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Conor Giles
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Conor Giles
@MkGiles
That guy with the dog Software Engineer Applied Computing Graduate English, Gaeilge, Français, 日本語, en een beetje Nederlands (sé/é) also @[email protected]
Port Lairge, Éire Katılım Temmuz 2012
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I just backed Pixelfed & Loops: Authentic Sharing, Reimagined on @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/pixel…
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@Dogen I had to pause the video because i got hysterical during the 如何 forms, the trauma is very much real.
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@writerofscratch I've been in this boat with both a cishet group and an openly queer one, in both cases the intimacy of the space breaks down barriers. But only if everyone is on the same page? A closeted person would distance themselves in group A, and a cishet person might sit apart in group B.
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@writerofscratch I'd say a qualified yes? like, you don't care about the nudity because *everybody* is naked, so you're not self-conscious, and you kinda end up on top of each other. but i think for a less lgbt-adjacent group, the mention of homosexuality might add some distance between patrons.
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Yesterday at the onsen I saw like three dudes sitting in a single one-person-sized bathtub together and it made me wonder: is this kind of behaviour socially possible precisely because everyone in the men's part of the onsen is presumed to be a (cis) heterosexual man?
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@ScriptingJapan Getting to the point where I could legitimately notice "the writing in this book is garbage" was such a freeing moment in my learning journey.
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My mind expanded and I found peace the first time I asked like five or six native speakers to help me understand a certain paragraph and they all just shrugged.
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Inverse story: when I first started reading full Japanese texts I had huge self doubt because I found the first few texts so vague and convoluted. As I read more I realized that the actual problem is - just like in my own language - some Japanese writers are just bad at writing.
Buddy Waters *now on bluesky*@BuddyWaters
"Japanese writing is really vague" This is a persistent myth fueled by people in the overconfidence stage, where you've got enough vocab and grammar knowledge to read, but don't realize you're bad at stuff like carrying over subjects or catching implications.
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@writerofscratch yeah any time I see someone is a "hyperpolyglot" I immediately disregard. Fluency in multiple languages is doable but pretty close to untenable past like 4 languages. Language proficiency takes constant maintenance because your brain keeps trying to chuck out stale languages.
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I'm at native level in Dutch and English and judging by how far my Japanese has gotten in a bit less than 8 eight years, I don't find it hard to believe there are definitely people who speak four languages at native level fluency.
Not those "polyglot" youtubers though.
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@Amylouioc *closes draft email*
*opens draft email to TG4 instead*
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People are screaming begging and crying for a dark medieval fantasy show that adapts the Táin and this is what RTÉ’s commissioning brief is, gonna cry
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@writerofscratch By contrast, Irish has over 30 consonants, most of which can occur in coda, and at least 10 vowels for the syllable nucleus (plus diphthongs), and classic poetry in Irish is *dense* with rhyme.
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@writerofscratch I've always thought it was because of the limited phonemic inventory. Getting end-rhyme isn't poetically interesting when you only have three options for coda, and only two at the end of a word. So meter and structure become much more interesting in that space.
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I've seen several explanations offered for why end-rhyme isn't really a thing in Japanese poetry/music. It's probably a mix of factors, but "it's because of Japanese sentence structure" sounds like a poor explanation that expects poetic/lyric text to follow prosaic conventions.
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@Amylouioc AI cannot replicate the insanity required to portray the Ulster Cycle to any degree of faithfulness.
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A*I drivel made by lazy dudebros vs art made by an insane woman who thinks about the Táin 24/7 just can’t compete with each other like I’m sorry it’s just the way it is
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Just came across an A*I anime Cú Chulainn project on YouTube 🤢🤢🤢 like babes 🤢🤢🤢 just ask me to do it I’m right here 🤢🤢
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@writerofscratch I use Gboard for typing Japanese, which has good QWERTY support even if I don't use that part myself. Most keyboards support romaji-input so it shouldn't be hard to find a replacement
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@TylerGlaiel It's also hell when working with international teams, so I'm 100% with you on abolishing DST
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@MkGiles I would rather have actual sundial time than fuck up sleep twice a year to do a bad approximation of sundial time
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hear me out, what if instead of daylight savings just fucking adding and taking away a whole ass hour randomly, what if, from dec 21 to june 21 days are 30 seconds longer, and from june 21 to dec 21 days are 30 seconds shorter?
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Stair an Fhocail. Tá dhá fhocal againn a chiallaíonn "island". Tá a scéal féin ag ceachtar acu.
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@writerofscratch It's a good question. I always thought of the emphatic as the marked form, but I also come from a background in Irish which has the unmarked mé/tú with marked emphatic mise/tusa. So now I'm not so sure 😅
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In Dutch, are "je" and jij", or "we" and "wij" for that matter, distinct pronouns or two forms of the same pronoun? 🤔
If they're two forms of the same pronoun, which one is the standard? The stressed form or the unstressed form? Can we make a new form with an in-between nuance?
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@BedekFern @writerofscratch That could definitely be the case, the assumption is you'd use whatever French you had while visiting the country, rather than in an official capacity.
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I've been a panelist in a panel discussion held entirely in Japanese and I analyse Japanese government documents for my research, but please do not ask me to talk about numbers bigger than 99,999 in Japanese.
A-100 gecs@PinstripeBungle
intermediate language learning is the funniest mode of human existence because you can say things like "for the longest time I thought that my career goals were the only things I wanted in life and that was a mistake" but you can't like, count if there are big numbers involved.
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