For the ones who don't know what applicatives are, it's basically using adpositions (and in my conlang's case also adverbs) as affixes on the verb. So instead of saying "I stand on the roof" one would say "I on-stand the roof" with applicatives.

My conlang has many applicatives, around 22. I grouped them into four groups: Directional, destinational, positional and adverbial. However, I'm not sure about whether destinational is a good name.

The Directional Applicatives add directional apverbs like "up, down, forwards" to the verb. I think it's an alright name as these applicatives indicate the direction of the verb.

The Positional Applicatives add positional adpositions to the verb, like "on Y, above Y, under Y" and thus also add a new argument. I think it's also an alright name as it indicates the position.

And then there are the Adverbial Applicatives. These are basically all other adpositions, like "for Y, because of Y, with Y".

And the ones I have is problem with are the Destinational Applicatives. These are applicatives which denote the direction like Directional Applicatives, but also add a new argument. This is a relatively small group and has only three applicatives with the meaning "towards Y, from Y, through Y". I'm not satisfied with the name, since it has a destination only in one of the applicative.

So how would you name these applicative group?

PS: Lol, upon finishing this text I got an idea for a name: Motional Applicatives. Because these three adpositions describe more or less a motion. Or do you know of any better name?

Also, is "Motional" a valid "scientific" term or is it better to call them just "Motion Applicatives", even if they disturb the "-al" theme.

Also, if you know of better names for my other applicatives, feel free to tell me.

Thx in advance.

EDIT: I'm basically searching a term which unifies, "source", "way" and "destination".

Are there any?

For example, "I sing you a song" has the appearance of being ditransitive, but semantically it isn't because there is nothing about the concept of singing that it is intrinsically done for someone.

Suspects! Have you been expanding your vocabulary properly over the last weeks? Did you maybe drop out of Lexember, but still create some cool new words? The subreddit's Lexicon Police would like you to prove your progress by commenting the latest words (lexemes, compounds and the like!) that entered your conlang(s). No cheating!

To make this activity an inspiring resource for others, if possible please provide some insight into the etymology of your words - where do they come from, how were they formed? Are there any interesting cognates or contrasting words?

>Happy holidays! See y'all next year and don't forget to coin words!

1st part here. Second part here. Background info here.

First line is the scribe’s original hand. Second line an updated orthography. Third a word-for-word translation. Fourth, my own rendering into readable English.

ca huel ipa hotobre yc çepohuali tlapohua metztli
[Ka wel] [īpan octubre] [īk sempōwalli] [tlapōwa] [mētztli]
[Very much] [in the time of October] [20th] [it counts] [it’s a month]
It’s well into October, the 20th of the month;

in iquac in nican ometzticatca ça huel çe metztli in ō quimochihuilique
[in i'kwāk] [in nikān] [ō moyetztikatkā] [san] [wel] [sē] [mētztli] [in ō kimochīwili'ke']
[when] [here] [they were] [only] [very much] [one] [month] [they are those who spent time]
they’ve spent the whole month here.

niman oquimitalhui yn anatzin
[Niman] [ō kimi'talwi'] [in Anatzīn]:
[Then] [she said] [she who is dear Ana]:
Then Ana said:

macamo huel çenca miac netequipacholi timitztomaquilica
“[Mā kamō] [wel] [senkat] [miyak] [netekipachōlli] [timitztomakilīkān].
[Don't let] [very] [a lot] [much] [it is worry] [we give you].
“Don’t let us stress you out too much.

ma noço tepitzin tictehuica ytlaçotlaltzin in totlaçotatzin in santo sa migel
[Mā] [noso] [tepitzīn] [tiktēwīkān] [ītlaso'tlāltzīn] [in totlaso'ta'tzīn] [in santo San Miguel]
[Let] [also] [a little] [we beg him for] [it’s his precious land] [he, our dear father] [St. Michael]
Let us also petition our dear father, Saint Michael, for a bit of his land.

ca hoca ticquetzazque çetetl caltzintli ytla ontemoc yn atzintli
[Ka onkān] [tikketzaske'] [sentetl] [kaltzīntli]. [Intlā] [ō temōk] [in ātzīntli]
[There] [we will raise it] [one] [dear house]. [When] [it has lowered] [the water]
We’ll build a house there. When the waters recede,

ytla ohuac ca titemotazque
[intlā] [ō wāk] [ka titemōtāske'].”
[when] [it has dried], [we will go along descending].”
when it dries, we’ll be going down there.”

