KSPAtlas
@KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on A Jamaican accent just makes me smile 5 days ago:
Yeah i had a really bad feeling about this post, it’s an actual language spoken by actual people who have been historically discriminated against, not just “weird english”
The reason creoles look like weird english sometimes is because they’re the mixture of multiple languages
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 5 days ago:
Is it? I tried checking in a dictionary but it didn’t list mídheas as a word and “deas” was defined as right/nice/honest, not just “good”
- Comment on Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards 1 week ago:
Even most Esperanto speakers have abadoned the ideology of Finvenkismo (the belief that Esperanto will become the primary language of the world, overtaking other languages) as it’s both unrealistic and has several flaws
Esperanto is a flawed, Eurocentric language, and we should celebrate linguistic diversity, not treat it as a problem needing to be solved
- Comment on People in the UK Watching the The world using the internet 1 week ago:
Unfun fact: a good part of the internet goes down every time there’s a football match in Spain, because the government gave a football league access to the national internet blocklist to stop piracy or smth and they put the entirety of Cloudflare on there
- Comment on Macquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic face 2 weeks ago:
Why is this downvoted, it’s actually a real thing
Linguists struggle to find an exact definition of what a word is because speakers of different languages have different opinions of what a word is, and some languages make the distinction unclear
- Comment on Happy DB Cooper Day to those who celebrate! 2 weeks ago:
I think Wiseau was living in Poland at the time?
- Comment on Here's our word of the Day 3 weeks ago:
Why are slashes being used to mark spelling pronunciation? Surely it’d be /ˈfʌk.toʊs ɪnˈtɔ.lə.ɹənt/
Sorry I’m being a bit pendantic
- Comment on Good job! 3 weeks ago:
tak is more like yes, no is more like yeah
- Comment on Good job! 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, “no” meaning “yeah” in polish is kinda a funny coincidence
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ quarter 3 weeks ago:
RISC-V is sooo cool I hope it ends up being used more in consumer products
- Comment on Steam 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Goodnight sweet prince 4 weeks ago:
Is Powerline ethernet based off of the same tech?
- Comment on Wendy’s to close hundreds of restaurants as struggling customers cut back on dining out 4 weeks ago:
Language prescriptivism in the big 25
- Comment on I smard 4 weeks ago:
Finally
Language dependent maths
- Comment on Law 5 weeks ago:
Wasn’t the “inuits have dozens of words for snow” thing kinda disproven? Afaik they only have like 5 or something, the reason people were saying there were so many is because Inuktitut, Greenlandic, etc are polysynthetic languages, meaning you can pack a LOT of information into one word (it’s possible to make complex one-word sentences for example). This does mean that there are a lot of words based off the root for snow, which is where people got the idea
- Comment on Let's learn some words in the Finnish language 1 month ago:
The first part works better with a polish ESL accent compared to a more native one btw
- Comment on Let's learn some words in the Finnish language 1 month ago:
One of the polish words for luck is “fart”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s photoshopped, it comes from an earlier picture posted here with pierogi
- Comment on A little known fact that may describe YOU 1 month ago:
Thanks for telling us a joke is a joke
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 1 month ago:
Just give it up you’re not winning this argument 😭
Anyone sane would have realised this is a useless thing to fight over
Either that or you’re a troll
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 1 month ago:
Devolving to linguistic prescriptivism just proves you don’t have an argument anymore lol
- Comment on If only we knew... 1 month ago:
I have faith that it’s possible to reform at least some of them, even if it’s not everyone
A lot of what gets people into these beliefs is environmental factors and the beliefs of those around them
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
Oh my bad, I didn’t know that was the actual reason
Most other thorn-users I’ve interacted with were doing it out of an attempt to reform English spelling so
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
It’s not an anti AI thing and I have no idea why people keep repeating this misinformation
It’s an internet phenomenon, called Bring Back Thorn, which has been around since before LLMs became popular
- Comment on Helpful guide 1 month ago:
Apparently the sun’s spectral absorbtion lines were discovered 4 years before the song was made
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 1 month ago:
This looks like hell to clean
- Comment on Yes, yeeeees, YEEEEEEEES 1 month ago:
There is a “big main instance” effect that seems to form unfortunately
And the barrier to transferring instances is quite high
- Comment on "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym 1 month ago:
In Polish, “United States” is Stany Zjednoczone, but the acronym is USA, even though that doesn’t match up at all
- Comment on Poor doggo 1 month ago:
EXACTLY, English has diminutives like many other languages
Also, slang terms are as “correct” as any other words, the only difference is the context where you use them
- Comment on 4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine 1 month ago:
They’re not banned, but some ISPs block them anyways
