Some Australian and Papua New Guinean Languages have this feature.

Just like spanish marks tense in its verbs, these languages have to alter the form of the verb depending on the level of “firsthandedness” of the thing they describe. Sometimes, this isnt even optional

Contrarianism in a nutshell.

You’re not smart, you’re just a hipster.

What annoys me is the assumption that socialism or communism would fix all of our problems and noone would ever do or feel something bad again.

strict pronounciation rules german

Nah, this aint it. Finnish has strict pronounciation rules but German is pretty loose.

Mate, english is my second language too and this is not that confusing.

Singular they/them has been here for hundreds of years and using it as a gender neutral alternative to she/her and he/him isnt shit, its part of the english language.

Yeah, that was really… weird.

Gangolf Eierschmalz.

Gangolf is an absolute death sentence of a first name, but if your last name then also translates to either egg lard or testicle lard…

You can argue that. It is a stupid argument, but you can argue it.

Tree Diagrams can be useful to structure a sentence, but the UG system of “assume one system fits every language cuz inherent ability” is bad.

If you want to check your understanding of how phrases, clauses and words connect to each other in a certain language, trees can be pretty powerful.

To the latter point: My biggest gripe with linguistics is the tendency to boil everything down to a simple system.

Do you want to elaborate more on how politeness cant be explained by gricean maximes?

Here the need part: you dont. Because chomskyite grammar sucks sweaty balls.

Tbf, by my second run through Intro to Pragmatics i got the maxims. But our prof had some really strange interpretations of them.

Ah the gricean maximes, the bane of my intro to pragmatics class