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quantumwell posted:Man, there sure is a lot of creepy unhinged behavior posted about kids born and still in the womb, What is it about babies that make I mean it's probably a combo of our society consistently telling women their worth is only based around childbirth and our mental health system being god awful.
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teen witch posted:I learned Swedish at 25-26, though immersion and free classes helped immensely. Might start Finnish with my partner soon My understanding is that it’s generally not possible to have a perfect accent unless you learn a language very young or spend an incredible portion of your life totally immersed though.
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Apr 2, 2022 19:16
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:My understanding is that it’s generally not possible to have a perfect accent unless you learn a language very young or spend an incredible portion of your life totally immersed though. Yeah, but who really cares if someone else has a perfect accent outside of chuddy Americans and the French?
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Apr 2, 2022 19:27
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teen witch posted:I learned Swedish at 25-26, though immersion and free classes helped immensely. Might start Finnish with my partner soon Älä vaa. Me postataa päin persettä jok'ikine, ja sulla ny ei oo hyvät lähtökohdat muutekaa. Naurat kohta niin huonoille vitseille että minkään keskustelun tasottamine tulee mahrottomaks.
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Captain Fargle posted:Not these days. nice racism
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endlessmonotony posted:Älä vaa. Me postataa päin persettä jok'ikine, ja sulla ny ei oo hyvät lähtökohdat muutekaa. Naurat kohta niin huonoille vitseille että minkään keskustelun tasottamine tulee mahrottomaks. Ite postaan vakaumuksellisesti vain ja ainoastaan ulospäin perseestä, suosittelen lämpimästi harkitsemaan samaa 
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:My understanding is that it’s generally not possible to have a perfect accent unless you learn a language very young or spend an incredible portion of your life totally immersed though. Around 80% of Finns can't get the accent working perfectly, the rules are incredibly complicated and arcane. The people who can (hi!) meanwhile tend to just shitpost about it being completely loving meaningless unless you want to be a snob, and concentrate on getting the rules wrong in sbuttle ways.
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[url=https://www.uexpress.com/life/miss-manners/2022/04/02]quote:DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was at my daughter's house. While she and my son-in-law were working in their bathroom, my two grandsons and I were in the den. The boys were on their tablets and I was watching an episode of a reality show, which was almost over. Mind you, I had never seen this show before and I was very much into it. Miss Manners does not take kindly to this bullshit.
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I’m just saying it sucks that adults actively prevent their kids from learning languages during the best time to learn them like the mom who think her kid will be too Mexican or whatever if he learns it.
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Batterypowered7 posted:Yeah, but who really cares if someone else has a perfect accent outside of chuddy Americans and the French? The whole "thing" about being expected to speak French with a perfect accent was always so weird to me. French people nearly always speak English with a French accent and no-one gives a gently caress. Why do the French get a free pass to be so catty about foreigners speaking French?
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I thought Spanish people were white.
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Waci posted:Ite postaan vakaumuksellisesti vain ja ainoastaan ulospäin perseestä, suosittelen lämpimästi harkitsemaan samaa Boring-rear end prude, you.
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endlessmonotony posted:Boring-rear end prude, you. That's what my wife calls me too  One day I will learn how to post rear end to rear end
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Waci posted:Ite postaan vakaumuksellisesti vain ja ainoastaan ulospäin perseestä, suosittelen lämpimästi harkitsemaan samaa Yeah well Vi sitter här i Venten och spelar lite Dota E: RenegadeStyle1 posted:I thought Spanish people were white. I've mentioned it before, but I've had white Americans tell me that Spanish people are a "lower tier" of white.
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Pookah posted:The whole "thing" about being expected to speak French with a perfect accent was always so weird to me. French people nearly always speak English with a French accent and no-one gives a gently caress. Why do the French get a free pass to be so catty about foreigners speaking French? Maybe some unconscious relic from the aggressive standardisations of the 19th century that saw things like Breton and Occitan almost wiped out? I dunno but my Quebecois friends have told me about French tourists in Montreal trying to own them for speaking french wrong and it's hilarious
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Pookah posted:The whole "thing" about being expected to speak French with a perfect accent was always so weird to me. French people nearly always speak English with a French accent and no-one gives a gently caress. Why do the French get a free pass to be so catty about foreigners speaking French?  it's because the French are actually quite racist.
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:I thought Spanish people were white. i count as white until a certain class of racist realizes im Hispanic
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DaysBefore posted:Maybe some unconscious relic from the aggressive standardisations of the 19th century that saw things like Breton and Occitan almost wiped out? I dunno but my Quebecois friends have told me about French tourists in Montreal trying to own them for speaking french wrong and it's hilarious The langfocus channel has a neat video about the differences: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9rh3lqdtT0&t=577s Also the differences between Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXitW0IDAjQ&t=825s
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:I thought Spanish people were white. The point of racism is to create arbitrary classes of people to play off each other not to make a logically coherent system
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keep punching joe posted:
I know It's quite funny, frenchness was seen as cool and counter-cultural back in the goddamn '60s and France has been clinging to that status ever since
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:I thought Spanish people were white. Pfft Americans and their petty concerns over who counts as being white. While in sophisticated Europe we have a form of racism much more baroque and esoteric based around centuries old grudges, religious sectarianism, and how much garlic other people consume as part of their diets.
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keep punching joe posted:Pfft Americans and their petty concerns over who counts as being white. While in sophisticated Europe we have a form of racism much more baroque and esoteric based around centuries old grudges, religious sectarianism, and how much garlic other people consume as part of their diets. I hear the English hate the Polish. Is it because they're the wrong type of white?