I'm looking for websites/applications (or possibly an exercise book) for practicing French grammar in a fun way. I'm especially interested in practicing verb conjugation, both the technical-formal aspect as well as how the various forms are used in a sentence. These websites and applications don't have to be free-of-charge, and they don't have to be aimed at learners of French as a second language. They can be targeted for kids or for adults, I don't care.

Here are a couple of counterexamples, demonstrating what I'm NOT looking for: the app VerbSquirt, and the conjugation games on www.logicieleducatif.fr . Both of these are boring and are based on rote learning. I'm looking for something that is fun and engaging.

verbecc - verbes, complètement conjugués - conjugueur français

• https://pypi.org/project/verbecc/
• http://verbe.cc

I remember how I've read that archi verbs can have 1.500.000 different forms and it blew my mind out, but when I became more familiar with linguistics I got that it's not that impossible thanks to agglutinativity. So I counted for an interest:

Irwilai(work in progress) verbs can have around 4~5 hundred different forms(it's fusional).

Urúsha, my brand new conlang, 1st class verbs can have around 2300 different forms and 2nd class verbs can have around 5880 forms.

Biblaridion's Edun can have around 220.000 different verb forms.

How to count: Let's say a hypothetical language has 3 persons, 3 tenses, 4 moods and 2 voices, person and tense are often mandatory to put, so 3x3, moods are often optional, so 3x3x5 and voices are active and passive, because active is often unmarked, but still there it will be 3x3x5x2 and so our hypothetical language can have 90 different verb forms.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

#"The bear robbed the tree of all its fruit and ran home"

—(submitted by Luy)

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Remember to try to comment on other people's langs!

Having a planned story isn't railroading.

Having planned encounters isn't railroading.

Having an idea for several ways an encounter might go isn't railroading.

Having a plot the players didn't come up with isn't railroading.

Prompting your players with things to do, that you've planned, isn't railroading.

Railroading and having linear plot progression are not the same thing.

Preparing isn't railroading.

-- What is Railroading? --

Railroading is when the DM actively removes choices and options from the players in order to get the players to do what the DM wants. This is most likely due to not understanding how to create a campaign, how to improvise, or how to adapt your preparation to what is actually happening at the table. When I first started DM'ing I for sure railroaded my players, I thought certainly they would go this way, there's no other obvious choice to take, and when they didn't go that way, I didn't know what to do and sort of forced it. And it's palpable at the table, there's a strong "this doesn't make any sense, why can't we just go this way" vibe.

Railroading is more like a play, the actors know their parts, their scripts are written, the scene must happen in exactly this way or else the whole thing falls apart. If someone goes off script, the director is going to get pissed, "you didn't say your lines correctly, read the script".

You get in danger of railroading when you start describing your story in ways like, "A mysterious creature attacks the village at night, it'll take the players 2 days to find this clue, once they find that clue and go to the caves in the woods, they'll fight a monster that is way too strong for them and lose, but be able to follow the trail it leaves behind into the mountains to--". Look at how many assumptions are being made. Why 2 days? What if they don't find the clue or misinterpret it, who says they'll lose the fight in the cave, if the monster dies and that was your only mechanism for bridging the next part of the story, what do you do? This is where someone might start breaking game mechanics to force that fight to go a certain way, or start invalidating the result of rolls because "not enough time has passed for the story". Or what if the players want to just defend the town? They never go hunt for the creature they just wait for it to attack again?

Suddenly the entire session starts to break down because the DM can't let you do anything else, you have to do this thing they thoug

Resume

Is what I have on my resume not enough to land an entry level/junior web developer role?

How should I approach this? I have been thinking about pumping a large project for like 2 weeks and then adding it using the MERN stack to see if I can get any call backs.

