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by bmn__ 5y ago
> Mandarin is not written Chinese to my knowledge. […] Source: I’m native Chinese You are confusing written language with writing system, probably due to domestic and global propaganda efforts that have been going on for 70 years. This r
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"Oh Yes You Can Use Regexes to Parse HTML!" https://stackoverflow.com/a/4234491
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The coastal urbanites (respectively their children) learn foreign languages because they can afford the teachers. The rurals do not benefit.
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> mandarin ideograms That's called Chinese characters in English. In its entirety, that writing system is based on logograms, hence, a programming language uses logograms, too, not only ideograms. https://news.ycombinator
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You are confusing a geographic region with a language.
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> It means you're not talking to your parents. The article admits that she • rebelled and for a time would not speak (shout) to the parents other than English • moved to the other side of the continent.
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> China has for the majority of it's history been a northern Mandarin Chinese oriented country. That claim is incompatible with historic records and linguistic scrutiny. Northern Mandarin developed only in the recent ca. 500 years,
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There is no preservation of mother tongues. Languages are assigned along ethnic lines in the name of nation building. yellow → standard Chinese native → Malay brown → Tamil If the father is a Fujian Hakka, the children will learn standard
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyO1ILQAGsU
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I hate the extremists at the descriptivist end of the spectrum. I have no desire to return to four hundred years ago where everyone spelled words as one pleased, and comprehension suffers for it.
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> No fonts actually include emoji to any significant extent, and definitely not in colour. You're mistaken, that does not reflect reality. https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/emoji/ https:&#x2F
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The crime classification manual puts the threshold at three victims. Mass murder is concentrated in time, so this qualification does not apply, instead this is serial. Murder requires intent to kill, but the Sacklers only let the deaths rec
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That would be a violation of the general act on equal treatment (introduced 2006), and hence referred to the state's attorney's office. Scientology does not enjoy the protection of religion or worldview because the organisation is
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vN_PEmeKb0
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Site is geoblocked. Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20210901155230/https://www.ajc.c...
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27662804
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27662804
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> my idea of creating a "[standard aptitude test] for Developers" Already exists. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27662804 Don't you have apprenticeships in your country?
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The author assumes a certain savviness in current affairs on behalf of the reader. You want the content to be written to a lower common denominator. Who of the two gets to decide how much expository context is right?
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That question cannot be answered in a meaningful way unless we know your skill profile and use case. A qualified comparison is "Gamefromscratch: Choosing A Game Engine in 2021" < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r
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Programming is for all kinds of people. If you felt despair when you read the metaphor of totalitarianism and just want to get away from languages that want to grind an axe on you, and Lisp is not your cup of tea, then Raku and Perl welcome
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https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/xg3hXCYQPJkwHyik2/the-bes...
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The story is in the page linked above. ctrl+f temperature
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Other languages have similar problems, although not as striking. It does not make sense to special-case Azeri, Crimean Tatar, Kurdish, Turkish, Tatar as you propose. The real problem is giving in to the notion that having an unknown mix of
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The USA should become a signatory to the Vienna convention on road signs and signals like its neighbour country. That way, people will have even less trouble. More people comprehend the common, global (pictographic) language than English.
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Sounds overly complicated. Don't you have id cards in your country?
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So blame goes to the hammer instead of the carpenter?
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Corresponding browser add-on: https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect
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Factorio: Hi, I'm Josef (Self-Expanding Factory Showcase)(youtube.com)
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> > Perl is as hard for novices to learn as a language with a randomly-designed syntax Stefik is a hack fraud, and he claimed another victim with Wilson. HN readers, beware. https://www.nu42.com/2013/11/are-p

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