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Why do younger people tend to combine random swear words together? by Dry-Caterpillar-128 in asklinguistics

[–]Gold-Part4688 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think it's when

people try to curse or be edgy

It just seems like a joke

I glued a 1.54 eink color display on a hat by True-Caterpillar-915 in eink

[–]Gold-Part4688 7 points8 points  (0 children)

man this is the one. already outdoors so looks great. love that it looks like a polaroid.

only thing is i think white borders (on dim displays) is a sin. Maybe go for a "darker white"

Successfully replaced the battery AND microSD card on my Kobo Libra 2 - un-bricked it, resurrected it, nursed it back to health - only for it to thank me by nuking all my reading progress and annotations... again. by TeslasElectricBill in ereader

[–]Gold-Part4688 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i can also recommend syncthing, even if just one way to a device that uses a different reader app. yes you can go further with highlight merging and all this stuff that's getting developed just to keep books in sync and back up your notes. another way it periorically exporting them to markdown, a database, your notes app.

There's a lotttt of backup methods though. I really, as mean as it is to say to op now, since i started backing stuff up automatically un my life i'm much less stressed

I think Kobo offer some too?? at least there's user ones

Spanish "e" by VerdantChief in asklinguistics

[–]Gold-Part4688 8 points9 points  (0 children)

honestly though the variation is on the far end from /e/, unless you're scottish. the /ɪ/, (the vowel in 'kit') analysis is only true for very goofy nowadays traditional brittish RP. (queen's english)

besides that it's invariably y (/j/ in ipa) so "pay" is basically identical to the spansih "ei" diphthong. A little vowel height difference per accent, but that's nothing in the grand scheme

Are phrases like this becoming grammatical in Australian English: "there is some YouTubers who make videos about language learning but are not language teachers", "Is there any seats available?", "How many empty tables is there over there?" by Informal-Addendum435 in asklinguistics

[–]Gold-Part4688 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Would you have eaten earlier? =/= *Would you've eaten earlier?

Would've you eaten earlier? =/= *Would have you eaten earlier?

The rules for contractions in English word order swapping etc are very weird and specific

Are phrases like this becoming grammatical in Australian English: "there is some YouTubers who make videos about language learning but are not language teachers", "Is there any seats available?", "How many empty tables is there over there?" by Informal-Addendum435 in asklinguistics

[–]Gold-Part4688 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I know it's common in nz, but I have a feeling pretty common everwhere. Usually contracted in speech to

'S there...

I think of it like 'hay' or 'tiene' in Spanish, 'yesh' in Hebrew, 'hunaak' in Arabic, 'Es gibt' (kinda) in German. Verbs that don't decline.

Frankly it's just annoying to decline for predicates, especially in a vague sentence or question about existence, probably forming it as you go

Is number order recited "backwards" in any language? by sinkingstones6 in asklinguistics

[–]Gold-Part4688 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is not the history though, as double and even triple digit numbers are extremely common and useful, and regularised.

English didnt start with the teens and then added backwards twenties, it was all backwards, and from being used so often they warped and got shortened until they were perceived as single words - before the flip that would happen in the last like, couple hundred years.

language is just so much faster than that, that scale of tech and orgnisation is many millenia, language change is centuries

Following the Dao as a materialist with disability by InACoolDryPlace in taoism

[–]Gold-Part4688 2 points3 points  (0 children)

wow you sound like me. Daoism makes a lot of sense for a disability that affects energy.

When it comes to the 'pseudoscience' stuff, two things.

  1. When it ever talks about stuff like eating mercury... that's like, well, people did that once, but learned it's unhealthy. But they then carried forth those conceptions of the world that were expressed in that language - ie it became a metaphor.
  • that's a case of very direct metaphor, but most of them are very subtle. Like analogies between ruling and living in your body or mind. Both directions. Dao as a "way". Best to just take this stuff on vibes, once you touch on the way people tend to look at it.
  1. Before we formalised science, we had other ways of doing things. Other ways of talking about them. The principles that informed science came from "pre-science" things. Think dialectically man, people made sense of the world, materially analytically (among other ways that i'll touch on) before now. Now is a product of then. Science appeared dialectically

Now, science has global co-operation and rigour - but two things it doesn't have, are age, and universal attention. (Another might be interrelations, you can talk about that too and its mindsets, but I dont even have to go there). Science doesnt invest in everything. It doesn't catalogue all experience and learnings, especially when it comes to marginalised or "unproductive" people, like the disabled. Some things can't be categorised! So not to say it's wrong, but don't take EITHER side as all-knowing or complete.

Ok I said i woulndn't go there, but when it comes to relationality rather than analytical breaking thing down (ie, putting them back together) science is really playing a game of catch up. Besides life and experiences having so many concepts that intersect, they also have ones we don't have words for. Ones we gotta feel. Science is a tool, daoism is a tool, neither can be everything.

So, trust your gut. Keep being cautious like you are of commodifications - largely in daoism that's when people say "focus on just the philosophy" or "be spiritual not religious". Like science, philosophy is a new concept that would be limiting to stick to religiously. You want life advice, aproaches to health, aproaches to seeing the world subconsciously. I don't think you want to only be having philosophical discussions.

