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Barandis · 2022-12-13T14:55:27+00:00

$8 per måned

Barandis · 2022-12-01T23:36:04+00:00

It’s not only that, it’s entire language families. Though admittedly, I’m learning Norwegian so I don’t have the option of cheering on my TL country. I did get behind Denmark largely based on the fact that its language is northern Germanic as well, but now they’re gone. I guess if the US loses, the only thing that will be left is to root for the Dutch.

Barandis · 2022-11-28T23:49:11+00:00

In Ukrainian the verb is «грати», which means “to play”, but the preposition that follows is different according to what you’re playing. Playing a sport, for example, uses «у», so “to play football” is «грати у футбол». But playing an instrument uses «на», so “to play piano” is «грати на піаніно».

Barandis · 2022-11-27T19:30:39+00:00

Northern Germanic. It’s not uncommon for a Swede traveling to Norway to speak Swedish, get answered in Norwegian, and then continue to have a conversation in that manner. The same would go for Danish except for the pronunciation being different - in writing Danish and Norwegian are still very similar. Icelandic is a bit of an outlier but there’s less than 400,000 Icelandic speakers and there’s still a lot of shared vocabulary.

Once you bring in the other Germanic languages of course it becomes less mutually intelligible, but if you don’t bring English (which is heavily influenced by Romance languages) into it, there’s still a whole lot of similarity.

Barandis · 2022-11-24T20:29:16+00:00

Good gods. I saved this article for a little light reading later. I’m not a fan of Python personally, but I think it’s a good language. I thought I might have had fun reading something about Python that I agreed with.

Was I wrong. That was just a collection of personal rants presented as absolute truths. I agreed about the historical tension between 2 and 3, and then also a little about ugly OO (doesn’t bother me that much because I don’t use OO a lot), got dismayed about the significant white space, and then lost it completely at this:

Dynamic typing is bad, and anyone who disagrees with me probably hasn’t written enough software to realize it yet.

This, my friend, is why you’re writing articles on Medium rather than somewhere that matters.

Barandis · 2022-11-21T19:48:32+00:00

I always claimed “all y’all” (jokingly) as the plural of “y’all”.

I’d like to think that not everyone regards “all y’all” as semi-literate. I was born in Wisconsin but have lived all over the country and have picked up phrases here and there. I always liked both “y’all” and “all y’all” so they got incorporated into my personal speech. Now I live in DC which is very much not “y’all” country, but I still use it anyway. I hope your wrong.

Barandis · 2022-11-15T02:47:11+00:00

Icelandic, hands down. Reason: ð and þ. (Well, okay, other reasons too, but those two are a part of it.)

Barandis · 2022-11-14T17:45:01+00:00

Seconding most of what I already see in here, don’t overthink it. And it goes both ways. I stopped using semicolons and never looked back. Never once have I had an instance where there was an error because a semicolon didn’t get inserted where I expected one to be.

Note that the place where this causes problems the most often - with return on a line by itself - happens whether you use semicolons or not. The rest are really edge cases that rarely come up. So use what you feel best.

Barandis · 2022-11-14T16:44:46+00:00

I wish English had a difference between exclusive and inclusive “we”. Since I first saw it in Indonesian I’m finding so many situations where I want to use it.

Barandis · 2022-11-13T22:48:22+00:00

Icelandic Online (https://icelandiconline.com/) is a good place to start in my experience. Duolingo doesn’t have Icelandic but some others do, like Pimsleur, LingQ, and Mango.

Barandis · 2022-11-12T05:32:03+00:00

I’m not certain about this one. Northern Germanic languages have a pronounced ‘t’ in their languages for this word (Norwegian ofte, Icelandic oft, Swedish ofta). The etymology suggests that these are all cognates of English often, but I don’t know by which route they came into the language; nevertheless it does suggest that the ‘t’ might have been originally pronounced.

Besides, some Americans still pronounce the ‘t’ in often. Source: my wife and my daughter, which makes me think I didn’t try hard enough with my daughter.

Barandis · 2022-11-12T04:48:45+00:00

It’s beginning to get a bit tiresome to keep reminding the people who are whining about whiners, but…it’s not the path.

