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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Skullface's plan was stupid but I think that was kind of the point. the only 'point' is that kojima is a goddamn moron when it comes to writing and needs his excesses reined in by a good writer (fukushima)
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It's sort of an interesting question, whether or not English is actually going to retain its place as a lingua franca. Mandarin isn't that far behind but, significantly, most of them are L1 speakers, while English has about a 2/3 -1/3 split of L2/L1 - and the places where it is L1 are becoming less and less important over time. That leaves Mandarin with a lot of room to grow with L2 speakers, and a much stronger base of support of L1. Being itself a growing powerhouse, and well positioned in the most important area of the planet going forwards, it wouldn't take much to push it over the edge into #1. From there, I could easily see it totally displacing English as the new lingua franca. So who knows, maybe in 20 years it'll be the language displacing smaller ones. rudatron fucked around with this message at 05:28 on Jul 19, 2017 |
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lollontee posted:why can't everyone just become bilingual i know that i have to say "club soda" instead of "soda" at airports to get the correct drink what else do you want from me
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Jul 19, 2017 05:28
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crime pop, drat it
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a spooky spectre is haunting cspam, the spectre of lf (M-L) soda tendency
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Who knows what language changes might take place if any; language has often been weird wrt power structures and culture Like in earlier aristocratic eras the ruling class and peasants might speak completely different languages and might rule over peasants with a large variety of languages and nobody really cared. Imperial russian aristocracy spoke french and maybe enough russian to yell at servants if at all Yet in modernity you have all kinds of nationalism and powers forming around languages and the need to speak some dominant language to enter them China could become a replacement for the US yet the bureaucratic language could remain english for strange legacy reasons, who knows; all that is solid melts into air
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rudatron posted:It's sort of an interesting question, whether or not English is actually going to retain its place as a lingua franca. Mandarin isn't that far behind but, significantly, most of them are L1 speakers, while English has about a 2/3 -1/3 split of L2/L1 - and the places where it is L1 are becoming less and less important over time. That leaves Mandarin with a lot of room to grow with L2 speakers, and a much stronger base of support of L1. Being itself a growing powerhouse, and well positioned in the most important area of the planet going forwards, it wouldn't take much to push it over the edge into #1. From there, I could easily see it totally displacing English as the new lingua franca. everybody said this about Japanese in the 80s when their manufacturing was doing well. people don't want to learn a language with pseudo-pictographic characters and definitely definitely definitely not one with a tonal language on top of that. saying mandarin will displace English in L2 is basically the disco stu graph
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Weeping Wound posted:crime THIS is why no one likes you Midwest.
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theflyingexecutive posted:everybody said this about Japanese in the 80s when their manufacturing was doing well. people don't want to learn a language with pseudo-pictographic characters and definitely definitely definitely not one with a tonal language on top of that. saying mandarin will displace English in L2 is basically the disco stu graph The hype over Japanese was obviously misguided, but there are 7 billion people in this world and 1 billion of them speak mandarin. Having more L1 speakers than any other language - that's economic clout, no matter how much you cut it. Actually, the wikipedia page already has to total number of L1+L2 speakers of Mandarin > English right now, so it's already the world's #1 language. I thought it still had a way to go, but apparently that's not the case. How's that for being over-hyped, it's already in the process of happening.
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Read it and weep: Mandarin, 1.098 billion, English, 0.983 billion
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Weeping Wound posted:crime pop is what you call ur dad dumbass
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtguLo_DwFg
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Not to beat the technocrat drum but machine translation is getting pretty good. I dunno if it will be good enough for real time soon but it's getting better over the years. Maybe actual spoken language will just cease to be important
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Our grandchildren will communicate with memes and cyphers, and roll their eyes whenever we try "mouthnoise"
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can't come soon enough imo
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MikeCrotch posted:fizzy drink welcom to the brandless commie south
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The pictspeak from Eon and Eternity was always interesting to me. You just kind of beam pictures and what you mean into the air via symbols and whatnot. Too bad we'll be dead from climate change first
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Larry Parrish posted:Not to beat the technocrat drum but machine translation is getting pretty good. I dunno if it will be good enough for real time soon but it's getting better over the years. Maybe actual spoken language will just cease to be important Apply for a job at Microsoft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozLaklIFWUI
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steinrokkan posted:Apply for a job at Microsoft Or don't, they're gearing up to layoff 3,000 employees
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Or do. Microsoft and the semiconductor production companies and maybe parts of Alphabet are the only companies in silicon valley that will likely survive the impending crash. Or some of the subsidiaries anyway.
