Anthony Flack wrote: Sat Oct 15, 2022 6:57 pm
Do you know, there are far more varieties of lettuce than just the ones you commonly see at the supermarket.

A child's bad behavior is just the iceberg lettuce of their psychology. There is an oak leaf of sensory needs and a mesclun of attachment issues you don't see!

Come is the best band.

Spanish is way more of a consistent language than English.

That being said..

Why is it “buenos días” - not “buenas”? And why is it “buenas tardes/noches”?

I should probably not worry and just finish my burrito.

jfv wrote: Wed Oct 19, 2022 9:47 pmWhy is it “buenos días” - not “buenas”?

Because día is unexpectedly masculine. Like "la mano" the other way around.

Yeah, some of those surprisingly gendered nouns make sense next to an article. For example "El agua" is easier to pronounce and hear clearly than "la agua" where the sounds run together. Probably most of it is weird etiology and latin lineage.

At any rate some of those are in the handful of reasons no one ever mistook me for a native speaker even when I was at my sharpest. Some of them I never seem to remember.

jfv wrote: Wed Oct 19, 2022 9:47 pm Why is it “buenos días” - not “buenas”? And why is it “buenas tardes/noches”?

Whenever I hear or read "buenas noches" I'm suddenly reminded of one of my favorite Looney Tunes moments, which some hero graciously isolated on YouTube for my pleasure.

Paul F. Tompkins looks like a clone of the original line up of the Violent Femmes. In a good way.

Chicken or the egg:

Some people with speech impediments' mouths look distinctly different when they speak. Is it because they're doing different things with their mouth which cause the differently formed sound, or do they have a different mouth shape which causes the impediment? Posture or physique?

All of England's problems really began when Mark E. Smith died.

enframed wrote: Thu Oct 20, 2022 9:00 pm All of England's problems really began when Mark E. Smith died.

He precipitated The Fall, for sure.