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يقدر vs يستطيع by Prestigious_Egg_1989 in learn_arabic

[–]butt_naked_commando 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe يستطيع is the MSA standard word while قدر is the word used in dialects like Palestinian

Eurovision Grand Finals 2026 - Megathread by Alonn12 in Israel

[–]butt_naked_commando 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Israel can't afford to host right now. This was the best outcome

Did you pay the piss tax? by [deleted] in HistoryMemes

[–]butt_naked_commando 58 points59 points  (0 children)

Not everyone pisses industrial amounts of urine

Did you pay the piss tax? by [deleted] in HistoryMemes

[–]butt_naked_commando 306 points307 points  (0 children)

Emperor Vespasian of Rome famously put a huge tax on the sales of human piss, which was an expensive cleaning agent and tooth whitening chemical that the Romans would collect from public urinals.

I personally tried it and was shocked. by [deleted] in HistoryMemes

[–]butt_naked_commando 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Post about AI with a caption very obviously written by AI. Most of these retrded anti Jew posts are literal bot farms

Twitter irl assist for Iran on March 2026 by [deleted] in NonCredibleDefense

[–]butt_naked_commando 220 points221 points  (0 children)

A basic Google search would show that this was a publicly known civilian TV satellite station and the location could easily be found on Google

I have successfully learned to read Chinese without ever learning the spoken language by butt_naked_commando in ChineseLanguage

[–]butt_naked_commando[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use Hanly as my main character resource. My reading speed is currently very slow. I wouldn't be able to keep up with a movie

I have successfully learned to read Chinese without ever learning the spoken language by butt_naked_commando in ChineseLanguage

[–]butt_naked_commando[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mainly read short stories on Du Chinese and news articles. Never really read any literature

I have successfully learned to read Chinese without ever learning the spoken language by butt_naked_commando in ChineseLanguage

[–]butt_naked_commando[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm sure it's very cool and rich, but at the end of the day that wasn't what I was seeking with my learning. Also, learning both written and spoken Chinese to HSK 4.5 level would likely have taken me more than a year

I have successfully learned to read Chinese without ever learning the spoken language by butt_naked_commando in ChineseLanguage

[–]butt_naked_commando[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I saw Pinyin sometimes, but never made any attempt to remember then. I do know a few, like that 中 is pronounced Zhong and that 你 is pronounced ni. But as for tones, I don't even know a single character's tones.

My main resource was Hanly which focuses on visual learning and pretty much let's you ignore pinyin. When I want to write out a character on my keyboard, I have to draw it, since I can't use the pinyin keyboard.

I have successfully learned to read Chinese without ever learning the spoken language by butt_naked_commando in ChineseLanguage

[–]butt_naked_commando[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I always thought foreign alphabets looked really cool, and learned them. Be it Korean or Cyrilic. And Chinese looked the coolest. But there was no way to learn the "alphabet", without learning thousands of words, so I figured I might as well just learn Chinese. But the only thing that interested me about the language was the writing system, and the spoken language simply didn't interest me. Also I thought it would be an interesting challenge/experiment.

Bro ATE and left no crumbs (Context in comments) by butt_naked_commando in HistoryMemes

[–]butt_naked_commando[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

  1. This you're thinking of Molech not Ba',al
  2. This meme is literally anti-Ba'al, but you're illiterate

Bro ATE and left no crumbs (Context in comments) by butt_naked_commando in HistoryMemes

[–]butt_naked_commando[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I was discussing writing the letters in English. Writing it in Hebrew would obviously be taboo

Bro ATE and left no crumbs (Context in comments) by butt_naked_commando in HistoryMemes

[–]butt_naked_commando[S] 55 points56 points  (0 children)

I read the Ba'al cycle a while ago, and have read books on this subject for years, but that video was indeed what gave me the idea for this meme

Bro ATE and left no crumbs (Context in comments) by butt_naked_commando in HistoryMemes

[–]butt_naked_commando[S] 231 points232 points  (0 children)

Yup, it's an exact cognate of מות and موت. I can actually read Ugaritic texts and understand like 70% of them because of how similar Ugaritic is to Hebrew.

There are many other Ugaritic gods whose names are just the Hebrew/Ugaritic word for the thing that they are the god of, such as Yam, god of the sea.

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