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by ftyers 4y ago
https://archive.ph/KLVJD
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https://archive.ph/sp54w
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https://archive.ph/UwJLv
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I always wonder what they mean by "ritual", it always seems to be a throwaway word for modern or ancient cultures that just have different beliefs or traditions. But it's rarely used when talking about the author's (or a
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https://archive.ph/vmmFi
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by ftyers 4y ago
Sorry for the clickbaity title, I'm in a rural area and don't receive post, I recently got a package sent to me internationally via DHL (you can imagine the occasion). There are customs duties to pay, but DHL's payment page i
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Ask HN: DHL contacted me on WhatsApp and wants me to send them money(ibb.co)
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In terms of ease of learning, extralinguistic factors are generally more indicative. For example, availability of intensive courses, quality of those courses, availability of materials/cultural output, willingness of speakers to inter
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by ftyers 4y ago
Linguist here. In one sense yes, but there are many other senses, also maybe in one language the cases are regular but in the other they aren't. There is complexity from phonetics/phonology to pragmatics, and all languages distrib
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Yeah I think there is definitely a trade off in terms of speed vs. predictability vs. safety, but wonder what it is. Like is it 3 pick 2?
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I don't know to what extent that is true, I'm not saying it's not, but I also wonder. Having been in a lot of places where the traffic is unpredictable, I've noticed that people pay a lot more attention to the road and t
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The second one is great, I use it in class with my students.
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I guess you'd smell it? And if not does it really matter? Probably you'd be surprised at how much you poop you consume, both your own and other people's or animal's.
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That's cool, is it mandated by law or did it just work out as more economical?
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The article is kind of hysterical, but has some interesting information in. I always wondered what to do with plastic bags and bottles and stuff in places where there is no rubbish collection. Burning seems popular, but despite looking up D
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Yeah that's with uBlock, on mobile it still shows up a blank div with the text Advertisement.
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The page has an advert every paragraph, wow.
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That would probably work out better for all concerned.
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This sounds more or less like In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell.
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A nice book about this subject that I haven't seen references here yet is Joseph Tainter's "The collapse of complex societies".
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I lived in Tromsø and drove to Sweden and Finland a fair few times... there is zero customs enforcement. At least for cars, for lorries they're probably tracked in some other way.
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by ftyers 4y ago
In England they definitely do for parking purposes. Like, you get two hours free parking and after you have to pay. And they track it via licence plate readers.
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Paradise at the Crypto Arcade: Inside the Web3 Revolution(wired.com)
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https://archive.ph/wsVN7
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Ok, that makes it more difficult. For /ü/ make the sound "ooh" and then push your lips forward. For the /r/ try saying /tülkiye/ with /l/ and then note where your tongue hits the roof of you
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Which languages are you familiar with? I can potentially give examples in those.
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In Turkish the /ü/ is like a French /u/ in the word "tu" so super round and front. The /r/ is flapped like in Spanish, and for the rest you just pronounce it how it looks. There are three syllables: t
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Turkish Airlines has a publicity campaign going on where on every flight there is a video of foreigners trying to pronounce Türkiye. I think most of them are actors, but all of them pronounce it differently (and not like Turkish speakers wo
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Research also happens to be what they are evaluated on for tenure/promotion etc. Teaching evaluations are generally a tiny part of that equation.
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So maybe those jobs shouldn't be done? It doesn't sound like a complete disaster ...

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