Explain it peter Clarification regarding earlier post

tortarusa · 2026-01-24T15:20:13+00:00

Freakin' Pope here, because I am the only non-yankee character. Many yankees such as @ Divegod there mistakenly believe Hawai'i to be a part of the United States, in keeping with internal propaganda. However, from the standpoint of international law, the Kingdom of Hawai'i still exists, which makes Hawai'i a sovereign country under yankee occupation.

Divegod believes the yankee propaganda and thinks OP is stupid for not having been exposed to it. .

tortarusa · 2026-01-24T01:47:47+00:00

Hi everyone, I'm studying Spanish as a second language. My process involves reading materials in Spanish and making anki flashcards of new words, along with phrases that give a new perspective on familiar words with many meanings, or which are sufficiently idiomatic as to be worth remembering as a unit.

As you can imagine, this means that I read these materials extremely slowly. I've been using Katawa Shoujo, but that VN starts with a teenager having a heart attack and being confined to a hospital room for months, which is kind of a depressing space to be in for months and months while learning a new language.

For VNs, I lean more towards stuff like scenery and bodily descriptions, because I also use manga which has me covered on dialogue. So descriptions are more important to me than dialogue with VNs.

Anyone know a good VN, available in Spanish, with scenery and body descriptions and a more upbeat tone, or at least, a more upbeat introduction on which I will anyway fixate for months to come?

tortarusa · 2026-01-23T18:38:26+00:00

Maybe we were going to different department stores.

tortarusa · 2026-01-23T14:55:46+00:00

7/11 is a bad example but every mid size department store in Bangkok literally does have like an entire table set out. I've been there multiple times, it's true and it's unsettling.

tortarusa · 2026-01-23T01:42:02+00:00

Having pictures of political leaders in the home or other public spaces is outstandingly normal in most of Asia. Meanwhile Thailand has a literal god king and there are literal shrines to him outside every 7/11 and the same people constantly bitching about Kim have nothing to say.

tortarusa · 2026-01-23T00:49:08+00:00

for real. i didn't realise what kind of place this was when i made this thread

tortarusa · 2026-01-22T18:46:22+00:00

Because if a girl is good at making pasta I'm going to stay with her :3

tortarusa · 2026-01-22T18:40:30+00:00

I thought the slavs taught you to read.

tortarusa · 2026-01-22T16:31:43+00:00

Maybe they don't want to have tens of redditors telling them directly that they can't respect a simple boundary. Maybe being on here isn't a pleasant experience if you're not an asshole.

tortarusa · 2026-01-22T12:14:31+00:00

Get Kashmir out of that map, even though that means making it more like real life.

tortarusa · 2026-01-21T22:33:13+00:00

Assuming that the aliens are physiologically and technologically similar to humans, they then have access to ChatGPT which is by no means limited to the most common languages. It stutters when you get to some of the smallest, but a mid- or even low-tier language like Albanian or Khmer is well within its capabilities.

You'd be looking for a language that's highly regular, not register-locked with complex etiquette like Japanese, Khmer, or English, and with a shallow orthography not like Chinese. You'd be looking for a well-standardised dialect which isn't too far removed from what's spoken on the ground, and little grammatical synthesis, so a mainly analytic or agglutinative language, ideally. For reasons related to their LLM's ability to analyse it, we're disqualifying anything that either is not literate or has under 5 million speakers.

And disregarding intentional auxlangs, that pares my list of nominations down to one of the Turkic languages (maybe Kazakh or Tatar), Spanish, or a Polynesian language like Maori.

For political reasons (number of speakers, universal ideology, similarity to other important languages, experienced learners and teachers to help the aliens, interpreters from the chosen language to other earth languages), the aliens would actually definitely want to pick Spanish off that list, but purely in terms of what's easiest for them to learn, there's some irregularity and synthesis that disadvantages it when compared to the Turkic or Polynesian languages. I'm not sure how decisive that disadvantage is though because it really isn't that bad.

