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Headline rules
  • If you read the article it's about someone in China who died by crashing a Ferrari.

    Looking at it again, I actually think "Ferrari" is supposed to be modifying "crash". Here's how I'd diagram the phrase (using a dependency grammar, because I'm not about to try to format a bunch of NP nodes in plaintext):

                                 crash
      v------v---------v-----v-----/
    China Ferrari     orgy death
                   v---/
                  sex
    
    China Ferrari sex orgy death crash
    
    • the crash caused death
    • the crash was due to an orgy
    • the orgy was specifically a sex orgy
    • the crash involved a Ferrari
    • the crash happened in China
  • Headline rules
  • In this case "sex" would typically be considered to still be a noun; it's just taking a more adjective-like role in the phrase. In English, and especially in headlinese, it's common to place two nouns together like this, with the first modifying the second. The noun "sex" is called an attributive noun in this context, and "orgy" is its head noun.

    This particular phrase actually contains 5 of these attributive-head relationships. I can't be sure, since it's nigh-impossible to parse the headline, but I think that "Ferrari" is an attributive whose head is "sex". If we were to say that "sex" is an adjective just because it's modifying the noun "orgy", we'd also be forced to conclude that "Ferrari" is an adverb because it's modifying an adjective.

  • In what ways does your internet dialect differ from your IRL dialect?
  • When I'm commenting on a post I tend to use very high-register vocabulary, to the point of sounding archaic or academic. I think it's primarily a hold-over from writing essays in school, but it doesn't hurt that the places on the Internet where I hang out tend to be extremely nerdy.

    I also frequently leave my sentences unfinished when talking IRL. I'll just sort of trail off once I can see that I've gotten my point across instead of bothering with a complete sentence.

  • what are some phrases that you use in your hobby or work that would make no sense to outsiders?
  • Computers are an endless source of these. Someone else already mentioned daemons and killing orphans; I submit "I only ever ssh into that box, so I keep it headless." ("I only ever access that computer via the terminal, so I don't install any software that uses graphics.")

    Conlanging (constructing languages) inherits all the jargon of linguistics, and then adds a bunch of slang on top for good measure. "I was worried that glomming tense markers to subjects in my analytic clong was unnaturalistic, but it turns out ANADEW" is the kind of thing I might say in a casual conversation with another conlanger.

  • Distro recommendations and Nvidia advice?
  • Thanks for all the info! My only experience so far has been with Ubuntu, so I'm cautiously branching out. Experimenting with WMs is definitely something I'm going to do later; I don't think I'm quite there yet :P

  • Distro recommendations and Nvidia advice?

    I'm planning on putting linux on a gaming laptop (an Asus TUF f15 from 2021), and I'm having a hard time deciding which distro to go with. I'm particularly interested in Nobara and Garuda, but any recommendations or advice are welcome.

    I'd consider myself a novice at *nix, so I'm looking for something that'll just work with a minimum of troubleshooting. From what I've read the biggest barrier to "just working" is probably going to be the GPU(s); for battery life reasons I need to be able to use the Nvidia card for games and the integrated GPU for less intensive tasks. If anyone could tell me about their experience with TUFs or getting Nvidia Optimus to work on linux I'd appreciate it.

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