I am about ~350 applications in. I have revised my resume quite a few times but the content has generally remained the same but with more objective based elements, quantitative goals, action verbs, technical jargon added to pass the ATS systems. It seems like I got a better response rate during Late September - Early November.

What do you guys think of my current resume? Is it lacking? Am I unhireable? What do you recommend?

My process has been this:

- Graduated in May 2021, took a 3 week break.

- Came back did LC, applied to ~100 jobs from June 15 to July 20, little to no responses.

- Took 150+ hrs of Udemy courses for to add relevant front end skills, projects to my resume/PW/GH.

- Came back to applications in mid September, sent out ~150 till late October/Early November, better response rate, no offers mostly due to lack of experience. About 10-15 call backs total at this point, some 2nd rounds and out of state, low offers for WITCH companies.

- Took another 50 hr Udemy course on React and applied to another ~100 places from Nov-Dec. Little to no call back rate (chalked it up to the holidays).

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Here I am today, on my last few pennies. Going to have to get a job at some random retail soon. What am I doing wrong?

EDIT 1: I can't believe how many people actually stopped by to offer help. I am really thankful for everyone reaching out and helping me out. I read every single comment. The feedback I received is invaluable, thank you.

I went ahead and did another revision on my resume, but it is still not the final version. I highlighted some things in red as notes.

The goal of this revision was to make it less wordy and more succinct but it still feels kind of wordy. I also tried my best to follow the STAR model, at least for some parts of it. What do you guys think?

Thank you very much again for your time.

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Recent grad that is currently a first-time admissions reader here at a highly selective institution. Just wanted to give some last minute tips that I thought would be somewhat helpful.

1. Don't neglect your extracurricular descriptions and awards. I read by schools in the territory I'm assigned, so I get very familiar with the most common extracurriculars students participate in. There's inherently nothing wrong with being in a common extracurricular, so long as you are actively contributing and not just an idle member. However, the biggest problem I've seen is the descriptions of what students have done. Students will generally write very basic things without quantifying anything. For example, "Held meetings and recruited new members..." The action verbs are weak, and you list something that everyone will say. Most importantly, I don't get any sense of impact you've had. If you're a president of a club, what have you done that's helped your club/school/community? This is harder said than done, but it can be accomplished!

2. As an extension of number 1, students often fail to explain "why" they do their extracurriculars. This isn't necessary for every student, to be fair. However, I've noticed the stronger essays generally have themes or arcs to their application. In those kinds of applications, they give their "why" they did something, and what they learned from it, whether it's a perspective that has helped them navigate the world around them, or a new belief they hold because of what they did. I can see your amazing by what you do if you write a good description, but I have no idea why/how it's helped you grow and become a better student/person. I need those things to really build out why I should recommend you to move forward in committee!

3. Be careful not to be too microscopic or broad in your essays! For example, I've seen students where they talk about being a leader, but they only hit very broad things, like hosting meetings or recruiting new members. This doesn't really tell me anything because it's both very broad and every club leader does this! On the flip side, I've seen students go way to microscopic in their role. This might look like a student that talks about only one student they've helped out and the very fine details of what that looked like. Being specific is usually encouraged, but being ultra microscopic generally leaves less words for you to be more expressive about what you learned, how it helped you grow, and why you care so

The doctor says it terminal.

Welcome newbies, veterans, experts and everyone in between! I wanted to attempt to make an ultimate guide to terms, slang, and acronyms that are most commonly used across the crypto world!

Hopefully this helps someone better understand some things!

This list is broken up into three sections:

