There’s an emoji for nonbinary zombie🧟
There’s an emoji for "I can’t get my map to fold back up"🗺️
There’s even an emoji for a pregnant super Saiyan I think🫄🏼
But there’s no emoji for riding two giraffes at the same time, so hieroglyphics still wins 𓀬
I can only use Arch, because I know how I set it up.
Preinstalled distros, even arch based seem overwhelming to me nowadays. I just prefer to set up Arch Linux myself so I know what minimal steps I did and what package I have
And the map if beer drinkers, of smokers, of males, of people with pets etc. All would look like this. This is just a map, which shows where most people live.
I’m NOT a native English speaker by far, but I am a translator and a linguist (according to my BA degree, at least) and have spent 2.5 years teaching people English (with great results, too). Hopefully you’ll find my experience relevant to yours and comforting.
My native language is Russian (thanks for the alphabet) and I’ve never been outside the country. I learned English mostly playing Space Station 13, which is an online role-playing game (if you let it be) where you have to read a lot (some of it even outside the game, i.e. guides and forums to get a good grasp of some mechanics) and write a lot (to communicate with other players); I mostly opted for translating single words or, sometimes, short phrases that I couldn’t understand, and did it both ways, i.e. to English and to Russian. On top of that, I spent a lot of time talking to people on the Internet, both on forums of various kind and through private/direct messages.
So I read a lot, admittedly, even if it wasn’t fiction. I also watched a lot of YouTube and other media, but I can’t say it did much for my vocabulary.
As expected, I saw more progress when I was not that good with the language, because I had to face a lot of the frequent words, phrases, and constructions. At some point I just stopped encountering much new.
But that was until I picked up fiction in English. I can’t remember how often I had to look a word up, but I can definitely say that I had to do that more with Lovecraft than Rowling, for example, and never with some others. Hell, sometimes I have to look things up when reading Russian writers.
So, first of all, this is completely normal, especially if it happens with words that you recognize as non-essential for the plot or your understanding of the events. Second, it very much depends on the book and the author.
If I had to guess, you probably experience that with verbs or adjectives, as these usually serve as the means of introducing some variety or profoundness into one’s texts. I would say that, if you can help it, ignore them until they really prevent you from truly grasping the idea of what’s going on or what kind of emotions it’s supposed to invoke. You, however, mention that you are able to infer the meaning of many of the words you look up from context - and I, being a bit of a scientist, say that this is probably the best (if not the only) way to actually learn a word.
I’m saying this because language is a very abstract phenomenon, and so is everything that it is comprised of. In English, for example, we have two separate words for a desk and a table, while both are translated as “Стол” (Stol) to Russian, because the distinction between the two never necessitated a single-world solution to my ancestors, apparently. Whatever people put in dictionaries is an approximation of what multitudes of people that speak the given language think of when they hear or use the word, and that’s very different between languages.
So, I think that the best a person who understands the language as much as you do should just try and consciously resist the urge to look up meanings, for it seems to me that the context can already give you more than enough idea. As a result, I believe you should enjoy the act of reading more and develop a more natural, intuitive understanding of the words you may encounter.
But most importantly, don’t forget to praise yourself on the already-massive achievement you’ve made, and thank yourself for the gift of being able to comprehend the vast amount of literature and other thoughts and ideas that the speakers of the English language have produced across centuries. Good job, good luck!
Ooo thank you for this huge text-wall! I had a similar experience with you too, using social media and doing casual usage of my devices (which almost all use english) was easy, but once I tried english books things got hard😅
After reading all those replies here and doing some thought of my own, I have decided to give some more focus on the flow and search words a bit less frequently (also trying to rehearse those words before I start reading again next time). I also think that I might have fewer unkown words on this book :)
My main issue now seems to be that I get disctracted easily and I want to do many things during summer, so I get a bit of choice paralysis, but I think I might figure these out myself.
Thank you for your time writing all this, it’s nice to see people writing big texts (with proper structure too).😊
I somehow forgot to mention this: don’t worry too much about rehearsing words. This is not the most effective way to learn them in most cases, because your brain just doesn’t consider something important and worth remembering until it has a very, very good reason to; forcing the repetition of certain words that way usually doesn’t happen to be that reason.
If you know it works for you, though, then go ahead, but otherwise, don’t beat yourself up and don’t give it more time than it deserves. After all, if you don’t happen to ever use the word or even see or hear it in five years or even more, then why really bother? ;)
I’m not sure “standard” is accurate, I couldn’t find any statistics on methodology for reducing and fixing fractures in long bones. But that’s tangential, I just bring it up for general discussion if someone else finds data on that and would be so kind as to let me know since I’m curious.
But, fixation of bones via surgery goes back a few hundred years as an idea. Afaik, nobody knows who came up with the idea, but it was never viable until the late 1800s when surgeons started seriously working on it after Lister managed to figure out what caused infections… The implements used weren’t “off the rack”, they were purpose made for the job in the hopes of preventing the known problems in implementation like the implants corroding or causing bad reactions.
From there, development of the implants was gradual, with changes to the acceptable design advancing as flaws were discovered and corrected.
The idea of internal fixation was pretty much accepted by the medical community from the beginning. I’ve never run across any formal opposition in the form of published opinion, but I’m also not a historian with access to the good libraries. My background in this stuff is hobbyist level interest with access to a decent medical library back in the nineties and oughts. That library wasn’t for history, it was curated for doctors and focused on modern practice.
Anyway, the point of that was that by the time surgeons were doing procedures, the idea had already been long accepted, and Lister himself did some of the early work on internal fixation.
Now, some less search engine friendly stuff. There are examples of attempts at repairing bones via surgery going back to the bronze age. They were pretty badly done, iirc, and likely caused problems beyond that of normal surgical complications, but there are bones from archaeological digs that were wired or otherwise surgically altered with implants of some kind. Don’t ask me for dates on that, I’m pulling the info from memory of articles I read over a decade ago, and I wasn’t reading it for that kind of thing.
But, if you search up, use the term “internal fixation” and you’ll get hits from medical journals, related publications, and likely some answers like this scattered among them. If you make it “history of internal fixation”, I know there’s several good histories of the subject online, I looked it up when my kid asked a similar set of questions when their grandmother had surgery a while back, to refresh what I had picked up back in the day.
Again, please remember that I’m pulling this from memory. Don’t try and use it for homework or anything. It’s accurate enough for this kind of use to give a general answer, but I can’t recall any specific dates, and the only reason I remember Lister as being a huge factor is that he was a huge factor in everything medical. His name kinda sticks in your head when he’s essentially the father of modern surgery as a whole.
Thanks a lot, that’s a pretty extensive answer, and considering that tell that you do it from memory, it seems that you’re a real human :). May-be I’ll have a look at the internal fixation rabbithole, but it’s just curiosity knowing someone who just got that kind of surgery than a homework/project.
Yeah that’s kind of where I’m at with Ubuntu now. I personally got tired of using it because I find Canonical tends to fixate on whatever shiny thing they currently think is cool (Unity, that hybrid phone/desktop OS thing, Mir, now Snaps), then they let a lot of other stuff stagnate, get the thing they’re fixated on to the point where it’s almost really good, then they get bored and ditch it and go chasing something else.
But none of that’s a killer technical issue necessarily, if you don’t care about that you can still install it and have a good working/stable computer that’ll still do probably 99% of what you need it to.
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