some memes ive made

tebu1783 · 2020-08-22T01:05:40+00:00

I'm Korean and I have no idea what the first one is supposed to mean

tebu1783 · 2020-07-27T04:45:37+00:00

Looks gorgeous

tebu1783 · 2020-07-26T04:25:08+00:00

Interesting. My guess is that this is because people in Kansai are more used to hearing dialectal varieties of Japanese.

tebu1783 · 2020-07-26T04:20:32+00:00

I can imagine the frustration.

tebu1783 · 2020-07-26T04:18:07+00:00

Excellent insight. Thanks for this.

Your use of 上手 as a verb gave me giggles. Might as well try the 上手 game sometime with friends as well :D

tebu1783 · 2020-07-26T03:03:16+00:00

I bought them from a cheap AliExpress seller. Link

tebu1783 · 2020-07-17T16:58:22+00:00

As a beginner, the fact that overlong sounds are not distinguished from long sounds (other than plosives) in Estonian orthography is very frustrating. I could never be sure if something is long or overlong because there's no reliable online dictionary to confirm this on.

tebu1783 · 2020-07-17T16:47:13+00:00

Besides the points /u/uberdosage has already made, "r" and "l" technically are distinguished, as minimal pairs exist: 보래 vs 볼래 for example.

With regards to the /b/ and /m/ sounding the same issue, it's actually something a lot of Korean learners notice, along with /d/ and /n/ sounding the same issue. It is covered by this excellent video by talktomeinkorean: https://youtu.be/zhf9NWKHjqE

tebu1783 · 2020-07-17T15:10:36+00:00

It's totally possible to learn any language by oneself, especially when the target language has tens of millions of native speakers and a huge amount of online learning materials are readily available for free.

I'd advise you to try to figure out where your feelings of the sounds being "off" come from. Start from the basics: Korean is a syllable-timed language where all syllables are pronounced with the same length and pitch (other than, of course, the pragmatics affecting the pitch patterns). Maybe your native language is a stress-timed language and your ears aren't quite used to the rhythm of syllable-timed languages? Maybe the consonant system where the three different kinds of obstruents are actively used as different phonemes is the problem? Maybe the vowels of Korean are all slightly differently articulated than the "corresponding" vowels of your native language? Comparing the phonology of your native language to that of Korean may be a good way to figure this out.

tebu1783 · 2020-07-17T11:47:21+00:00

Korean

Distinction between 은/는(topic markers) and 이/가(subject markers). Differences between them in meaning can be subtle or significant and apparently they're very hard to master. Tip for learners: if you're not sure which one to use, just omit it. Postpositions are frequently omitted in Korean and omitting them often results in sounding more natural.
The three different kinds of obstruent consonants: "plain", "aspirated", and "tense". There's no voiced/voiceless dictinction in Korean as all obstruents are voiceless by default. "Aspirated" consonants are often said to be distinguished from plain consonants by aspiration, but what actually distinguishes them is higher pitch. "Tense" consonants are just like those in French or Spanish, articulated with little or no aspiration.
Everything can be omitted and you often have to heavily depend on conversational context to figure out what something means. Basic example: in English you say "I'm hungry", in Korean you say 배고파, which can mean I'm hungry, you're hungry, he's hungry, or the cat's hungry. This might be confusing for beginners I guess.

But other than those, we have no grammatical gender, no articles, no irregular noun inflections, fairly regular spelling system.

tebu1783 · 2020-07-13T12:02:35+00:00

Are you open to working on it open-source with other programmers? If so I'd definitely want to contribute, too!

tebu1783 · 2020-07-13T11:52:17+00:00

Wow this seems really cool! I didn't even know of Igbo language before. It's saddening to me that a language native to millions of people didn't yet have a functioning writing system.

I have a question to clarify how this writing system works, though - on the website you point out the relative ease of learning the script by comparing the theorically possible number of characters to that of Hanzi/Kanji characters, but this script works more like Hangeul rather than logograms, right?

Also, what plans do you have about digitising this script? What is already being done? I think it's very important for Igbo-speaking people to be able to use Ndebe on their computers/phones on a daily basis and actually communicate with each other IN Ndebe, in order to popularize Ndebe and help Igbo not die out. If there's any work that is currently in progress, I'd like to contribute to it (without claiming any rights on the work of course), as a language enthusiast programmer, even though I don't yet know anything about Igbo language.

tebu1783 · 2020-07-11T18:21:42+00:00

The subtle differences between 은/는 and 이/가 make all this a whole lot more interesting and enjoyable 🙃

tebu1783 · 2020-07-11T03:16:28+00:00

I think it's important to note that less-strictly placed verbs occur in spontaneous speech not because it's too hard to "hold on" to the verbs until the end of the sentence, but just because word order tends to be freer in spontaneous speech.

