just instinctively opened msft edge instead of chrome on my home laptop because I use it for work. cooked.
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also while deep in numbers I saw a 6,789 out in the while which was pretty fun
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i also look out for benfords law just for fun because i cant unsee it
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*it was April 20th how did i mess that up
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wait i couldve been referring to something else
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newer comedy movies have been adding, like, very internet comedy people recently. zac oyama popped up in a gen-x-targetting sex comedy I just watched. ivy wolk was in this terrible movie with keanu reeves (I know she did anora too but). bugonia isnât a comedy but itâs listed as one on streaming services and they have stavros halkias which is probably because heâs greek but still. theyâve been sticking them in there in these new releases
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mostly they are just cast as âliterally themselves, but an occupationâ
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nuemera island has a hell boss fight thatâs almost as bad as chapter 2âs first? boss
itâs not even really a boss fight itâs just a 3 phase gauntlet with one impossible to fail stage but
yeesh
i have never been so invested in british politics in my entire life as i have been this month
âHow do you kill that which has no life?â
I suddenly got curious, but I wonder if I need to test reviewersâ reading comprehension skills as well.
It sure would be a darn shame if the tragedy of âexecute outside tieâ were to happen again.
If the female version of the word actor is actress why isnt the female version of the word rapper rapress
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Iâd imagine because there arenât many so they never thought of needing to distinguish
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D tier bait. See me after class.
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Rapper isnât gendered
D-
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Gendered word endings like that were once used universally but have now largely fallen out of style and are maintained only in a few common words (waitress, actress, seamstress)
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It wasnt bait i was curious
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Well, English has been significantly influenced by several languages over the centuries (millennia?), and this is one of those situations where that comes into play. Actor (agent noun for the verb âactâ) is of Latin origin and Rapper (agent noun for the verb ârapâ) is of Germanic origin. The suffix -er is Germanic and the most common agentic suffix in English. I think itâs masculine in German, but in English itâs usually gender neutral (and contemporary English is generally gender neutral). Latin on the other hand is gendered, and the suffix -tor is used to form masculine agent nouns from verbs. Gladiator is one who gladiates. Imperiator, senator, inquisitor, etc.
(Edit: Oh yeah, itâs probably worth pointing out that none of those are gendered in English. We donât have feminine forms for any of them even though they are all agent nouns of Latin origin using the -tor suffix. 3 of those were not professions that anyone had in relatively recent English speaking nations, but the US has had senators for over 200 years. Digging further, I must have been mixing up actor with some other word because it doesnât seem like actrix was ever commonly used. Actress was used in English as early as 1608, and it was derived from the French actrice which was derived from the Latin actrix. -ess sounding like the French -ice may explain why there is apparent suffix confusion for actress. France (based on a quick search) did not have a senate until 1958 (and their feminine form of senator is senatrice!) which might be why we donât gender senator in English, or it might just be that it also wasnât a relatively common profession in English speaking countries until the late 1700s. Iâm not sure, but this has been a fun rabbit hole!)
The Latin suffix for feminine agent nouns from verbs is -trix and, while itâs almost entirely unused in modern English, was used historically from time to time. Actrix was once the commonly used noun in English to refer to a female actor, but there was a shift to using actor as gender neutral for a few years. Then, there was a shift back to regendering actor, but because -trix had fallen out of common use, the -ess suffix (from French but also of Latin origin) was used because it was a feminine suffix for non-agent nouns (prince â princess, priest â priestess, duke â duchess). So, in English, -ess is now the far more common feminine suffix for agent nouns of Latin origin and is sort of a weird quirk of Englishâs development that itâs used for agent nouns.
If you looked hard enough, you could probably find agent nouns in English that used a suffix that doesnât match the origin of the verb, but generally itâs going to line up. Examples like the one you pointed out seem like an inconsistency, but are (for the most part) consistent with the languages the verbs are derived from.
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