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:You can acclimate to being just fine in extreme heat that would literally kill most people but it takes weeks or months of exposure and doing intense conditioning and cardio in the heat without getting a heat injury. There’s not really a good reason to do it unless you’re training to be a professional athlete or whatever your countries favorite death squad is called. Also summer farm work. Best way to avoid heatstroke is to work yourself up to it through the spring, along with taking all the usual precautions when you start working during the genuinely dangerous times.
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I’ve never had a French person comment on my atrocious accent. They just appreciate that I’m trying.Batterypowered7 posted:I hear the English hate the Polish. Is it because they're the wrong type of white? It’s because they put English builders and tradespeople to shame.
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Batterypowered7 posted:I hear the English hate the Polish. Is it because they're the wrong type of white? It's because the English are pricks who just hate everyone (even the English).
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Batterypowered7 posted:I hear the English hate the Polish. Is it because they're the wrong type of white? It's similar to the "they're taking our jobs" racism Central Americans experience in the US. A lot of people are racist about accents all around the world. https://press.babbel.com/en_gb/rele...lar-abroad.html quote:Poles are most likely to feel that they hold back from speaking due to perceived negativity connected to their accent (73% of Polish people state that their accent holds them back from speaking). This is compared with 69% of people globally. quote:Female respondents (42%) and younger respondents (47%) are more likely to have experienced accent anxiety than the global average (38%). Men (34%) and older people (31%) still feel anxious, but to a lesser extent.
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trickybiscuits posted:[url=https://www.uexpress.com/life/miss-manners/2022/04/02] I'm not boomerbrained enough to even understand what OP is complaining about.
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Batterypowered7 posted:I hear the English hate the Polish. Is it because they're the wrong type of white? Everybody who isn't English English is the wrong type of white. Eg Scots, Welsh, Irish... therattle posted:I’ve never had a French person comment on my atrocious accent. They just appreciate that I’m trying. In my experience it's Parisians who get snotty, all other French people are nice about my lovely accent and heavy use of English loanwords (and happy to bitch about how awful Parisians are).
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Runcible Cat posted:In my experience it's Parisians who get snotty, all other French people are nice about my lovely accent and heavy use of English loanwords (and happy to bitch about how awful Parisians are). That's what I was gonna say, based on my admittedly limited experience over there. Folks in other towns were always friendly and happy to work with me and my poor language skills, Parisians not so much.
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trickybiscuits posted:[url=https://www.uexpress.com/life/miss-manners/2022/04/02] What in the world is even going on here?
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trickybiscuits posted:[url=https://www.uexpress.com/life/miss-manners/2022/04/02] Was this written by an AI or something? Nothing about this makes sense. Is "Drop a ball" a thing people say in this context? Urban Dictionary just has has the "make a mistake" definition.
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AITA for cancelling someone else's all inclusive hotel reservation?quote:Background: I do historical re-enactments and, as part of that, I have an alias that is pretty much for historical societies and used as a "pen name". The alias is my great grandmother's grandmother's surname with the "Italian" first name my parents teasingly called me when we visited Italy when I was 2 years old. Together, it's a very common name. I use the name as my username on a number of websites and have an email set up for my historical society in that name. (Basically, also use it for a number of other things but mostly for historical hobby related emails) This one's just relatable for me. Way back when Yahoo opened a bunch of inactive email addresses for folks to sign up for, I grabbed a simple version of my initial and last name. It's just been unbelievable how many people with similar names are unaware enough to sign up for all sorts of sensitive stuff with that address, I've been getting any number of bank and credit card notifications/medical statements/PTA emails/online order confirmations/etc nearly weekly over almost a decade, it's just stupid. I wouldn't gently caress someone over like this, but I completely understand getting sick of other people's profound ineptitude.
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Lottery of Babylon posted:I'm not boomerbrained enough to even understand what OP is complaining about. They did not immediately defer to him as lord of their house. And, then, they gave him permission to watch TV as though he was not the one in charge.
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This is why using real names on the Internet is a mistake. Online identities should always be bespoke and better yet trademarked. Professional email addresses should be like weedstanker@jobname.com.
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Captain Hygiene posted:AITA for cancelling someone else's all inclusive hotel reservation? There's a dirtbag in Florida with my very uncommon name who started sending his spam to firstname.lastname@google.com, which is mine. So I did the mature, responsible thing, and would call in changes to his pizza orders and such. Just madman poo poo like "I want all the cheese, but only on half." It took like a week for him to gently caress off but he hasn't been back.
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Captain Hygiene posted:AITA for cancelling someone else's all inclusive hotel reservation? My gmail is my firstname.lastname@gmail.com (I signed up the moment I heard google was going to do email) and I have discovered a fair few firstname lastnames in the world that way. Yes, I get a surprising amount of sensitive stuff sent my way which I delete or if I don't think I am ever going to use that particular bank, block. Separate topic, I am learning French and it is just so hard the pronunciation, just so frustratingly difficult. I could speak basic Egyptian informal Arabic in a year but the best part of a decade trying to learn French and it is still so depressingly limited.
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Dr. Stab posted:They did not immediately defer to him as lord of their house. And, then, they gave him permission to watch TV as though he was not the one in charge. It's a lady, and she's one estranged pos
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I grew up taking French classes (until Grade 8 anyway) and surrounded by French and I can't manage to learn much more than 'sorry, I can't speak French, do you speak English?'
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teen witch posted:I learned Swedish at 25-26, though immersion and free classes helped immensely. Might start Finnish with my partner soon But if you start, when do you Finnish?
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