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Oh you're a language fan? Speak every language.
Me gusta patinar en mi clase de matematicas
Some people never pressed Alt+Shift to change to another language keyboard layout...
Im more of a super + space person :3
I rebound that "menu" key nobody uses below R-Shift for language switching
Hey! I use that button sometimes
Lol
Blasphemy! I use that daily. Brings up the context menu for whatever is the active item.
I was gonna say that I don't use Alt+Shift because Linux Mint doesn't have a preconfigured shortcut for that and I just assigned keyboard layouts to F7 and F8, but then I double-checked to make sure I wouldn't spread misinformation and it turned out that Linux Mint DOES have preconfigured shortcuts in the keyboard settings. That's something new I learnt today and that's all because of you, so thank you :3
Although I don’t think English is that great of a language overall, imo it’s very very powerful.
What it lacks in logical consistency it makes up for with lots and lots of words (and idioms) that mean similar things but are slightly different for different use cases.
It has a very powerful toolbox for describing things in a very direct, specific manner.
I saw a video of a Spanish author, fluent in English, who said in an interview that he preferred writing in English for more or less these reasons.
Found it: https://youtu.be/NJYoqCDKoT4
Really? My impression is that most of the time English is more imprecise with the meaning of words than my native language, and tends to overload them a lot
About the only language with more flexibility is Mandarin Chinese.
Its pretty much the defining feature of English. It has so many shared words, rules and logic and can borrow so effortlessly. That realistically speaking so long as you understand the language you can do some wild stuff.
The concept of "English doesn't have a word to express x, y, z." Is basically nonsense. English can absorb and adapt anything to it self.
It's both why it's such a mess and frequently clowned on as a language as well as its greatest strength.
English is just the borg of language.
The thing is that English can be precise, and often is in the written language, but people simply don't speak like that. Indirect expressions and implied meaning are utilised more often than lengthy, often Latin or Greek based, terms in the spoken language of native speakers.
it's so wild to me that people just speak with their mouths all the time... like they can't switch it off to sign in a real language when they need to
"It's so wild to me that people just speak... When they can just text"
- My wife in an adjacent room
¿Que?
Er sagt, dass manche Leute die ganze Zeit nur englisch sprechen, als könnten sie nicht anders
Domo arigato.
De nada
Du glemte tilføjelse med et ægte sprog
SPRICH DEUTSCH DU - aaah ok. Weitermachen.
"sekoilu" means "mucking around, messing about" in Finnish. The last a is grammatically correct, but the first "o" turns it into a pun on SEO I guess. Somehow it all adds extra meaning. Like, Finnish being a #real language. 😈
Listen, I'm trying, men min dansk er stadig meget dårlig
and you try to learn Danish, one of the hardest languages in the world. I mean, same, jeg lærer dansk, but ayoo we need to chill and just pick up spanish or something
lol, maybe. But, I was in Copenhagen recently and fell in love with the place. Just kinda sparked an interest, you know?
Hey same, talk about an uphill battle!
Jeg er sikker på dit dansk bliver bedre og bedre :)
i fucking hate when some entrepreneurs who left Ukraine come by and obviously can speak Ukrainian but still insist on speaking English-only even though there is no real reason for it. And even when you just start talking Ukrainian they will still speak English for some reason and never switch and pretend nothing is wrong. Now that's an inferiority complex.
As a person from a Ukrainian immigrant family who's mom is the last to speak the language, that is just painfully sad. The language is such an important part of the culture and to deny it's existence even to yourself is just sad
I wish I was better at learning languages. I know barely enough spanish that I think I could sort of communicate and a tiny bit of russian but it would be so fun to actually be able to speak them.
Folk lærer å bruke andre språk av nødvendighet eller interesse. Hvis du allerede kan snakke med utlendinger pga de allerede snakker morsmålet ditt til en ganske høy standard, er det mye mindre insentiv til å bytte til et språk som skaper enorme kommunikasjonsvansker bare for å få øve på språket. Og det er egentlig det vanskeligste ting med å studere et annet språk om man har engelsk som morsmål. Ihvertfall da jeg begynte å lære norsk, var det ekstremt vanskelig å få folk til å bruke norsk i det hele tatt. Ingen var tolmodig nokk å lytte mens jeg prøvde å forklare noe med barnehage norsk. Spesielt når de kunne bare bytte til engelsk og snakke helt flytende om nesten alt.
Det jeg synes er verre er når folk fra et annet land kan ikke engelsk. Hvis man ikke har nødt til eller interesse i å lære engelsk, er det fordi man ikke har lyst til å snakke med utlendinger eller reise til andre land, eller gjøre noe som helst som trenger kommunikasjon med andre kulturer. Og jo, jeg forstår at det finnes steder i verden som ikke har tilgang til undervisning i engelsk eller internett, men jeg snakker om steder som Spania og Tyskland. Selve litt utenfor Berlin var det ingen som ville prøve å snakke engelsk, bortsett fra et par hasjentusiaster ved en busstopp i Zeuthen.
Når jeg reiser til Storbritannia er folk veldig imponert av at jeg kan norsk, men utenfor Norge er jeg funksjonelt enspråklig. Fordi jeg kan ikke bruke norsk å kommunisere med folk fra for eksempel Latvia. Da må jeg bytte til engelsk. Selve om Norsk, Dansk, og Svensk er gjensidig forståelige, er det mange som fortsatt foretrekker å bruke engelsk i blandede grupper. Dvs, når vi snakker et annet språk er det kun med folk som bruker det som morsmål. Jeg kan ikke øve tysk ved å snakke med folk fra Frankrike eller Portugal, men en fra Tyskland kan øve på engelsk ved å snakke med mange folk fra mange forskjellige land.
For å trekke en konklusjon, folk fra engelsktalende land lærer fremmede språk hvis de flytter til et annet land, men i absolutt alle andre situasjoner er det mye mer effektivt å bruke engelsk selve om en snakker med utlendinger.
Beklager min dårlig norsk.
Det gode med norsk er at du faktisk næsten lærer tre sprog, I hvert fald på skrift. Dansk er nemt at læse hvis man kan norsk, og med lidt øvelse kan man også lære at forstå de kedelige typer ovre østpå.
I mean I'm trying, but 한국말 is difficult (for me and apparently most other English as a first language speakers). And I'm the the sharpest tool in the shed to start with.
Taím ag obair ar mé féin a fheabhsú 😔