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it's 1pm at the marsh! come on down, we've got

Some AAVE speakers pluralize 'child' as 'childrens'. People get racist about this ("It's already plural!"), but 'children' actually comes from Middle English speakers doing the same thing: slapping their plural marker on word already pluralized by an extinct plural marker.

To oversimplify: in Old English, 'childer' ('ċildra') was the plural of 'child' ('ċild'). Middle English developed an '-en' plural marker, which we see in 'oxen'. Instead of updating to 'childen', people slapped their preferred '-en' onto the end of 'childer' - so now we have 'child-er-en'. AAVE carries on this tradition with 'child-er-en-s'.

"Pure" language is just impurity obscured by the passage of time.

New three-state one-dimensional cellular automaton.

The initial state (top row) is random. Neighborhood is size 3 (one on either side). Each pixel looks at the three pixels above it and sets its state according to the following rules:

State 1 (white): 200, 022, 220, 002, 101

State 2 (gray): 111, 000, 010

Rules:

Starting from one point, two points, and random: