pleasestopasking
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- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 7 hours ago:
I’m with ya. I was shocked to learn that there are people who don’t use it. Keyboard typing with your thumbs feels like Blackberry energy.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 7 hours ago:
Swipe typing is the cursive of smartphones. I love it, it’s so much faster than regular typing (for me at least). I didn’t realize how uncommon it is until several people commented on me using it.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 7 hours ago:
There are people who don’t have an inner monologue, they just think in abstraction. I have a friend who is like this. She tried to explain it to me and I just couldn’t even comprehend what a paradigm shift it is from how I thought all brains at a basic level worked.
It’s like when I learned that some people actually see images when they “picture something in your mind’s eye.” Had no idea that was literal.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 14 hours ago:
I think this is finally being corrected, but for decades kids have been taught “whole word reading” rather than phonics. The basic idea is that instead of learning how to sound out words, they should look at the first letter and guess what they think the word might be based on context/pictures. The proponents of this method claim kids will memorize words as “whole words” and eventually be able to read.
So, they can’t actually read. But they know how to look like they can read.
When you can’t read it’s not enjoyable, so you read less. When you read less you come across fewer words, which you don’t really know how to decode anyway because you were never taught.
Anyway these kids are now adults, and even the ones who are smart still struggle with spelling and reading.
Check out the podcast Sold a Story, really interesting investigation on this topic.
- Comment on If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be? 1 week ago:
On/off switch
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, even if they’re not leaving permanently, who knows how much longer the Smithsonian will last if things keep going the way they are.
- Comment on What was the 'bear vs man' controversy? 4 weeks ago:
It’s pretty clear based on this response that you don’t understand the concept, Matt.
- Comment on What was the 'bear vs man' controversy? 4 weeks ago:
You sure do assume a lot, huh? I’m not going to explain it better than the top comment of the thread already did. You should read it. You should also take some time to think about how you come across.
- Comment on What was the 'bear vs man' controversy? 4 weeks ago:
Wow.
- Comment on What was the 'bear vs man' controversy? 4 weeks ago:
Anyone so convinced of this has never been raped.
I have in fact encountered a bear in the wild, a mama bear with her cub. They weren’t interested in me, just crossing my path trying to get to the river. I stopped walking and started talking so they’d know I was there. They went on their way, I waited a little bit to make sure they weren’t coming back, and then I went on mine.
I’ve also been raped by a man I thought was my friend.
- Comment on What was the 'bear vs man' controversy? 4 weeks ago:
A viewpoint from someone who would choose the bear:: I don’t think all men are by default violent sexual predators. It’s much more about the fear that we won’t be believed.
Nobody questions whether you wanted to be attacked by a bear. Nobody makes the case that the bear just made a mistake and we don’t want to ruin his future. Nobody suggests that you lead the bear on then changed your mind. It behooves us to be wary of being vulnerable with men until we have more information about the specific man we’re engaging with because of things go sideways there’s a good chance we’ll be blamed.
- Comment on How would we choose a "world language" in a fair way, for a hypothetical one world government? 4 weeks ago:
Your assumption is correct, thank you, I edited :)
I had no idea that there was ever actually a moment for Esperanto that got blocked! I figured it had just been dismissed out of hand since its inception.
- Comment on How would we choose a "world language" in a fair way, for a hypothetical one world government? 4 weeks ago:
Honestly I think so menu little would be on board with something like this since so many people speak multiple languages. Unfortunately, I can’t imagine a world where even 50% of Americans would even try to learn a second language. I think many would outright refuse as a matter of anti intellectual and xenophobic ideology.
- Comment on How would we choose a "world language" in a fair way, for a hypothetical one world government? 4 weeks ago:
It’s not really that diverse though. Overwhelmingly, the language of diplomacy and business currently is English.
- Comment on How would we choose a "world language" in a fair way, for a hypothetical one world government? 4 weeks ago:
William Shatner made that movie though
Honestly I was trying to learn Esperanto for a while, it’s very easy since it was constructed to not contain irregular conjugations or pronunciations. But getting everyone to learn Esperanto would never happen.
If the global language ever changes from English, I assume it will be to Chinese.
- Comment on How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach? 4 weeks ago:
Dialect was probably the wrong word, because of course there’s many different dialects in name countries. (In fact, your aside about “sounds very US American” is funny, since I guarantee the US has more dialects than Spain. Plenty to hate on the US for, but that ain’t it.)
Anyway idk if there’s a word for this but like, the intermediary level between a language and a dialect. There is a wide gulf between Spanish spoken in Spain vs Latin America the same way as English in the UK vs USA. That macro-level distinction breaks down into trees of further distinction in regions, cities, towns of course.
- Comment on For every 30 minutes theres a 50% chance my right shoe lace will come undone 4 weeks ago:
Yes! It’s easy to untie unlike a double knot. Unties fast but only if you do it intentionally.
- Comment on For every 30 minutes theres a 50% chance my right shoe lace will come undone 4 weeks ago:
This is the GOAT shoelace knot. Especially for round laces that like to slip more than flat ones.
- Comment on what am I doing wrong? 4 weeks ago:
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- Comment on How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach? 4 weeks ago:
The tipoffs to being Spain Spanish if they teach extra conjugations for vosotros and if they speak evening with a lisp because at some point it was decided to emulate a king with a speech impediment.
- Comment on How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach? 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s silly to say that Spain Spanish is canonical, though. Like, says who? Spanish people? Spanish in Spain is a dialect just like any other Spanish-speaking country. Imo it makes sense to teach the dialect that learners are most likely to encounter based on their geographic location, with context about the other dialects.
- Comment on does someone who lives very far away from me (for example 1900 miles) see the same night sky as me? (as in moon, stars, etc) 5 weeks ago:
OP, you and your husband should download the Stellarium app. You can compare stars together when you talk. 🙂