ByteJunk
@ByteJunk@lemmy.world
- Comment on Can't wait. 22 hours ago:
You’re just elaborating and expanding on a part of what I said, while being an abrasive jerk, and ignoring everything else that didn’t suit your argument.
To the point in question, I never said academies invent the future of a language, only that they gatekeep the rules, which can include pushback against popular usage (the french academy is notorious for being very against english neologisms).
There have been cases where the changes are very substantial, like the Portuguese and French changes that happened (coincidentally) in 1990, for example, that push the languages in certain directions.
Take a cup of tea and relax a bit, and try not to argue the voices in your head.
- Comment on Can't wait. 1 day ago:
You didn’t address a single thing from the original post.
It was highlighting how English is a very quirky language. You can explain it, obviously there are reasons why, but it doesn’t change the factual observation that English is a uniquely inconsistent language.
Most languages have some sort of academic body that dictates the correct usage of the language, and occasionally push for adjustments that resolve these inconsistencies. English does not, it’s a crowd sourced effort with the results being what we see today.
Many countries and languages share similar backgrounds to English - invasion by foreign peoples, large migrations, etc - yet they’ve settled most of their background into a consistent ruleset - there’s always exceptions and irregularities, but not to the level of English.
One of the largest sources of inconsistencies was the “Great Vowel Shift”, along with the invention of the printing press at roughly the same time, which standardized a spelling that didn’t reflect the massive ongoing changes in pronunciation.
This is a fascinating topic, but accusing others of ignorance for pointing out something that is a fact, is in itself ignorance.
- Comment on Can't wait. 1 day ago:
What’s worse is that even in languages with common ancestry, the gendered pronouns are not necessarily the same - the same thing can be male or female across a border.
- Comment on Handy tip 4 days ago:
Nope. I don’t think that’s common at all. Maybe the occasional monkey reflex where my body thinks I’m gonna fall off a tree and yanks me awake, but that’s it.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Wouldn’t it even be more accurate to translate it as “You’re lying!?”. Not sure it would fit the “polite” tone, but then again, they’re about to be eaten by a tiger and/or a puma.
- Comment on 😭😭😭 2 weeks ago:
This reminds me of a LoL streamer who found this guy in a mostly abandoned server, and after a few sessions found out it was some dude from Venezuela playing on some potato pc and bought him a new rig. Kinda wholesome.
- Comment on iHave a Lovesick Teacher 2 weeks ago:
What a convoluted way of asking for the teacher to spill the beans. I like it.
- Comment on iHave a Lovesick Teacher 2 weeks ago:
Also, where’s the topographic map of the region? How can you expect us to come up with something remotely accurate without knowing this, is the third dimension a joke to you, are we all dots of ink on a paper?
- Comment on I only date virgins 2 weeks ago:
Are you gonna go look for a duck?
- Comment on I guessed 3 weeks ago:
I think that in Australia they’re considered an invasive species, at least some species, as they’re not native, breed fast, and devastate local ecosystems to the point they’re seen as pests.
In Europe they’re just part of the local fauna, and population numbers are well under control.
- Comment on Just reminding everyone about what's next 5 weeks ago:
Definitely AI.
- Comment on Anon has a very specific goal 1 month ago:
Life’s hard enough as it is, don’t go looking for challenge levels.
- Comment on Anon has a very specific goal 1 month ago:
Was that how you came up with your username?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yeah? Well when you PRESUME you make a pres out of u and me.
- Comment on Live fearlessly 1 month ago:
We’ve all been there. Do you need me to go grab something for you?
- Comment on Playbird 1 month ago:
They’re playing fuck, marry, kill.
- Comment on Full circle. 1 month ago:
Not sure if this is a jest, but it isn’t true.
People move to other countries sometimes with little more than the clothes on their backs - just look at historical immigration to the US.
If you have the luxury of doing it the proper way - getting a job offer, a place to live, etc - then that’s perfect, but desperate people will do desperate things to survive.
- Comment on Gotta go fast 1 month ago:
Ooooooooh.
- Comment on Gotta go fast 1 month ago:
I love how fucking biased that article is. It mentions Obama like 10 times, including this gem:
Clearly, the Obama administration decided to spend taxpayer funds on a technology that was poorly conceived and quickly outdated.
Thanks for the hindsight. Now how about we replace all those heliostats with modern solar panels? Sounds like a great opportunity…
- Comment on Gotta go fast 1 month ago:
What? Hydroelectric power stations use gravity and the falling or flowing water makes the turbines turn.
Thermal plants (nuclear, coal, gas), including solar thermal plants, use steam.
- Comment on A job's a job 2 months ago:
Agreed.
If you’re gonna steal groceries, might as well pick up stuff that the dealer needs and deliver them to his door for full price + delivery fee.
With how crazy prices are getting at the supermarket, might as well start selling smuggled eggs from dark corners…
- Comment on marriage update 2 months ago:
Right? What devilry holds them up like that, and how are they so neatly aligned, almost like in a line??
Throw them in the fire!
- Comment on 2 months ago:
True, but that’s just one part of the process. Compared to actual chemical energy in the source fuel, most plants
If nothing else, there’s an absolute efficiency limit from Carnot’s theorem. Even for the most modern and efficient gas plants, the limit seems to be ~60%, and for nuclear or coal, it’s much lower at around 30-40%.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I call it Bytejunkium, but I don’t think it catched on.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
…they found a clever way to induce a current using temperature differentials between the molten salt and some sort of coolant mass?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
But you’d have to allow the sun to leak out of the donut, which may not be OSHA approved.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I refuse to believe this.
You’re telling me that Humanity is able to understand what goes on at the heart of stars, and is on the brink of being able to harness that power (“Soon TM”), and the best we can come up with is a big tea kettle? I’m not buying it.
There’s got to be a better way of capturing all that energy - like, solar panels but for other types of radiation? Or if that’s not possible because wavelengths or something , maybe make something glow and use normal panels? Or like, can’t we take a particle accelerator and flip it around and pull energy from the particles that go zooming?
I’m sure there’s a reason why all of that is hard, but surely not impossible?
- Comment on Exactly 2 months ago:
I heard that attending one of her parties changes, like, down to your core.
- Comment on Everything I do is normal. You're the weird one. 2 months ago:
The author seems to be implying that they’d get their tongue stuck in Perlica’s pit creases, if you know what I mean.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
And we conquer that fear daily. Many could be tempted to attribute that to our bravery, our grit, our resolve. They’d be overlooking the simple explanation that some of us fear hunger and cold slightly more than we do the grueling and backbreaking 9-to-howlongisitreallyfuckineedtosleep hours.