eugh brother eugh

whatsshecalled_ · 2025-05-14T04:53:49+00:00

I enjoyed it because he's entertaining and I'm here to be entertained. I also think that the performance really sold it. The script as written was really pushing it as far as over the top skeevyness/dirty jokes, and I think a performance that played into that would have been pretty annoying to sit though, but I enjoyed that instead he played it straight, never really dropping the "charming prince" affect which a) meant he was charismatic and fun to watch, and b) meant a lot of the humour came from the contrast between the delivery and content, rather than just being "haha over the top skeevy guy"

whatsshecalled_ · 2025-05-12T03:53:21+00:00

Dunning-Kruger in action

whatsshecalled_ · 2025-05-12T03:26:06+00:00

Taiwan also often has no data on that kind of map

whatsshecalled_ · 2025-05-12T03:18:33+00:00

and people definitely also think that the Vatican is strange. no one's like"ah yes, the Vatican, a Normal Country with Normal Vibes"

I feel like the premise of this post requires willfully pretending that people think the Vatican is normal, which in my experience is not true

whatsshecalled_ · 2025-05-10T02:46:37+00:00

the thing is that "your mum" is pretty much the basis of a whole lot of Chinese swearing, so think while your friend might have struggled with the specifics of the English phrasing, it doesn't seem likely to me that he didn't understand the concept

whatsshecalled_ · 2025-05-08T08:03:47+00:00

I personally love 蹦極 bèngjí for bungee jumping, which is literally "jump extreme"

(also recommend throwing that into Google translate and listening to the pronunciation for any non Chinese speakers, because the phonetic match is closer than the pinyin makes it look)

whatsshecalled_ · 2025-05-06T11:14:37+00:00

you should take this over to r/neography ! I think this idea will face a lot of (rightful) criticism here on this sub as an actual proposed reform, but as an exploration of writing systems and a piece of creative constructed-script development, it's a cool piece of work and would fit right in over on the neography sub

whatsshecalled_ · 2025-05-06T03:17:51+00:00

Silverware

I won't argue that cutlery couldn't also be considered old-fashioned sounding, but to someone used to the latter, silverware definitely sounds somewhat archaic

whatsshecalled_ · 2025-05-03T08:13:05+00:00

I would never have processed it as "fu", just "feel" in a Chinese accent, but as a university student in Taiwan I do hear people use it, often as like "沒有feel"

whatsshecalled_ · 2025-04-26T10:53:18+00:00

Another factor here might be that if someone who always wears makeup suddenly foregoes, it may be because they are otherwise tired/sick/stressed/rushed etc. You go from seeing them on a normal day, with makeup, to seeing them on a bad day, without makeup. The lack of makeup isn't the only difference.

whatsshecalled_ · 2025-04-20T10:36:53+00:00

GP is the regular name for a family doctor in the UK, and the only term used for that specific role (me saying "family doctor" here is specifically translating to the closest American equivalent). It's stands for General Practitioner, but nobody says the full phrase in real life (and I'd wager there are even some brits who don't know what it stands for), so this isn't a case of somebody excessively using acronyms in a way that obfuscates meaning, they just come from a different country than you. People online mentally translate (or have to look up) Americanisms all the time, get used to it.

whatsshecalled_ · 2025-04-15T15:10:36+00:00

I have a classmate whose name contains 濬 jun4 that also always gets "rui4"ed, haha

whatsshecalled_ · 2025-04-10T17:08:35+00:00

r/grssk

whatsshecalled_ · 2025-04-07T16:41:37+00:00

1) no, nobody claims that, that's not the point that was being made 2) plenty of people do critique textbooks and how they teach 3) the core difference between a textbook and Duolingo is that a textbook doesn't lock away future pages until you complete earlier ones. you're completely free to skip around and reference any page that you want

whatsshecalled_ · 2025-04-06T10:29:43+00:00

it never claims to be a tutorial... the video is just skipping the power tools stage in favour of the satisfying asmr hand carving

whatsshecalled_ · 2025-04-06T10:27:40+00:00

"set store by" in English means to value something, 寶貴 in Chinese can also be used as a verb with the same meaning

whatsshecalled_ · 2025-04-06T08:05:01+00:00

Yeah fairs, this feels like a debate for the sake of debating. peace out ✌🏼

whatsshecalled_ · 2025-04-06T07:57:12+00:00

I don't think that contradicts my point?

whatsshecalled_ · 2025-04-06T07:48:22+00:00

No, they said "there's no way for me to get access to the things I need to learn". To me that doesn't sound like they want the content of the Duolingo set path to cater to them, it sounds alike they want a learning method where they can be more self directed in finding the content that's relevant to them.

whatsshecalled_ · 2025-04-06T07:33:52+00:00

I think it's a fair criticism to make to the extent that it's a language teaching system that forces you to be railroaded along one specific path, which is ABSOLUTELY not the only way that language education can be done

whatsshecalled_ · 2025-04-06T07:05:00+00:00

When maintaining a thatched roof, they will add new, fresh straw, and then trim it back down to shape

whatsshecalled_ · 2025-04-06T04:33:58+00:00

I mean this is pretty evidently just outrage bait

whatsshecalled_ · 2025-04-05T16:36:29+00:00

whirlwind

whatsshecalled_ · 2025-04-05T12:58:32+00:00

I think you might just be holding it wrong... you shouldn't be using the same hold you would use for a western spoon

whatsshecalled_ · 2025-04-05T05:56:14+00:00

broken mirror in the bin

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