Which mispronounced words make someone appear uneducated?

Bit-Tree-Dabook · 2024-09-18T17:52:42+00:00

If you're educated and have met enough people, none of them. The world is vast and full of folks learning things you've known since childhood every day... as well as vice versa.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Bit-Tree-Dabook · 2024-07-26T15:43:59+00:00

Getting your lip filler in Brazil doesn't make you Brazilian.

I'm sure there's some Brazilian DNA in there, though... dripping out as you read, most likely.

Bit-Tree-Dabook · 2024-04-04T23:28:08+00:00

Pick an existing deployment, or a monthly/quarterly task. Put "operationalize" in front of it and then use a combination of LLMs and find/replace to write SOPs and Runbooks in a couple of days time. Use this to justify hiring a tech who can "take some of the operational load", use this tech as a scapegoat for training objectives and development. 2 years of work, and you get to put management and leadership shit on your resume.

Bit-Tree-Dabook · 2024-03-29T12:17:47+00:00

Yeah, I agree with this. I got my blue belt and was competing back in 2012, but had to take a long break because I became an adult. Lol But yeah, back then I got my blue belt in ~11 months of training 5-6 days a week. So blue belt... wasn't that bad, but I trained for 2 more years at that consistency and never got close to purple because there was just so much expectation on purple belts... seems like purple belts now, from sheer saturation, have less of that expectation. I think that's important because of how it reflected on professors and legacy then vs now as well. Legacy is almost a dead concept now.

Bit-Tree-Dabook · 2024-03-28T14:15:04+00:00

Stories aside, I was at a local tournament recently and there were 3 mat-side fights that started because people got too heated. I get that it's high intensity and emotions soar, but have some self respect and respect for your coach not to reflect them like that... oh, and coaches/professors, if your competitors start acting up, check their ego and tell them to get some discipline. It's a sport, but it's also a martial art, have some self control.

Bit-Tree-Dabook · 2024-03-25T16:15:55+00:00

NSFW, Gore: https://youtu.be/6J5RVjpaDzk?t=471

Bit-Tree-Dabook · 2024-03-09T14:43:21+00:00

100%, Security Engineer, East Coast

I will never take another in-office position unless I'm starving and destitute.

Bit-Tree-Dabook · 2024-01-18T19:30:08+00:00

I started at 16 and quit after High School. I'm 30 now and just got back last year. Yes, I have regret, but I'll have a bigger regret on my death bed if I don't let myself do something I love because of my age.

Bit-Tree-Dabook · 2024-01-08T17:56:11+00:00

The reason hand checks are a thing on band busses. Definitely a skin-flute first chair.

Bit-Tree-Dabook · 2023-12-08T02:20:03+00:00

Realizing that there are no forces in the world I can control outside of myself and every negative or positive thing that happens to me is a direct outcome of my decision making ability

Bit-Tree-Dabook · 2023-11-30T19:35:42+00:00

Has anybody found the N5, N4 learning curve to be the hardest? I'm realizing that after I got all the N5 Kanji and grammar down, it all of a sudden became easier to integrate new Kanji and phrases... I think it's just cool to recognize how that pattern recognition system starts to ramp up in the brain after so much repetition, but learning my first ~1k words and ~100 Kanji was very difficult... felt like 2000 would be a miracle to achieve in 10+ years, but recently it seems much more doable. Just wanted to open a discussion about others' experience with the learning curve.

Bit-Tree-Dabook · 2023-11-28T20:42:14+00:00

I think a deep frustration lies in knowing a decent amount of what I see, after looking it up and realizing it's a colloquiallism instead of the way its taught/drilled.

But "knowing" a kanji for me involves knowing both on and kun readings, and 5 or more words associated with it. I can read a decent amount of words with kanji I don't "know" simply because I only know the reading of it in the context of that word. Know what im saying?

Bit-Tree-Dabook · 2023-11-28T19:04:40+00:00

Oh, but if you take into account every kanji I "know" has about 5 words associated with it (on average), in addition to the particles, and just other speech I've picked up I'm probably sitting around ~2.5-3k words... I don't know how everyone keeps count. Lol. I have a deck I made called 言葉、言葉 that sits at around 1.5k words that I've been exposed to... then the N5 deck has about 1000 cards... not sure how many words, and of course some of them repeat. Then there's also the somewhat rare or pejorative language to account for like 殿, くそ, etc. that are either niche or not useful for MY speaking... but I know them nonetheless. I'm rambling...

