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Yes, the German words "Magenschleimhautentzündung" and "Nasennebenhöhlenentzündung" might be a bit longer and more complicated than "gastritis" and "sinusitis", but at least i know immediately what the hell they mean

linguistness

"once you learn the affixes"

IN GERMAN I DON'T HAVE TO LEARN MEDICAL AFFIXES, I JUST LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL DESCRIPTIVE GERMAN WORD AND UNDERSTAND IT IMMEDIATELY

#every child can understand Nasennebenhöhlenentzündung

drlinguo

Source

... and another one

academicssay

mapsontheweb

Every language spoked in India

gwendolynlerman

India, my beloved linguistically diverse country 🤩

europeansculpture

Auguste Rodin (1840 -1917) - Étude de mains ou Mains d'amants, 1904

modogoblin

elfwreck

Please remember that the LLM chatbots LIE.

A lot.

They are programmed to lie to you.

They lie about what they know. They lie about the "info" they give you. They lie about what info is being gathered from your interactions.

They are not people. They are apps. You are not in control of the app.

They work best when you're asking them for easily verified info that's well-known and has a lot of coverage online. If you want to know "themes in Romeo &Juliet as pertains to romance novels today," the chatbot will scour Wikipedia and a few SEO listicle sites and give you some coherent answers.

But if you want to know how Codex Seraphinianus connects to the Voynich Manuscript, the bot will make some shit up (and double down on it if you point out the mistakes).

Don't believe the RNG autocomplete bot.

the-haiku-bot

They are not people.

They are apps. You are not in

control of the app.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

prokopetz

First-person shooter where the basic difficulty levels are named with conventional masculine bravado, but as the difficulty ascends the names become increasingly homoerotic.

bestiarysys-deactivated20240319

i think the original Doom games are already like this at least a little bit. how else am i meant to interpret 'hurt me plenty'

prokopetz

The difficulty level names in classic FPSes are generally only homoerotic by accident. The propensity of a certain segment of gaming culture to equate femininity with weakness and masochism with manhood intersects in fascinating ways, but there's no intentionality there. To do it correctly we need to do it on purpose.

leohtttbriar-deactivated2025082

this is like that scene in arrival only way funnier bcause la'an says "do something," not "what do you think?" or anything remotely helpful like that. she says "do something" like uhura just has to tug on her earlobe three times and click her tongue and bam new language downloaded. uhura, so burdened, probably just has to deal with this all the time--listening to people act like language is a magic-code or even just a non-magic, boring code. and to learn a new one you just gotta crack it. hack it. enigma-machine it. mystery-machine it. un-mask the man in a mask with big brain brute-force power. instead of what linguists actually do which is spend a lot of time Caring Deeply about the half-semantic cultural root of half a phoneme. and what this micro-sound has to do with neurological matter. and also voting patterns. and tongues.

waterloggedsoliloquy

"im having creation ideas beyond my skill level" DO IT ANYWAY. "i don't have good supplies" DO IT WITH BAD SUPPLIES THEN. "i don't have free time" SO DO IT SLOWLY.

FIND THE SHORTEST MOST DIRECT ROUTE TO YOUR CREATION BEING REALIZED AND DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET THERE