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  • In language classes, did you choose your name or get assigned one? Or use your regular name?

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  • You do not invent your own name sign. Name signs may only be given by a person in the Deaf community. Some hearing people (like interpreters and teachers) mistakenly give name signs without realizing they are in violation of Deaf culture traditions. However, a name sign cannot be assigned by a hearing person.

    American Sign Language has deep cultural and linguistic significance. Typically, it is not until you are involved in the community that you are given a name sign. In fact, not everyone within the Deaf community has a name sign.

    From articleIt's like a cultural thing. This still doesn't really answer why it's like that in the first place, but I think in general the reason it feels inappropriate to name yourself in another language is that it feels "cringe" for lack of a better word. Somebody picks a name that has all kinds of cultural and colloquial associations without understanding them at all.That's kinda my theory of cultural appropriation; it's not wrong because of some deep ethical reason, but rather it's just often uncool. People sending signals that they don't understand themselves.

  • Any way to get the old tab design back?

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  • Settings>Tabs>Tab View>List

    It's not what you're looking for, but you could try it out

  • In language classes, did you choose your name or get assigned one? Or use your regular name?

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  • Spanish: pick your own nameJapanese: must use the Japanese-ified version of your name, eg Smith -> Sumisu, and people will usually refer to you by last name.

    In retrospect, it was kinda strange to pick names in Spanish. It would be really strange / unacceptable to just pick a random Japanese name for yourself, and I've heard that it's really rude to pick a name for yourself in American Sign Language. I wonder why it's so widely accepted to do so for Spanish.

  • Neil Sedaka, songwriter to the stars for decades, dies at 86

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  • Wow! I had no idea.Wikipedia:

    "Mizu no Hoshi e Ai o Komete" (水の星へ愛をこめて; lit. 'To the Aqueous Star with Love') is the debut single by Japanese singer Hiroko Moriguchi, released on August 7, 1985 under Starchild Records. The song was written by Neil Sedaka and Masao Urino, based on Sedaka's unreleased song "For Us to Decide".

  • im 400 elo

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  • What’s the wildest dream you’ve ever had?

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  • I occasionally have really detailed dreams with plots and allegory and everything. Sometimes someone will tell a joke in my dream, and I don't get the joke until I wake up and think about it. My subconscious is sometimes more clever than I am.

    Anyway, the best dream I ever had was one of those really detailed ones with a complex plot. I don't remember any of those details, but it was some kind of mystery story where two children are on the run from a detective. It was full of plot twists and complex lies. As the plot unfolded, it seemed like there were some contractions in the narrative. One character says it happened like this, but another character claims the opposite. Typical mystery story stuff.But as the dream went on, these little inconsistencies built up and up until I concluded that a key event in the plot must have happened two different ways at the same time. Irreconcilably, both ways must have been true, but they absolutely contradicted each other. It's not that somebody is lying, there must actually be something wrong in the timeline itself.This is when the dream drops its biggest plot twist: why is it inconsistent? Because it's not real; it's all a dream. And then I woke up.

    I know the "it's all a dream" plot twist is usually cheap and stupid, but like, it WAS all a dream. I sat in bed for like 15 minutes just being impressed with how incredible the twist was, and how it was quite impossible for anybody else to experience the same story.

  • In the US we have signs that say No Shirt No Shoes No service. When did this become a norm? Also if I am wearing a shirt and shoes but no pants can I still enter?

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  • I used to think about this a lot too. I think it's just because it's a given that people would wear pants. They only need to clarify shirt & shoes because that's what they expect people are coming in without; they don't need to define their whole dress code because pants are implied.

  • Life expectancy in U.S. States and Select Countries

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  • A few of the abbreviations are already on there, just written wrong. They got "La., Ga., and Pa."

  • What are some of your favorite songs in a language you do not speak?

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  • I think it's in part because the song is slightly too mature for her that it appeals to Kiki, and maybe to the younger audience who relates to her.

  • What are some of your favorite songs in a language you do not speak?

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  • The lyrics of Rouge no Dengon are really good. It's about a woman who's on a train, leaving town to get away from her cheating husband. She left a "message in rouge" for him to find in the bathroom, that she won't be back until he changes his ways. She's actually going to his mother's house, and she'll have his mother call him to scold him in the morning.

    If you're familiar with the song as the opening theme to Kiki's Delivery Service, it really really fits Kiki's character as she listens to the song while leaving home for the first time. You might get the feeling that the themes of the song are things relates to herself: independence, anxiety, maturity, and female solidarity. And of course, if you watch the movie, those are all things she experiences in her new town.

    Basically it's a REALLY REALLY good song and absolutely perfect choice for the movie it's in. I also love the singer's other Ghibli movie song you mention, Contrails/Hikoukigumo.

  • What's a piece of Media that is so underrated you must mention it?

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  • Very obscure 45-minute 1991 anime movie: Christmas in January. Rated extremely low (5.46 / 10) on MAL, it's absolutely one of my favorite movies. It's whimsical and melancholic and so so interesting. Reminds me a lot of the Ghibli movie Ocean Waves, which is also an underrated gem (and, while I'm at it, the Kimagure Orange Road masterpiece sequel movie from the same director as Ocean Waves).

    I really love stories that are just miraculous/odd/interesting excerpts of people's lives that are otherwise inconsequential. There was nothing grand or life-changing about the events in the story, but I will never forget the delicate social interplay in the shoe store, or the only scene that actually takes place in January at the very end: just a moment of reflection.

  • What's up with the þ being used but not ð?

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  • I had assumed they were allophones and always wondered if there was a minimal pair to prove otherwise. It turns out though there is one: tooth (n) vs tooth (v), or tooþ vs tooð.

