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It's getting better at fingers, but goodgawdamn, that's a long left thumb. 🙃
I don't know about the rest, but the fingers don't really look wrong at all. Just tried it myself and thumb looks the same.
If that watch is based on the Casio Vintage LA680WE (33.5 x 28.6 x 8.6 mm), that left thumb's first knuckle is >2x longer than its length, making it >2.6 in long and therefore ~2.6x longer than normal on a cishet, white male in his 20s-30s like the one simulated above... 🤢😅
Why do you assume that the knuckle begins there? It's way more likely to just be the skin between the thumb and the index finger. Again, try it out in a mirror and you'll see what I'm talking about.
I do apologize, but the anatomical math doesn't check out.
If that had been the knuckle, sure. But there is nothing that says there is, it's just an assumption on your part. Yet again, try it yourself with a mirror.
It's like trying to teach maths. 😶
And still you haven't even tried observing your own hands for some reason?
Everyone reading this can look at their own hands, see in a glance their first thumb knuckles aren't 2+ inches long and immediately know you're taking the piss. Next.
But why on earth do you keep assuming that the knuckle is that far down on the hand?? I keep telling you, look in a mirror. It's just the skin between the two fingers you see there, the knuckle starts further up. It's really not hard to try and see man.
ah yes, the "cishet" thumb, famously distinct and identifiable
Apologies, was attempting clarity.
He should play the piano or something.
And I thought my childhood piano trauma was unique, 😶
Wonder if in the future there will be a "space" accent, will it be specific to planets, stations or moons. Or will it stay similar to the accents from countries that founded the colony?
The Expanse has Lang Belta, which is a creole of mostly English with a shitload of other languages thrown in. It seems like an eventuality to me if we do wind up having people living and working in space, maybe even for their whole lives. Beltalowda, sasa ke?
In "2010 : Odyssey 2" a American/Soviet crew is together for so long that they start using 'Ruslish.'
Don't astronauts on the ISS sometimes speak Ruslish?
any population of two languages of equal users in the right sort of stagnant isolation starts doing that, even Canadians that never spend any time in Quebec and don't speak or understand french vocally whatsoever, are pretty damn good at getting the point from reading it.
Don’t the scientists in Antarctica have a shared accent they start to develop over time? Maybe it would be something like that.
I think it would be way more extreme than an accent. I could see a mixing of some of the most popular accents into a kind of space pidgin language.
I suspect it'd depend on if things are standardized or not. In my area for example you can tell who are members of old families and if they were raised by roughly boomers or older, the reason is that those of us that were generally have old or even archaic accents. Gen X to roughly middle millennials don't have the accent at all since they apparently the schools were overly standardized and treated it like a speech impediment, because the new blood think if ya dlnr sound like youre from LA then youre speaking wrong.
Also if you are curious what I have accent wise, some bastardized Scots accent not a brouge though closer to whatever the fuck regional accent Lazerpig has.
I've seen that happen in extensive but cohesive friend groups that start to develop their own slang and way of talking
Different Dialects appear to emerge from having rather isolated parts of a culture.
With the very recent invention of the world wide web there is a good chance we eventually (and sadly) evolve out of it into a singular mixed human culture and language.
Even then it could happen during a space colonization age that sustainable colonies somehow get cut off. Outer worlds comes to mind.
How the dialect would evolve is determined of what the people spoke first. Their children will learn the same language but with less examples of “correct pronouncing” combined with teenage thrive to do things different (without external influence) things slowly start to sound different.
Star trek’s voyager would not have enough time to develop anything different however they might have encountered unique enough situations that call for new terminology. Things like new tools or medical innovations. But also the unused potential for more aliens in the crew. Language is constantly evolving no matter when or where.
Earth might end up having a universal dialect over time if the internet keeps getting more prominent
However, space colonies would be pretty cut off from it, due to light speed latency. You couldn't have a real-time voice call with someone in the asteroid belt or mars. You could maaaaybe have one with someone on the moon, but even a second long delay is brutal
So it's still reasonable to assume that, yes, there will be space dialect even though the internet is a thing
/ Jane of the Ansible has entered the chat
Even without real-time calls, there would still be an asynchronous exchange of TV shows, movies, YouTube, etc. The populations wouldn't be linguistically isolated.
recent invention of the world wife web
Sorry, the world what web?
Your best indication would be what happened in France to the language since 1600, and what happened to French in Quebec since 1700. To Parisians, Quebec French sounds archaic and coarse, but it's developed and changed a lot, millions speak it in Quebec so it's formed it's own divergent path from a common base dialect, which apparently back then sounded a lot like a German speaking French, as modern Quebec French also does. Anyways, some sort of isolation and lack of regular exchange will have to develop to prevent both languages from continuing to match, which a space colony with a base stock from one nation and permanent residents would pretty much be, as long as they are not watching the same TV shows as on Earth
I remember an article back in the 90s where the author said somebody dropped a source code printout of a C compiler on his desk and it was like 4 inches thick, and he compared that to late 80's Turbo Pascal, a compiler and full IDE that took up 32k.
Did the source code printout have an annoying space accent, or... ?
Apparently I put that in the wrong thread lol.
Don't change a word.
Im no more inyalowda, sassake?
Ya, shurrre, ya betch ya.
Man I’m a bit of “natural” mimic i guess, I once binge watched a season of Fargo and started talking like that, then I heard myself talking like that, couldn’t get my normal accent back, so I just was quiet for a few days. There is nothing harder to do than fake your natural accent (Grew up in a county with a lot of people with the Minnesota accent, this probably had something to do with it, although I personally had a Montana accent, and this happened when I lived on the west coast and my accent had been quite nerfed.)
Little known fact: the Boundary Waters are not only a boundary between Minnesota and Canada, but also spaaaaaaaace!
I've been playing the video game Astronaut The Best, and the astronauts can have various accents. Including ones the game calls 'stupid'. Your can also set the whole thing in the equivalent of old English for a challenge!
Nah, it's genetic his mother was a star.
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He keeps pronouncing "space" with a lisp and I swear to gawd...
An accent? Where am I supposed to find an accent? Out here. In space. At this hour.
I dunno about an accent, but if you go to the right planet, you could talk out of Uranus.