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- Comment on How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this? 2 weeks ago:
A perspective from an European here with nativeness and alike in several latin-related languages and long lasting interest in Japanese language and related culture since the 2000s.
Certainly for written Japanese it will help you your Chinese knowledge (after a learning curve of false-friend associations), I heard that many technical/modern words have been imported in Chinese also from Japanese adaptations (only the characters implied, not the sounds, as is common in indoeuropean language imports), as a return kind voyage, since Japanese writing was first imported from old Chinese and then evolved in today’s system (kanjis and two silabaries). Also many English words have been imported into Japanese, but highly phonetically distorted in the adaptation. Foreign words are easy to spot in written text, and I often chuckle when I understand the word by realising about the original one after backtracing the intended pronunciation.
As a consequence of Chinese influence in the writing system, most of the kanjis have two pronunciations, one(or-more-alike) of Japanese origin and another(or-more-alike) of Chinese origin, which in many cases will resemble to current Chinese ones, but I have heard that phonetic changes will throw away potential direct understanding (also rules about which pronunciation is used when in Japanese are not rock solid or straightforward always) specially since grammar is notably different also. I found that proficiency in two similar related languages (e.g. between roman-latin languages, between germanic languages, etc) develop certain ability in spontaneous word recognition across phonetic variations, but I found this in indoerupean languages with “long” words with “long” roots (not one “syllable” per “word”), not sure how much would work between Mandarin and Cantones and a phonetic adaptation from old Chinese into Japanese, which would be just a part of it.
I am far from fluent in Japanese, but the most basic interactions, grammar recognition, etc and the learned nuances add a wonderful experience to OVS watching (love for those sub volunteers that explain the cultural context of many situations), and since most of my consume is Japanese culturaly rooted (e.g. not sci-fi, western fantasy, etc) I am not interested in dubbed material at all. I think fluency requires a serious investment, even for Chinese background, user abilities and environment may vary this a lot also, so the gain must be worth it: for careless plain consumption of works not rooted in Japanese culture I doubt is worth it, for the rest I find worth the effort to read subs most of the time and appreciate recognise the nuances hard/impossible to translate.
I had zero regrets of all what I invested in Japanese understanding up today, even if is not enough for general understanding, but I also find such cultural travel worthy on each step. I am attempting something alike with Chinese nowadays, let’s see how far I arrive…
Good luck!
- Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) 3 weeks ago:
A home server with digital services (from mail to cloud) as we got wired phones back in our timeline, most of the time up, possible terminal of our own and able to unplug at will
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 3 weeks ago:
ICE is objectionable… did they got “confused”?
- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 4 weeks ago:
Accent is not pronunciation, I try to get as close as possible as the originally intended pronunciation the person cast of their name, not mimic the stereotypical changes in the common sounds the person makes on the transcribed text of their name… I believe there is a difference
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
Mostly for random song discovery considering my previously liked songs, I regularly download/obtain those songs I like for offline reproduction and preservation… online stuff has short lifes
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
Currently, for free users, only PC or tablet allows to control what you listen (caveat occasional ads) but mobile constraints to a shuffle reproduction of albums, and if you dare to do a short album they spice it with additional related tracks, so you are never in control of what is likely to play…
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
I still let spotify to discover me things from time to time… but regularly I download/obtain those that I like, I never abandoned my offline library, I am old enough to know that nothing online perdures…
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
Well, on PC or tablet you still can, but on mobile it is always album random shuffle… and if you create an album of less than N songs, in mobile they add related tracks in the reproduction (radio-spotify like) so it remains not possible to control what you listen
- Comment on 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst 5 weeks ago:
Every step towards the next generation of colliders needs to be deeply justified about the falsifiables it will check and their interest to the current knowledge before being able to see a cent for it, and the expected energies of the TOE are well known to not be reachable with current means and technology, that’s not what they are promising ever, but what they do they fulfill beyond, often predictions, to not mention the huge return basic research has always had in the long term to humanity… nope, I am afraid that I do not find it a good analogy at all
- Comment on Trump threatens tariffs on countries that ‘discriminate’ against US tech 1 month ago:
This thing called sovereignty…
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 2 months ago:
This is not the Europe I remember…
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Headed? I would say we are a looney toon several meters in the air beyond the cliff border after traverse a mountaing through a tunnel pinted in the wall with an ACME parachute… and I think that I fell short in the hyperbole
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 3 months ago:
Why would they be right beyond word sequence frecuencies?
- Comment on If we humans have a whole range of microbial life living on our skin, do other animals have their own similar micro fauna covering them? 3 months ago:
If I remember correctly is the same adaptation of this eye parasit of Greenland sharks, they only grow in one of the two sensors so the parasited animal is not terribly compromised and still can thrive enough to complete the life cycle of the parasite
- Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 3 months ago:
Every empire has those aspirations.
There are many ways to achieve it through the complex relationships between countries and societies (e.g. soft power, cultural influence, militar control, etc) but an empire willing to try it at any cost with any means will always succeed for longer as an empire…
- Comment on A simple experiment to demonstrate that Astrology does not work is to keep a detailed journal of events, and periodically check past horoscopes for accuracy.* 3 months ago:
As if an user could be interested in pursue such enlighten…
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 4 months ago:
You are right, thanks! I misread the graph and thought it was a 4 cycles per day, which was puzzling me, but is indeed just a daily oscillation
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 4 months ago:
Intrigued by the quarter a day oscillation in that graph… 🤔
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 4 months ago:
These are already large and big enough to hate them… last thing I want is extravolume/weight. Also, I paid for the neat experience and I am going to enjoy it till the end…
- Comment on Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry 4 months ago:
- Comment on Amazonian tribe that received Starlink satellite internet sues The New York Times, TMZ, and Yahoo for $180M over defamation and more, claiming a viral 2024 NYT story smeared members as porn addicts. 4 months ago:
Not to mention that plan and engagement of the NYT story is purely based on writers and potential readers relating to such fact in the first time, behave as if it is something worth of mentioning in a new borders hypocrisy…
- Comment on Maybe creating an ocean of AI disinformation so large it dilutes all verifiable truth is the key to getting people to unplugged. 5 months ago:
Nah, they keep engaging… even harder…
- Comment on Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides” 6 months ago:
Hate and Love, sure…
- Comment on Lemmy has the ideal number of posts for me. Just enough to have a good time but not too many that I'm scrolling forever 6 months ago:
Comment quality is also very well balanced…
- Comment on Grok Reveals Elon Musk Has ‘Tried Tweaking My Responses’ After AI Bot Repeatedly Labels Him a ‘Top Misinformation Spreader’ 6 months ago:
Well, there is probably some survival/confirmation bias on that statistics, those answers are the funny ones… in any case probably is not necessary a LLM to state such statements
- Comment on Grok Reveals Elon Musk Has ‘Tried Tweaking My Responses’ After AI Bot Repeatedly Labels Him a ‘Top Misinformation Spreader’ 6 months ago:
A LLM can “reveal” also that water ice melts into mapple syrup given the proper prompts, if people already can (consciously and not) lie proportionally to their biases I don’t understand why would somebody treat a LLM output as a fact…
- Comment on If we give human names to dogs, do they give dog names to us humans? 6 months ago:
I am known as Bark Bark…
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 7 months ago:
I would prefer any ActivityPub instance, but press media (and in general private entities), to which scientific institutes intend diffusion, is moving to bluesky…
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Gravity?
- Comment on Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills 8 months ago:
It was already soooooo dead out there that I doubt they considered this systematic properly in the study…
