neptune

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android 15 gets satellite messaging, starts foldable cover app support⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They have internet. So you can already email people on the ISS, if you have their email address.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the sixth sense worth watching now ?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the answer is obviously yes, if you are even asking.

  If you don’t know the film is predicated on a twist, well that’s cool. I would be sure you do know that there is a twist and I’m pretty sure you might know what the twist is. In either case, the movie has a certain zeitgeist even if it’s not something we will show aliens who arrive in 100 years. It certainly says someone about Americans of the time period.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Spanish/English words share the same multiple meanings?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the short answer is that we all speak “Latin” and the various empires, especially Roman, spread cultural concepts across Europe that would be durable for some degree for centuries.

  Counterpoint, there are also plenty of false cognates between any given European languages.

  There is also convergence, as another commentor pointed out. If something is invented in the US in 1970, or introduced to the US in 1970, there’s a good chance people aren’t going to give it a name in their language: they will just call it what it was called to them.

  I don’t think “loan words” explain your example, but you can imagine that if what is now Spain and France had the same rulers, they’d develop similar legal culture later on, and then if France conquered what is now England, that eventually English would inehrit specific quirks common to Spanish

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Try it⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s for emphasis