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I almost had a heart attack until I read the "Singapore" part. If Nintendo had bought Bandai Namco entirely, which I feel they have motive and means to do, that is a lot of IP that would become Nintendo exclusive.

Not many options in the area that were:

Accepting new patients
Accepted my insurance

It was basically down to 2 options at that point and I chose the closer of the two. They're fine, no complaints, but I know others who have had bad experiences with other providers at that practice. But then I've heard worse about the other place, so...

Seems that is more Africa-specific and may not necessarily be what folks from the African diaspora are looking for, though.

Unsweetened Iced Tea.

Can choose pretty much any variety of tea you like and just drink it with ice and no sugar.

Around here (not Australia), it's normally black tea, lemon optional for mild sweetness. Unsweetened green tea (not matcha) is also common. Not good if you're looking for unsweetened, but the Arnold Palmer is also a popular drink, which is 50% iced tea and 50% lemonade.

Anywhere boba tea is served, you'll find varieties of matcha iced tea available. More of a cafe drink, but probably good if you're a matcha person. Milk tea is also common in boba shops and is just any variety of iced tea plus dairy, so if you like your tea with cream, that's still enjoyable as a cold drink.

In Japan, barley tea is pretty commonly served cold and unsweetened, along with other popular tea varieties like oolong and jasmine. If you're in Australia, it might not be too difficult to get Japanese imports (or even to just learn to make your own, they're easy).

Yep. The letter K is basically a concession of the Latin alphabet to make some more sense of Greek loanwords, where the letter K is originally from, following a series of pronunciation shifts. But C is the Latin K, so words of Latin origin (the majority of vocabulary in Romance languages like Spanish) will normally only use C for that sound.

K is more useful in languages where the soft C has entered use (like French, Spanish, English, and others) just because K is always hard and makes it easier to define the pronunciation of (loan)words that may otherwise encourage the wrong pronunciation when paired with certain vowels (kite, cite, and site all being different words in English, for example).

EDIT: Oh I just remembered another funny exception for "ch": In "Chemistry" the "H" is neither pronounced nor does it modify the "C" to make the normal "ch" sound. It just sounds like there is a "C" there. Like "Cemistry." Except looking at that, that pattern is used in something like "Cemetery" and then the "C" sounds like an "S". I'm going to stop now because there are so many of these I could probably go on forever if I kept thinking about it.

That one's the loanword problem. Greek has letters Κ (kappa) and Χ (chi, pronounced similar to "key" but from the back of the throat). Kappa is a close approximation to the English K, while chi doesn't have anything like it in English. So loanwords from Greek that used chi are written differently.

Wall of random language knowledge coming:

In the Latin language, where our alphabet derives, C was originally always hard (like "calendar" as opposed to "celery"). When Greek loanwords entered Latin, kappa was transliterated to C (Kronos—Cronus). Chi, being similar but just a bit more breathy, was transliterated as Ch (Chimera).

Latin experienced pronunciation shifts and gradually branched off into the modern romance languages. In several of them, the letter C conditionally softened (e.g. cerveza in Spanish, cent in French, etc).

The Latin alphabet did not enter use for the English language until Christianity came to Britain in the middle ages. Before then, Old English, which should be more accurately called the Anglo-Saxon language, was written in Futhorc, a runic system like old Norse. The Latin alphabet was adapted to Anglo-Saxon, but there were not always 1:1 pronunciations, so pronunciation of certain letters shifted and some runic holdovers from Futhorc like Þ (thorn) for Th remained in use.

In the intervening centuries, Anglo-Saxon/English would undergo a pronunciation shift, a series of invasions from the Danes and Normans, and Ecclesiastical Latin (Latin after undergoing a pronunciation shift) remained present for religious purposes. All of these would introduce new loanwords and expand the English vocabulary at different times. The Germanic loanwords would be transliterated, while the Romantic loanwords would be lifted directly or edited slightly because they already used the same writing system. The softer Ch sound (like "chair") existed in English by the time the Normans arrived, and they started writing it like Ch because that sounded closer to its use in French.

Finally, this was all further complicated by the invention of the printing press. By the time this occurred, the Latin alphabet became the de facto writing system for most of Europe, but languages did not quite meet 1:1 on which letters were used. Some innovations like the letter W stuck, because it was very convenient for German. And as it happens, the German printing presses invented by Gutenberg were the first to cross over into Britain. The German W was a convenient enough replacement for the English Ƿ (Wynn), but German had no equivalent for Þ (thorn) or Ð (eth, the th pronounced like "that"), so early English printers first approximated by using the letter Y for being less common and looking close enough ("ye old" is really "the old") before eventually settling on Th.

Okay, one final note. On the random topic of W, and why it looks like two Vs, V is how U was written in classical Latin, and so W is double that. You'll find the logic of W persists in a lot of words if you replace it with a U, even though we think of W as a consonant and U as a vowel. You can look at an edited word like "flouer" and potentially still read it as "flower" because we have other words like "flour" which have the same sound.

I had to dig a bit on that page just to find what SDF stood for. This whole time I assumed it was "Software Development Fund"

Don't forget the Azure/Intune outage not one week after AWS, too.

The outages are almost beginning to feel deliberate at this point.

American "standard", but can't handle the weight of American asses.

That's the America I know!

Never played a Counter Strike game, actually!

Other than a bad campaign, unapologetic AI slop, kernel-level anticheat, a $70 price tag, and being yet another uninspired formulaic installation of a franchise that peaked during the Bush administration, what's not to like?

Decision paralysis: you will be blamed by the survivors for every life you did not save while you deliberated pulling the lever to stop the trolley, so you just let it run them all over so there would be no one left to accuse you.

I'm guessing that Odyssey won't be a major part of this movie, I'm sure they want to save that one for its own film. This one might just be borrowing some aesthetics/references from Odyssey without really exploring it further, like the first movie.

There are some accounts that explicitly label themselves as bots, though. So on those, you're basically guaranteed to never receive any response or engagement from OP.

That's what they said

Man I'd love a sequel to Firewatch, if only Valve didn't basically kill that studio.

The Earth's magnetic field is gone and we all die.

I didn't even know that FBC Firebreak had anything to do with Control until reading this post.

If money was no issue, I'd choose to live close to where I live now, but in an actual house that I could call my own.

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Nintendo To Acquire Bandai Namco Studios Singapore As A Subsidiary

USAians of Lemmy, how did you find your current medical provider?

Does Piefed / Lemmy have any communities for Black People / African Etchnicity?

I need a savoury, summery drink as an alternative to beer

Why do languages sometimes have letters which don't have consistent pronunciations?

Why do languages sometimes have letters which don't have consistent pronunciations?

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Cloudflare went down today and took half of the internet with it. How does one company have that much impact? Do you think that's concerning?

Apropos the American Standard

Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip.

Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip.

profit problem

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie – Official Trailer

Are you less likely to comment on a bot post?

Planet rule

What do I need to read to get where you're coming from?

Is AI self-selecting through the stock market?

Remedy [Control, Alan Wake] is 'not satisfied' with its Q3 results after FBC: Firebreak's flop, and has 'moved development resources' to other games in production

What would happen to society if all magnets suddenly lost their magnetism?

Remedy [Control, Alan Wake] is 'not satisfied' with its Q3 results after FBC: Firebreak's flop, and has 'moved development resources' to other games in production

Where would you live if money and/or visa requirements weren't an issue?

You wake up as a random 10-year-old in 2002 with your memories intact. In your hand is a USB drive with a backup of Wikipedia as of Jan 1 2025. You must keep your identity secret. What do you do?