8ass XÖ has hijacked this conversation.

Its Bass X0. I named myself after my three favourite Mega Man characters - Bass, X and Zero. I did consider going with Vile Bass X0, but that would have been going too far.

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Do not taunt Bass XO.

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Bass XO is not to be confused with Bay Sexo.

It's good to be back, after that outage I think I'll try to post more.

I think Hasbro Pulse is broken. Dang Star Wars nerds!

When I googled 'space bridge' I was disappointed. Maybe in a hundred years.

Bass XO is backward compatible with the Sega Master System.

Bass XO has 9" long, dagger-like teeth and a 12,000 lb. bite force

Bass XO doesn't feel pain. He can't be reasoned with!

Bass XO has no known weaknesses.

Base XO is definitely unstoppable.

What about magnets? No one knows how they work or what they can do.

Yes Cybershark, and now no force in the universe can stop us.

Aaaan we're back!

its alive! AAAALIIIIIIVEEEEEE! *maniacal laugh*

WHAT!!! ALLSPARK!!! you IN LIVE!!!!!!

Indeed. I was missing it.

So glad the boards are back!

It's alive! Alive!

Aw man, I missed this place...

Now here in Manhattan, the spell is broken! And we live again!

Groovy.

How is everyone

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I'm making progress with tweezers. It's no great loss given Dai Atlas minor roles anyway, I really do prefer this mold for Titans Overlord and Sky Shadow,

Had that happen once. Drilled a 1 mmhole in the peg and superglued a rivet into it for something to pull on.

pliers, superglue, heat, nothing has worked so far but I had to take yesterday off due to pfizer side effects.

is there enough plastic sticking out to yank it out with pliers?

Oh great my Legends Dai Atlas fell and the gun snapped in two, the handle is stuck in the port on top of the vehicle mode.

Also, our compound terms are legendary among foreigners, because we throw them together as a single word, with no spaces and usually without hyphens too.

You can have straightforward sentences that are a literal word-replace translation of stuff like "I go to school", but once you throw in perfect tense and prepositions, you end up with insane constructions where the main verb is at the very end of a very long sentence, so you have to listen to the whole sentence until you have any clue what is going on.

And I stand by that. German sentence structure can be utterly insane.

Fun fact: When I was teaching German kids English, I kept telling them that English grammar and especially sentence structure is more logical than German.

e.g. Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den was by a Chinese guy pointing out the weirdness in his own language, rather than the frustrations of somebody learning Chinese as their second. So English isn't the only case where native speakers might enocunter funky issues.

Then I shall concede, and retire.

I'm not sure if that's even all that unique to English.

Which is why I specified those comparing learning it to learning other languages as a second language.

And I don't think "ancedotal frustration" means much, considering that every language has complaints from people trying to learn it.

The fact that these stand out certainly makes Japanese "not a smoothie". And it's only consistent within more recent loanwords. Older ones stick out in a different way.

Even writing them generally in katakana is a consistent treatment, and gives someone learning the language a general expected approach. I'd say the anecdotal frustration with English by those learning it compared to learning other languages as a second language is a demonstration that this sort of consistency and organization was not a valued thing in the past few centuries of the language's development.

Frankly, it just sounds like you think other languages seem a certain way because you don't look into them all that much.

It's pretty pervasive in Japanese as well, with how these feature into everyday speech.. And I don't know what you even mean by "deep", since writing them in a particular character set basically calls attention to not just their derivative nature, but their relative recency as well.

Indeed, every language has those artifacts if you examine deeply enough, but in English they're not deep, and they're pervasive.

like Japanese using three different script types together, and more recent word borrowings tend to be in katakana.

I don't know what you mean by "cohesively". Borrowings are probably obvious if you know what to look for.