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• Varesti@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• Ellvix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Turkish has a different verb tense for something you personally witnessed vs heard second hand or inferred, and I really appreciate that

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What the fuck, the English stole everything that wasn’t bolted down and they didn’t take THAT with them? PRIORITIES, guys. Skip the French crap and integrate THIS

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    • BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      We can still do it. Time to ask what the turkish word is so we can integrate them into our Frankenstein language

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  • BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hey for no reason in particular, what is that word?

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    • Ellvix@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Evidential past tense. Depends the verb, but it’s usually verb-miş, which kinda sounds like ‘misha’ or ‘mush’ to my US ears. It’s used when you haven’t personally witnessed something. Like if you go outside and see puddles of water and a cloud that just passed and a rainbow, it clearly just rained but you didn’t TECHNICALLY see it rain, so you say yağmur yağmış instead of yağmur yağdı if you had actually seen it.

      So when you find a group of people gossiping, you just hear ‘misha’ ‘misha’ ‘misha’ ‘misha’ because they’re all talking about inferred info, and I’ve heard it called the gossip tense.

      And it’s appropriate to note that I know all this second hand. I don’t know any Turkish (besides Dur = stopsign from geoguessr), this is from my language nerd friend who speaks a decent amount, so I probably need to throw a -miş in here somewhere.

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    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They said it’s a tense, not a specific word

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• NeedyPlatter@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Worse part is when a headline of an article like that is posted on social media and everyone just takes it at face value, especially if they agree with it.

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  • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    SCIENTIST FOUND EVIDENCE THAT THE MULTIVERSE IS REAL

    New experimental observations regarding macroscopic quantum mechanical systems are found to be consistent with the many-worlds interpretation.

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    • bunchberry@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, Many-Worlds is just a bunch of metaphysics tacked on top of quantum mechanics. It doesn’t change any of the mathematics at all, so it predicts all the same things normal quantum mechanics predicts. Yet, for some reason, all the time, you see headlines claiming to find “evidence” for Many Worlds, and you click the article, and you find that all they did was just test a prediction of quantum mechanics is correct… which obviously is consistent with Many Worlds because it makes all the same predictions!

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  • partzel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Reminds me of every instance of a “Gen Z” is dumb article out there

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Even “sources” are suspicious. I’ve had many discussions where people link their claims and their link says nothing of the sort or outright contradicts them. But they keep on making their claim.

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  • FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I got sent so many tiktoks or other short form media where someone explains something that they read, and they sound really smart and all. Sometimes i read up the source and what they got out of it was just plain wrong or misinterpreted. Someone once said: smart people aren’t on tiktok, truly smart people don’t have the time, they write the stuff that people make tiktoks about.

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sounds like your friends or family are the issue.

      The smartest people write a book and then make tiktok videos about the subject to advertise the book.

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• reader@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  fake: no source

  gay: anon reads

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  • Jolteon@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Found the Vorin.

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• jupyter_rain@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “It was revealed to me in a dream.”

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• iocase@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m somehow reminded of Philip Roth. Wikipedia’s article on The Human Stain said the book was inspired by Anatole Broyard. Roth said that wasn’t true, and he contacted Wikipedia to fix it. The editors told him he wasn’t a credible source on his own novel and that they needed a published secondary source. So in 2012 he wrote an open letter in The New Yorker setting the record straight, which gave Wikipedia the source it demanded.

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• MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My ass is a source.

  A source of shit but a source none the less

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• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  When the word “tantalizing” is uses, you know you’re in for some absolute hogwash.

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• Tja@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What’s the alternative? Force journalists to reveal their sources? I’m sure that won’t backfire…

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Or just say more about it

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      How much would you need?

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