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lugal ,

There’s an old Talaxian expression: “When the road before you splits in two, take the third path.”

lugal ,

That’s a different story all together. In that case, there really were only 2 options and one was clearly morally wrong so Janeway had to do exactly that

lugal ,

Cool indeed

lugal ,

I sometimes tried to summon that bot but it didn’t come when you did it intentionally

lugal ,

I guess 1. it might only cover a fraction of comments so if you do it unintentionally and it doesn’t work you don’t notice so that’s a big bias 2. I didn’t try very often so it isn’t statistically significant 3. when I tried it often was in direct or indirect response to the bot so there might be a filter on the bot’s side.

And I sound like I tried more than once, I’m not even sure but surely at least once and at the very most thrice

lugal ,

This but unironically

lugal ,

Thanks for clarification!

lugal ,

As if celebrating birth on the 30th December wasn’t difficult enough…

lugal ,

This is true in all Chinese languages when spoken normally but Mandarin (unlike Cantonese) ignores tone in singing. Pretty sure the name is Mandarin

lugal ,

And since the post was about singing, your whole argument is flawed. Checkmate atheist

lugal ,

I needed this right now. I will create happen, I will. Follow me to watch my path

anicent chinese wisdom is sometimes flawed (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

Description: Three panels. The first panel is a picture of a sign on a window with Chinese that tells people to not to throw things out the window. There is a poor English translation on the sign that says “Do not shit in the air like a god.” The second panel is D.W. from Arthur glaring at the sign. The third panel is D.W....

lugal ,

Is that just a terrible translation or a metaphor non Chinese people don’t get or something in between?

lugal ,

Leads me to my next question: do you have any clue how the wrong translation came into existence?

lugal ,

Interesting! Sounds like something that might be difficult for (early) machine translation, maybe before neural networks

lugal ,

Another one on the team?

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/982e5beb-3df8-44dd-a5ea-2fb0698c4949.png

lugal ,

POV: The second one is just wrong and you all know which one I mean

lugal , (edited )

You sound like a slave owner, ngl

I am not pro slavery but I will not free my chattel slaves. People just break with this tradition for extremely dubious reasons.

Listen to yourself!

Edit: I was thinking about putting “/s” at the end but thought it was obvious enough. I was wrong

lugal ,

Why do I keep getting this comment? Maybe I should call myself Poe in the future

lugal ,

I guess I once again forgot the “/s”. I’m not going to call me “Poe” at any point of time /s

lugal ,

I had a conversation recently where someone said they weren’t serious after several levels of comments that were downvoted into oblivion. I try to make myself understood in the second (or third) level of comments or, as in this case, in an edit

lugal ,

Well, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few

lugal ,

Here we are now

lugal ,

TIL there is sugar in ketchup

lugal ,

I was half jokingly wondering why the top comment was a truism

lugal ,

No, there is a limit to multi tasking

lugal ,

I once had 2 interviews for jobs with different skill sets and the same HR person was there. It felt weird to be passionate about both

lugal ,

I heard a newspaper opinion piece in the radio here in German that clearly didn’t know the difference between genocide and holocaust. I mean, c’mon, read a book before you publish a newspaper!

lugal ,

Reddit is beyond help, OP is police officer

lugal ,

Not so strange actually. Sure, seen superficially, it seems that double negatives negate each other but that doesn’t fit the empirical data. Many languages do this in their standard variety and English does it in many local, social and historical varieties. I think Shakespeare did it too.

Spanish for example has “sin nada”, literally “without nothing” but meaning “with nothing”/ “without anything”.

So the linguistic consensus is that the negative is expressed more than once. Depending on the language this might be optional or not. Slavic languages have a negative prefix “ne-” on verbs and this is obligatory if a negative word (like never, nobody,…) is used in the sentence.

lugal ,

If you are ready to reflext on your biases, you should take the 4min and watch this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3jxC3zqkEE

lugal , (edited )

Arguably, since “anything” is only used in negative sentences, it is kind of part of the negative. You wouldn’t say “I have anything”, only “I don’t have anything”. Then again, it can be used in positive sentences like “I would do anything” with a slightly different meaning.

But let’s take “anymore”. “I can’t stand it anymore” is a common phrase but “I can stand it anymore” not so much. “anymore” is only used in negative sentences so the “not” is arguably redundant and therefore “not … anymore” is kind of a double negative.

And even that’s not true for all speakers of English. There are native speakers who would say “I go to town anymore” unironically.

Edit: I reread the comment you reacted to and to say it’s “to emphasize” is wrong. That argument would work better for “at all” for example. My point is that “double negative” isn’t as clear cut as it might seem to be at first glance. “I don’t know nothing” is a double negative for sure, “I don’t know anything at all” kind of in a way, “I don’t know anything” maybe a little bit.

lugal ,

Tbh prescriptivism has its place in official over regional communication and language learning. We wouldn’t understand each other if we were writing each in their local dialect and when you start learning a language, you don’t want to first need an overview of the dialect continuum.

That said, in unofficial writing it doesn’t matter as long as you write intelligible and advanced language learners should learn about varieties. I for example was tought British English at the start and in the 4th year, we learned about American English and the differences to British English.

lugal ,

A true descriptivist will describe the effects, prescriptivism has on language

But your right, it isn’t linguistics since science is always descriptive.

lugal ,

He’s not green.

lugal ,

Try double think. Its easier

lugal ,

Isn’t that part of flat earth?

lugal ,

Yes and no. You describe it as a scientific theory which it is not.

To really understand flat earth, you have to understand the “copernican desillution” (there is a similar term for that but I can’t find it). If the earth goes around the sun instead of the other way around, we are just an insignificant planet moving around just an insignificant star.

Flat earth puts the earth back to the center, where is always belonged, and goes all in on that by making it flat again

lugal ,

This year will be longer. At least a day

lugal ,

To understand recursion you first need to understand recursion

lugal ,

…Living hell …

lugal ,

Fake news

lugal ,

Is it really a good idea to glorify suicide?

lugal ,

I think the new lemmy version has some federation issues. I don’t see all the posts on some instances

lugal ,

lugal ,

Ensign Picard, is it you?

lugal ,

I still think it’s a parody on AI generated stuff.

lugal ,

Good bot

lugal ,

Feels like yesterday …

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