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- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 6 hours ago:
Sounds close enough
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 7 hours ago:
Musi
- Comment on Lemmy is probably hurting email spammers because users and community names look like valid email addresses. 1 month ago:
Np
- Comment on Lemmy is probably hurting email spammers because users and community names look like valid email addresses. 1 month ago:
Try makind a d sound with your tongue right behind your teeth. Now try making it with it deeper in your mouth, touching the top of your mouth. There’s multiple tongue positions in the mouth that can make d sound. While making the d sound you can also change the amount of air you expel to make the d sound.
This is how a lot of the multiple letters for a single Latin letter work in most indian languages. Explicit characters for each position and often two letters at each consonant position, one for low stress sound at that position and one for high stress.
Found this website for pronunciation of the Sanskrit alphabet: oursanskrit.com/…/pronunciation-of-sanskrit-lette…
Sanskrit is a parent language for most Indian languages, like how Latin is a parent for most European languages. There are some differences between the modern language alphabets, similar to how German, Spanish, and English pronounce “j” differently. Umlauts and/or accents addded to vowels in some european languages, but not others, etc. But the majority of the letters are the same. South Indian (Dravidian languages, as opposed to north India’s indo-European languages) have alphabets that look very different but the letters have mostly a 1 to 1 relationship with the north Indian ones.
- Comment on Lemmy is probably hurting email spammers because users and community names look like valid email addresses. 1 month ago:
The real way to spell it would be in the Hindi script. This is just the most common approximation in the English version of the Latin script.
You can’t get a very accurate version in the Latin script because the Hindi alphabet (devanagiri) has 4 different Ds, two different CH sounds, etc.
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 1 month ago:
The dating phase is often mostly skipped. Maybe a few months.
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 1 month ago:
As another comment on this post explains, in urban middle class India, “arranged marriages” are when your parents are a dating app and set up meetings with people and both people getting married need to consent.
Indians themselves, being a former British colony and thus speaking some degree of English, use those exact words. This isn’t a translation of an Indian phrase or someone else labeling Indian marriages “arranged marriages”. Middle class Indians split marriages into two categories. “Arranged marriages” and “love marriages”.
“Love marriages” are when the partners themselves hit it off, date, and marry.
“Arranged marriages” for middle class indians are when the parents set up meetings, and if both partners agree, they get married. Not much dating with that one, just a couple of meetings, then get engaged for a year (can vary), then marry. Either partner can stop this process at any point. After marriage, legally, either party can file a divorce. This is less common and more frowned upon in older generations but legally quite possible.
For poor Indians in really rural areas, “arranged marriage” means something different. For them, both partners are forced to marry regardless of their wishes if their parents feel strongly enough about it. Legally, they have the same rights, but the societal pressure makes it effectively forced for them.
The above is true for all religions in India except Islam. Muslims have some weird special laws and seperate civil courts and law. The Quran states some laws about divorce and other stuff and there would have been more riots and protests during the government’s formation if they weren’t allowed to follow the Quran’s laws. Some of these special laws have recently been banned, it’s very complicated and I don’t know much about the situation as I don’t live in India.
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 1 month ago:
Except that “arranged marriage” is a matchmaking service in many cultures where both people need to agree to get married. And in many cultures, “arranged marriage” means both the man and the woman are forced to marry regardless of whether the man doesn’t want it or the woman doesn’t want it.
There are indeed cultures where “arranged marriages” only happen if the man consents and the woman’s consent isn’t considered.
I believe the downvotes are because of how many different meanings there are to “arranged marriage” and your comment implies that the only type of arranged marriage is the only man’s consent and no woman consent version.
- Comment on YSK: You might save on car rental by cancelling and re-booking over time before your rental due date 1 month ago:
I think it’s usually free cancellation if the cancellation is more than x days before rental starts for most major car rentals in the US.
- Comment on Tour dates 1 month ago:
I thought it was 9th???
- Comment on The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend 2 months ago:
Vladivostok is Asia imo. East of the Urals/Turkey is Asia by most definitions.
- Comment on assume the position 2 months ago:
The more I look at this, the more braincells I lose
- Comment on What are the best indie games you've ever played? 3 months ago:
Hollow knight
- Comment on U.S. warns country's travel firms of whitewashing of atrocities in China's Xinjiang region 3 months ago:
I was on board till “US Customs and Border Protection officials”. Those shouldn’t be in any country except the US for their work.
- Comment on Peak technology 3 months ago:
Unfortunately all the options in that industry are shit.
- Comment on Asking a girl out for comic book store date? 3 months ago:
Hence the /s
- Comment on Asking a girl out for comic book store date? 3 months ago:
so you’re both engaged
Engagement speedrun. What’s next, they get married that night and have two kids the next day?
/s
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Weird how whistleblowers keep having bad things happen to them.
- Comment on Real! 4 months ago:
Deutsch is the German word for German. I think they just made a typo and put the wrong flag or smth.
- Comment on Toyota cars collecting and potentially sharing location data and personal information, Choice says 4 months ago:
They know all of your children by buying that data from others. If one of your children is in middle school and one in elementary, they know which one is in the car by which location and time you picked them up.
If you regularly go to a soccer field after picking up the kid in middle school, they now know that that kid is interested in soccer. They can sell this data to advertising companies who will use it to show your family soccer ball ads, cleats ads, tickets to soccer games, etc.
- Comment on Toyota cars collecting and potentially sharing location data and personal information, Choice says 4 months ago:
As the other comment says, they can do a lot more than just location.
But even with just location, they can figure out where you work, what stores you visit, what protests you attend, what hobbies you have, who your friends and family are, and so much more. If you regularly drive someone else in your car, a child for example, they’ll also know all these things about them too.
- Comment on Should I cancel? 4 months ago:
“YOLO”, “Whoa”
- Comment on Some map gamers think they can conquer the world 4 months ago:
Paradox gang, wya?
- Comment on What's stopping you from coding like this ? 4 months ago:
Why never mind? You could stare at a dick instead.
- Comment on Bartender Qualifications 4 months ago:
Bartender for a bar with a bunch of these.
Though Python, C, or C++ prob fits better.
- Comment on What’s a “sovereign citizen “? 4 months ago:
- Comment on And thus began the salem witch trials 4 months ago:
Ahh yes, Mannyfeast density
- Comment on And thus began the salem witch trials 4 months ago:
Manifesting? What tf is “manifest me” supposed to mean?
- Comment on Are there some big releases coming in 2024? 5 months ago:
Silksong hopefully
Hades 2
- Comment on Should I buy a Fairphone? If not, what SHOULD I buy and why? 5 months ago:
www.kimovil.com/en/…/fairphone-5
Fairphone 5 will support all of T Mobile’s 4g bands, but only half of the 5g bands. This means that it will have lower 5g coverage than a US phone, but it will have as much 4g coverage as any US phone using t mobile. Based on your use cases, I don’t think there will be too many problems if your phone doesn’t get 5g speeds. Remember that most ppl didn’t have 5g just 3-4 years ago and people were able to do everything that you’re planning on doing with 4g networks.
If you are going to look into alternative OSes, consider degoogled androids over linux phones as you seem to need some android specific apps. Most degoogled androids have the ability to install Google apps with something called microg. For voice assistants, you might be able to install Google voice using microg or choose an open source voice assistant like this one: github.com/PoCInnovation/Elivia-AI. I don’t use voice assistants much, so I’m not too sure how well those work.