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Cake day: February 16th, 2024
  • DasusMtomicrogrowery@sh.itjust.works•Day 1 of Flower - Lemon OG KushEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Yeah that’s some nice training. chefskis

    I hope you still have room under there or can lift the screen a bit, if you want to trim everything from below it. I usually do but sometimes I can’t be arsed.

    I’ve just noticed it does tend to help the main colas over the screen when you basically crop everything beneath it.

  • DasustoAsk Lemmy•Is it realistic to think that having a funding campaign to save my sister?
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    7 hours ago

    There’s a somewhat similar system in Finland I’d say.

    I got union money after I got sick and stopped working at my job. I could’ve just decided to do nothing, but I went to a graphic design school, as I asked and the way it was explained to me was quitting it won’t affect anything, so it’d be fine to go and swe whether it is for me. I had good grades but stopped after a year, not my thing.

    Then the union, or rather a union replacing general union unemployment register or whatnot, demanded all the money back from the year I had been there. Despite me being able to show I had success. Despite me having asked would this specific scenario happen and them having had said “no”.

    But it did. I complained and the way it was resolved was “oh even though we acknowledge it wasn’t his fault, we still want half”.

  • DasustoToday I Learned•TIL about 1 million liters of urine is spilled onto the bathroom floor every day in the U.S.English
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    1 day ago

    I mean you acknowledged consciously doing that. If you’re working on it, then you take into account perspectives other than your own.

    Either way, having read the wiki page for it now, my main issue is that there really isn’t (in my opinion) a good reason that any language should ever have a spelling that does not match the order of the sounds used to pronounce the word

    Hearing that from an English speaker while my native is Finnish is quite amusing.

    https://icaltefl.com/dearest-creature-in-creation/

    A few opening verses to demonstrate:

    Dearest creature in creation Studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.

    I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy; Tear in eye, your dress you’ll tear; Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer

    Pray, console your loving poet, Make my coat look new, dear, sew it! Just compare heart, hear and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word.

    Sword and sward, retain and Britain (Mind the latter how it’s written). Made has not the sound of bade, Say-said, pay-paid, laid but plaid.

    Etc.

    If you look at the international phonetic alphabet, take an English word, like “geography”. And it looks like this: dʒiˈɒɡɹəfi.

    Contrast that to Finnish ones. Horse , hevonen: ˈheʋonen, peasoup, hernekeitto: ˈherneˌkːei̯tːo.

    You can’t even tell me an objectively correct way to pronounce “read”, because depending on the context I’m thinking of, you might say the wrong one. There’s none of that in Finnish, we have like one “phone” (as in specific sound that’s “pronunciated”, äng-äänne, velar nasal iirc might be mistaken too lazy to check).

    See if you took 10 English people, or American English people, whatever, English speakers. Gave them a list of fantasy names no-ones ever heard of, they’d try applying rules to familiar feeling bits, like if the name sounds Latin or French or Spanish, but it’d be subjective and very much guesswork. So you’d get 10 English speakers saying all the males differently, but prolly some would go as the writer intended, seeing how writers often use real life inspiration so we rely on how we know people might pronounce them.

    Put 10 Finns there, you’ll get exactly the same from everyone. Theyre probably all horribly wrong per the writers intention, but each will say the same thing.

    But, that’s just the book language, the official version of Finnish. We only got written Finnish 500 years back. Dialects are much older. Growing up I had troubles understanding a lot of the vocabulary my grannies used. And then I grew up a bit more realised lots of it is etymologically from a few hundreds years back from the Swedish influences. Though she’s doesn’t speak a lick of Swedish. Or didn’t, rather. (RIP).

    But genuinely within 150 miles of me there’s more variance in language than in the English in the whole of North America. It’s hard for Americans to understand how stubbornly communities can isolate themselves with language that “those people” don’t know. Which is why the UK has so many more accents than the US. It’s just time. Finnish tribes are still clearly visible mostly as counties, largely like in Italian. Although Finnish dialects I presume are closer together to each other than Italian ones, there’s quite a bit of difference going from the extreme south to the extreme north. Or just driving a few hours east.

    Tldr the longer point I’m making is that I get the center centre confusion, because English utilises the er-sound. But most languages don’t, so… It’s subjective. Finnish people probably say litra “liter-uh” sort of, because French and Swedes would’ve been saying sit so it ends in R, but ours don’t, so we added an a. And the French wrote it litre, so we went with “litra”, especially since “littera” was already taken.