  • Nintendo rule

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  • I think it's so funny that there's a tool called "Wii U Downloader" that literally downloads the game files, whatever game you want, directly from Nintendo's own servers

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    President Trump: Joe Biden was always a mean guy. He is a stupid guy. How is that working out for him right now? When you start feeling sorry for him, remember he is bad guy

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  • I remember seeing this clip several months ago. In context, it was clearly in reference to Biden's cancer diagnosis, which was still popular/relevant news at the time.

    "When you start feeling sorry for him, remember he's a bad guy" -Trump

  • My Anime Year in Review: 2025

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  • Long rant:

    As someone who prefers the FMA 2003 series, I have to offer a counterargument to the notion that Brotherhood is the "canon" series. The manga published from 2001-2010.FMA 2003 aired from 2003-2004.FMA Brotherhood aired from 2009-2010.

    I really consider the 2003 series to be the original story. From 2004 until 2010, there was no such thing as a "canon ending to FMA" other than what was in the 2003 series. It was finished and packed away years before the manga approached its ending. I don't have a source for this, but I even remember reading somewhere that Hiromu Arakawa made changes to the manga inspired by some anime-original content that she liked. There's not really a "standard set by the manga". Rather, 2003 is what set that standard.

    You could also question what "canon" even means. Like, the events of the 2009 anime are obviously canon within the 2009 anime; the events of the 2003 anime are canon within the 2003 anime; and the events of the manga are canon within the manga. You can search up a list of differences between Brotherhood and the manga pretty easily, and even find ways in which 2003 is a much more faithful adaptation of the early manga than Brotherhood. It's not like there's a single continuity of canon events that defines Fullmetal Alchemist, there's clearly three. Arakawa also requested that the 2003 anime would have an original ending, so it's not like it's contrary to the vision of the author, either.

    Last point, but I would also disagree that Brotherhood has higher production quality. FMA 2003 had much better background art, never resorted to cost-saving use of 3D models, and I prefer the character designs and lighting. Other than that, there's not really any big differences in style/animation. I was going to paste in a bunch of sakugabooru links but really the series look pretty similar in action scenes. A lot of boring action lines, but a lot of good dynamic shots, too. Brotherhood never has anything really stunning though, like the ballroom scene from the end of 2003.

    tl;dr, FMA 2003 is pretty good, too. It's kinda misleading to call it non-canon when it was the original completed story. I'd also argue that the 2003 version had better production value in terms of visual style/animation. It's definitely worth watching, at least.

  • Gender Abolitionist Proposals

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  • In response to your section on pronouns:

    As you identify, it's useful to have multiple different pronoun sets to refer to different people to reduce ambiguity when speaking and writing.

    We could hypothetically base these categories on anything: we could have one set pronouns each for men and women, but we could also set that dividing line somewhere else. Maybe we use one set of pronouns for family and a different set for non-family. Maybe the dividing line is rich/poor. Dog person / cat person. Personality type. Horoscope. Favorite color. Color they're currently wearing. How recently they entered the conversation.

    Some of these sound pretty reasonable and others sound really useless. A gender-based pronoun has problems, but it's useful in that it's often a useful differentiator between any two random people. This wouldn't be the case for a hypothetical rich/poor pronoun system.

    Now that I think of it, a Chinese zodiac calendar-based pronoun system would be really cool. The 60-year sexagenary cycle would give us 60 different pronoun sets for each year people are born, allowing each pronoun (fire dog, metal rat, etc.) to gain their own associations over time, though constantly changing as people from each cohort get older. Because people don't really live more than 120 years, you would also only ever have two generations of each birth year. So there would be an "elder fire dog" and "junior fire dog" and it could be so interesting and artistic and poetic with two very different groups sharing a common pronoun... So much room for symbolism and reflection 🤤

    But anyway, snap back to reality. Neo-pronouns already exist in colloquial English, especially online. I'm not talking about xe/xim, I'm talking about bestie, oomfie, anon, homie, my guy, my brother in Christ, girlypop, etc.We should recognize these for what they are (pronouns) and normalize their use. They all have different contexts, connotations, and use-cases, but they are absolutely usable sets of pronouns. Some of them are still gender-specific, but the important thing is that gender is no longer the primary relevant factor in pronoun selection. Let's have 100 different pronouns, and everybody can use any of them depending on the context. It would be awesome.

  • What is one small, positive interaction you've had with a stranger?

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  • *points at photo"Is that the new pope?"

    "Yeah!"

    "Is he doin a good job?"

    *4 second pause, looks back at photo"Uhh, yes. He's doing a good job. Did you know he's from America!?"

    I thought the serious 4-second evaluation period was funny. Good to know he's doing a good job. This was at a Catholic thrift store yesterday.

  • Do you think you would survive if you received every injury of your life at once?

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  • Your arms and hands would be pretty messed up. Depending on which arm was broken twice and how badly, it may be permanently damaged.Biggest thing is probably blood loss. I think your survival comes down to how much blood you lost in your glass injuries and from every other injury combined.

    Source: not a doctor, just guessing.

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Do you think you would survive if you received every injury of your life at once?

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  • I am surprised that no one has started selling shell headphones for sleeping.

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  • Plus does those sea sounds last for that long, I really do not know.

    If you live near the ocean, the seashell ocean sound will last forever. If you're a little farther away then you need to take them back to the ocean to recharge every couple months.

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK about the French Republican Calendar

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_Republican_calendar
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What are your most recently visited Wikipedia pages?

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    What are your favorite Tactical RPGs?

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Please generate an image with NO dogs

  • Anime @ani.social
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    A list of every anime to depict the Twin Towers

    myanimelist.net /stacks/46166
  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    on wikipedia

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    rule

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    4/4 rule