• balderdash
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    1022 months ago

    This is what it feels like to have bilingual parents that only teach you English.

    • @[email protected]
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      242 months ago

      Not to mention when that ‘English’ that you learn from them is a mix of non-existing, made-up words in three languages and bad pronunciations… and voilà, you can only use that ‘language’ with your parents.

      • @[email protected]
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        132 months ago

        That’s what it’s like with parents that know another language but didn’t have formal education so you speak to anyone in that language but you’re crude and using slang for everything

    • @[email protected]
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      We did that. My spouse speaks native Korean, I speak Tagalog as a second language (English native), and our kids only know English. I think Tagalog is quite useless so I haven’t bothered teaching them, but my spouse has no excuse. I speak a little German, but not enough to teach them, just enough to curse while driving.

      I’ve resorted to learning Spanish with my kids, which is at least useful, but I’m sure I’m teaching the wrong.

      • don
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        11 month ago

        You never know, they might find out you speak Tagalog and, wanting to have learned another language, wonder why you never bothered to teach them. What you consider to be useless might be very intriguing to them.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 month ago

          Eh, I’ve told them, but they don’t seem to care. I teach them a few words here and there, but they seem much more interested in Spanish because our neighbors are hispanic.

          • don
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            11 month ago

            Okay then, at least you made the effort.

      • balderdash
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        42 months ago

        Don’t mean to make anyone feel guilty, I’m just venting based on my life experiences lol. Hypothetically, I could know three languages.

          • @[email protected]
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            72 months ago

            …oooh-kaaay.

            I guess we’ll get a roll for animal handling, but that’s going to be a strength check in this situation.

            Also performance at very high, because obviously everyone is looking on in horror and it’s going to take every ounce of charisma you’ve got to hold this village’s respect.

              • @[email protected]
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                22 months ago

                lol.

                Good rolls. The beast leers at you impressed and satisfied. Apart from isolated sounds of vomitting and children crying, the townsfolk seem to understand their dire situation calls for a hero who can demonstrate such rigor and passion.

              • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)
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                32 months ago

                I’m starting to think there’s a relevant dropout for everything. Every time I watch any of their shows I’m thinking “Oh man, I’d love that as a gif…”

                • @[email protected]
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                  32 months ago

                  It helps that Brennan Lee Mulligan is a comedic genius that is somehow able to tap and channel the humor leylines.

      • @[email protected]
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        62 months ago

        Make the lore be that they are both recessive traits, so your version of a Pegacorn is ridiculously rare.

    • Dojan
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      72 months ago

      I had to reread that sentence several times because I kept reading it as “asparagus” instead of “Pegasus.”

  • @[email protected]
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    272 months ago

    Wait, don’t minotaur also have hoofed legs like a satyr?? They’d end up with something non-human if you only get parts from the parents.

  • @[email protected]
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    182 months ago

    Imagine the opposite. I guess a bulls head with a mermaids tail doesn’t fit neither sea nor land very well.

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      72 months ago

      You’d just be a sea cow, so a manatee!

      You use your tail to move through water, but you use your face to much vegetation and breathe air.

  • @[email protected]
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    122 months ago

    don’t think about them fucking don’t think about them fucking don’t think about them fucking don’t think about them fucking don’t think about them fucking don’t think about them fucking don’t think about them fucking don’t think about them fucking

    • Rose Thorne(She/Her)
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      82 months ago

      Well, if we’re going off of classical depictions of the species in question, that isn’t too hard.

      But now don’t think about the minotaur jerking it over a clutch of mermaid eggs.

  • masterofn001
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    Uh,

    Both are only human above the waist. (Never mind, I’m thinking of a centaur)

    You’d just be a torso.

    • @[email protected]
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      102 months ago

      Do we know that for certain? Maybe they have the DNA but it isn’t the resulting phenotype. I.E. There is nothing preventing two brunettes from having redheaded children.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      I guess I’m confused what you mean. From ancient Greek mythology “The mythological accounts describe the Minotaur as having the body of a man and the head and tail of a bull.”

      Minus the trail the legs should essentially be human, no? But if we go into DNA then neither have any human DNA right? Since they’re their own species and should have their own DNA.

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          42 months ago

          I think that’s other fantasy settings making their own interpretation, but the original minotaur from my understanding had human legs and feet.

  • @[email protected]
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    52 months ago

    What if you’re just some guy with minotaur strength and the mermaid ability to breathe underwater?