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I wish I could install an anxiety filter on my mother’s computer. Kind of like parental control filters, only instead of filtering out adult topics it filters out stories about things in common household products that are linked to health problems, or stories about people who were killed doing stuff her children do as hobbies.
Okay, since I've talked about it previously in this thread, here goes:
This month's (February, which is less than an hour away here in Germany) installment of my Winona Ryder Avatar Calendar for the year 2020 is in honor of the upcoming Valentine's Day and depicts Winona, well, gazing, really, at Scott Mackinlay Hahn, with whom she's been in a relationship for the past nine years, and proving that I'm totally not still hung up about the crush of my teenage self, I'm very happy she found someone that makes her look at him this way.
Happy two weeks till Valentine's Day, people. Love each other.
This month's (February, which is less than an hour away here in Germany) installment of my Winona Ryder Avatar Calendar for the year 2020 is in honor of the upcoming Valentine's Day and depicts Winona, well, gazing, really, at Scott Mackinlay Hahn, with whom she's been in a relationship for the past nine years, and proving that I'm totally not still hung up about the crush of my teenage self, I'm very happy she found someone that makes her look at him this way.
Happy two weeks till Valentine's Day, people. Love each other.
I followed my heart.
It led me to the refrigerator.
It led me to the refrigerator.
As a single man, I admit I used to be bitter about Valentine's Day.
I got over it.
I got over it.
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so if string theory is right, then a device that could tune a basic string to any frequency
would actualy be a functional replicator.... STAR TREK IS REAL!!!
would actualy be a functional replicator.... STAR TREK IS REAL!!!
I’ve been learning some Japanese to prepare for a trip to Japan later in the spring. It’s making me think about trying to become insanely multilingual.
After Japanese I’d consider Hindi, Spanish and Arabic the strongest. Hindi cause I know so many Indian people and also because it could later help in my career, Spanish for obvious reasons, and Arabic cause it’s spoken by the people my government doesn’t want me to empathize with.
After Japanese I’d consider Hindi, Spanish and Arabic the strongest. Hindi cause I know so many Indian people and also because it could later help in my career, Spanish for obvious reasons, and Arabic cause it’s spoken by the people my government doesn’t want me to empathize with.
That's a very good idea. I took great pleasure in learning Arabic. Initially, it was for practical purposes but it turned out to be a very original and interesting language. Spanish is very easy when you're French, once you've got used to some peculiarities. But the easiest of them all is Esperanto, I don't get why more people don't learn it. It's at least three times easier to learn than any other language. Hell, it's been designed by a linguist to be that way!!
Today's date is one of the rare palindrome dates: 2020 02 02.
Esperanto may be easy to learn (although I know I'd screw it up
) but how useful would it be to do so? What practical, real-world situations could there be to speak it?
Esperanto may be easy to learn (although I know I'd screw it up
Since it's very easy to learn, if everyone learned it as a second language the practicality of it would be obvious.
You could go anywhere in the world and talk to people without a problem. If that is not practical then I don't know what is.
Classic chicken/egg scenario.
If everyone learned Esperanto, it would be useful; if it was useful, everyone would learn it.
But it won't happen, because there are no countries where Esperanto is the native language. People learn other languages now, at least in part because they want to visit places where those languages are spoken.
And if I may be allowed my own moment of levity: Bonvoro alsendi la pordiston, lausajne estas rano en mia bideo. And I *think* we all know what that means.
The same could be said about trains: "People would use trains if there were enough railroads, there would be enough railroads if people used trains. Or about TV... I mean it's either the first TV show didn't have any audience or the first person who bought a TV didn't have anything to watch...
History is filled with chicken and egg problems that were solved.
Railroads were built because there was an economic need for them. It was only later that they transported people as well as cargo.
How about the Radios or the TV sets. How many people had to buy them before they could Listen to/watch anything with it? Same for the telephone, the first telephone owners could only talk to a handful of people that they didn't know.
I can't believe this argument is taking place on a board where people learn Klingon.
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