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  • Yes. But phonetic languages phoneticise loanwords.

    Ie. In Japanese the word “coffee” has bexome a loanword. But they don’t keep the unphoneticised english version. They phoneticise it to fit with their pronounciation and it becomes kohi.

    (This is complicated of course by katakana and such but just an example. German tends to so the same, since it’s phonetic.)

    Ie. German Kaffee from turkish kahve, or German Komputer from english computer



  • Do you not understand the concept of a safe space?

    When you’re literally one of the most politically targeted groups and create a community the point might not be to make it a “free speech zone” but the one place on the internet you feel safe.

    That doesn’t make them authoritarian politically. They’re just admins following through on a vision. Where people can freely join their instance or not. Not politicians enforcing their views on people who didn’t consent to it.

    Blahaj doesn’t pretend to be a neutral instance like lemmy.ml does. It’s explicit.