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Baltic languages are awesome. I only wish I could master those case systems!
Baltic languages are awesome. I only wish I could master those case systems!
Chinese did influence a lot of east Asian languages, but it’s more like the relationship between Latin and English - lots of borrowing and influence, but it’s not an ancestor.
Linguistics. Did you know English and Bengali are related? They share an ancestor about 5000 years ago. Russian, Latin, Farsi, and Greek, and lots more are in that family too.
Do you know what languages are not related at all, absolutely 0% aside from borrowings, even though if you know a bit about em they seem like they should be? Japanese and Korean.
Not right now, but I will tomorrow I promise
What a dumpster fire. Meanwhile, I’m still getting alerts from my local fire department through twitter. Doesn’t exactly make me feel safe.
The ones I got for myself are very orange. The ones I’ve seen other people buy tho… pretty sure they’ve been scammed. And some of the pairs are rather expensive too
I was always confused by how the “blue blocking” glasses just looked clear. Like, if you look at something colorful through them like a rubix cube, you can still see the blue color. Shouldn’t something blocking blue light look kinda orange through it?
It’s a must if you want secure passwords. My gf doesn’t use one - her passwords are all re-used variations of l33tsp34k that are pretty easy to guess (I can get into her accounts in a few tries if I need to). But also she forgets them often.
Ever tried a bidet? I can never go back to just tp now. Thinking about getting a travel one too
Yup, exactly this for me too. Been done a thousand times before by companies like them. Plus the fact that the fediverse is not run by any company is just really nice - we don’t need them.
I definitely did. A lot of the communities I’m interested in are even smaller here, so I can actually post without just falling off the ‘new’ feed. Plus I’ve been commenting more too, and it seems like I’m not the only one. Got some local restaurant recommendations lol
That definitely makes sense, especially now that they’re seeing how valuable all that data is to train AI. Even stackoverflow is having a bit of an ordeal with their mods.
Their writing systems have their own cool histories. Japanese technically has 4 writing systems (kinda 5 if you count the original purely chinese-character based system). Korean used to have Hanja, a Chinese based system, but then some emperor just decided “nope, this sucks, I’m making a new thing”, and came up with hangul. Imo hangul is one of the coolest systems out there.