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by intertextuality 7y ago
Sometimes non-English speakers, when someone tries to learn their language past a basic degree, can be a bit rude even unintentionally. I have had a good native Korean friend quite innocently (although randomly) point out that although I ra
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by intertextuality 7y ago
Anki. See my other comments in this thread, but I can vouch for it after using it for almost 2 years for Korean and now Japanese kanji. The manual documents it well, and I recommend you only use a ready-made deck for about 3 months at the m
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by intertextuality 7y ago
You don't want ready-made decks except at the very beginning. Once you get past words like "mom" that have very obvious usage, these decks aren't great because they lack examples and structure. Instead, one should use An
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by intertextuality 7y ago
> is time consuming Get used to it. Learning a language is time consuming. Nobody ever learned a language by studying it 30 mins per day. At a beginner level, one can find words through the grammar textbooks and the like. At intermediate
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by intertextuality 7y ago
Anki may very well be one of the best applications ever made. I have been using it for about a year and a half for Korean, and now I'm memorizing kanji characters with it. My goal is to memorize 2,136 kanji within 4-5 months and I full
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by intertextuality 7y ago
I studied German in college, and I have been studying Korean for almost 2 years and I would say you're spot on. The hardest thing about learning a new language is learning to think in that language, not 1. think in native language 2. t
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by intertextuality 7y ago
> get a long term disability pension just by saying it > but when I record it and play it back, I sound quite soft in the head > Who would have thought that a phrase ... would be such a big problem for me?? :) If this is how you en
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by intertextuality 7y ago
You don't quite get what I was saying. A review is not written by the mechanic themself once they get home from work, is it? My point was that people don't expect mechanics to go home and start blogging about new tools that they
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by intertextuality 7y ago
This is an unbelievable attitude. "Oh so you call yourself a mechanic, huh? Well you aren't blogging about cars and mechanic-related things in your free time, so I'm suspicious". "Oh, an architect, huh? You don&#x27
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by intertextuality 7y ago
It is not trolling. If it was trolling, I would have said "trolling". The reason I used that example is because in someone's arbitrary definition of "toxic" they extended it to mean "not playing exactly how I
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by intertextuality 7y ago
I believe I started with Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional by Peter Cooper. I liked The Well Grounded Rubyist and I've heard Eloquent Ruby is also good. Design Patterns in Ruby is less about ruby and more about desi
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by intertextuality 7y ago
They tend not to be grids because a lot of cities were built before the advent of cars, and renovating would be basically impossible. Cities that had the opportunity to rebuild (like Chicago after the 1871 fire) make use of grids.
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by intertextuality 7y ago
I didn't even know of that word, so I don't know it's history, but niggardly is another similar word, or snigger. Etymologically they may be unrelated but come on. Every single time you say one of those words we all know what
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by intertextuality 7y ago
A lot of people aren't driven enough by themselves. So although they -could- look things up and start working on projects, they -don't-. Another thing is the teachers/mentors. I'm not sure about Lamba School's quali
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by intertextuality 7y ago
The sub demonizes asian women and white men. It's exactly like /r/incels (which got banned) except they blame on it on their race.
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by intertextuality 7y ago
No, it's objectively dumpster trash. Dig deeper in the linked post and you'll see way worse comments. There are subjective things and there are objective things. What you're doing at this moment (trying to justify both sides)
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by intertextuality 7y ago
The word "toxic" has no meaning anymore, because it's all relative to the person using it. For example, in the game Overwatch, "toxic" got mostly used as "this person does not play with the characters currently
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by intertextuality 7y ago
Nerd, geek, and freak are nowhere near as utterly vile as the n word. They are in completely different leagues. The first step to understanding the reclamation is understanding just how offensive the n word was and is today. And the cultu
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by intertextuality 7y ago
Well, you can get as philosophical as you want. In the real world, for American companies and services, it comes down to basically doing what they want. There is no real argument that a company like Reddit must adhere to free speech. No o
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by intertextuality 7y ago
https://voat.co/v/Voat/3178819 > Gas the kikes Race War Now is not an illegal threat. The supreme court has ruled that a threat needs a place and a time to be considered actionable or illegal. example: We'
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by intertextuality 7y ago
A lot of incidents seem to arise from normalization of deviance + self regulation (especially in the moment). And hubris. The author's situation reminds me of the Tenerife airport disaster- absolutely macabre and sobering. [0] [0]: ht
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by intertextuality 7y ago
> it's good to let people experiment, find their voices, build the right audience. That's not how subreddits work, though, since they require a a name and almost always have mods that shape the content. /r/waternigga
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by intertextuality 7y ago
No one is eroding anything, please don't be melodramatic. Free speech is a protection from the government , not products offered by corporations; end of story. You are free to not use reddit, or create your own reddit.
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by intertextuality 7y ago
Voat just became a cesspool because it was all about the "free speech". So you had an influx of the worst of reddit + the sort of people who are attracted to free speech areas online. It just died off since then, since 1. nobody r
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by intertextuality 7y ago
Substantial enough that voat turned to shit right after. I was looking into it at the time, but it got way worse after the banwaves.
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by intertextuality 7y ago
Exactly. I don't support voat or gab. I was just describing what happened. The problem with reddit is that it's wildly inconsistent about banning subreddits. Subreddits like these can exist for years, but only will get banned once
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by intertextuality 7y ago
I agree. Voat basically instantly became a cesspool after the major banwave. In theory it would work but in practice places that are all about "free speech" tend to just attract complete and utter assholes.
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by intertextuality 7y ago
Reddit back in the day: bans /r/fatpeoplehate, /r/coontown, /r/jailbait, and other awful subreddits. Reddit today: effectively bans (quarantines) /r/waterniggas simply because of the subreddit's
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by intertextuality 7y ago
In my opinion it should be updated with the times. I find myself writing multiple lines quite often, especially if I'm answering a question. Note that this doesn't prevent anyone from sending single line messages like usual, witho
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by intertextuality 7y ago
At least for me, I participate in a lot of programming channels. I've saved a lot of stuff for later, that would otherwise be a pain to ask someone to answer it again. I log basically all of my irc chats because 1. storage is cheap 2.

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