Erika3sis

Erika3sis , 2 days ago

Always relevant

Erika3sis , 8 days ago

K-On!

Erika3sis , 11 days ago

I was raised bilingual, and speaking from my own experiences I'd say that it's a good idea to consider the following questions if you want to maximize the child's ability in either language:

1. Is there a parent who the child sees more or less often than the other? What will one do in case one parent dies, or in case the child has a language disorder, or there is otherwise some sort of unexpected problem that could impact the child's language development?
2. What are the language dynamics at play in the family and in the local area? What will the child associate with each of the two languages? Can the child have all its needs met in the non-dominant language? Does the child have access to a broader community of speakers, and in what way?

I'm not sure if it's a good idea to share my own story because it gets pretty melodramatic at points, but yeah, language skills need to be built and maintained over the course of one's entire life, so you need to be able to adapt to changing circumstances. But as a whole I think that what you're planning for your own kid sounds like it will work well, or at least decently well — the only way to know for sure is to get a time machine and go forwards 20 years, and until then I think it's best to have faith in your competence as a parent. There's no-one who knows a family better than itself.

And beyond that, one should also ask oneself... Well, what types of language skills does one want to see in one's child, and what happens if the child ultimately does not reach the goals one has set? I'd say that I have sort of a nuanced or over-complicated relationship to so-called "bad grammar" because of my position.

Erika3sis , 16 days ago

Well, it is now 3 years since that article was published back in 2017, and I'm proud to say that my memories have not been altered in any way that I can tell.

On an unrelated note, I've been hooked on this sparkling water called "Dr. Breen's Private Reserve"

Erika3sis OP , 19 days ago

We do have yankee, I just think we can do better.

Erika3sis OP , 19 days ago

it's kind of funny, in dialectal Norwegian the word "boss" means "trash/garbage" but it's identical to the word "boss" as in one's boss or the boss in a video game.

People also do just straight up use the English word "trash" sometimes...

Erika3sis OP , 19 days ago

"Ami Go Home" was honestly kind of an inspiration for this thread

Erika3sis OP , 19 days ago

sina jan pi toki pona‽

Erika3sis OP , 19 days ago

mi sona ala e ni: lon ni li jan pi toki pona

mi mute o pali e sitelen musi pi jan pali lon ni.

mi sona ala e ni

Erika3sis OP , 19 days ago

Eh, I don't think weight is a good thing to use as an insult, necessarily.

Erika3sis OP , 19 days ago

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh now it seems obvious that that's the meaning

Erika3sis OP , 19 days ago

Yeah, situational context, and just as importantly gestures and gesticulation and intonation, right? Alas, if it were possible in These Material Conditions, I would absolutely try joining that VRchat community for Toki Pona that I've heard about... Or for that matter, some sort of in-person Toki Pona group might be preferable in some ways.

That said my TP is very poor, and I am certainly less diligent and far on the path than you, so getting confused was really just because of that rather than the sentences themselves necessarily being ambiguous.

we have to figure out whether "ilo toki" means computer, phone, chat program, etc in a text box with zero context

In a sense it's kind of like acronyms or initialisms, isn't it? The number of possible two-word combinations in Toki Pona and the number of possible one-to-three letter initialisms using the English alphabet are pretty close.

Erika3sis , 23 days ago

I watch basically any channel with 100,000+ subscribers through Piped so that my views or retention or engagement don't get counted by YouTube.

Erika3sis , 26 days ago

I propose the following:

1. Upon marriage, check who has the rarer surname
2. The spouse with the more common surname should change it to the rarer surname
3. In the case of divorce, the spouse with the changed surname should keep the surname

Of course, people are free to do whatever they want, but this is just an idea. Because unlike the convention of always taking the husband's surname — which inevitably leads to surname extinction and a thoroughly unequal distribution of surnames — this system would by my reckoning gradually lead to a completely equal distribution of surnames.

Erika3sis , 1 month ago

"Have these gentlemen ever SEEN a" yadda yadda

Erika3sis , 1 month ago

I could say that bourgeois ownership of media and academia and the state means that those institutions will represent the biases and interests of the bourgeoisie, and so people in first-world capitalist countries end up living in a sort of self-propagating anti-communist media bubble; but the thing about propaganda is that people are rarely ever truly "tricked" by it, propaganda is always most effective when it reinforces something that someone already believes on some level.

This is why the second part to building anti-communist sentiment has to do with super-exploitation, imperialism, and the labor aristocracy. This is to say, workers in first-world capitalist countries are materially invested in capitalism, through various perks and "treats" that workers of "poorer" countries are deprived of. By being materially invested in capitalism, workers of the first world are primed to take on a sort of "bourgeois mindset", as it were.

There's more that can be said, too, I'd strongly recommend listening to this speech by the leader of Revolutionary Grenada, Maurice Bishop, but I think that's a good start...

Erika3sis , 1 month ago

Du høres ut som meg når jeg var 15. Har du faktisk lest Marx og disse "andre teoretikerne"?

Erika3sis , 1 month ago

och jag är faktiskt 15.

For en tilfeldighet! Jeg kan respektere ærligheten, i det minste. Jeg virkelig burde slutte å tenke at alle på Internett er like gamle som meg.

Jeg virkelig ville anbefalt å lære mer om Marx og Engels sine idéer, for eksempel Engels skrev "Om autoritet" (svensk oversettelse her — veldig kort!)

