DominicO

dear god is touhou gonna hijack lemmy now too?

me speaking in morse code

in my language we have one pronoun for all genders(siya). it just morphs depending on context(siya/sila/niya/nila).

what if... the US invasion of Iraq and Saudi censorship of the press can both be bad?

yeah but in this context it isn't. I'm just saying, if people want to protest the site's changes, it's better for them to protest within the site itself rather going somewhere else and disturbing people there.

I didn't say it was?

I find it interesting how gendered German is. In contrast, in my language the default for a word is gender neutral. you have to state the gender if you want to specify it, and you only do that if the gender is relevant e.g. "the driver handed me my change" would be "inabot sakin ng tsuper yung sukli ko", but if you said "inabot sakin ng babaeng tsuper yung sukli ko" which means "the female driver handed me my change" then that means the gender of the driver is of relevance to the conversation.

an exception I can think of is spanish loanwords like "tindero/tindera" which is more commonly used to refer to shopkeepers and vendors here. we also use "ate/kuya"(sister/brother) when we talk to strangers e.g. "kuya alam nyo po kung saan yung pinakamalapit na sakayan ng dyip?" meaning "excuse me sir, do you know where the nearest jeepney terminal is?".

overall, I find it interesting to look into languages with different ways of using things that seem complicated to me. really makes me think what "foreigners" might think is complicated in my language that I take for granted.

you criticize society... but you participate in society... curious

chatGPT doesn't chastize me like a drill instructor whenever I ask it coding problems.

my language doesn't have gendered pronouns so we just use "siya" for singular they and "sila" for plural.

I'm curious what other languages specify if "they" is singular or plural and how?

wasn't there an anti-communist post that got like 1k+ here? the counter post to it got less I think. I think you just need to go to the right communities man, it's a vast world out there

science bless us all