1. Terms
2. Acronyms
3. Slang

1. Terms

• Address - A crypto address is a string of characters that represents a wallet that can send and receive cryptocurrency. It is likened to a real-life address, email or website. Every address is unique and denotes the location of a wallet on the blockchain.
• Altcoin - A portmanteau of “alternative” and “coin”, altcoin generally refers to any cryptocurrency other than the original one, bitcoin.
• Blockchain - A digital form of record keeping, and the underlying technology behind cryptocurrencies. A blockchain is the result of sequential blocks that build upon one another, creating a permanent and unchangeable ledger of transactions (or other data).
• Bull markets and bear markets - These are phrases borrowed from traditional stock markets. A bull market means traders are confident in the prospects for a particular investment, meaning they will keep buying and prices will keep rising – whereas in a bear market, traders are nervous and prices will generally fall.
  • BULLISH: An expectation that price is going to increase
  • BEARISH: An expectation that price is going to decrease
• Cloud mining - People can “mine”, or create, cryptocurrencies to compete for rewards in the form of newly minted crypto. Cloud mining uses remote data centers with shared processing power, like the kind that powers Google software, to pool resources and cut the cost of mining. Be extremely wary, as many cloud mining companies are just scams. An incredible amount of computing power is needed to mine the top cryptocurrencies. Anyone offering easy cloud-mining rewards is likely to be a charlatan.
• Cryptocurrency exchanges - Just like regular stock exchanges, the likes of Coinbase, Binance, Gemini and Bitstamp allow traders and investors to buy and sell — except that here they are trading cryptocurrencies. Unlike standard stock markets, cryptocurrency exchanges are online-only and are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• DeFi - is short for “decentralized finance,” an umbrella term for a variety of financial applications in cryptocurrency or blockchain geared toward disrupting financial intermediaries. D

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

He lost May

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

[Author's note: This is the first part of my two part series on Symmetrical Voice, or as you might know it, Austronesian Alignment. It covers terminology, how it works, voice selection, and possible extensions. The next part will cover the development of such systems]

#Introduction

Other than triconsonantal roots, there's probably no feature that captures a disproportionate amount of conlangers' interest like "Austronesian alignment" does. However, there's not many resources about it, and those that do exist generally use confusing terminology, don't follow a valency-neutral/symmetrical voice framework and ignore broad swathes of languages that fall in this system while missing various important (non-morphological) features of these systems. Furthermore, these prior works are essentially static, ignoring how it develops and what it can develop to. Thus, my intention here is not to provide examples of how symmetrical voice (SV) works (Wikipedia does an excellent job doing that, as do many other guides) but instead discuss the typology, syntax and development of these systems, followed by various extensions, attested and otherwise. In this sense, I am continuing the tradition of the Wikipedia article, which was a piece of garbage when I first had a stab at this many years ago but (as noted on the talk page) is still missing the why of SV. I draw heavily from a number of sources about SV and encourage you to read them for more information.

One important note: Since SV are found pretty much in only in one family and is best described using languages from a single closely related sub-branch, it is hard to say what is inherent to the system and what is simply an artifact of relation. However, this probably isn't too much a problem for conlangers for similar reasons to triconsonantal root systems always being so damn Semitic. Y'all want to do something cool but also "natural" so when there's just a single source, you hew close to it.

#Terminology

Austronesian voice system- A system where obligatory markings on the verb tell the thematic role (well sort of) of the privileged syntactic argument in the clause while maintaining the core status of non-privileged phrases. It is not a simply a system where the verb agrees with the (pragmatic) topic though topicality is often an important part of it. It's not even really an alignment (maybe), but I'll let the syntacticians argue about that. From an alignment perspective though, it might be described as a split-tran

"P't'h P't'k'p's" is a simplification of "f'f p't'h f'sh p't'k'p's", roughly "the sound(s) of speech" in my first Blang, short for Beatbox Conlang. Do I need to specify conlang? I know of no natural beat-box languages, but oh well.

Phonology & Syllable Structure

The phoneme inventory is simple, and it's meant to be. Beatboxing makes use of many sounds, and in far more complex patterns than this blang, but I aim to develop a bigger inventory for my next blang. The romanisation is in brackets where applicable, the rest is IPA. I realize the orthography is a bit ugly, happy to take alternative suggestions. Allophony is minimal, but x varies with h and χ in realization, hence the romanisation I chose. There is also some alterations in the realization of sibilants, both affricates and sibilants, if they are tautosyllabic with another sibilant (that is to say, I can hear them sounding different when I am doing them, but I can't put my finger on how).

Syllable structure is highly restricted, every syllable ends in a fricative and can have up to 5 of the other consonants before it and must have at least 1. Treating fricatives as vowels, the syllable structure is C(C)(C)(C)(C)V, with the restriction that no two of the same consonant can occur in a row in roots, though this will occur after initial reduplication.

