Wow. Off to searching for articles in Nature! Hello rabbit hole…

Non-tonal simply means the denotation isn’t carried by tone, not that users of the language don’t use tone. It’s an interesting distinction.

John McWhorter has a few courses in The Great Courses catalog about language - its pretty fascinating stuff. He covers things like tonal languages, and how even for a linguist like himself, they’re tough to learn.

Agreed

Fine.

So don’t even bother locking your doors then?

You absolutists are part of the problem.

Thanks.

For those of us who don’t play these games, it didn’t make sense till your explanation.

Or you’ve hacked into their calls!

Define how you mean “best”.

I don’t have a best alternative, as my use-case is an Android phone running Lineage.

Nothing to be done - that image is all in the minds of other people, and you don’t control what they think.

Just do you, people will be who they are.

Is it as who describe?

I think you may need to provide an example.

I’m pretty sure it’s all over the place - like a 1940’s Bob Hope/Lucille Ball comedy set in Egypt isn’t going to be accurate.

Right? Reading that was like watching an action movie!

Hahah

Doing nothing illegal, today…

I will call them Legos till the day I die, like everyone I know has for 50 years.

I never heard them called “Lego” until the last few years. So its like kleanex and xerox

Legos legos legos legos legos legos

“Blinkered Philistine thinking”

“Drugs” do all sorts of things, not “bring happiness fastly”.

Some may cause euphoria, some may induce a sense of calm, some may cause disassociation, some may may make you more open - and each one is a slightly different experience for each person because of individual biochemistry and personal experience.

As my hillbilly family would say “you’re talkin’ outta yer ass”.

Your hubris is astounding.

I suggest you go and get all those experience, because you need them.

Yet more sophistry, now your a mind reader?

Nice sophistry, “people will be shamed”.

No, this post is just a bunch of BS

one person’s memories may be wistful and another’s may be tinged with a negative emotion

And this can happen to the same person at different times!

Haha, I’m gonna leave it in for entertainment value

I’m an old school gin drinker, from the Time Before all these small batch gins. I like the pine note (from the juniper berry used in gin). Tanquery has a very strong juniper note, you probably won’t like it.

That pine note is what people tend to dislike about gin.

I really like all these other gins with different botanicals, especially the citrus ones. It’s a whole new gin game now.