this is absolutely the kind of company that would be using the word “content” when referring to images and videos.

they could probably get him to forget by giving him a kiss on the cheek and a pat on the back

can you do mine next

not for long!

6th recall this year so far

is diplomacy an option?

christmas wouldn’t be christmas without 42 geese

what makes a body “political”?

seeing the way all these news articles about the election are being written, particularly those saying that trump made a “spectacular comeback” or whatever, really makes me think that the news organizations might be afraid of what may happen if they write a negative article about him. trump has promised revenge on his enemies, and the big news organizations might not be too keen on becoming his enemy right now. not to mention that they will also benefit from many of his economic policies

solid choice. those fruit snacks have gotten me through some stressful times as well.

event generation

what’s your panic snack of choice?

good point

this is just the next step in google’s war on christmas. soon you won’t even be able to manually type a reply to these sorts of emails. your only option will be eggs

what if ghosts are real but they’re all super chill. i can imagine life being a lot less stressful when you don’t have to worry about survival and you don’t have to worry about running out of time

it’s actually impossible to be bilingual because you can only ever be speaking at most one language at a time

depends on the context, but σ is most often used to denote a member of a permutation group

i was a teamaker today

thank you for the explanation. that helps to clear things up a bit and it’s also nice to have some context for why things are the way they are in the language. i had always been told that the “ett/en” thing was just an arbitrary quirk of the language, so it’s nice to get a more concrete explanation of it.

the example you gave was also super helpful. i found it confusing that sometimes “hon” meant “it”. i had always been told (in casual conversations) that swedish wasn’t a gendered language, so that whole thing was quite confusing until now.

you’re right that lots of other languages have gendered nouns. however, swedish nouns are not gendered in the “traditional” sense. i.e., it is not the case that some nouns are “masculine” and others are “feminine”.

i think the wikipedia page does a good job of explaining it:

Nouns have one of two grammatical genders: common(utrum) and neuter (neutrum), which determine their definite forms as well as the form of any adjectives and articles used to describe them. Noun gender is largely arbitrary and must be memorized; however, around three quarters of all Swedish nouns are common gender. Living beings are often common nouns, like in en katt “a cat”, en häst “a horse”, en*fluga* “a fly”, etc.

edit: i wanted to clarify that this isn’t some major gripe i have with the language. i think all spoken languages are bound to have their own quirks and that’s okay, it can just make certain things a bit tricky when learning the language. as a whole, i think swedish is a very nice language