So the language is really [p't'x.p't'k'p's] ~ , [p't'h.p't'k'p's] two syllables, two syllabic fricatives as nuclei and two initial clusters of ejective stops.

The Main Bits

This language has a set of particles that I usually gloss as classifiers. They stand obligatorily in every noun and verb phrase. In verb phrases, they stand in SVO order. In noun phrases, most particles (prepositions, demonstratives, numerals, quantifiers) stand before the classifier, adjectives and then nouns after it. Adjectives can occur "stranded" away from their noun as they carry an agreeing classifier, and noun phrases can occur in any position around a verb phrase, usually following a topic prominent structure. Pronouns follow a similar distribution and can also stand just ahead of any other classifier as a possessive marker.

Here's a simple sentence as an example:

1st	have	CL.food	CL.food	meat
k's	p'ts'sh	k'p's	k'p's	p'k't'sh
I	have	it,	it 	meat

This would properly translat

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

Good evening, afternoon, or morning to you, people of r/conlangs. Today's Saturday, and that means it's time for another typological paper! Once again, there will be some prompts for you to discuss in the comments.

Antipassive constructions in Jê languages: typological convergences and divergences (Miranda & Sansò)

This week's paper talks about antipassives in Jê languages, a language family from Brazil. While we've already discussed applicatives and causatives, there hasn't been a paper on antipassives on TyPoW. "Antipassive" refers to a valency-modifying operation in which the object is either ommitted completely or demoted to oblique status, thus decreasing the verb's valency by one. If you want some more examples for antipassive constructions, check out the Wikipedia page here. Now onto the prompts:

• Does your language feature antipassive constructions?
  • If so, how does it handle the demoted O? Is it omitted, does it take an oblique role?
  • How does the antipassive interact with other morphosyntactic constructions (e.g. causatives)?
  • How are antipassives used in conversations? Are there any particular pragmatics attached to them?
  • If you considered diachronics when creating your language, how did antipassives arise?
• If your language doesn't feature antipassives, what other kinds of valency-decreasing processes are there (e.g. passives)?

Remember to try to comment on other people's languages

Submit your papers here!

So, that's about it for this week's edition. See you next Saturday, and happy conlanging!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

And boy are my arms legs.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

Put it on my bill

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

They’re on standbi

Resume

Is what I have on my resume not enough to land an entry level/junior web developer role?

How should I approach this? I have been thinking about pumping a large project for like 2 weeks and then adding it using the MERN stack to see if I can get any call backs.

I am about ~350 applications in. I have revised my resume quite a few times but the content has generally remained the same but with more objective based elements, quantitative goals, action verbs, technical jargon added to pass the ATS systems. It seems like I got a better response rate during Late September - Early November.

What do you guys think of my current resume? Is it lacking? Am I unhireable? What do you recommend?

My process has been this:

- Graduated in May 2021, took a 3 week break.

- Came back did LC, applied to ~100 jobs from June 15 to July 20, little to no responses.

- Took 150+ hrs of Udemy courses for to add relevant front end skills, projects to my resume/PW/GH.

- Came back to applications in mid September, sent out ~150 till late October/Early November, better response rate, no offers mostly due to lack of experience. About 10-15 call backs total at this point, some 2nd rounds and out of state, low offers for WITCH companies.

- Took another 50 hr Udemy course on React and applied to another ~100 places from Nov-Dec. Little to no call back rate (chalked it up to the holidays).

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Here I am today, on my last few pennies. Going to have to get a job at some random retail soon. What am I doing wrong?

EDIT 1: I can't believe how many people actually stopped by to offer help. I am really thankful for everyone reaching out and helping me out. I read every single comment. The feedback I received is invaluable, thank you.

I went ahead and did another revision on my resume, but it is still not the final version. I highlighted some things in red as notes.

The goal of this revision was to make it less wordy and more succinct but it still feels kind of wordy. I also tried my best to follow the STAR model, at least for some parts of it. What do you guys think?

Thank you very much again for your time.

https://imgur.com/o5DRa1d -- first page

https://imgur.com/JtsmXMx -- second page

EDIT 2: Ops, accidentally posted