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[Helgoland]

It's a sharp s, to distinguish it from the soft s in certain situations. It's called the 'Eszett', or 'sz'.

[Caz]

It looks like a B. Why is it an S? Why not just use an S?

It's an eszett. It separates words with short 's' sounds from those with long 's' sounds. Because Germany.


Edit: ninja'd

[Darvi]

It's a sharp s, to distinguish it from the soft s in certain situations. It's called the 'Eszett', or 'sz'.

It's literally the only character I can remember the alt code for 'cause it's my barfday :V

[smeeprocket]

yea, you are just making things too complex. You just need to use an s from now on. This needs to stop.

[Owlbread]

US States Quiz

Europe Countries Quiz


Do both and report back with score. Go go.

I got 93% on Europe because I mixed Estonia up with Latvia (and pressed the wrong one twice because I was being silly) then accidentally pressed Monaco when I meant Liechtenstein. I am atrocious at America. I got stuck in the South because I couldn't work out where Georgia was and gave up. I knew where North Carolina was though, and South Carolina by extension but only because of the influence of MetalSlimeHunt and RedKing.

[Darvi]

yea, you are just making things too complex. You just need to use an s from now on. This needs to stop.

Says the guy whose language pronounces e as an "i".

[Caz]

I got 93% on Europe because I mixed Estonia up with Latvia (and pressed the wrong one twice because I was being silly) then accidentally pressed Monaco when I meant Liechtenstein. I am atrocious at America. I got stuck in the South because I couldn't work out where Georgia was and gave up.

Woah, nice.

[smeeprocket]

yea, you are just making things too complex. You just need to use an s from now on. This needs to stop.

Says the guy whose language pronounces e as an "i".

we pronounce e as it is supposed to be pronounced, tyvm.

At least we don't have words attached to genders!

[Caz]

At least we don't have words attached to genders!

waiter, waitress etc.

[smeeprocket]

At least we don't have words attached to genders!

waiter, waitress etc.

yea but german and spanish it's literall all the nouns. I actually hear cultures that do that are inherently more sexist. Because, usually, the feminine words are used for things that are weak.

[Jervill]

USA - You scored 8/50 = 16%.

Europe - You scored 27/45 = 60%.


i h8 u east europe

50/50 U.S. states.

40/45 Europe.  Damn Balkans.  Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Bosnia, and Slovenia tripped me up.  I had no trouble with the Baltic states thanks to Europa Universalis.  Lithuania has to be near Poland, otherwise the Polish-Lithuanianan Commonwealth would not exist.

[Graknorke]

Because, usually, the feminine words are used for things that are weak.

Yeah, no, that's... not true.
As far as I can tell they're totally arbitrary.

[Owlbread]

At least we don't have words attached to genders!

waiter, waitress etc.

Boats and spaceships are also traditionally regarded as female.

yea but german and spanish it's literall all the nouns. I actually hear cultures that do that are inherently more sexist. Because, usually, the feminine words are used for things that are weak.

In Gaelic the word for "fray of battle" or struggle/conflict is feminine. So are the words for helmet, shield, axe, dirk/dagger/bayonet, blade, knife, musket... I'm afraid sword and gun are masculine though. Gender varies greatly between islands and regions - the gender of the word Gaelic as in the name of the language or "Gàidhlig" for instance varies depending on what island/glen/region you're from. If you're from one island you may say it's feminine, from another masculine and so on.

[Caz]

yea but german and spanish it's literall all the nouns. I actually hear cultures that do that are inherently more sexist. Because, usually, the feminine words are used for things that are weak.

English grammar makes no sense though. At least with other languages there's more even rules about what goes where.

I'd argue against the point you made about gendered language countries being more inherently sexist. German, Icelandic, Finnish, Norwegian etc all have grammatical genders in their language yet they're considered some of the least sexist countries. Conversely Turkey, USA, Japan etc don't have gendered language but are more sexist in their culture.

[smeeprocket]

yea but german and spanish it's literall all the nouns. I actually hear cultures that do that are inherently more sexist. Because, usually, the feminine words are used for things that are weak.

English grammar that makes no sense though. At least with other languages there's more even rules about what goes where.

I'd argue against the point you made about gendered language countries being more inherently sexist. German, Icelandic, Finnish, Norwegian etc all have grammatical genders in their language yet they're considered some of the least sexist countries. Conversely Turkey, USA, Japan etc don't have gendered language but are more sexist in their culture.

Fair enough. But also, no one said a language has to make sense. We just have a more complex and diverse (see: we stole half our words from other languages) vocabulary.