u/KeyboardPerson17

I'm a huge linguistics nerd and lately I've been looking into Semitic languages. I had an Arabic phase where I spent a whole week studying it and then I decided to give Biblical Hebrew a try. My friend saw some texts on my phone and said I should stop because "Israel doesn't need more supporters". Like bro it's not even modern Hebrew but even if it was many people speak it outside of Israel.

I tried telling him that the fact I was learning Chinese a year ago doesn't mean that I support the Chinese government for example but he says he just finds it wrong.

Me and a friend are working on a worldbuilding project where a bunch of astronauts got stranded on an alien planet and after centuries they have created a primitive civilization and live in small communities like early humans on earth. When it comes to the language they speak, should it just be something English-derived since all astronauts spoke English or should it be derived from a creole made up from all the languages the astronauts spoke? Like English, Chinese, Russian etc..

Any help is greatly appreciated (:

So the track court I go to is inside a stadium where to get in you have to pass from a revolving door card reader (I don't know if that's the correct word), but the card printer has been broken for 2 years so pretty much no one has a card and the people at the entrance just open the door for them. In the year I've been going there there's not a single day I haven't greeted the old lady behind the booth who is responsible for opening. Despite being met with either silence or remarks about not having a card (which I can't get) I have never been rude to her.

Today, as I was trying to leave I was on the phone so I wasn't really present and another person was trying to get inside from the other side. I heard the clicking noise the door makes and assumed the lady had opened the door for *them* so I waited (because it's a revolving one so two people can't enter and exit simultaneously). Then she starts yelling and calling me an idiot and telling me to move, because she had opened the door for me. She also called me rude because I didn't ask for her to open the door for me.

I was dumbfounded and really out of it for some reason so I didn't reply and didn't move either so another guy who also worked there got close to me and shoved the revolving door open with force, which really startled me for some reason, and said something like "that's how it's done, move along" while laughing. I finally exited and flipped them off (not my proudest moment)

Then after 10 minutes when I returned to get something I forgot the lady and the man wouldn't open the door because I flipped them off "for no reason" and just stared at me while smirking. They opened it after a minute or so and when I tried to exit again after retrieving my stuff they wouldn't open it again so I told them off.

After leaving I told my friends and they said I shouldn't have flipped off an old woman. They also told me they heard that the man may have had some kind of intellectual disability but how was I supposed to know that? I've been nothing but nice to those people, if they don't want to say hi then they don't have to, they don't owe me anything. But at least don't be fucking rude.

Also they don't ask anyone else for a card, only the people from my track team, which makes me think they have something against my coach.

AITA?

I want to write a straight romance but everything I do feels completely tone deaf. I can write the woman's pov just fine but when it comes to the guy's perspective I hit a wall. I have no clue what could make a woman attractive and everything I write just sounds corny. Like, personality aside what do men find attractive about women? Help a guy out 😭

(also sorry for any grammatical mistakes, English is not my first language)

So I was taking a mock exam for the Cambridge certificate and we were doing an exercise where there was an initial phrase and you had to rephrase it with the given word. The phrase was "For me, a mobile phone is a necessity" and the word was "do". I wrote "I can't do without a mobile phone" and my teacher marked it wrong and wrote "I could do with a mobile phone". My answer may have been wrong but I don't think "is a necessity" and "I could do with" are equivalent.

Could someone clarify this for me? Any help is greatly appreciated (:

So I'm new to this whole thing and I'm trying to find how to calculate an arithmetic sum with an odd number of terms. From what I know if the number of terms are even you can do [(a_{1} + a_{n})*n]/2 with n being the number of terms. If the number of terms are odd can we do {[(a_{1} + a_{n})*(n-1)]/2}+a_{b}}, b = [(n-1)/2]+1?

Sorry if the notation is a mess, I'm on mobile

So I didn't really know how to tag this one, I'm working on a novel and there is a scene set in a baptist church in rural Georgia. Basically I need a reason for all the townspeople to be in a church at midnight (not Easter or a special holiday), and to have to drink the communion. For the first one I thought a night vigil might work, like maybe there has been a tragedy and all the people have gathered in the church to pray. I don't even know if that's realistic, but I can't come up with a reason for them to need to have the communion.

I hope this isn't offensive, any help is greatly appreciated!

PS: I'm not from the US and English isn't my first language so sorry for any mistakes in advance (:

So I am transferring schools and while on my current one I've been taking German classes, the new one only has french. I don't like German as it is but I've got enough experience to get by in class without tutoring, but french is practically starting from scratch. Second languages are compulsory so in order to get a passing grade I'll need to attend after school classes (and pay for them). I was planning to take up Spanish but now I cannot because I need to focus on French, how do y'all do this? Will French just grow on me? I have zero motivation to do any studying whatsoever :(

EDIT: there are many people telling me to "just get on with it because it's just a class" but the problem is that I'm expected to already have at least a B1 level in french, even though I've been doing German for the past 4 years. That's why I need the tutoring

I'm learning hangul and I just got to the consonants part and while I can tell apart the aspirated one from the other two but I CANNOT 😭 distinguish between the lax and the tense one. How do you all do this? I can't even get past the listening exercises in the app I'm using.

https://preview.redd.it/rflpspzwkjzg1.png?width=3012&format=png&auto=webp&s=135d657edd84310d375f7be036223063b2e4aa09

It's my first time doing digital art and it looks flat and shaky, how can I improve this?