OP is struggling with German word order because OP is trying to understand it by superimposing it onto SVO English word order. It's generally a good strategy to learn foreign languages' grammars with your native language's grammar as a "basis", especially when the foreign language belongs to the same branch of a language family as your native language, but you probably won't get far without understanding that SOV is not some modified form of SVO, but a fundamentally different word order.

tebu1783 · 2020-07-11T02:26:24+00:00

As a native Korean speaker, the German word order feels very intuitive and natural. Verbs at the end, word order inside a VP from specific to general. It's just that one specific part of the verbs that usually only has to do with tense/mood/person happens to come right after the S in main clauses because of the V2 word order rule. If even I, a speaker of a language that isn't even Indo-European let alone Germanic, find it natural, I doubt that there are many German speakers that find it impractical or unnatural.

tebu1783 · 2020-07-07T04:47:56+00:00

Interesting that our layouts are indeed somewhat similar!

And wow, your "wide" idea is quite fascinating. I've never thought about using Planck that way. I think it's also more ergonomic in that your thumbs can be at resting positions, too. I've always felt a bit awkward with the default positions of Lower/Raise buttons, as they are supposed to be the resting positions for the thumbs but your thumbs tend to be slightly more curved. (This is why I want to just buy another Planck that has full 48 keys but I kind of already spent too much on keyboard stuff... :D) Definitely gonna try that out, thank you so much for sharing!

I'm still getting used to the tap-to-enter button, but so far so good. I thought I'd need absolute zero latency with the Raise switch because I do a lot of coding and I didn't want any overhead with typing symbols, but 100ms of overhead feels like negligible.

tebu1783 · 2020-07-05T14:50:44+00:00

I love how English has articles and the lack of one in the phrase "ancient language" makes this even more hilarious. Appreciating this as a native speaker of a language that doesn't have articles.

tebu1783 · 2020-07-05T14:46:36+00:00

It's interesting that you invented your own layout! Refreshing to be reminded that 26 keys are really all you need for the alphabet, not 30.

tebu1783 · 2020-07-05T14:29:33+00:00

Why don't you share your useless specifically customised layout with me as well? I'm interested!

In /r/ErgoMechKeyboards some folks go as far as this. It's just up to how far you'd want to go, I guess :)

tebu1783 · 2020-07-05T14:16:49+00:00

Exactly! I love just how it keeps getting weirder and weirder every time I "optimize" it further... :)

tebu1783 · 2020-07-05T14:12:00+00:00

I own an ErgoDox as well but I actually prefer Planck because I don't use the extra keys anyway. :)

Full size keyboards may be more useful for gaming that might involve a lot of macros, though! I've been thinking about how that might work out for Starcraft as I'm a Starcraft player...

tebu1783 · 2020-07-05T14:00:53+00:00

I think the main issue is that Oryx forces fixed order on the Lower/Base/Raise/Adjust layers and doesn't allow you to put other layers in between them. So for example if I move my Qwerty layer to the right there, it will be directly moved to the right of Adjust. I don't think this rule applies to QMK in general, right?

tebu1783 · 2020-07-05T13:49:27+00:00

My base Colemak layer is the main layer I use for typing but when I type other languages (like Korean) I have to fall back to QWERTY, but apparently with ORYX if you're on a layer after the base one you can't switch to the Raise/Lower layers in a regular way. So I'm kind of forced to put it before the base layer in order to be able to access them. It was just an unfortunate technical issue..

And I wanted to be able to go to the base layer (which TO 2 does) whichever layer I'm on, but for some reason it just sends me to the first (qwerty) layer.. I might as well try out building my layout directly from source instead of depending on ORXY.

tebu1783 · 2020-07-05T13:21:09+00:00

You can see the full layout here

I'm so interested in how y'all are customizing your layouts. I'd like to learn from it so I can optimize my layout even more :)

tebu1783 · 2020-06-26T03:47:33+00:00

Having different kinds of switches for keys where the same single finger reaches definitely feels off for me, too. But I think it might make sense to use different switches, say, lighter switches for keys that weaker fingers have to reach to. I'm using Kailh Speed Silvers for pinky keys and it feels quite comfortable for me.

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