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by coffeeling 1y ago
It doesn't even need to do that. Korean and Vietnamese are easy examples where all the writing is phonetic despite Korean having basically the same structure and problems with Chinese loans as Japanese, and Vietnamese having a ton of S
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by coffeeling 1y ago
It's mostly about lack of practice, frankly. The chief reason people say kana-only writing (like in old videogames for example) is hard to read: People competent at reading any language don't spell things out in detail, even when
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by coffeeling 1y ago
You didn't even try to do it the way Koreans did it, though. When Koreans dropped hanja in favour of a hangeul-only script, they adopted spacing because spaced text is much easier to understand than unspaced text. Likewise, products li
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by coffeeling 1y ago
> Chinese is written using ideograms ('kanji' in Japanese), which convey a meaning but not a pronounciation. So when you encounter a new character you cannot pronounce it. This isn't quite true - about 80% of Chinese chara
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by coffeeling 1y ago
A lot of Japanese learners do hate katakana (personally, a lot of fonts could stand to be clearer about ツシンソ ), because most writing is in kanji+hiragana so they have less practice with katakana. But kana ability is really just exposure. Us
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by coffeeling 1y ago
How do you lose the ability to handwrite in Korean? That sounds weird to me.
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by coffeeling 1y ago
In an ideal world, some kind soul would escort kanji behind a shed and we'd hear a loud bang, then marvel at how we can suddenly just read words we've heard for years.
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by coffeeling 1y ago
> I don't think anyone is "mysticizing" the language. It's just that logographic languages in general present a uniquely interesting problem whereby the auditory component is largely divorced from the written componen
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by coffeeling 1y ago
Scripts being the main driver of literacy is a pet peeve of mine. It's not the script, it's the schooling system. The high rates of literacy in modern states are just a result of the school system - Japan has a high literacy rate,
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by coffeeling 1y ago
The article is talking about diacritics, ie. turning e to é and so on. Even by that standard, though, pinyin uses diacritics to mark tone.
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by coffeeling 1y ago
As much as I approve of shitting on Chinese characters, a lot of the arguments about literacy don't really apply in the modern age. Back in the 1400s when Sejong and his ministers published the Hun'ming'jeong'eun, sure,
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by coffeeling 1y ago
A Dutch man wrote an amazing poem highlighting the absurdity of English orthography: https://people.cs.georgetown.edu/nschneid/cosc272/f17/a1/cha...
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by coffeeling 1y ago
I don't know if Korean is ultimately that good. Hangeul are a monstrous improvement over the old mixed script (which itself is better than the Japanese iteration because the Koreans only used Chinese characters for Chinese loans), but
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by coffeeling 1y ago
The silent letters are not the point - that's why the poster you replied to said it doesn't work speech->writing in French. But writing->speech is much, much more consistent than in English, even if the orthography itself is
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by coffeeling 1y ago
Yeah, English orthography is a hot mess, but it's still fundamentally phonetic and alphabetic. Just try to learn to read Japanese or Chinese, and you'll very quickly come to miss English's pile of nonsense.
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by coffeeling 1y ago
Agreed, a far better critique of English spelling: https://people.cs.georgetown.edu/nschneid/cosc272/f17/a1/cha...
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by coffeeling 2y ago
I remember using Songbird. It was nice.
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by coffeeling 2y ago
They're also little shitfucks who ban my freaking browser.
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by coffeeling 2y ago
It's not just that he disagrees with the things on an object, what happened level. He actively reads malice into every misstep to paint the organization as abusive.
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by coffeeling 2y ago
Chromium has had tab groups for ages, both on desktop and mobile.
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by coffeeling 2y ago
Brave has a setting to enable/disable the feature, idk if standard Chrome has it.
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by coffeeling 2y ago
Huh? I use tab groups heavily in Brave. They're very useful, even if they're not nestable.
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by coffeeling 2y ago
They don't have a business model yet, is the thing.
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by coffeeling 2y ago
IME Apple's web apps are piles of pain and garbage.
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by coffeeling 2y ago
I've found Proton Pass to struggle with autofill in some situations where BitWarden doesn't, and their create alias+create new login for alias flow has failed me sometimes, which is awkward, to say the least.
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by coffeeling 2y ago
They have their own ecosystem of apps and services a la MS, Goog, Apple.
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by coffeeling 2y ago
The big players would be fools to sell data, as such. Their whole thing is that they are so big they can target ads effectively. You'd be a fool to sell that data. They sell ad targeting and ad placement, not the data to do those thing
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by coffeeling 2y ago
Money is money, and companies want more. Of course if they notice they can both sell you the product and have you be the product, they'll ask themselves "Why not both?" The login thing is also probably partly because it does
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by coffeeling 2y ago
A lot of productivity type people on Twitter are to some extent slaves to fashion, and in that world eg. Microsoft just doesn't exist. Cool people don't use it, so we end up in a comedy world where ostensible productivity experts
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by coffeeling 2y ago
Importantly: The ribbon also makes the shortcut chords discoverable, so people can find shortcuts for the stuff they use often by themselves. It lets you get at tons of functions both as a first-timer discovering stuff visually, as well as

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