to switch the vowels from the [o] to the [i] quickly, so to save themselves the trouble, they’d change the first vowel to make it a little more similar to the second, so [go:siz] became [ge:siz].

Then, that was too long, so they dropped the [z]. [ge:si] (think “guessy” but the “e” lasts a bit longer than usual).

Then, that was too long, so they dropped the [i]. [ge:s] (“guess” with that same drawn out “e”).

📯It’s the Great Vowel Shift!📯 Now, [go:s] and [ge:s] become [gu:s] and [gi:s]. Almost there!

The vowels become a tad short over time, and now, you have [gus] and [gis] which are written “goose” and “geese”.

But “MOOSE”? That’s Algonquin. It has nothing to do with all that noise. “But they sound the same and are written the same?!” So? Haven’t you heard? English orthography is a dumpster fire. Nobody knows what they’re doing. Not even the words.

Thank you.

What does PCB stand for?

I was gonna suggest /c/natureismetal, but then I realized it doesn’t support art. 😭

I won’t sit idly by while there is a PRETENDER TO THE THRONE.

I hate to be “that zoologist” (because I’m not a zoologist), but isn’t that a shrew?

Can somebody explain what this Raspberry Pi is that I see talked about all over Lemmy? Certainly, it is no pie, but I can’t seem to grasp what it actually is.

Why is this is /c/shitposting? This is dope.

So specific.

Serious question: How is this different than all the other sensationalized headlines about some technology that’s gonna change everything, and then you later hear nothing about it?

“A little”. Lol

Note that some studies show nine mouse days are roughly equivalent to one human year.

Excuse me?

Thanks for explaining it like that! It made a lot of sense.

I’ve been wondering the same as I’ve been wanting to migrate to Pathfinder 2er, but I’ve also been considering other systems. I just don’t have a lot of time or friends who play many TTRPGs.

I genuinely appreciate the technical breakdown. 💜

Can’t even read the article without a subscription. 🫤

I just looked it up, and the first thing that came up was a ton of articles about a series of tweets Larian put out today explaining that they’re working on official mod support, but that they’d like to ask people to stop being toxic assholes and threatening their devs.

So I guess they don’t have official mod support, but the mods that are and have been out for months are amazing. I highly recommend Native Camera Tweaks, WASD Movement, 5e Spells, and Hexblade Warlock (gish class that makes your spellcasting modifier and melee stat both Charisma so you’re SAD instead of MAD on both Str/Dex and Int/Cha). There’s also a bunch of other QoL mods that are worth getting too.