There hasn’t been a need for a new Civ since IV so I already wasn’t gonna buy it, but now I’m gonna not buy it even harder.
There hasn’t been a need for a new Civ since IV so I already wasn’t gonna buy it, but now I’m gonna not buy it even harder.
Great question! The answer is that, well, you don’t, but that’s not what I’m intending unstained to mean here.
As it turns out, “unstained” is structurally ambiguous, because English has two different “un-” prefixes, each of which has different functions and different category selection requirements.
The first attaches to verbs, and means “reverse the action of”, e.g. un-tie, un-do, un-stain, etc. The second attaches to adjectives, and means “not X”, e.g. un-happy, un-satisfied, etc.
So, if we want to form the word “undoable”, we can either take the verb “do” and attach “-able” first, giving us an adjective “doable” to which we can then add “un-” to give us “undoable”, an adjective meaning “not able to be done” (“Flying by flapping your arms is undoable”)
OR
We can take “do” and add the other “un-” first, giving us a verb “undo” meaning “to reverse the action of something” to which we can then add the suffix “-able”, giving us “undoable”, a different adjective meaning “able to be undone” (“Simple knots are easily undoable”)
So, while both of these look and sound like the same word, they actually have different structures that correspond to the differences in their meanings.
In my OP, you read “unstained” as “unstain-ed”, with “un-” attaching to “stain” to give a verb “unstain” meaning “to reverse the staining of”, and then added the participle suffix, while my intended structure was to attach “stain” and “-ed” first, giving a participle (adjective) “stained”, to which we can then add the other prefix “un-”, giving “un-stained” “not stained”.
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This would be more like un-stained glass than stained glass.
I still have deep-seated, instinctual nightmares of the merg.
Six years ago I tossed Warframe 10 bucks before I stopped playing to thank them for 500 amazing free hours, but that’s literally the only time I’ve ever made any sort of freemium purchase.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The movie debuted at the height of turtlemania in 1990 and became the highest grossing independent film ever at the time. It’s also a genuinely good movie.
Well this would have been fun if the stupid title hadn’t spoiled the whole thing.
Good.
I’m just waiting to see how they fuck up Monster Hunter Wilds at this point.
The millennial version of minion boomer memes.
never use my main for anything
Are you sure it’s your main?
The problem there is that you have to know exactly what you’ve done to mess it up in order to fix the bug, and when I fuck up my system, I usually have no idea what I did.
Dunno why Pythagoras would be mad, since the Pythagorean theorem was known for at least a thousand years before his time.
This is why we should start moving the main communities like memes and world news off instances like lemmy.ml
Because they don’t have six inches of solid bone protecting their brains?
Wouldn’t it then have to be a “boostershire shot”?
Yeah, because there definitely isn’t a reason why Israel sending troops to other Middle Eastern countries would be a bad idea. It’s definitely just because they’re a bad ally.
It’s got some ground to make up if it’s going to try to take on the ROG Ally. Still, competition is exactly what this space needs ATM - can’t wait to see where the market is in a few years!
People like you are the reason I’m running Linux Mint on all of my PCs now, and I couldn’t be happier. Keep fighting the good fight!