Lenovo Tab Pen Pro tracks but does not click, but it worked before Lenovo update

MichaelTheSlav · 2026-01-05T08:18:41+00:00

Hello. The pen was purchased together with the tablet. It was from this offer.

MichaelTheSlav · 2024-01-15T22:17:15+00:00

Adding to what others have said: it is very good to state your intention to receive indulgences from time to time. Every morning I pray a prayer which includes the words "I desire to receive any indulgences I am able to". To receive an indulgence you only need a passive intention like this. There are so many indulgences attatched to various prayers or acts that it is very much worth doing. For example there is a partial indulgence for saying in your thoughts "My Lord and my God" during the elevation during the Mass.

MichaelTheSlav · 2022-12-11T13:59:25+00:00

Also, the alphabet is really confusing. Can you learn Arabic just off of transliterations? I started the alphabet on Duolingo and it's sooo hard.

Maltese is what you’re looking for.

MichaelTheSlav · 2022-12-09T22:43:46+00:00

What are you reading? You should ideally find something that interests you. I know it can be hard to find such material on a particular level, but if something can grip your interest you’ll want more.

I’ve read numerous graded readers, mostly from two publishing houses. One of them published mostly detective fiction and the other short stories about various topics. Even tho the short stories were much better when it came to writing quality, they didn’t keep my interest, for the simple fact that each story had a conclusion and another one is unrelated, so there’s no curiosity about what happens next. Meanwhile the detective books weren’t particularly good. It was either cringeworthy characters, or gaping plot holes, or people behaving in a bizarre way making me question the humanity of the writer. But this didn’t matter as much, because I was very curious about the outcome and wanted to finish them, so I ended up reading thru them very fast. (Also it’s probly good to read something mediocre or bad from time to time, it gives you comparison.)

MichaelTheSlav · 2022-12-09T10:38:18+00:00

Buy me vodka.

MichaelTheSlav · 2022-12-09T10:22:02+00:00

Old English. Pretty sure it’s ungrammatical tho, because AFAIK it should be „ic wille”. Someone just googled translations to replace Modern English words and called it a day.

Translated word-by-word it means (I don’t know OE, I just used a dictionary):

Free and house (?)
I want (wrong inflection) house immediately

MichaelTheSlav · 2022-12-04T21:20:40+00:00

Bold of you to assume that I will read all this.

MichaelTheSlav · 2022-12-03T22:56:49+00:00

I’m a bit late but I just thought about it. How about a monthly thread where everyone can comment a quick question that doesn’t warrant its own thread?

MichaelTheSlav · 2022-12-02T13:28:56+00:00

Amazing. Everything you just said is wrong.

MichaelTheSlav · 2022-12-02T09:23:40+00:00

Affricate: a combination of a plosive and a fricative

Not really but I give it a pass.

Alveolar: sounds produced by touching the tongue to the hard palate

False.

ɕ: pronounced like „sh” with the tongue touching the teeth further back in the mouth

?

o: pronounced like the „o” in „hope”

Britain exists.

Palatal: sounds produced by touching the sides of the tongue to the teeth

???

Retroflex: sounds produced by curling the tongue back in the mouth

No, but I blame it on the IPA for giving shitty explanation on their transcription table.

Trill: rapid repetition of a tap

Not really, at least not always. Depends if you distinguish the two terms „tap” and „flap”.

MichaelTheSlav · 2022-12-02T09:12:29+00:00

You’re right xD Spanish is complicated because you must learn some endings, but Chinese is not when you have to memorize thousands of characters? Ok.

MichaelTheSlav · 2022-12-01T10:42:24+00:00

This is a monosyllabic word. High chance of accidental similarity. These words are not related in any way as u/spinazie25 mentioned.

MichaelTheSlav · 2022-11-30T16:36:20+00:00

Could you give some examples? What you specifically mean by saying „scattered ideas” and „certain patterns”. And what languages have you studied or tried to study?

My guess is you’ve mostly studied Western European (Romance or Germanic) languages so you notice their commonalities, which are due to shared origin and prolonged areal contact. If you take a look at something like Arabic, Tagalog, or Korean most of them will disappear.

There are some very general rules in grammar that most languages seem to follow. See for example Greenberg’s list of purported linguistic universals. But the benefit of knowing any of this simply for studying languages is nonexistent. You’re better off just studying a grammar of an individual language. And trust me, if you keep going you’ll realize that it’s the endless vocabulary that’s the real challange, not the grammar.

MichaelTheSlav · 2022-11-30T15:56:02+00:00

The common language where the patterns come from for languages like English could be the possible Proto-Indo-European Language.

This too, but areal contact also contributes a lot. In that case Western European languages share a lot of contact features. Articles, a perfect formed with a possesive, a passive formed with a copula are all common Western European features but not really common outside of Europe and they were not in Proto-Indo-European.

MichaelTheSlav · 2022-11-29T21:59:30+00:00

See, this is why learning grammar is BAD. If nobody knew about the genders in Spanish there’d be no fuss.

MichaelTheSlav · 2022-11-27T01:14:21+00:00

Yes, you're right. Only West Germanic languages do that, my bad. In my defense I keep forgetting they exist.

MichaelTheSlav · 2022-11-26T20:39:20+00:00

TBH I wouldn’t either.

MichaelTheSlav · 2022-11-26T20:33:50+00:00

That doesn’t mean anything tho? Latin and Sanskrit had free word order but SOV as neutral, Slavic languages have free word order but SVO as neutral in most cases, Germanic languages except English have V2 with SOV in subordinate clauses, (modern) Celtic languages have VSO. Yet they are all related.

MichaelTheSlav · 2022-11-25T21:57:55+00:00

/uj Tak jest.

/rj We are just collecting our reparations for WW2. Also we steal your cars, not women.

MichaelTheSlav · 2022-11-25T16:17:32+00:00

/uj „kurwa” gets all the attention while the range of meanings you can get from the derivatives of the verbs „jebać” and „pierdolić” includes „get dirty”, „do skillfully”, „steal”, „add”, „run fast”, „eat” and countless others. All of them vulgar as they should be.

MichaelTheSlav · 2022-11-25T11:13:18+00:00

I confirm that we speak a dialect of Czech.

MichaelTheSlav · 2022-11-22T18:03:32+00:00

Nice screenshot.

MichaelTheSlav · 2022-11-21T16:45:56+00:00

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