fibojoly @ fibojoly @sh.itjust.works

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I just describe it as "bilingual level", because fluent is often used but can represent a range of levels depending on how demanding you are.

For me, fluent is what I'd describe someone who's studied well and can live only speaking the target language. They may have a crappy accent, make mistakes but they know they can express their ideas and be understood and generally don't search for words.

I'd use "native level", but that can be a bit misleading too.

And so, that's why we have exams/diploma with levels and such.
If someone tells you they have a C2 level diploma in French, I assure you that their command of French is worthy of respect even for a native French person.

If I tell you I have HSK3/4 even in Chinese, you know I'm nowhere near fluency, despite how well I can fake it with what little I do know! :P

Do those people count "one, two, many, lots"?

So succinct, yet so appropriate 👌

Asshole in the Middle?

Says the person who's never had a baby, clearly.

Didn't want it in Opera, don't want it in Firefox. I mean they can keep trying and I'll just keep on ignoring this shit :/

Only for a few seconds. And he's not even boiling. After that he's fine.

That makes sense. A lot of difficult conversations have been had in bed, while looking at the ceiling or cuddling or in the dark altogether.

High INT / low WIS. Classic combo.

Imagine not knowing what "big naturals" means, and calling people retarded over it. It doesn't make you sound like a grown up, you know.

Locals cared, obviously.

Do you realise how fucking regulated alcohol making and indeed, any sort of food or beverage making is in Europe? This sort of shit only happens in countries where you have a deadly mixture of ignorance, poverty and corruption.

Farmers in rural France know you throw away the first part of the moonshine because it's the part that makes you go blind, for example. And it's precisely to prevent any sort of accidental mishaps they ended up forbidding the making of it anyway (it used to be allowed for cattle farmers, iirc). Although I believe they rolled back that one, what with the explosion of microbreweriea and such. Also if it's legal can tax it.

Migros, in Switzerland. Literally a non profit chain of supermarkets. It can happen.

That second animation with the guy casting twenty thousand magic missiles to destroy one dude is fucking pathetic. I mean, the animation is fine, but I wish magic was a bit more awe inspiring...

I vividly remember a downloaded game telling me they had run out of available licences, once. Can't remember exactly, but I'm pretty certain it was on Steam. How you run out of numbers still rascals me, all these years later. And I say this as a software dev.

Left the --hardcore compile option on. Easy mistake.

I once landed a job at a small company doing a software for medical analysis labs all over the country. Software had been around for over ten years at this point. They had no source control. Nothing. Absolute nightmare.
They were literally starting to use source control when I arrived.
In 2015.

Or Jazz RTC. That one was fun.

It's not about knowing. It's about appreciating.

Not if you want that thing that everyone is on about. Don't you want to be in with the crowd?! /s