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Larry Parrish posted:Or do. Microsoft and the semiconductor production companies and maybe parts of Alphabet are the only companies in silicon valley that will likely survive the impending crash. Or some of the subsidiaries anyway. Jumping onto a sinking ship just for the prospect of getting into one of the lifeboats isn't a great plan.
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buy lots and lots of snapchat stock, no risk whatsoever!!!
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Larry Parrish posted:Or do. Microsoft and the semiconductor production companies and maybe parts of Alphabet are the only companies in silicon valley that will likely survive the impending crash. Or some of the subsidiaries anyway. Google might be fine, Alphabet is throwing lots of money into dubious money pits like Calico, which is going to cure aging via the medicinal technology of [mumble mumble mumble]
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it's cool that we're dumping billions into figuring out how to make a select few billionaires live forever
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Laugh if you want but trickle down medical research is the only reason the general population has access to remedies for gout and the vapors
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Karl Barks posted:it's cool that we're dumping billions into figuring out how to make a select few billionaires live forever as long as it's theirs/idiot shareholders' money. later we can kill them and redistribute their immortality to the
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this isnt the dem thread there are too many threads
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deadgoon posted:this isnt the dem thread there are too many threads false, not enough threads
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GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:Laugh if you want but trickle down medical research is the only reason the general population has access to remedies for gout and the vapors no way in hell will they ever let anyone without at least a million in the bank live forever
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You know what really pisses me off? That there hasn't been an active shooter that targets rich people and celebrities ever. I heard Bohemian Grove has lovely security so you could definitely go in when they are sacrificing a "pizza" to whatever sumerian monster/demon they worship and murk a bunch of tech billionaires and foreign policy+national security mummies.
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Larry Parrish posted:Not to beat the technocrat drum but machine translation is getting pretty good. I dunno if it will be good enough for real time soon but it's getting better over the years. Maybe actual spoken language will just cease to be important tbh its getting pretty good at a certain subset of languages; its still terrible at some asian languages and slavic languages
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Plutonis posted:its highly illegal to say You know what really pisses me off? That there hasn't been an active shooter that targets rich people and celebrities ever. I heard Bohemian Grove has lovely security so you could definitely go in when they are sacrificing a "pizza" to whatever sumerian monster/demon they worship and murk a bunch of tech billionaires and foreign policy+national security mummies. ur golden now
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Plutonis posted:You know what really pisses me off? That there hasn't been an active shooter that targets rich people and celebrities ever. I heard Bohemian Grove has lovely security so you could definitely go in when they are sacrificing a "pizza" to whatever sumerian monster/demon they worship and murk a bunch of tech billionaires and foreign policy+national security mummies. 
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Serf posted:no way in hell will they ever let anyone without at least a million in the bank live forever
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Autism Sneaks posted:Jumping onto a sinking ship just for the prospect of getting into one of the lifeboats isn't a great plan. It's better than just jumping between sinking ships tho
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Plutonis posted:You know what really pisses me off? That there hasn't been an active shooter that targets rich people and celebrities ever. I heard Bohemian Grove has lovely security so you could definitely go in when they are sacrificing a "pizza" to whatever sumerian monster/demon they worship and murk a bunch of tech billionaires and foreign policy+national security mummies. Just throw some heroin needles into Silicon Valley corporate ballpits.
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Top City Homo posted:ur golden now yea lets not have a repeat of how lf ended the first time fam
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i mean if I could bring back one thing from the lf glory days it would be more like hailing satan
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