

Oh my bad, I didn’t know that was the actual reason
Most other thorn-users I’ve interacted with were doing it out of an attempt to reform English spelling so


Oh my bad, I didn’t know that was the actual reason
Most other thorn-users I’ve interacted with were doing it out of an attempt to reform English spelling so


It’s not an anti AI thing and I have no idea why people keep repeating this misinformation
It’s an internet phenomenon, called Bring Back Thorn, which has been around since before LLMs became popular


In Polish, “United States” is Stany Zjednoczone, but the acronym is USA, even though that doesn’t match up at all


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Fun fact: in old English, /j/ (the sound in Yes) was written using a g (often written as ġ in modern old English transcriptions)
Make of that what you will
I’ve used nushell for several months, and it really is an amazing shell
It feels more like an actual language than arcane runes, and I can easily makes chains and pipelines and things that would be difficult in bash
Additionally, it makes a pretty good scripting language


What makes skibidi not a real word? Sure, it’s a nonsense word often used to replace other words, but it still carries some meaning, even if vague
Remember that linguistics isn’t just about high brow standard written/spoken language, it covers all types of language, including slang, body language and sign language
There are real linguists with real qualifications who have actually studied gen Z and gen alpha slang and gotten scientific conclusions out of it
I believe one linguist who studied it was able to either impress or embarrass a high school by speaking entirely in correct gen Z/gen alpha slang


What constitutes an “actual word”?


Kaikki pollari on paskiainen?
thing is, “sh” makes a different sound from “s”, so something like “serek” would work but not “shrek” I think
It’s important to keep in mind that the difficulty of learning a language is based on the languages you already speak. Finnish is a good example of this, as while Finnish children are able to learn it quickly due to its regularity, English speakers may struggle with how different it is (especially with some almost entirely unfamiliar concepts, such as the partitive case, which has no direct English equivalent)


Can you use blender on an iPad?


I hate the influence of English on everything now ngl


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Clearly the solution is to adopt decimal time and have 10 hours per day, 100 minutes per hour, and 100 seconds per minute


Not being on the internet


Incelamino acids, the building blocks of incelproteins


Funnily enough, there’s a CSS framework called Gumby
I tried it and it was ok but the roof of my mouth hurt afterwards
The main bluesky feed is also chronological, however, it has a desperate discover feed which is algorithmic (I think mastodon might have that as an option now?)