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  • Just give it up you're not winning this argument 😭

    Anyone sane would have realised this is a useless thing to fight over

    Either that or you're a troll

  • Remembering that w and y are always vowels in Welsh makes it easier

  • Devolving to linguistic prescriptivism just proves you don't have an argument anymore lol

  • It's Zulu and it's asking you to look for buses

  • I have faith that it's possible to reform at least some of them, even if it's not everyone

    A lot of what gets people into these beliefs is environmental factors and the beliefs of those around them

  • Oh my bad, I didn't know that was the actual reason

    Most other thorn-users I've interacted with were doing it out of an attempt to reform English spelling so

  • It's not an anti AI thing and I have no idea why people keep repeating this misinformation

    It's an internet phenomenon, called Bring Back Thorn, which has been around since before LLMs became popular

  • Apparently the sun's spectral absorption lines were discovered 4 years before the song was made

  • Reminder that "antisemitism" was a euphemism made in the late 19th century by people who wanted to promote the ideology of hating Jewish people, to replace the previous term "Judenhaß" (meaning Jew-hatred)

  • This looks like hell to clean

  • Most people doing the thorn thing aren't doing it for attention

    I'd know, I was in the community of thorn users and briefly participated at one point

  • Hawaiian is far from the least spoken language in the world I feel, there's many languages that are spoken in very sparse areas or by very small populations

    For example, Ainu (アイヌ イタㇰ) in Japan is almost dead, with no first-language speakers and very few second language speakers, and Wymysorys (Wymysiöeryś) is only spoken by elderly people in the village of Wiliamowice, Poland

    And those are only a few examples, there are a lot of languages that are barely hanging on like this

    I'm not saying Hawaiian isn't endangered, it's listed as Critically Endangered, but it's one in an, unfortunately large, list of critically endangered languages

  • They're not mistakes, just different spelling conventions

  • There is a "big main instance" effect that seems to form unfortunately

    And the barrier to transferring instances is quite high

  • In Polish, "United States" is Stany Zjednoczone, but the acronym is USA, even though that doesn't match up at all

  • The "So doth hates potatoes?" quote confused me because there's no pronoun (doth is a verb)

    It should be more like "So thou hatest potatoes" or something

  • EXACTLY, English has diminutives like many other languages

    Also, slang terms are as "correct" as any other words, the only difference is the context where you use them