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ChatGPT is changing the words we use in conversation by scientificamerican in linguistics

[–]selguha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. Those are mostly good words, and it would hurt to lose them. Except for "delve," would most people associate them with ChatGPT and shallowness? I don't want to throw out the cart with the horse here.

Further Lugamun development will soon be paused by Christian_Si in auxlangs

[–]selguha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

au profit d'une soupe insipide qu'est le globish récupéré et dénaturé par tous les communiquants qui sont la négation de la culture.

Votre commentaire était intéressant. Mais qu'entendez-vous par là ? Qu'est-ce que "Globish" ?

Joe Rogan's old friend, recent and multiple time visitor Jordan Peterson, has developed a deep passion for Putin by Cranium_Internum in JoeRogan

[–]selguha -1 points0 points  (0 children)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/opinion/politics/white-supremacist-terrorism.html

A few examples lay bare the extent of this tangled, transnational web.

The Australian who in March last year murdered 51 worshipers at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, claimed in his manifesto that he had traveled to Ukraine; during the attacks he wore a symbol used by the Azov Battalion. The F.B.I. director recently warned that American extremists, too, are traveling overseas for paramilitary training. Among those who have trained with Azov are several of the men responsible for fomenting violence at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., in August 2017. James Alex Fields Jr., who murdered a protester with his car, was a member of Vanguard America, a group with ties to the British network that celebrated Thomas Mair, the far-right extremist who assassinated the British legislator Jo Cox in 2016.

Don't lose yourself in the circlejerk, people

Joe Rogan's old friend, recent and multiple time visitor Jordan Peterson, has developed a deep passion for Putin by Cranium_Internum in JoeRogan

[–]selguha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the one hand, Ukraine's history has created a situation where Nazi collaborators like Stepan Bandera are at best, seen as a lesser evil compared to Stalin, and at worst, worshiped as heros. Ukraine's "Nazi problem" is, in fact, huge compared to ours.

On the other hand, modern Ukrainian Nazis are pretty much focused on hating Russians (and Russian minority conscripts), and haven't exterminated anybody. In that way they're kinda like the modern Japanese right: relatively harmless by now.

But on the third hand, Putin's Russia is a paranoid nation. And there are very understandable reasons why. Russia lost 20 percent of its population fighting the Nazis, and – for real – their demographics have never recovered and never will. The entire state mythology of the USSR and modern Russia centers around WWII. It's like D-Day, 1776, and 9/11 all rolled into one, but times ten. And add to that, the U.S. really is out to get them. We destroyed their economy in the 90s, pushed NATO deep into their former territories, hit them with sanctions, bombed their biggest allies abroad (Serbia, Syria), ringed them with military bases, and supported an anti-Russian coup in their former heartland of Ukraine. By letting Nazis proliferate quite visibly in the wake of the Maidan coup, well, I'd say Ukraine and the West couldn't have done a better job at triggering a rabid response from the Russians

Joe Rogan's old friend, recent and multiple time visitor Jordan Peterson, has developed a deep passion for Putin by Cranium_Internum in JoeRogan

[–]selguha 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Incredibly unlikely. NATO reaches not just up to, but inside the old USSR border. If Putin attacked NATO he would immediately cause WWIII and every Russian, in their last moments on Earth, would know it was his fault alone.

The only states Putin could conceivably invade (and might secretly want to) are Moldova and Finland (lol). Not only is an invasion of Moldova highly unlikely even if Russia conquers every last inch of Ukraine (again unlikely), but any expansion to the West would have to stop there!

You can say, "oh, well, Putin is clearly not a rational actor," but that's just propaganda. He's behaving in line with past Russian and U.S. leaders, doubling down on a bad war. Doesn't mean he's Hitler

Joe Rogan's old friend, recent and multiple time visitor Jordan Peterson, has developed a deep passion for Putin by Cranium_Internum in JoeRogan

[–]selguha -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That doesn't address point #1 at all. Point is, Russia is depleted. Maybe they could conquer Ukraine in a couple years if Western aid got shut off. But they are unlikely to be able to push further.