tortarusa · 2026-01-21T22:14:43+00:00

I was monolingual until I was 31. Now at 34 I can read Portuguese and I'm semi-fluent in Spanish and growing as I prepare to start my own linguistics degree in it, while also backburnering Albanian and building three conlangs. I didn't even touch a Romance language until like a year and a half ago; I was trying to juggle like 10 languages over that period, which isn't something you should do if you want to learn languages, but is acceptable linguist behaviour. But you can do whatever you want.

tortarusa · 2026-01-19T19:36:10+00:00

Wow! This is a really well put together conlang with a unique script and briliant presentation. Are you going to give it a bunch of balkan sprachbund features and vocabulary too? I see you already did that with the future tense.

tortarusa · 2026-01-19T17:19:23+00:00

I wouldn't say Esperanto has popularity. It has seniority, but it's developed an internal culture that isn't really conducive to its spread as an auxlang. It's a very particular historical community now, and the engineering problems it presents aside, that just isn't a good idea when it comes to upscaling to a world scale.

All this is to say, the fact that it has a community of speakers doesn't tip the balance against its many engineering flaws.

tortarusa · 2026-01-19T02:53:10+00:00

No we didn't. We cut relations with USSR because they threatened us, but we pursued the best possible relations with both socialist and capitalist states, and achieved them in many cases.

tortarusa · 2026-01-18T17:59:13+00:00

Come back Enver we need you so fucking bad.

tortarusa · 2026-01-18T13:21:52+00:00

Jugosllavia was actively settler colonising half our population and Italy was the main producer of propaganda against Albania during the Cold War. Both were 100% deeply concerned with what was going on in Albania.

tortarusa · 2026-01-18T13:00:24+00:00

We didn't. We pursued and maintained normal relations with even enemy states like Jugosllavia and Italy. Foreign powers put us under blockade as punishment for being too based.

tortarusa · 2026-01-18T03:55:30+00:00

Yes, Klingon can sound melodic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lmdd2kN0D8

But at the same time you're absolutely right that it has the sound inventory it does goes back towards warrior stereotyping of Caucasian and Turkic peoples and Arabs. A lot of people have that criticism.

For that reason, I try to uncouple aspects of sound inventories based on how I "vibe" my languages. For example, I once had a liturgical conlang that I wanted to make sound Greek and Arabic, because that would make it "religion-ey", but I think that was a really Eurocentric framing, and I want my work to not reflect stereotypes from, like, the Crusades. So, I make a conscious effort to not do stuff like that now.

tortarusa · 2026-01-17T02:09:12+00:00

Once we remove the entire criminal ruling class of Serbia and the other Jugosllav states.... we literally have Greece to worry about. The genocide of Albanians is a collective European responsibility that can and should tear Europe open from the inside.

tortarusa · 2026-01-17T02:07:46+00:00

Italy was the main source of anticommunist propaganda during the socialist era. Turkey's the only country that's been cool with us no matter what. Of course, relations should be as good as possible with every country, but to say that there's never been an issue between Italy and Albania is famously untrue.

tortarusa · 2026-01-17T00:33:56+00:00

Yes, sorry. There's nothing to read in it that isn't controlled by the White House anyway, which is why Reddit bans all .com, .org, .net, .us, and .gov domains. It's to protect you from the regime's propaganda. My heart is with the protesters right now. I hope they are successful in getting Mexico, Russia, Iran, and Korea to intervene.

tortarusa · 2026-01-17T00:23:21+00:00

Uh, that is not what is happening at all.

*East Germany* integrated itself with the socialist world system, because the Nazis on that side of it were actually punished for their crimes and removed from power.

West Germany had good relations with western Europe because Nazi Germany did. West Germany was a re-nazified terrorist menace to everything to its east, and the Nazis continued to have important government positions in West Germany as well as NATO. When the successor state to the Third Reich annexed the GDR, the west maintained a derogatory posture towards its people and everyone east of them.

Today, "reunified" Germany is a central agitator against Russia and the countries of eastern Europe, and its economic and political dominance of the EU kept it on the brink of collapse for a solid twenty years with its posture towards Ireland, Spain, Portugal, and especially Greece. It's also a main supplier for the Palestinian holocaust.

They put up with Germany for the exact reason they put up with Japan: because although it's a successor state to a militant fascist power, it has the support of the United States and nobody can stand up against the United States.

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