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bomb posted:They put some money in that sign look at all that black Maybe the printer charges by the letter so they designed that sign out of spite.
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tuyop posted:Canada thread derail continues: why is our second-language education so poo poo? All these European countries have great success teaching English AND Flemish or whatever but we can’t manage French. People in Europe learn English relatively easily because English is so ubiquitous. Learning a language is way easier when the language is everywhere around you.
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Mulaney Power Move posted:Hey, what's up your craw, eh? I'm about this close to running away.
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Vakal posted:Because no one outside of Ontario or Quebec gives a poo poo about learning French. New Brunswick is officially bilingual and the other Maritime provinces have substantial Acadian populations too. Wasn’t there a goon who said they were going to have a lung removed due to COVID damage? How are they doing?
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Lazyhound posted:Wasn’t there a goon who said they were going to have a lung removed due to COVID damage? How are they doing? If you mean this goon, not well. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3916924&pagenumber=1
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tuyop posted:Canada thread derail continues: why is our second-language education so poo poo? All these European countries have great success teaching English AND Flemish or whatever but we can’t manage French. Federal bilingualism was just Trudeau Sr pandering to his Quebec base
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Andrast posted:People in Europe learn English relatively easily because English is so ubiquitous. Learning a language is way easier when the language is everywhere around you. "Europe" has almost a billion people and some places are good at english and some suck. GENERALLY speaking, the further south and east you go the worse "europeans" get at English. Scandinavia is great at it while places like Spain and France struggle more with it. I'd say it's mostly because Scandinavians see English everywhere on TV (with subtitles) while in places like Spain or France they dub everything. I mean, that's how I learned English fluently. Dubbing is stupid as gently caress. poo poo, Scandinavia is small as hell but I encounter more nordic people on the internet than from places like Spain or Greece whatever. It's like they keep to their own insular language spheres Zzulu fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Jun 2, 2020 |
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When I was in Stockholm almost everything was written in English, signs, placards, even menus. It was weird. I felt like I was playing Cities Skylines then enabled "European Style Buildings". *edit* - My son called it Diet Europe.
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Facebook Aunt posted:If you mean this goon, not well. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3916924&pagenumber=1 drat drat drat
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Like I've heard from more than one Dutch person that while yeah, they had English classes at some point, their real teacher was English versions of the Simpsons and similar North American media. I’d personally give a shout-out to BBC and their Ceefax captions for the deaf and hard of hearing. It wasn’t just hearing The Simpsons, it was reading it too. Their captions were also amazingly detailed at times. Bus driver Otto is humming a tune for 5 seconds? Captions told you which song it was.
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Mierenneuker posted:I’d personally give a shout-out to BBC and their Ceefax captions for the deaf and hard of hearing. It wasn’t just hearing The Simpsons, it was reading it too. Their captions were also amazingly detailed at times. Bus driver Otto is humming a tune for 5 seconds? Captions told you which song it was. Yes, that is how my children learnt English. Especially Star Trek Voyager on BBC with English subtitles, that was where it really caught on. This doesn't apply to my generation: when I was young we had two Dutch TV channels, mostly only broadcasting in the evening, but most of the country was in reach of three German channels. We learned German from television, and what is worse, we saw many Hollywood classics with German dubbing. I think English popular music was more important for acquiring the language than films in that time. Of course there were a lot of school classes in French, German and English, and a moderately educated Dutch person was expected to have a working knowledge of those three languages. Since the 1970's pupils could drop most foreign languages, and the active knowledge of French and German has declined seriously here in NL. Young Dutch people will speak English with young German people. And they will not speak with French people :-)
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13Pandora13 posted:Don't take this the wrong way but this is incorrect in a pretty dangerous way and I really hope you're not saying this to other parents in your life. While children are in the least likely group to be hospitalized for breathing difficulties there are a number of unique ways COVID-19 presents in pediatric cases and parents should absolutely be vigilant about keeping their kids from getting it if at all possible. We have absolutely no way of knowing at this point what the long term ramifications of this illness is on development, especially with mounting evidence of vascular and neurological effects. While there is no reason not to try and do your best to avoid any unneccesary exposure of Covid to your kids, telling others not to worry because as a general rule Covid is not severe in the large majority of children is true. You are linking to studies that either confirm this, or ones talking about incredible fringe cases they are still trying to learn more about. Under the age of 18, the seasonal flu is 200% as deadly as Covid-19. Most parents (and kids) don't live in fear of their kids getting the flu, even though it is possible they end up as one of the sickest ones. In one study you linked, some 75% of hospitalizations of children had a serious pre-existing condition like permanent medical intervention / severe disability, cancer, immune disease, etc. Don't try and incite more panic when you really don't understand the scale. You are much more likely to kill your kids driving them to Mini Putt than from them getting Covid.
