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by Tor3 1y ago
Boas claimed in 1884 that the Inuit language on Baffin Island had four words for snow. The "100" was inflated through re-telling. And that number has been thoroughly refuted. Of course. Inuit languages don't have 100 diffe
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by Tor3 1y ago
I did not at all in any way mean to say that learning a language should be from a source language towards a target language. Quite the opposite really. I completely agree with the statement ".. embodying that language - ie. it is not
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by Tor3 1y ago
That was simply an example of what's actually used in schools teaching adult immigrants of all ages! It was not something I pitched as an alternative to Duolingo. (Though it must be said that this particular school I mentioned has a v
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by Tor3 1y ago
I and my wife used an LLM to translate something she had written, she could have done that herself but she doesn't feel up to a task like that yet (due to the target audience). And I myself am far away from being able to translate that
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by Tor3 1y ago
My learning finally picked up speed again when I started using CCI (Compelling Comprehensive Input). How easy it is to find material differs a lot between languages. Way way back in time I learned English that way, though I didn't thin
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by Tor3 1y ago
I do agree with a lot of what you write. I maintain that Duolingo is the wrong approach to actually learn a language (even though there are differences between the various languages covered by Duolingo). However, I did somewhat successful
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by Tor3 1y ago
> 2) speech from day one. .. is something I can't fully agree with. The exception being if the target language only has sounds which you are familiar with already (as in _really_ familiar - your native language already have them).
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by Tor3 1y ago
internet_points posted good advice a comment or two above. Duolingo _is_ ok as a starting point, but (as was said before), move on as soon as possible. As a poster above did, I also spent way way too long on Duolingo, chasing the 'stre
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by Tor3 1y ago
There wasn't much to read there, but why aspire to be an alternative to Duolingo of all things? Duolingo focuses on learning by translation, basically. It's even in the name: "Duolingo". It's an utterly broken appr
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by Tor3 1y ago
Yep, the title is completely wrong. The actual article says ".. INS", not GPS. It can't compare with GPS to begin with. From the article: "the best final positioning accuracy we achieve is 22m". GPS can be accurate
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by Tor3 1y ago
Wozniak couldn't do what Allen did, as Wozniak didn't have access to a PDP-10 mainframe (as it was known as, back then), or any other larger computer. He bought a 6502 CPU at the Wescon Trade Fair in 1975, because it was so cheap
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by Tor3 2y ago
Just for the record, in my country (which isn't France, but I suspect it's not very different there) interpreters have to be provided by law, by hospitals and the like, where needed. And for residents (temporary or otherwise) who
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by Tor3 2y ago
An important factor is bird lungs, which essentially have a mechanism which keeps the lungs perpetually inflated. Air flows through. This makes it possible to provide way more oxygen to the body than our own inefficient lungs. Which again m
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by Tor3 2y ago
Who would've believed that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451 would become real. And in the US of all places.
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by Tor3 2y ago
I got mine for just below $40, from what I believe (though one can never be certain) a reliable seller. Still haven't decided how I will proceed, I want to use it for a real project and not just as a decoration.
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by Tor3 2y ago
Since the first browser appeared I've always meant that sending a user agent id was a really bad idea. It breaks with the fundamental idea of the web protocol, that it's the server's responsibility to provide data and it&#x27
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by Tor3 2y ago
Examples?
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by Tor3 2y ago
I'm talking about the time analyzing, not the time executing. And that's definitely abstract. And, as I mentioned, this applies to my design work too. And when programming. No words involved, until I write the documentation.
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by Tor3 2y ago
When I drive to and from work I drive through several places where I have to mentally imagine what several other drivers plan to do, and, depending on what they actually do, (and what problems they may run into due to the slippery road) wha
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by Tor3 2y ago
Title was modified from what it originally said.
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by Tor3 2y ago
The article doesn't say what the headline says. At all. Never in the article does it say that "our capacity for language emerged 135,000 years ago". What the article says is that they have genomically traced our species back
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by Tor3 2y ago
The only guaranteed way of avoiding translation in your head that I know of, is to in fact never translate. Learn the bare minimum to get somewhere to start from, and get comprehensible input from there on. Something which you enjoy, someth
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by Tor3 2y ago
That is not a definition of "fluency" I'm familiar with. To me what you're describing is about "proficiency", and the latter is the term used by e.g. CEFR, I quote: "The CEFR organises language proficiency
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by Tor3 2y ago
There's not much point looking at last names, because they change for every generation. There aren't any "family names" as such.
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by Tor3 2y ago
Same. The manuals.. they were like real flying manuals. I was never a gamer, but I was working shifts through the nights with lots of spare time, so I played Flight Sim on the Apple. Then one day a pilot friend invited me to fly with him i
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by Tor3 2y ago
He's known today as "Leonardo" as well. It's just that there are some people who aren't familiar with this. Exactly as some will use the "last" name with people from Iceland, even though it's as meani
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by Tor3 2y ago
He was called "Leonardo" at the time, and if anyone asked "Which Leonardo?" then the reply could be "Leonardo from Vinci" (there are other combinations to identify someone, re sister comment). Think of it as &q
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by Tor3 2y ago
My first Fortran program was a tool I wrote to read 8" SS/SD CP/M floppies on a minicomputer. That was very easy to do, as the dialect had a couple of useful string extensions and the operating system had efficient ways of r
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by Tor3 2y ago
What's "FP"? Nothing comes to mind. As for myself, I had a Texas Instruments TI-30, I think it was, in my higher studies - it was a price revolution at the time. That was a fine simple calculator, but when somebody let me try
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by Tor3 2y ago
No, that's not how Linux started. No fork from Unix, if that's the comparison you were making. Linux started as a completely independent project, a multi-tasking kernel printing AAA...BBB, and, as it progressed, working towards be

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