Yeah, I assume in general that nothing on the internet ever goes away. At least makes it somewhat more annoying though.

i did the thing that means it’s probably less archived (by editing all the replies before deleting), but i assume some of it probably remains out there. Nothing I can do about that.

One thing i miss about Lemmy is shittymorph tbf

Glad I deleted everything on there. fucking hell.

NOOOOOOOOOOOO :(

We’re on the Earth — how do we see the Earth? By seeing other parts of the Earth that aren’t ourselves. The same is somewhat true for the Milky Way. And like on Earth, you can’t see the whole thing without leaving it, because we only get to see the stuff that isn’t blocked by other things.

I’m currently in a course about the Roman Republic in college, so pretty much every other day.

If you could get a rubix cube or something at the airport, (which seems plausible) could be a lot of time spent on learning how to do it if you download instructions beforehand.

It’s called history, blame the French

Cuz the gram came before the SI system and the kilogram is a much more useable unit. The original m-g-s are based on physical things, like m being a subdivision of the length from the North Pole to the Equator going through Paris, and s being related to the time of a pendulum with certain length swinging or smth

A gram is the weight of 1 mL of water, roughly.

I mean, I’d be very worried if 2023 wasn’t smarter than 1970 no matter the location. Between the lead poisoning and the advancements in knowledge and education methods…

No please, we’re already dying as a nation XD Sinicisation sucks :p

Yeah, like the word “同” there which means “and” sounds the same as "童“ (child) and "銅” (copper), as well as a bunch of uncommon words such as “瞳”, which I usually see combined with "孔” (a word for hole which you may have seen in Confucius’s name as his surname) to form "瞳孔“, meaning pupil (as in the eye, not student). And now imagine every single word could have stuff like that.

Not quite. Tonality is just one part of differentiating words, like how in some languages (such as Mandarin) you differentiate between the aspirated “p” in English “pit” and the unaspirated “p” in English “spit”. (Put your hand in front of your mouth as you say each one and you’ll tell the difference!)

You’re right in saying that tone doesn’t really give lexical meaning in English (though it does provide meaning — such as with how a rising tone indicates a question). However, the problem is more about homophones — words that sound the same but mean different things. In English, an example of this would be the words “too” and “two”. Read identically, the words mean completely different things and one must rely on context to figure out what they mean, if they aren’t written down. However, in English, this isn’t a big problem, as words are not just down to single syllables — it’s harder to have a duplicated word if the word “antidisestablishmentarianism” is technically one word and valid English used in certain contexts. In Cantonese (and Mandarin — I can’t speak for all Sinitic languages) however, words are individual syllables. You group them at times to form "詞語“, which are basically multisyllable words, such as "電視“ — literally “electricity sight”, which means television. However, most of the time, we define words are single syllables, such as "我“, which means “me”, and "你“, which means “you”. "詞語“ are most common in speech, but particles and stuff are monosyllabic; both as in the grammatical particles such "同“ — meaning “and” in Cantonese — and in the literal chemistry particles such as hydrogen (氫) and oxygen (氧).

In linguistics, we would say that Cantonese is an “isolating” language, as each morpheme is its own word. Morphemes are the smallest blocks of meaning in language — for example, the word “antidisestablishmentarianism” can be broken into anti-, dis-, establish, -ment, -ar(y), -an, -ism. Isolating languages tend to have around 1 word per morpheme. English is an example of an “agglutinative” language, where you stick morphemes together to form words. The fact that each morpheme is 1 word, and that each word is 1 syllable, means that the meaning of a sentence can change dramatically by just changing one syllable, or even by changing how you read one syllable.

also sorry for the ramble I’m autistic XD

As someone who speaks Cantonese, it’s more that Cantonese has six tones, rather than similar-sounding vowels. People who don’t know how tonal languages work are prone to fucking it up, cuz we have relatively quite a lot amongst the more popular languages. Plus the large number of homophones cuz of the monosyllablism of Chinese languages where each syllable has its own character, you get a lot of context-dependent words. Also makes for some puns, but yeah.

Plus it’s great to just dump your emotions into as well — especially if you try and learn how to improvise, which is easier than you’d think!

Who’s 10k and what did they do?

The only other place I’ve seen it used funnily enough is RuneScape.

I mean, that’s to a minor extent how parliamentary systems work. There’s a limit on how long you can go without an election, sure, but the government can call one basically whenever they want, which means if they have a stronger mandate they’ll probably try to stretch it out whereas if they barely have a government yet the people support them they may try another election to increase their standing, and if you have a flimsier support you may end up being vote-of-no-confidence-ed sooner

Have you considered covering up the mirror with like curtains or something so it’s not as self-conscious an act? Might help idk