Non native speaker here, can Peter explain?
It’s a kind of slang or dialect speech from a stereotype of people in rural areas(hillbilly, redneck, or just country), also as gold prospectors(1840’s) are commonly portrayed in films.
“Them there hills”, which means, “those hills over there”.
Them/their are pronouns for non-binary people replacing the gendered he/his or she/hers.
It is a pun and an excellent one at that.
Thank you
Saying them their is a very quick and dirty way of saying those things over there. It’s a really common expression in some areas. Kind of a country slang thing.
I the joke they are writing it like them/they as if it is a person’s pronouns.
It’s just word play at work which is usually a defining character of dad jokes
Thank you
Happy to help. Most welcome
I’m so mad right now.
Oh yeah… Thats a good one.
Consarn it!
Is there a place with similar name to them/their?
“Them there [hills]” (usually pronounced more like “them thar”) is a common grammatically incorrect country-English phrase to basically mean “those [hills] over there”.
“How much’choo wonna bet Ah coul’ throw uh pigskin over them thar mountains?” -> “Are you willing to place a wager on my ability to throw an American football over those mountains over there?”
“Dialectal” or “non-standard” is more accurate than “grammatically incorrect”, since “them there” is perfectly grammatical in those dialects.
As a Texan, I’m offended by the fancy words you’ve chosen to defend me and my ilk.
Ahhhh! Thanks
Are you willing to place a wager on my ability to throw an American football over those mountains over there?
Absolutely!
Delta Chat spotted!
Cool to see other people have been able to get their parents on it too because of the easy onboarding process. I recently switched from Matrix to Delta Chat myself and have been loving it! Got my mom on it too!
Are you sure that’s not WhatsApp?
Hmmm, no lol.
Never used whatsapp, but without zooming looked at first like Delta Chat’s default background, which is honestly HILARIOUS to me if they intentionally “copied” Whatsapp’s background. Also kind of ingenious, makes it seem familiar to whatsapp users, and kinda makes it look like whatsapp at a glance (if someone is in a repressive country and hiding use of private chats is useful.)
But I think you might be right, oops! Lol. It’s definitely not Delta Chat but is similar in appearance, though the top bar is completely different (in my defense idk what the iPhone app looks like haha…ok ok I wasn’t paying close attention).
Any advantage with Delta over Signal? SimpleX?
As to simpleX, I’m not a fan of this.
https://xcancel.com/epoberezkin/status/1983299739283075319#m
Nor their difficulty with multi-device sync which I’ve heard isn’t really a thing they do. That said I also haven’t tried it yet (if I ever will because NFTs, [or Crypto, and AI] are all basically an automatic “No” from me in a chat app [or browser]), so I can’t speak much further than that on it.
Signal is cool and all, but the phone number requirement is mega lame. It also has caused issues for me in the past with my friends that download it “just for a protest” and then delete it without disassociating the acct from their phone number, this might be fixed now that they removed SMS (despite still requiring a phone number…), but what would happen is when I texted them from signal, instead of falling back to SMS it would just send to their signal acct, but since they deleted the app, it gets lost forever in limbo, and since Signal was my default for SMS, I had to change it to Messenger to text them, and change it back to Signal when I was done talking to them. Was a pain in the fucking ass quite frankly lol. And every time someone signed up it would message me “so and so has joined signal” automatically, what if I don’t want someone (or everyone) on my contacts list with a signal account to have mine, what if I intended only to use it clandestinely? Think kids/parents or a woman hiding the app from her abusive husband, IMO it’s a privacy breach. But mostly I don’t like the phone number requirement at all.
But Delta Chat is privacy focused too, and the onboarding is so easy my literal mom could (and did!) do it, they’re also working on minimizing metadata which is a plus, and while they no longer recommend it as a go-to it can be used with traditional email services to bypass censorship if need be (since email is so ubiquitous it can’t just be blocked easily), and the chatmail servers can be self hosted, also the video calling (in beta) works really well (for a beta, there’s some bugs lol, but you have to enable “debug calling” in the settings to use it so if you do that you know). Also somehow the notifications are pretty instant despite only eating less than 1% of my battery a day, and I’m on GrapheneOS, idk how they do that. You can also sign on to their forum with your DC account, which is just neat lol. I’m sure I’m forgetting something.
Sounds pretty amazing, like a project going on the right direction for sure.
I like that Signal has a desktop client with syncing. Maybe more messengers have that.
I just have such messenger fatigue right now though. Too many options, and each switch is sooo much work, with every switch requiring more and more convincing my non-tech-savvy friends and family. “Not again.” “I don’t want any more apps.”
If they were like me we’d be jumping between apps having them all installed on trial period at the same time lol. I’m always looking to optimize the tools I use in my daily life. I feel a lot like Ben Vallack in certain areas of my life. 😅
I like that Signal has a desktop client with syncing. Maybe more messengers have that.
Delta Chat does too! It’s available on Android (from both F-Droid and Play Store), iOS, Win, Mac (Macstore and Homebrew), and Linux. There’s also Arcane Chat on android, which is by one of the DC devs and is sort of his testing ground, with complete interoperability.
I’m like you lol. But I’ve been keeping my testing small, so I only have to convince a few contacts on each switch I’ve made. Once I find a good one I’ll expand further slowly (and it’s looking like that might be DC for me). One of the things I’ve been looking for more as of late is ease of use for “normals,” but still private and reasonably secure, and DC is really hitting that pretty well for me so far.
