Erika3sis

Erika3sis , 7 days ago to chapotraphouse in Helpful life tip

Always relevant

Erika3sis , 13 days ago to Memes in Just the little things

K-On!

Erika3sis , 16 days ago to Asklemmy in Parents with bilingual children, how did you do it?

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 , 21 days ago to Science Memes in What have we done?

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 , 24 days ago to askchapo in Derogatory terms for Usonians in your native languages?

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 OP , 24 days ago to askchapo in Derogatory terms for Usonians in your native languages?

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh now it seems obvious that that's the meaning

Erika3sis OP , 24 days ago to askchapo in Derogatory terms for Usonians in your native languages?

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

Erika3sis OP , 24 days ago to askchapo in Derogatory terms for Usonians in your native languages?

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 , 24 days ago to askchapo in Derogatory terms for Usonians in your native languages?

sina jan pi toki pona‽

Erika3sis OP , 24 days ago to askchapo in Derogatory terms for Usonians in your native languages?

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

Erika3sis OP , 24 days ago to askchapo in Derogatory terms for Usonians in your native languages?

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 , 24 days ago to askchapo in Derogatory terms for Usonians in your native languages?

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

Erika3sis , 28 days ago to Asklemmy in Veritasium's new video on Jumping Spiders is having its sponsor Better Help on blast in the top comments. Should we hold content creators to account?

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 , 1 month ago to chapotraphouse in I don't really like that the feminist stance on cis marriage is that women should keep their own surname rather than taking the man's

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 to Asklemmy in Was banning human slavery an authoritarian decision?

"Have these gentlemen ever SEEN a" yadda yadda