Erika3sis , 1 month ago

Wasn't it obvious from the literal start that that person was Irish‽

Erika3sis , 1 month ago

*exasperated sigh*

Erika3sis , 1 month ago

I'm just gonna be honest, you're being cringe right now. "No it's not my fault I mistook this person's nationality, it's their fault for coming across to me as the wrong nationality" — no, just own up to your mistake, for God's sake, it's not hard. Preferably you wouldn't have made the mistake in the first place — you might've even been able to avoid it if you'd just read more carefully, given it even a second longer of thought, and weren't so quick to make assumptions.

Erika3sis , 1 month ago

Please don't think that I'm necessarily agreeing with your stances and attitudes and so forth, but do think that I find ShimmeringKoi to be kind of embarrassing right now.

Erika3sis , 1 month ago

I only just realized that "ETA" in Internet comments stands for "edited to add"

Erika3sis , 1 month ago

This reminds me of that TEDx (I think it was TEDx) talk where the guy claimed that you could see the letters E=mc^2^ in the Devanagari symbol for Om, as if this revealed some sort of profound truth about the universe.

The funny thing is that that's literally all I remember about that talk. I don't remember what the guy was talking about for the ten to twenty minutes before that point, just that the talk concluded with him looking super self-satisfied while saying something incredibly silly and cringeworthy.

Erika3sis , 1 month ago

Hmmmm.............feds will attempt to portray the Palestinian movement as crazed antisemites, and will do this by claiming that everyone supports Hamas/Oct7, as public opinion has not yet turned in the favor of these.............but also supporting Hamas/Oct7 is by all means the correct position, and it is proven time and time again to be a losing strategy to cave in to liberal optics by refusing to challenge comfort..............both of these things can be true at the same time............'tis quite a pickle indeed..............hmmmmmm, yes, quite................ [smokes oversized pipe sitting in the shade of a large oak tree, and falls asleep]

Erika3sis , 2 months ago

This reminds me of the first time I was at a meeting of my org (well, it was just watching a movie to get to know each other), and I was too anxious to speak so I just wrote on the whiteboard half the time. When the pizzas arrived I wrote:

REVOLUTION = GOING IN A CIRCLE

PIZZA = CIRCULAR

THEREFORE: PIZZA IS REVOLUTIONARY

And then I joked that we would build revolution by providing pizza for the masses, in the same way that the Viet Minh raided rice storehouses

Erika3sis , 2 months ago

As your home instance is Lemmygrad, I shall tell you how to add your pronouns on that instance.

Go to your account settings, and under "display name" type the name you wish to be known as, followed by your pronouns in brackets or parentheses. There is a character limit for display names, however, so if you use many different pronoun sets, you may need to choose just one or two for your display name, and include the rest in your bio.

On my own main instance, Hexbear, there is a separate field for pronouns in the settings, a drop-down menu above the display name. This feature seems to be unique to Hexbear, however.

Erika3sis , 2 months ago

“Now, no one — certainly not me — is discounting the power of markets,” Sullivan noted at the time. “But in the name of oversimplified market efficiency, a large non-market economy had been integrated into the international economic order in a way that posed considerable challenges.”

"Despite the best that has been done by everyone [...] the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage,"

Erika3sis OP , 2 months ago

Can you do better?

Erika3sis , 2 months ago

John Kirby's just trying to figure out whether or not he's become a real boy yet. pinocchio-evil

Erika3sis , 2 months ago

Yes, intervening on South Africa's side with South Africa's consultation, although he stresses that "it's for the court to decide whether it's a genocide". And the title could be clearer, although we might think it would be a bit out of character to go the other route.

Erika3sis , 2 months ago

based-department holy shit based

Erika3sis , 2 months ago

Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word "no", and any headline that includes the word "could" should probably be appended with "but all things considered most likely won't"

Erika3sis , 3 months ago

The fact that I can recognize that picture even with my instance's default blur filter over it

Erika3sis , 3 months ago

Alright so long story short: Wikipedia cited Wikisource (another Wikimedia project) on Salvador Allende's final speech, which is bad enough, but Wikisource deleted its page on that speech for "copyright reasons" despite that speech obviously being a very important piece of history. OP argues that an organization "with its priorities in order" would not have done something so bogus, and that federation might be a viable way to achieve this.

Erika3sis , 3 months ago

Why the heck would it be referring to the Israeli special forces? It's obviously in reference to Thoth.

Erika3sis , 3 months ago

I'm honestly curious about what abuse potential this has compared to other federated platforms, because "it could be used to host dox" is a complaint that I've heard about Lemmy as well.

Erika3sis , 3 months ago

as they say - shoot for the stars, and you may just land on the moon.

I've only ever heard, "shoot for the moon, [and] even if you miss you'll land among the stars", which is the phrase as it was first said by Norman Vincent Peale. But maybe swapping "moon" and "stars" is a common enough variant of the phrase that I just haven't heard before.

Erika3sis , 3 months ago

I can see why. Although the stars occupy a larger portion of the sky, they are also further away than the moon. So either version of the phrase makes sense in its own way.

Erika3sis , 3 months ago

Nazi forum

Erika3sis , 3 months ago

I don't know if I was foolish for reading the comments but shyeesh that crap feels like it needs a content warning

Erika3sis , 3 months ago

Cause they seem to be hating on pretty much everything LGBT related.

In which case I might phrase it as "bizarrely, vitriolically anti-LGBT comments" or something

Erika3sis , 3 months ago

It is now only a few days until my laptop gets a new charger, which means that it is now only a few days until I install Linux Mint for realsies for the first time and go absolutely got dang crazy customizing it into the most absolutely horrendous and ridiculous mix of 2000s nostalgia and weeb shit and communism and eclectic personal creativity and whatever else that I can think of. It's going to be glorious.