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A skilled artisan is a joy to witness

I actually really like the thing when you're starting to get the hang of a new language, enough to understand and say simple sentences but you gotta get creative to get more complex thoughts across, like a puzzle. I remember a time in the restortation school when a classmate who wasn't natively finnish and did her best anyway dropped something and sighed, telling me "every day is monday this week. I have had four mondays this week." And I understood.

I don't think I speak much of spanish anymore, but in the nursing school training period I did there, I did manage to get by with making weird Tarzan sentences. I got a nosebleed at some point and startled another nurse. Not knowing the words "humidity" or "stress", I managed to string together: "This is ok. It is hot, it is cold, I have a bad day, I am sad, I have blood. This is normal for me." And she understood.

And sometimes you just say things weird, but it's better than not saying it. One time, I was stuck in a narrow hallway behind someone walking really slowly with a walker, and he apologised for being in the way. I was not in any hurry, but didn't know the spanish word for "hurry", but I did know enough words to try to circumvent it by borrowing the english "I have all the time in the world."

The man burst into one of those cackling old man laughters that they do when something in this world still manages to surprise them. He had to be somewhere between 70 and a 100 years old, and I guess if there was one thing he wasn't expecting to hear today, it would be a random blond vaguely baltic-looking fuck casually announce that he is the sole owner and keeper of the very concept of time.

look at this cool collection of lullabies, children's rhymes and folk songs from all over the world!

hate that english makes you say things like "that that" and "do do"

yeah. hate that that's something i do do sometimes

im screaming and crying and throwing up

I actually really like the answer to "why do Americans smile so much" because of its necessity for immigrants to communicate w/ each other non-verbally. Not an American exclusive phenomena either:

"After polling people from 32 countries to learn how much they felt various feelings should be expressed openly, the authors found that emotional expressiveness was correlated with diversity. In other words, when there are a lot of immigrants around, you might have to smile more to build trust and cooperation, since you don’t all speak the same language."

I love when people credit artists. This is French circus artist and choreographer Yoann Bourgeois, probably in Tentatives d'approche d'un point de suspension at hangar Y in Meudon a few days ago. Most of his work is an exploration of balance and equilibrium, he has several variations around the stairs/trampoline thing (fugue-trampoline, this one, cavale, l'art de la fugue…)

well if that isn’t a metaphor for life

Its very annoying that we often use technology in contexts where the technology is by far the least convenient way of doing things.

@amethyst-sage-29 well the specific incident that prompted this was one in which we had to login online to get a student discount in a restaurant, which took forever and used up people's data etc. Rather than the old fashioned way of just looking at our student cards and taking some money off the bill..

Another example was a while ago when the windows of a room could only be shut by scanning a QR code and then setting them to shut; these were the type that are too high for people to just shut them but a few years ago (or even just in buildings that arent brand new) there was just be a pole that attaches to them. Our lecturer didnt have a scanner so we had to stop to see who had one.

There are other things too menus only existing via QR code is a common one.

This is not only kind of annoying but ultimately just hugely increasing our dependance on phones, you can't comfortably exist in society without a phone that connects to the internet anymore, having an option to do something online is fair - say someone forgets their student card or the pole breaks or something - but we dont need everything to be online especially with no alternative.

‘roofs’ looks unbelievably stupid typed out. why can we not say ‘rooves.’ clown language with clown plurals

If the plural of roof were rooves, the singular of grooves would have to be groof. Is that what you want?

point taken I’ll do anything to avoid groof

The myth of Arachne continues .....

Getting ready for Halloween

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This linguistic problem is only going to continue getting worse unless we fuck it in the ass now.

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