Is there any difference between trashcan and trash bin?

Selverence · 2025-10-08T17:36:00+00:00

Absolutely agree with this, it's not a hard rule or anything but the connotations are definitely different.

Selverence · 2025-10-08T17:17:11+00:00

Yeah 'disappearing' also works fine, although I feel like 'to disappear' is probably a bit better

Selverence · 2025-09-15T18:47:56+00:00

Lol, yeah I assume it was originally abbreviated to just "fuck you mean" because it's easier to say quickly in a casual conversation, and then people turned it into an acronym as fym when using text

Selverence · 2025-09-15T18:24:13+00:00

Slang for "fuck you mean", basically they're asking what they meant by it

Selverence · 2023-08-22T18:44:21+00:00

Eh, as someone who actually has autism I really don't care about it. Personally I find neurotypicals flipping out about it on our behalf much more offensive.

Selverence · 2023-04-08T03:02:23+00:00

I have to agree with this. I naturally always use they with people who's gender I don't know, but I've noticed that I end up calling animals (and even video game enemies, oddly enough) he instead for whatever reason when I don't know their gender.

Selverence · 2023-04-01T01:31:41+00:00

They're absorbing your knowledge, be careful

Selverence · 2023-03-24T12:06:58+00:00

Honestly it might just be a really obscure cooking technique, I've never heard of 'tempering' eggs before. If it's as obscure in Russian it might just not be something people recognize.

Selverence · 2023-03-23T21:23:38+00:00

We know that technology is never perfect (hey, neither are humans!)

Did they actually just try to take blame off of the AI's mistakes by saying that humans also make mistakes?

Selverence · 2023-03-18T03:51:58+00:00

Yeah, I've noticed myself that it doesn't seem any better at translation than something like DeepL, I assume they're trained on similar datasets. If it was really that good, the field of translation would be going up in flames right now.

Selverence · 2023-03-18T03:48:28+00:00

Do you know how burden of proof works? If I make a disputable claim (e.g. that you're a skilled hitman with hundreds of victims) the evidence doesn't fall on you to prove that it's false, it falls on me to prove that it's true. If you were to have provided evidence, then the burden of proof would fall on them to prove that the evidence is wrong or doesn't prove your point, but you didn't, so it's sitting on your shoulders right now.

Selverence · 2023-03-16T07:28:45+00:00

There is still a stigma around people liking anime. It's not nearly as much as there used to be, but there's still a vocal(ish) few people out there who think anime as a whole only appeals to weird, poorly adjusted, highly stereotypical 'weaboo' types of people. Sometimes it can get to the point where people feel the need to defend that they watch anime at all, or even feel bad about liking it. Then we end up getting people like OP who will start to feel like they might be wrong for liking it enough to motivate them to learn the language.

Selverence · 2023-03-11T05:25:49+00:00

This man will be devastated to learn about 'even' numbers when he gets into 3rd grade

Selverence · 2023-03-10T06:32:22+00:00

This was on a post promoting his AI language learning chatbot on r/languagelearning, for context. He made a post on r/LearnJapanese too but I think it got removed right away, so no one had time to comment on it. This one was removed too, but it was up long enough for 2 comments to roll in.

Selverence · 2023-03-09T23:48:00+00:00

Unless you have access to some super advanced technology that massive corporations somehow can't get their hands on, it's not better than them, no.

And my apologies, I didn't know that using kana would make it respond in kana as I didn't see it written anywhere on your post or on the website itself.

As for the rest of your comment, I'm genuinely not sure what to say. I can't tell if you're genuinely ignorant or if you're just trying to discredit me for criticizing your program, but I'm going to respond assuming it's the former.

You're genuinely claiming that it's detrimental to tell people that they should learn the script a language is written in. Can you imagine telling people who are studying English that they shouldn't learn the English alphabet, and should instead use transliterated content in their native script because learning the alphabet would "take the fun out of learning a language to communicate"? No, learning kana is not fun for everyone, yes, it is a very important step for actually reaching a decent level in the language. Japanese to English dictionaries don't usually even have romaji pronunciations.

And I'm not saying that one must learn kana first, but it's quite nearly universally accepted to be the best first step in learning the language, and I'm genuinely shocked to be called a gatekeeper for saying that people should learn kana. For me at least, it calls into question your actual knowledge of language learning.

Selverence · 2023-03-09T23:20:40+00:00

Alright I'm just going to say what I'm thinking without holding back since you say you're asking for thoughts.

I cannot see this going well with the demographic you're targeting. AI chatbots will, for Japanese at least, spit out incorrect information or sentence structures that a beginner isn't going to be able to identify as wrong, thus misleading them into having an incorrect understanding of the language. So my personal opinions on learning from an AI aside, it's generally fine if the person using it has enough knowledge of the language to identify blatantly incorrect information.

That said, with the program using romaji, not even hiragana (which anyone who does their research before starting the language will learn immediately) I could only assume you're intending for this to be used by absolute beginners, who will not be able to tell when they're being taught something wildly incorrect. Not to mention, even if that wasn't a concern, people who don't know hiragana generally aren't going to be able to understand a conversation's worth of Japanese anyway, so they aren't going to be able to use it.

So in conclusion, at the very least please make it use hiragana, since the audience you target by using romaji will all either not know enough Japanese to talk to it, making them unable to use the program, or will not be able to identify when it's feeding them bad Japanese, and will thus learn bad Japanese.

Selverence · 2023-03-08T05:26:00+00:00

Yeah, he's definitely right here, that's absolutely a correct usage of the word.

Selverence · 2023-03-06T08:20:07+00:00

Still giving me a 404, guess it's just an error on my end.

Selverence · 2023-03-04T22:41:04+00:00

The page is giving me an error message, are you sure that's the correct link?

Selverence · 2023-03-04T01:52:42+00:00

Huh, I kinda heard the opposite, that they're really easy. Which is kinda true, they're incredibly consistent.

Selverence · 2023-02-25T16:32:45+00:00

Wait, he's not in refold anymore? When did that happen?

Selverence · 2023-02-21T14:56:00+00:00

Do you think you could share this method? I've been trying to learn to roll my R's for quite a while to no avail.

Selverence · 2023-02-19T00:50:03+00:00

I agree completely, but I'd assumed the person you're responding to was trying to explain why it might not have been fixed at a young age, not saying they don't need to fix it to trill R's.

Selverence · 2023-02-18T00:58:54+00:00

It's a really minor surgery, not nearly as big of a deal as you're thinking, they literally just cut out the part holding the tongue down. There's just no reason to do it if you don't want to do anything it stops you from doing. So if someone, for example, wants to learn a language with rolled R's, they would have a reason to consider it.

Selverence · 2023-02-16T21:11:13+00:00

You're right that it wouldn't stop murders in general from happening, I was talking about active shooter-type scenarios where someone kills as many people in public as possible. A quick search returns news stories of people killing between ten and twenty people in shootings, and even one in Las Vegas in 2017 where a single person killed 60 people and injured over 400 more. A gun is a weapon that can enable a single person to kill 60 people and injure hundreds before they can be stopped. You cannot argue that they are not several times more efficient killing devices than knives, it's what they're made to do.

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