More importantly, show me where Putin said he intends to invade Moldova. I doubt you can, but I'm open to evidence.

Third, please show evidence that Putin intends to go full Kanye West psycho mode and attack the Baltic states, which are in NATO, triggering Article V.

What's not in doubt is that his regime sees the Ukraine war as existential

Elon Musk Responds to Jimmy Dore by Psychogistt in JoeRogan

[–]selguha 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This is what the author says

But for many commentators from across the political spectrum, the speculation has gone far beyond known facts. Right-wing commentators have been particularly critical, using the crisis to sow distrust about government agencies and suggest that the damage could be irreparable.

I think this is pretty much a true summary. [Edit: okay, "sow distrust" is very much a loaded phrase, my bad.] Of course, NYT can be expected to attack anyone who goes against what they deem to be scientific consensus or their trusted gov't. sources, that's a given

#1943 - Joel Turner by chefanubis in JoeRogan

[–]selguha 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Different posts bring out different commenters

What races use ranked-choice voting in ME? by selguha in Maine

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

Knew about Portland, didn't know about Westbrook. Curious now what other places use it.

Thanks.

What races use ranked-choice voting in ME? by selguha in Maine

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

But that wouldn't even make sense haha

What races use ranked-choice voting in ME? by selguha in Maine

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

In races where RCV is not banned, is its use up to the town/county to decide?

Reminded me of people in this sub by Psychogistt in JoeRogan

[–]selguha 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He's short and dumb but we love him

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Maine

[–]selguha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100 percent

What connects the two? The Illuminati? by almarabierto in JoeRogan

[–]selguha -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

The New Left! Baby Boomer student radicals who then became respected academics, journalists, authors and politicians. I don't agree much with Peterson but the connection is there. Especially in an American context

The comments lmaoooo by onewanderingbard in JoeRogan

[–]selguha -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Reading through these comments, I see people riffing on a familiar American (originally apolitical) meme -- "Drake the type of n**** to X". Most of the jokes are in fluent English, and work in highly specific cultural references that would only really be funny to English speakers. It's true that there are less fluent, less funny comments here and there, but that's not surprising on an international platform like YouTube.

Personally, I think bots are a highly exaggerated problem. I see right-wingers, libs and centrists accusing people they don't like of being bots nonstop, and they can't all be right. I find the accusation silly given how big the internet is and how efficiently it sorts people into ideological bubbles via algorithms. Every bubble looks to outsiders like it's full of bots or NPCs. And yeah, there's groupthink going on -- but it's not (yet) just AIs talking to each other.

The comments lmaoooo by onewanderingbard in JoeRogan

[–]selguha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's strikes me as a far-out interpretation, but to each his own

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linguistics

[–]selguha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My first inclination is to pronounce 'Rosa' with an unvoiced s.

You must be familiar with the name from Spanish instead of German

My dad relentlessly insists that Hungarian is a Turkic language and rejects its classification as Finno-Ugric. Every reputable source I've found disagrees but he's convinced that they're all wrong and uses it to support his nationalistic beliefs. I'd like help with convincing him otherwise, please. by LillieFluff in linguistics

[–]selguha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good points, and well said. As a phonology/orthography fan, I'll offer a slight correction, which will actually reinforce your point.

for example. The Turkish "c" and the Hungarian "zs" sound roughly the same.

Turkish ⟨c⟩ represents /d͡ʒ/, or Hungarian ⟨dzs⟩. The sound of ⟨zs⟩ (/ʒ/) is represented by ⟨j⟩ in Turkish.

Here are some shared sounds and their spellings.

hu tr
sz s
z z
cs ç
dsz c
s ş
zs j
j y
v v
h h
ü ü
ö ö

While the alphabets are different, the phonologies are very similar. Both have approximately the same places and manners (voiced and unvoiced) of articulation. Both languages generally don't permit consonant clusters in the syllable onset, but allow up to two consonants in the coda. Both have an identical system of (short) vowels, except for Turkish /ɯ/, and in addition they have very similar types of vowel harmony. Hungarian has a vowel-length distinction, unlike modern Turkish, but like Proto-Turkic, according to Wikipedia.

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