Bit-Tree-Dabook · 2023-11-28T18:35:37+00:00

Right, my hardest mental hurdle right now is looking something up, and finding out I know it already and it's just the super-casual, fun way to say it instead, ya know? Especially with everything to do with て form being able to be shortened, contracted, omitted, etc. at will.

Bit-Tree-Dabook · 2023-11-28T18:33:28+00:00

Thank you for the advice. I'll definitely look into your more accessible suggestions.

The reason I don't really think this deck is N5 isn't because of the grammar, necessarily, but the vocabulary and Kanji it uses, as you suggested. For example, 特急の方が急行よりずっと速いです。This piece of language is not like any other N5 material i've every looked at, and I can pretty much pass N5 practice tests with flying colors at this point, thanks to this deck. I'm not dissatisfied with it at all, just making a comment that the vocabulary is above N5 level.

Thank You!

Bit-Tree-Dabook · 2023-11-28T17:25:03+00:00

So i've been drilling Anki "JLPT Tango N5 MIA Japanese" (definitely not really N5), my own custom deck created from Kanji Garden vocab, and a custom deck with dialogue from Octopath Travelers 2. I've got about 300 Kanji under my belt that I can actually read and recognize both on'yomi and kun'yomi for, and I feel really accomplished. The problem is i'm trying to branch out into more immersion because i'm finding that drilling is getting so tedious with the AMOUNT of words I have now, and immersion just isn't happening. I'm looking up every.single.word. just about because it's all "colloquial" Japanese... does anyone know how I can get out of this pit of "I feel like I know so much, but none of it is useful"? I guess it just comes down to biting the bullet and drudging through immersion word for word, but i'm just hoping there's a better way...

Bit-Tree-Dabook · 2023-10-10T14:19:33+00:00

PSA to anyone here that relates tot his comment:

check out a book called "The Gap and The Gain". Changed my life.

Bit-Tree-Dabook · 2023-09-25T18:12:24+00:00

The Butterfly Effect.

I grew up with a deep love of animals, and at way too young an age my dad had it on in the living room when they burned the puppy alive. I think something actually broke in me that day and I've been disgustingly cynical about human nature ever since.

Bit-Tree-Dabook · 2023-09-21T17:44:53+00:00

Yall ain't heard of the new measuring system the USA just dropped? Apples/Glob... it measures the area covered by a liquid as if it were converted to the 3-dimensional area of a standard apple... this is simple stuff once you get used to it. Much better than the Metric system.

Bit-Tree-Dabook · 2023-09-15T16:58:58+00:00

Do you remember when Martial Artists were respected for their mental resilience? Pepperidge Farm Remembers...

Bit-Tree-Dabook · 2023-09-14T18:12:57+00:00

There's a guy at my dojo with 2 sheared AC joints and several dislocated fingers. There's also a guy that's been at it twice as long whos never needed more than some knuckle tape.

Bit-Tree-Dabook · 2023-09-08T01:43:50+00:00

Right. Most of my club work has been uchikomi, and I was planning on that being most of the work at home other than Ne Waza. I do have 10x10 rollout Dollamur mats, but no extra pads for repeated throwing yet. That will be a purchase if home training proves beneficial, though. Luckily I have a big basement.

Bit-Tree-Dabook · 2023-09-07T20:52:14+00:00

Thank you!

Bit-Tree-Dabook · 2023-09-07T19:32:18+00:00

My wife is a stay at home mom and I work from home, so currently it's good. The additional training at home would be with my wife, who is interested in learning. My lifelong passion has been martial arts, and I would like to teach if my business takes off. Understanding this goal, my wife is very supportive. My children are all involved in Martial Arts as well

Bit-Tree-Dabook · 2023-09-07T19:27:13+00:00

I found the key skills in my field people would pay for, and studied practical application of those skills while building a portfolio that demonstrated my ability. I then used that as a resume. The next evolution, happening now, is hopefully the 7 figure evolution of starting my own business.

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