xXShadowXx [none/use name]
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Cake day: October 8th, 2024
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1·14 days agothe planet is literally on fire
Nah.
54·25 days agoI’ve seen hostels that have a no-Israelis-policy after repeated bad experiences.
I’ve seen a situation where Israeli tourists were pissed off about something so they deliberately tore the toilet out of the floor to flood the place.
1·25 days agosliiiightly overcooked headline but yeah
59·25 days agoI’m ambivalent about the proletarianization of women.
1·1 month agoWhat do you consider to be objectively easy or difficult, regardless of one’s own background or interests?
Japanese is an example of hard. Any creole is an example of easy. Then things with big phonemic inventories are gonna pose challenges for anyone. Large numbers of irregular verbs make a language hard. There’s different ways to be hard: phonology, grammar, etc., and some have all of them.
Very hard to learn, not just because they’re so different from each other and the languages one might be used to, but also because they often lack many resources for learners, right? It feels like oftentimes African languages with like 10 million speakers are about as easy to find resources for as European languages with only 10,000.
That’s a good point and definitely true… buuuut liberals can sometimes get too eager to say that all languages are essentially equal, and the only issues are to do with systemic imbalance or whatever. Some languages are just hard, some are easier. It’s easier to learn some obscure creole than Japanese.
Do you believe Swahili is on an upwards trajectory, that as that part of Africa becomes more integrated and influential that Swahili will become more widespread too? It’s something I’ve been wondering.
Haha I hope so. Educated people, businesspeople etc., in East Africa speak English. I fear it’s a winner-takes-all game.
Too many fucking languages going around and they’re very hard to learn.
Swahili’s pretty easy though thankfully and that gets you a long way.
Man I wish Esperanto was more popular in Africa would make my life so much easier
16·1 month agoI presume they’ll replace them with PVC
19·1 month agoIf you don’t have an ironic mullet are you even Australian?
7·1 month agoThat’s a handsome goat
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it’s not in their material interest