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coronavirus posted:While there is no reason not to try and do your best to avoid any unneccesary exposure of Covid to your kids, telling others not to worry because as a general rule Covid is not severe in the large majority of children is true. You are linking to studies that either confirm this, or ones talking about incredible fringe cases they are still trying to learn more about. I’m onto you coronavirus nice try!
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coronavirus posted:While there is no reason not to try and do your best to avoid any unneccesary exposure of Covid to your kids, telling others not to worry because as a general rule Covid is not severe in the large majority of children is true. You are linking to studies that either confirm this, or ones talking about incredible fringe cases they are still trying to learn more about. No one's inciting panic, that poster was saying exactly what you wrote in your first sentence
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Facebook Aunt posted:If you mean this goon, not well. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3916924&pagenumber=1 Goddammit no, oh my god
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Bonaventure posted:Ananas is great I won’t hear a foul word spoken against him JE SUIS UN ANANAS cafe des reves was pretty good for a laugh too
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So a group of nerds looked at all the available evidence for preventing transmission of the corvids and just published it hereResearchers posted:Implications of all the available evidence coronavirus posted:While there is no reason not to try and do your best to avoid any unneccesary exposure of Covid to your kids, telling others not to worry because as a general rule Covid is not severe in the large majority of children is true. You are linking to studies that either confirm this, or ones talking about incredible fringe cases they are still trying to learn more about. Zugzwang fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Jun 2, 2020 |
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Facebook Aunt posted:If you mean this goon, not well. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3916924&pagenumber=1 gently caress.
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Social distance shamers - Look what happened during the Spanish Flu when the US celebrated in the streets at the end of WW1. We can't risk a second wave. Think of Grandma. Also social distance shamers - Protesting in mass gatherings in the streets is well and good even if it means a second wave that will kill Grandma.
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Facebook Aunt posted:See, I warned you guys, Canuck fights are really boring.
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https://twitter.com/GanucheauAdam/status/1267562223121174529?s=20 lmao someone is gonna WFH Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:
Alex Jones: frogs turning gay incels become groypers groypers become goblins soy boys become elves 
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Facebook Aunt posted:If you mean this goon, not well. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3916924&pagenumber=1  🥺
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It is nice how everyone is unmasking themselves.
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Xenocides posted:It is nice how everyone is unmasking themselves. Covid 19 transmission rates are directly proportional to its media coverage, so everyone is safe now.
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I've seen absolutely nothing on covid-19 since the riots started.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I've seen absolutely nothing on covid-19 since the riots started. Covid: news from a tiny country far from the US; -Social distancing and masks seem to work so we are allowed to go back to a somewhat "normal" lifestyle -It's been 2 weeks of very sunny weather and it did seem to impact the situation positively. -It appears a number of people seem to be simply immune to the virus. So it's not "it's all over yet" (we'll see that next winter), but it's a step in the right direction. What's happening in the US is hosed up though. It's surprising it did not happen earlier.
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I can’t believe that the protests have overtaken the murder-virus as the big crazy thing affecting us all the heck could be next at this point?
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bomb posted:Who even came up with the name Canada? I mean really? According to Swiss mythology, an Austrian discovered an empty place and shouted "koana doa" which means "nobody here". ...I'm old...
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naem posted:I can’t believe that the protests have overtaken the murder-virus as the big crazy thing affecting us all Aliens lol
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Sid Vicious posted:Aliens lol it’s gonna have to be at this point
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Oh forgot to mention: While the US is burning and dying, Swiss Fauchi retired... He kinda went viral doing it: https://youtu.be/dvzROcCjirg Also: I quit my job last friday and it feels right.
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naem posted:I can’t believe that the protests have overtaken the murder-virus as the big crazy thing affecting us all Hurricane season. Then more riots as evictions and debt collection resume with no relief beyond whatever Congress and cash-strapped states can grunt out. Expect essential workers to gradually start acting out as they take a disproportionate brunt of ‘rona-related abuse. Then a heatwave. Then resurgent COVID. Then the election. That’s nowhere near all-inclusive, or even necessarily in order. Betcha there will be a wildcard in there, too.
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Hasturtium posted:Hurricane season. Then more riots as evictions and debt collection resume with no relief beyond whatever Congress and cash-strapped states can grunt out. Expect essential workers to gradually start acting out as they take a disproportionate brunt of ‘rona-related abuse. Then a heatwave. Then resurgent COVID. Then the election. we already had murder-hornets so the next things going to have to be a real doozy
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naem posted:it’s gonna have to be at this point
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numberoneposter posted:Or maybe Godzillas. It’ll be Steve. Fuckin’ Steve.
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We fully expect a spike at our large hospital. We were spiking down slowly on inpatient Covid treatment. The protesting in my city is going to make it...not good in a couple weeks. Bad loving timing for this all to go down.
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Mexico update: https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...4641_story.html Cracked top 10 in deaths, 10,000 dead(believed to be 3 to 5 times higher) Reopened country since yesterday, despite being at “peak of pandemic”, highest mortality/CFR rate possibly in the world? Almost 12%
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