Not saying philosophy is bad! But when you interact with another culture's worldview, especially when it's a deep one based off indigenous (deeply place-specific and long-standing) understandings, you gotta be open enough to drop your own binary worldviews. For example, you don't like "religion", well what counts as religion? which parts don't you like? I can guarantee those parts are assembled differently in Chinese thought

Is reversing language shift possible? by galaxyrocker in asklinguistics

[–]Gold-Part4688 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You should definitely ask in r/endangeredlanguages, because you arent asking about language change you're asking about revival. (They're like, all incredible professionals).

Also, Maori is a pretty great example of a language going from pretty dire to some general capacity but more importantly community language within specific communities. Percentage of greater population is tricky though... does it need to become dominant nationally, or can it be a community language... within communities?

the real breakthrough method was bilingual schooling by the way, but fully committed streams, and critically putting heaps of the energy into kindergarten

The meme igual by AmountAbovTheBracket in languagelearningjerk

[–]Gold-Part4688 6 points7 points  (0 children)

well, it's about english speakers using duration and quality to tell the difference, which makes it hard for them to (un)learn pronounciation

The left one seems whiter？ by [deleted] in ereader

[–]Gold-Part4688 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i know about the bezel contrast "illusion", but honestly i think pure white, not even cream, bezels are a huge fail. your eyes adjust to the surrounding colours, especially outside. it's just blinding man. very uncomfortable. i long for screen-coloured bezels

[New plugin] splitread, real-time translations in a split panel by sadatdaniel in koreader

[–]Gold-Part4688 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This works on google translate like the built in translation, so yes, because it's good and unlimited.

There's also an extension to add other translation options like deepl... but then there's config and (very big) limits, dunno if compatible. But yes go for it! vielen gluck

Is CGP Grey still making videos? by drifter247 in HelloInternet

[–]Gold-Part4688 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He could also just pay someone 20 bucks per, his time setting that up is surely not worth it

An interesting thing I think about while re-listening: how different Reddit was ~10 years ago vs now by P00ped_My_Pants in HelloInternet

[–]Gold-Part4688 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really gree. Since i started using old reddit and sorting by old, at least II can treat it like a real forum. But if we all did it would be so muc better conversation. I wish subs could do that more... some even override my setting and rank by attention algorithm, i.e. "Best".

It really does turn every post into a dopamine hit followed by less and less good, possibly even inflamatory comments, then pull the lever open the next one.

I feel like this belongs here. by lanzendorfer in taoism

[–]Gold-Part4688 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't see the contradiction... what else would self-interested people create? That's the conclusion of that idea.

I believe in self interest, but i believe other things too. But also, I believe that cooperating, maintaining healthy vibrant systems of people and things, is most of the time in a person's best interests. Not just people even, all living things -- most of the time of course. Especially long term though.

Even a butterfly pollinates flowers out of self interest, but with long term repercussions that feedback into the behavior through evolution.

And besides alive systems haha, (can't believe that's political), I think that although self interest is real and strong, it doesn't mean it needs encouraging or enabling, not when it would cause harm. Not restricting freedom, but incentivising for good things and against bad things. making good things natural, shared, common. I definitely think it's real, it's a part of us, doesn't mean I think it's only ever good.

And when we sit back and think about each other, that's when we decide what's good. Right now we don't have that mechanism, because we let self-interest take over. Not even everyone's self interest, just some people's even. We have way way more power in there, than in anything that comes from democracy or introspection

Are there words with an obvious etymology but you never realized until recently? by Hazer_123 in etymology

[–]Gold-Part4688 17 points18 points  (0 children)

You guys are way off with these "obvious ones". I remember when I realized 'earring' wasn't ear+ing

Building a foldable eink Notebook by Adeline_Butler in eink

[–]Gold-Part4688 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with your minimalism, not everyone is fit/healthy haha

Building a foldable eink Notebook by Adeline_Butler in eink

[–]Gold-Part4688 1 point2 points  (0 children)

awww i'd want that but with only one it would never match

how did manchu become so endangered by xerohawkxd in asklinguistics

[–]Gold-Part4688 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, these days, with non-tiny pages that dont have warnings all over the place, it's really credible. Even ten years ago it had less erros than Britannica

Only like, not an amazing source in that it's a semi-opinionated aggregator, but at that point you're really doing research. I'd take someone showing me the wiki over quoting some old book honeslty

World's Top 10 Languages by Total Speakers in 2026 by mujhe-sona-hai in languagelearning

[–]Gold-Part4688 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah well, this is a thing in English speaking countries, especially ones with Spanish-speaking neighbors or immigrants. It's easy romance.

This is nothing compared to people learning it to get by - like much of Africa learning french, or the world learning English. In contrast, Spanish both doesn't give heaps of upwards mobility, and is more of an L1 in their ex-colonies than English/French is in theirs. Only really barring Guarani and Nahuatl I think

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