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  • Languages

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  • Meh, as a native Dutch speaker auxiliary verbs feel really utilitarian to me, and not particularly fancy - like you said, that’s highly subjective.

    As for cases, I didn’t say Latin or German had the most, but just that I think they’re fancy and that Latin has them while French doesn’t.

  • Languages

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  • For one, Latin has more fancy rules than French. I guess the subjunctive is probably something English speakers might consider fancy, but Latin has that too. Latin has more times that are conjugations of the core verb (rather than needing auxiliary verbs), has grammatical cases (like German, but two more if you include vocative) and, idk, also just feels fancier in general.

    I’ll admit it’s been years since I actually read any Latin and that I only have a surface level understanding of all languages mentioned except for French, but this post reads like it’s about the stereotypes of the countries rather than being about the languages themselves.

  • French rule

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  • I mean, I guess there’s a point to that, but isn’t there inevitably a social aspect to it? Especially in this post, where the person is saying others don’t have to understand it, meaning it’s clearly outwardly visible and part of who they are.

    I’m not saying you should seek approval from anyone (for your gender nor anything else), because that’ll never happen. But denying the importance of some social acceptance for things in the social sphere is kind of weird, and feels like a “haha, unless…?” thing; you want others to understand and accept it, but the moment you don’t their acceptance becomes irrelevant and you never sought any acceptance at all. It feels like an unhealthy way to cope with rejection.

  • French rule

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  • I think the language analogy is actually very apt, because not every has to understand it, but the people you want to speak French with necessarily have to know it. Otherwise it just doesn’t fulfil any purpose.

  • French rule

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  • Also, because gender is a social construct, it requires that enough people understand it to a sufficient degree.

  • Why Is English Awash in Sailors' Jargon? | Otherwords

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  • Frisian is an entirely different beast, and even speaking Dutch doesn’t help you that much to make sense of it.

  • Why Is English Awash in Sailors' Jargon? | Otherwords

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  • There are a bunch of expressions in Dutch, some even overlapping with English (like all hands on deck/alle hens aan dek). I could think of five to ten off the top of my head, so I imagine there are a lot more that aren’t as obvious.

  • "Burn The Boats" is a Funeral for Joe Rogan's Comedy Career

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  • The creator of the video pointed out one good joke in the special, and sure enough - it’s about himself lol. So yeah, even when he manages to be funny on purpose he’s still the joke.

  • Sportsmanship rule

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  • Not trying to counter your point, but female athletes that don’t dope don’t ever become super muscular. Like, look at Khelif. She has just proven she is the best in the world in a combat sport, and she still doesn’t look muscular to the point of looking male. The transphobes mainly came at her because her face isn’t super feminine, which doesn’t really have anything to do with boxing.

    I occasionally hear women saying they don’t want to do workouts that target their upper body, and I’m always baffled because it’s not like they’ll ever even slightly look like a dude lol.

  • Screenshotted on Tumblr then screenshotted on Pinterest then screenshotted on Tumblr again to be posted on Lemmy Rule

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  • “Haha I don’t exercise” irks me in a way few other things do. Like, fair deuce if you don’t want to exercise, but acting like it’s super quirky and funny gives me a certain impression I really dislike.

  • my one (piece) rule

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  • It’s a good way to look like you’re working

  • famous white people rule

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  • Shoutout King Leopold

  • swollen eye rule

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  • Also, fun fact: Jeroom’s partner is Élodie Ouédraogo, an Olympic gold medalist.

  • self hosted digital journal?

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  • Right, I must’ve overlooked that. My bad.

  • self hosted digital journal?

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  • You can easily use it with Nextcloud, to name one example. So yeah, it’s a good suggestion.

  • digiKam 8.4.0 is released

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  • They’re different tools, just use them alongside each other.

  • Antinatalism Rule

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  • They’re saying life is miserable, I’m saying it’s not inherently miserable. Like, that’s not a subjective take lol.

    Also, what about my comment made it seem like they said it was 50/50? And even if I thought that’s what they said, how does that invalidate my argument?

    Even in my comment I acknowledge there are multiple reasons not to have children, so I really don’t understand what you’re arguing against.

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  • But you’re basing that on your own negative experiences in life, and you’re acting like they’re objective and universal.

    Also, by that logic you shouldn’t do anything that could potentially cascade into making someone else unhappy, which would be absolutely debilitating.

    Don’t get me wrong, I get that you should think twice, thrice and even more about having kids, especially if you’re not in a position to give them a good life and/or if you have certain heritable issues. But your overall position seems overly negative and, idk, somewhat misanthropic? In your worldview humanity should just stop existing because people can be unhappy in life. It’s overly reductive and negative to me.

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  • I don’t think it’s objectively and clearly unethical, so I think your claim that it is is wrong.