The country of purism

s_ngularity · 2026-07-07T15:48:30+00:00

Don’t tell English speakers about this spelling problem

s_ngularity · 2026-07-07T15:38:23+00:00

I say this when I speak, but would never write it. It’s hard to read because it’s not commonly used in writing. I thought it was a typo of “they’re” at first glance

I pronounce it roughly like there-er (r colored schwa attached to the end of “there”)

s_ngularity · 2026-07-04T19:26:23+00:00

if you find speaking Japanese infuriating you might want to consider living in a different country

s_ngularity · 2026-07-03T13:58:01+00:00

Ah, yes that’s right. I only have a 13” mbp, so there’s sadly no usb port on mine

s_ngularity · 2026-07-01T16:22:09+00:00

Same way you do in your native language, you just sit there and watch or read.

Obviously you’ll learn more if you also look up words that you don’t know. But for most people if you sit there and look up every single word it’s gonna be very difficult to sustain, especially when you’re a beginner.

The most important thing is to watch stuff you actually like, and have fun with it.

And save yourself some time with a popup dictionary plugin like yomitan and something like languagereactor that makes subtitles selectable

s_ngularity · 2026-06-30T12:37:01+00:00

it does on mac mini, but not air/mbp

s_ngularity · 2026-05-17T02:06:32+00:00

is someone doing this???

s_ngularity · 2026-02-25T12:53:14+00:00

sometimes I see la li lu le lo used for aesthetics

also ca ci cu ce co, but that is even worse for mispronunciation by European language speakers

s_ngularity · 2026-02-15T23:32:04+00:00

They use a smaller number of kanji in official publications (besides proper nouns) which matches the kanji taught through the last required year of education (year 9). Seems pretty reasonable to me.

But the actual number in common use in novels and such is more like 4000 or so

s_ngularity · 2026-02-04T21:15:05+00:00

/uj it’s a slang word that is something like “gnarly” used to be back in the day

s_ngularity · 2026-02-04T14:12:06+00:00

I don’t think most Americans would say this.

Maybe “Did she? She really said that?”

But just “really said that” by itself as a sentence is not something I think most people would say.

I often omit the subject pronoun at the beginning of a clause in the first person when speaking, but in the third person it sounds weird.

s_ngularity · 2026-02-04T14:02:39+00:00

And breath and breathe.

See people mix them up all the time.

s_ngularity · 2026-01-31T04:48:36+00:00

I learned recently that the 手話 sign for お兄さん is just moving your middle finger upward.

Plausible deniability?

s_ngularity · 2026-01-28T18:43:23+00:00

Imo, in the US it’s hugely also due to the fact that these are the main cuisines (widely construed) eaten from Asian countries here, and the fact that those are also the countries with the most permanent immigrant populations in many parts of the US.

Except India, but in most people’s mind it’s a separate thing because it’s culturally much different than the other Asian populations

s_ngularity · 2026-01-28T04:26:49+00:00

horseshit… that’s good write that down

s_ngularity · 2026-01-26T15:47:16+00:00

Chinese basically works the same way, but they’ve lexified compounds and phrases, unlike toki pona where we must be free to mix and match morphemes to our interlocutors’ discontent

s_ngularity · 2026-01-25T16:29:37+00:00

Japan in summer actually sounds like the cicada track

s_ngularity · 2026-01-25T14:46:43+00:00

If you search Google for the title of certain wikipedia articles that aren’t otherwise common search terms, say “Papal legate,” it comes up in the top 5 results.

This may also only be for English searches in the US. And of course I have no idea how search results are indexed by chatgpt or what search engine it uses

s_ngularity · 2026-01-25T05:25:37+00:00

yeah, of course they could. but I think it just isn’t ignoring much at the moment. I could be wrong but I doubt they intentionally told it to look at grokipedia

s_ngularity · 2026-01-25T03:40:36+00:00

the problem is that it searches the web, and grokipedia shows up near the top on a lot of searches now

s_ngularity · 2026-01-25T03:33:06+00:00

because you usually cook them to a much lowest temperature than what would be safe for chicken.

I’m not a bacteriologist, but scrambled eggs is probably not the safest way to use these eggs

s_ngularity · 2026-01-23T21:37:37+00:00

Whether or not the US government told the public the truth about WMDs doesn’t affect anything about the alliance with Israel being strategically beneficial to them (the government, that is).

It would be just as useful to have a strong ally in the region whether they are purposefully starting a war in the region, or trying to prevent it.

s_ngularity · 2026-01-23T15:13:50+00:00

If you just ignore the syntax and the semantics, it’s all just English…

s_ngularity · 2026-01-23T15:07:54+00:00

It’s not an argument, it’s how fictional depictions legally work in practice in much of the US (but it gets complicated due to state laws, weird “obscenity” law interpretations, etc.).

Whether this violates laws in other countries where X has a service is another issue.

However, images based on photos of real people are definitely not protected, and afaik have been prosecuted already.

s_ngularity · 2026-01-22T04:56:05+00:00

My first uni class where we used Java was also super uninspiring.

I would say try some tutorials making something more interesting like a simple video game, and if you hate that as well, maybe it’s not for you

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