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Beginning sentences with "And" is a reference to Biblical Hebrew. It was used by the translators of the King James Bible because they wanted to preserve Hebrew grammatical patterns. It is unlike Latin-based grammatical rules. There's no reason not to begin sentences like this. After all, the King James Bible is very beautiful writing.

I wonder if any English-speakers began sentences with "and" before the influence of Bible translations?

you can pry starting sentences with 'and' or 'but' out of my cold, dead hands

I thought it over and I now think this is very unlikely to be the reason the person said nao instead of nou

obviously a lot of ink has been spilled on how prefacing statements with "I'm not even gonna TRY to pronounce that!" is way worse than just. trying and getting it wrong

but what really bothers me is when people mispronounce something very badly even though it's written using a phonetic alphabet

imagine if there was a slug civilization where they executed people with diatomaceous earth

It's a strange spectacle to see how much the community around skeptical inquirer cares about issues of little relevance to culture or power structures

Some people defend this kind of rationalist ideology by talking about, say, anti-superstition activists in India, but those people are admirable for the specific reason that they are undermining hierarchical power structures

A Western skeptic getting angry about Americans venerating ghosts with offerings --- that's not subversive, and it's worthy of contempt!

I don't actually enjoy arguing, but seeing an opinion I really disagree with in text feels sort of overpowering and makes me want to carve out a space against it. Like in a response comment. Maybe it isnt such a good idea

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the hazy sepia, like another world...

this implies that the redditor in question thinks only the Bach-style wigs are stupid and the Mozart-style wigs are actually cool

later i saw a post on reddit that said “the difference between baroque and classical music is whether it was composed by someone wearing a stupid wig”

Although the 3d Yume Nikki never looked interesting to me, this entity (Wrapi/Warpie) does. Maybe because it's not a reproduction of something from the original game, it can be appreciated by itself. It's good!

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Twinned with "was it written on drugs" for how destructive and limited a way of interpreting weird stuff it is

But it's also a problem that it implies the sex aspect is inherently a bad motivation, or that such an aspect can't be scrambled together with other motivations to make something really powerful

idk it seems almost like...screening the writer for aberrant sexual interests has become a standard part of how people interpret fiction that is even a little edgy and it's not good? reading someone's work and being like "is this a sex thing? is it? is it???" before you feel you can speak on it is pretty limiting, and if you're actually taking the writer to task on social media about this it's just creepy or straight-up sexual harassment. let the writing speak for itself girl, you're not this person's therapist