It’s probably because you had a lot of exposure but insufficient engagement. I should probably have mentioned this in my original comment. You kind of developed a one way mastery of the language. Exposure will get you there after you get to a certain level but to get there you need lots of practice
Actually no, but I’ll try as soon as I have the opportunity. Thanks for the advice!
It’s completely unwatchable with voice dubs isn’t it? I don’t get how anyone puts up with it
I’ve had family tell me The Emperor’s New Groove is actually great with Dutch dubs but the title in Dutch just translates to “Emperor Cuzco”. No one is gonna convince me most jokes don’t get lost in translation when the first time it happens is in the title!
Well, I guess that means that as far as Valve knows I’ll still be happily slaughtering zombies in L4D2 at the ripe old age of 130
I wonder if the servers will still be up
The Slavic languages are interesting but I don’t know a lot about them. It must be amusing to be aware of the various levels of mutual intelligibility. Do you know any jokes Eastern Europeans make about this among themselves?
No amount of exceptions and quirks will prevent you from learning any language as long as you have lots and lots of exposure. After your reach a certain base level you just keep improving as you use the language, and even the exceptions start to feel natural.
English is the only language other than my mother tongue I have achieved this level with. I’d like to think at least in writing it’s indistinguishable from a native speaker. Theoretically tho German should be easier for me as I’m Dutch. But my German never reached the same level because of the difference in exposure
At this point a dismissal of anything by Israel makes it more credible, not less
It’s obvious when you say it like that. I don’t like the idea of some prompt hacker looking at memes I sent to my coworker
I use Slack at work everyday. I suppose this does feel off in some way but I’m not sure I’m the right amount of upset about this? I don’t really mind if they use my data if it improves my user experience, as long as the platform doesn’t reveal anything sensitive or personal in a way that can be traced back to me.
Slack already does allow your admin to view all of your conversations, which is more alarming to me
What are the consequences of this
Like does this mean they could develop an app where you just have a library with all those nostalgic legacy games
If anything Hamas is the product of the systematic marginalization and humiliation of the Palestinians
I hate her so much but in a way she’s nice to have around. She is the spoon that stirs the shit
Kurzgesagt did this video where they crammed all of Earth’s history in an hour. Basically you look at a barren wasteland for most of the time until life finally goes macroscopic and then all of humanity happens in less than a second
I sat through the whole thing and it’s still incomprehensible
Skip it across a lake
I just cover the table in it and spread the fries on top. Fewer dishes to wash
Thank you for your elaborate response. Hamas is the inevitable result of what happens when you drive people off their land and lock generations of them up in a radicalization farm. Now they can’t be reasoned with anymore. It’s a monster that Israel created and later fed and exploited in some kind of divide-and-conquer strategy. Now they’re dealing with the mess this got them into. This is why I assign Israel most of the responsibility, although the rest of the West is also to blame for supporting them.
I don’t think Hamas would exist much longer if Israel were to commit to lasting peace in good faith. Or maybe they would transition towards a peaceful political movement, kinda like what happened with the IRA. The Palestinians would need help to get organized tho. Fatah taking over in Gaza seems like a reasonable first step.
I suppose you deserve some elaboration on the sign you were referring to in your initial comment. ‘Palestine’ could mean the West Bank and Gaza or that + all the territories that are currently considered legitimately Israeli. It’s impossible to tell what she means and I don’t really care.
I wouldn’t walk away from attending a demonstration if I saw this sign. People are understandably upset and gravitate towards powerful short statements. I’m sure this girl doesn’t wish harm on anyone innocent. Neither do I, but I do feel like Israel should be forced into one of the two solutions I listed in my previous comment if they don’t work something out with the Palestinians on their own initiative. If that means the end of Israel as we know it so be it. They’d still be allowed to live in the area peacefully if it were up to me and I don’t care if that country would be called Israel or Palestine
They’re fucking monsters. It seems like radicalizing the Palestinians is the point, so they don’t have to talk to them
There is only so much space on a protest sign, I’m not even sure what they actually mean. I’ll just explain what it means to me.
I just want civil rights for the Palestinians. Everyone deserves to be represented by a sovereign government. The Palestinians are denied this right by Israel. Israel has not made a good faith attempt in decades to resolve this, because it’s incompatible with their goal of taking all the land for themselves. Driving the Palestinians off of their land is not a solution, that’s ethnic cleansing. The Palestinians should be allowed to live on their ancestral land.
A solution could take the shape of two independent states, a single unitary state or some kind of federal construction as a middle ground. I don’t even care which solution they agree to, they’d have to figure that out among themselves. But if they opt for a two state solution those 700.000 colonists need to fuck off out of the West Bank. The Oslo accords dictate which areas belong to whom in a two state solution.
If the Israelis don’t want this they need to accept a solution where the Palestinians are represented in the government of all of Israel. I suppose in a way you could say that would be the end of Israel as we know it, but that doesn’t mean they’d have to leave. They would just need to accept that they live in a multi-ethnic country. UN peacekeepers would likely have to hang around for decades.
I don’t see any fair solution that isn’t somewhat disadvantageous to Israel, but they kinda brought this on themselves.
Lovely. I used to have a Ukrainian coworker and she overheard me use the word ‘zoeken’ (search) and she thought I was swearing as I didn’t pronounce the ‘n’ strongly