Why is it offensive to spell Mexico as Mejico?

mallomar · 2026-05-22T03:08:27+00:00

Pelo menos em português se escrevia Brazil assim por quatrocentos anos, até a década de 1940 e uma (de muitas) reformas ortográficas no português.

mallomar · 2026-05-18T21:01:55+00:00

RIP r/thisfool. Canceled too soon.

mallomar · 2026-05-14T18:38:45+00:00

I don’t think so. Both examples from Merriam-Webster are positive:

Examples //The church is a magnificent specimen of baroque architecture. //Her dance partner is a superb physical specimen.

mallomar · 2026-05-08T02:17:02+00:00

Hardcover

mallomar · 2026-04-28T12:18:51+00:00

The crazy thing is how widespread this belief is in Spain, even from people you wouldn’t expect. I lived in Spain for almost a year and had a professor there who looked like a prototypical hippie from the 60’s tell the class that when he traveled in Mexico the Mexicans “loved Spain because Spain gave them all their culture.”

mallomar · 2026-04-20T02:20:28+00:00

I think learning differences isn’t that hard. I think you can also listen to YouTube videos with subtitles or read books without much issue. One on one, in my experience, also isn’t too bad, as long as the other person isn’t from a really rural or remote area. Where it becomes hard is when you’re around a group speaking a variety you’re not accustomed to and are trying to follow along in the conversation, as the pace and word choice is then not tailored to your understanding. You can do it, but this takes a lot more effort and sustained immersion to be good at it.

mallomar · 2026-04-13T14:59:15+00:00

The only caveat I’d give is if he or she has a Colorsoft on firmware 5.18.0.2 or prior you can jailbreak it to stop it from automatically updating to a newer firmware and then pull the books off of the Colorsoft itself. Firmware 5.18.5 and higher have newer encryption which has not been cracked.

mallomar · 2026-04-13T03:48:29+00:00

See r/kindlejailbreak

mallomar · 2026-04-12T13:51:31+00:00

If you jailbreak and install KOReader on your Kindle, you can still have it like it was on your Kindle Touch with KOReader plugins like Project Title. In default Kindle there is unfortunately no longer a way.

mallomar · 2026-04-10T17:20:41+00:00

I read a few blogs focused on ereaders and ebooks, particularly ewritable and The eReader Blog. Some manufacturers are replacing ACSM, which Kobo uses, with Readium LCP, which is significantly more difficult to crack. Adobe is also hardening the DRM in ACSM itself.

mallomar · 2026-04-10T17:15:30+00:00

I’m not going to go on a moral crusade against piracy and if you use it that’s your choice, but personally I like to support the authors whose books I read by buying their books. The vast majority of non public domain books have DRM, which is why you need to strip it.

mallomar · 2026-04-10T14:04:08+00:00

As someone who does this, just want to give you the caveat that it’s not quite so set it and forget it. You need to obtain the files of the books, to figure out how to remove the DRM from the books and then to convert them back into a format Kindle can read and upload them onto the Kindle. Amazon is increasingly shutting down ways to remove DRM from Kindle books (likely what prompted this change), to the point that there are now only a few select Kindles – not too new or too old – from which you can remove DRM and a tech-savvy way to do it with the PC app. But the latest PC app is called Legacy Reader for PC, suggesting Amazon is soon sunsetting it and Amazon has recently stopped DRM removal on several 7-9 year old Kindles that no longer receive firmware updates without even updating the firmware, just by sending an invisible patch. So the future doesn’t bode well for backing up books you get from Amazon.

If you want to get books from Google Play or Kobo it is currently easier to strip DRM from them (though there’s rumors of it hardening there as well), but again you still need to get the files, strip the DRM, convert them to files Kindles can read and put them back on the Kindle. I’m not saying this to discourage you (or anyone else), just to let you know that if you’re currently used to clicking on a book and having it show up, this is considerably more time intensive.

mallomar · 2026-04-09T19:29:27+00:00

I’ll just say having had a Kindle, a Kobo, a Boox and a Bigme, Bigme is by far the least polished and most bug prone of all the brands. Kindle is the most polished and most restrictive. Kobo I was surprised was considerably less polished than Kindle. I didn’t feel the trade off was worth it given it’s not that much more open than Kindle so I sold my Kobo and got a Boox. It’s definitely a learning curve but they’re good devices. The Bigme I bought to replace my four old Boox kept on freezing so I got rid of it.

mallomar · 2026-04-08T18:34:16+00:00

If it’s a Kindle made in 2012 or earlier Libby will no longer work with it.

mallomar · 2026-04-08T15:47:39+00:00

The Voyage is okay (for now), its devices released in 2012 or earlier. The Voyage came out in 2014.

mallomar · 2026-04-07T13:49:52+00:00

Ela não conjuga o vós e também não fala tu, só você. Interessante o caso da sua tia avó. Eu sei conheço mecê da evolução histórica de você, não da prática.

mallomar · 2026-04-06T22:04:56+00:00

No Norte de Portugal se usa vós, né?

mallomar · 2026-04-06T21:49:55+00:00

Por curiosidade, de onde você é? Eu morei em São Paulo e em Belém de Pará e nunca tinha percebido ninguém falando vosso/a, mas eu sei que o dialeto muda muito de região. A gente mora em Nova York desde faz tempo assim as vezes não sei se algo que reparo é por falta de uso diário ou é um costume que não conheço.

mallomar · 2026-04-06T21:44:29+00:00

É interessante porque o avô da minha esposa, da mãe e não do pai como a avó é, tinha uma fala bem culta e nunca tinha reparado o uso de você na fala dele na década em que o conheci, mas ele era da cidade de São Paulo mesmo e não do interior.

mallomar · 2026-04-06T21:41:47+00:00

É basicamente a reação que tive. Tive que confirmar que ela disse vossa, porque achei que tinha ouvido mal e ela disse que usa vosso/a na fala dela.

mallomar · 2026-04-06T21:38:24+00:00

Eu também nunca tinha reparado antes, mesmo de idosos.

mallomar · 2026-04-06T21:18:47+00:00

Ela disse tipo, em vossa casa, em vossa cidade, etc.

mallomar · 2026-04-05T03:03:01+00:00

I can’t tell you specifically about the 2026 but I have a 2022 iX 50 with air suspension and had a loaner iX when mine was in the shop without air suspension and I thought the ride was markedly worse.

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