    Grammar ruled for French though, those I’m not gonna start explaining. Gonna run out of char limit.

    I may be a bit straightforward, I mean to jestingly poke, not actually offend. My apologies if offense was caused.

  • DasustoHumor•Honk shoo, honk shooEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Tbh I’ve thought it may also can refer to the sudden bloating you get from beer.

    And with how prevalent NCGS seems to be according to current research, I wouldn’t be surprised.

    My belly went from looking kinda like that to showing a bit of muscle definition when I went off gluten and dairy. And now with accidental gluten exposure, I swell up like a balloon.

  • DasustoToday I Learned•TIL about 1 million liters of urine is spilled onto the bathroom floor every day in the U.S.English
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    2 days ago

    You’re proudly being ethnocentric?

    Uh, I don’t know many people who boast about being biased, but okay.

    I’m aware of the descriptive vs prescriptive concept, but not for linguistics specifically

    What? It’s specifically a concept in linguistics.

    It means that while there are rules to language, there’s no one correct ruleset, especially when talking in an international frame. Which would be prescriptive language. Lots of European nations have institutions that prescribe rules for the language, but the rules live constantly as well, and the institutions are all made up of academic linguists who understand linguistic description, meaning it matters more how people use the language and not how it’s “supposed” to be used. Although they’re probably the type of people who are rather pedantic about language.

    I’d like to remind you the nationalist movement is rather fresh, historically, and unified nation-states was pretty much a thing for the last century. But go back a few centuries and there’s not a specific single Italian (hell there’s debate whether one exists today) French, English, Spanish, Nordic languages, Slavic languages, etc etc. They’re all just dialects of their neighbouring ones essentially, except for the Finno-Ugric languages, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian.

    You’re very biased because North-America is a whole continent and the difference in the style of speech in English in the entire continent is less varied than the language spoken in the area 150 miles around me.

    I’m not used to phrasing comments for international audiences

    New to the internet, are we? Welcome, welcome.

  • DasustoTelevision@lemm.ee•What's the worst instance of plot armour on characters you've seen in TV?English
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    2 days ago

    Bronn wasn’t featured as prominently in the books and only continued because of the show but…

    Or Jamie, surviving his hand getting cut off i. The worst conditions ever…

    This happened in the books a decade before the show even came out. Also, amputations really aren’t that rare in history, and Jamie had a Maester to tend him, a Maester who by all accounts pretty much knows some necromancy basically. It isa fantasy series, I might remind you, and this medical procedure — which one might survive in real life as well — is tended to by essentially a member of the closest thing to wizards there is (as in wise men who hold all the books relating to magic, even if the magic has “gone out of the world” .)

    The show got shit at s6 because they ran out of books. Even before that there was a bit of divergence, but it was very clear that it went to shit after they ran out of material, despite working with GRRM and knowing “the large strokes”. Hell I know the “large strokes” of lots of stories well that doesn’t mean I think I could write a show about them.

    I still can’t believe they were noth of the wall stuck on that lake and were like: you are a fast runner, right? You go and get help, we chill here.

    Shit I didn’t even remember that. I mean I guess George would be able to write in a battle that lasts a few days while a runner goes for help, much like the original Marathon, but in the show that seemed just really silly the way it was portrayed.

    Ironically the whole saga began because George was tired of producers always fucking up this shows by making grand battles duels and whatnot, so he decided to write a show that could “never be adapted for TV.”

    Well gz, George, you did it. Unfortunately the poor reception of the mangled show meant that George has been avoiding finishing the series, because he’s afraid the books will have poor reception as well, not realising that the people who actually have bothered to read the books aren’t the usually the most vocal about how garbage the story is. Perhaps vocal about how shit the show was yes, but not of the quality of the story.

    Preston Jacobs is essentially writing a fanfic version of how he’d continue it. A very popular GoT youtuber.

    I hope George finishes the story. In the books the last time we saw Jon Snow was when he was getting stabbed over and over and over. It was like 2012-2013 I think, I was reading the books in our smoking room at work on the night shift. “Sure George had been killing main characters but surely Jon Snow is the main character and George wouldn’t… oh no… what are you… noooooooooo!”

    And I’m still waiting for that feeling to be resolved. What happens next?

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