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[Hanslanda]

I read t'other day that American-English* is etymologically closer to the British-English as spoken in 1770~ ish than B-E is now. Due to foreign trade and such, B-E has mutated considerably while A-E has remained relatively stagnant.

... I guess there's a question in there somewhere but I haven't found it yet.

*Meaning, that specific accent unique to newscasters and people from the NW (IIRC)

[scriver]

That sounds like the type of stuff that would be popular in America to say because one linguist once made that argument but not necessarily true in any way.

Sort of like how Norwegians think they speak their own language when they're actually just speaking the worst dialect of Swedish

[Hanslanda]

I could see that yeah. I thought it was interesting but unlikely.

[Il Palazzo]

That's what they taught me at the uni, and we're closer to UK than US. I only took intro linguistics, and I don't remember the particulars, but the theory behind it seemed robust.

[Frumple]

More specifically, it's less American English in general and more like the Appalachians or somethin', iirc. Southern drawl, more or less.

[Gentlefish]

Aw yeah. PNW neutral accents FTW.

[dragdeler]

-snip-

[Arx]

Well, the meme is "le wrong generation".

[scriver]

In German that's lewrangegeneratione

[Arx]

Why are relatively innocuous paracetamol tablets bittered, but my much more dangerous (to a child) sleeping tablets not? I mean, there's liver damage, sure, but if I had to choose between a kid knocking back 2.5g of paracetamol or five of my sleeping tablets I'd give them the paracetamol every time.

[scriver]

You're not supposed to keep sleeping pills where children can get to them. Medicine cabinets have locks on them for a reason.

[Hanslanda]

Also paracetamol/ibuprofen is one of the leading causes of drug related child deaths. After benzocaine I think.

[Yoink]

Weak-ass poser kids can't hold their drugs.

[Hanslanda]

Weak-ass poser kids can't hold their drugs.

/drug lord mode engaged
I once took 11.5 grams of shrooms. Another time, 15+ hits of acid. Another time 13 Xanax bars, an unknown amount of several research chemicals (bath salts and some other goodies) at least 4 beers and an adderall 20mgs XR. Another time, .5 gallons of whiskey and 9-11 beers. Another time, 8 straight shots of Everclear.
/disengaged

[Yoink]

Another time, 15+ hits of acid.

My friend who did that (and various other over-the-top substance-related shenanigans) once casually told me, about a year later, that he was yet to stop tripping. This same guy somehow manages to be a successful university student in some sort of high-level computer fuckery or other. O.o   

I personally cannot compete with any of that, though, haha. Well apart from maybe the first one.
Nor do I think I'd really want to, honestly.