jenesaisquoi
@jenesaisquoi@feddit.org
- Comment on is it spelled "grey" or "gray"? 3 days ago:
I’m not English.
- Comment on is it spelled "grey" or "gray"? 4 days ago:
Standardisation of language is not pointless. Shared standards serve concrete functions:
- When 8 million people write “colour” the same way, you don’t pause to decode variants
- Technical manuals, legal documents, medical instructions need precision—ambiguity costs lives
- Cross-generational understanding: Shakespeare’s English is already hard without adding modern variation to the mix
- Standardized spelling keeps homophones distinct (their/there/they’re)
Standardisation of language isn’t about one version being inherently right. It’s about shared agreement that enables function at scale.
- Comment on How do you distance yourself from your country when it doesn't represent your views anymore so you won't be viewed by the rest of the world as part of the problem? 4 days ago:
You don’t. You start to participate/become active and fix your country.
- Comment on is it spelled "grey" or "gray"? 4 days ago:
It is spelled grey in correct English. In the USA, they like spelling it gray.
- Comment on Is this machine good enough to install QEMU considering that it runs on windows 10 ? 2 weeks ago:
Please consider cleaning that screen.
- Comment on Why is America so surprised when they elected Trump? They bitched and moans how all politicians are liars, cheats, money hungry and so on. So now they got exactly that and they are surprised? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
You can run Linux just fine from 2GB and a HDD, but expect it to be slower. Modern web browsers alone require that much RAM.
- Comment on Spicy Air ☢️ 1 month ago:
I agree! So you see now how the graph is incorrect?
- Comment on Spicy Air ☢️ 1 month ago:
Many, many more people have died from coal and nuclear.
- Comment on Spicy Air ☢️ 1 month ago:
This graphic is incorrect.
- Comment on Spicy Air ☢️ 1 month ago:
- Comment on Black men dating Asian women: where is the real conversation about racism, family pressure, and emotional risk? 1 month ago:
I didn’t mean to imply that. I put the “!” to signify a positive, happy tone at the end of that sentence, instead of the neutral tone implied by a “.”
Don’t you usually end best wishes with an explanation mark, like “get well soon!”?
- Comment on Black men dating Asian women: where is the real conversation about racism, family pressure, and emotional risk? 1 month ago:
Same to you. I hope you find someone!
- Comment on Black men dating Asian women: where is the real conversation about racism, family pressure, and emotional risk? 1 month ago:
Where I live (Western Europe) the majority of women prefer a man from their own ethnicity. Maybe this plays a role in the USA as well?
- Comment on Spicy Air ☢️ 1 month ago:
- Comment on Spicy Air ☢️ 1 month ago:
Nuclear fuel is a kind of fossil fuel
- Comment on Let's say hypothetically I wanted to leave the US permanently; 2 months ago:
Canada
- Comment on The Struggle 2 months ago:
Zu wenig auf Englisch ist too little. Less wäre der Komparativ (weniger)
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 2 months ago:
Of course you aren’t, it would be undemocratic. The whole thread was about making fun of how incredibly stupid the magas are, but I guess that was not obvious to everyone
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 2 months ago:
Did you miss the portion that said “any adult regardless of education can answer correctly”?
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 2 months ago:
Exactly.
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 2 months ago:
Which alloy do you thing he’ll use?
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 2 months ago:
Having a test before being allowed to vote. Nothing fancy, just yes/no questions like “is water a liquid”, “is the USA in America”, “is B the fifth letter of the alphabet”, things like that, which anyone adult regardless of education level could answer correctly. This would filter out the maga portion of the republican voters and solve the problem.
- Comment on Is there a word or phrase in your language to describe the situation when you wanted to fart but shit yourself? 4 months ago:
Ä furz mit fransle
A fart with a fringe
- Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be? 4 months ago:
Literally anything at all, any name would be better than the arrogant misuse of the name of the continent as is today
Maybe pick a name the natives used, to honour their memory and culture
- Comment on Why do I push people away if I'm so lonely? 4 months ago:
Self protection mechanism. Seek therapy
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like "analog" stuff is more "tangible"? 4 months ago:
Mandarin and Japanese are different languages. Correct English and whatever the US is doing are not.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like "analog" stuff is more "tangible"? 4 months ago:
analogue*
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 5 months ago:
That said, we were at a restaurant the other day and a woman was there with her baby and a friend. She set that infant in a high chair with AI slop on her phone right in its face. The kid definitely didn’t disturb her conversation, because it looked like a zombie.
This should be illegal, because it is harming the child. It should be viewed the same as giving it alcohol to keep it quiet.
- Comment on If animals could speak English in what foreign accent do you think that a certain species would certainly have ? 7 months ago:
Cats would speak received pronounciation