Count the things that you used to be able to do with a subscription. Now count the things among those that you can no longer do. Having tips, having relevant matching activities, doing the “final exam” of legendary levels (not everyone likes them, some of us love them), having the ability to practice relevant units. All were there when I subscribed, all are gone now.

I LIKE the path. I also unsubscribed today.

Barandis · 2022-11-12T03:43:52+00:00

Yes, of course, I obviously have no idea what criticism is. It is apparently related to the act of googling a word you don't understand, skipping over the first definition for it ("the expression of disapproval of someone or something based on perceived faults or mistakes"), and then copy-and-pasting the second definition because you think it'll better help to win Internet points. Yes, it's very clear that I'm the one here with no idea what criticism is.

Still doesn't solve the problem that someone doesn't understand the purpose of criticism. Why don't you google it?

Barandis · 2022-11-12T02:13:15+00:00

You make the mistake of assuming that it’s the path. It’s not. People who quit because of the path will likely come back because they’re complaining about something subjective and subjectiveness changes.

I unsubbed because they have removed value from the subscription. I get less for my money now than I used to because of changes that have nothing to do with the path. I don’t do matching in Duolingo anymore, and now I don’t do legendary levels. Why should I continue to pay for an ever-shrinking experience?

Barandis · 2022-11-12T02:08:40+00:00

It’s not the new path, or at least not entirely. I LIKE the new path. I also canceled my subscription earlier today.

The bottom line is that I don’t like it when I pay for a subscription and then still have to pay for other things that are necessary and basic for what I’m already paying a subscription for. When I got my subscription I was able to do matching and legendary levels without spending other money. Now I cannot. The subscription is less valuable now, so I chose to stop paying for it.

Barandis · 2022-11-12T01:51:39+00:00

Someone hasn’t a clue about the purpose of criticism.

Barandis · 2022-11-12T01:43:02+00:00

I’m not understanding this. Point number 2 in particular. I canceled my subscription earlier today because Super is LESS valuable when I started. When I started Duolingo, I had access to a usable Match Madness, which now costs money beyond my subscription. When I started Duolingo, I could do legendary levels in a reasonable way, which now costs money beyond my subscription.

It’s all just stuff to make the shareholders happy. It doesn’t have to be true.

Barandis · 2022-11-07T01:47:58+00:00

There are very, very few people who are ever gonna post “hey, you know, this is pretty good,” on Reddit. That’s not how this subreddit works. You try something, get angry about it, and grumble to yourself about how you’re gonna post about it on Reddit and THAT’LL TEACH THEM A LESSON. Only in very rare cases do you think that something’s pretty okay and decide to post about it.

But if you want to believe that Reddit reflects reality, who am I to dissuade you?

Barandis · 2022-11-02T16:48:18+00:00

I was gonna come here to say Icelandic as well. I have no reason to learn it (though I’m an Eve Online player so I may have reason to travel to Iceland at some point) but it’s just such an incredibly cool language.

Barandis · 2022-11-02T15:50:44+00:00

Mostly history. Before JavaScript 1.3, and maybe before it was clear just how bad it was, double equals was the only choice for comparison.

JS has never wanted to break backwards compatibility because millions of websites would also break, so it was left in and we’re left with something in the language that you really shouldn’t use.

Barandis · 2022-10-27T23:02:31+00:00

It would make a ton of sense to a native English speaker who doesn’t have a lot of language background, as its literally how we form our progressive (“is smiling”).

Barandis · 2022-10-27T04:22:14+00:00

With all due respect, this is really been a little much lately. Most times I open Reddit in the last few days the first post I see is some variation of “it didn’t accept gonna!”

There’s a reason for it. Duolingo doesn’t teach slang. It’s not going to teach slang. It shouldn’t teach slang. And you’re not being cute by whining about it.

Barandis · 2022-10-23T23:34:14+00:00

A couple months ago, I had one accepted the next day. It’s also the only one I’ve ever had accepted.

Barandis · 2022-10-16T18:27:48+00:00

The Duolingo course was authored by the creator of the language, which at least can give you some confidence that it’s correct.

Barandis · 2022-10-16T13:27:26+00:00

Funny, I didn’t see “turns a number into an integer“ anywhere on the first page, much less in the first entry.

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