mtchristo @ mtchristo @lemm.ee

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We only refer to MSA when talking about Arabic. Most Arab speakers consider dialects side languages to Classical Arabic. They have never had a transcription throughoutout history. People started writing in their dialects only recently with the arrival of SMS and the internet.

I get that as a new comer to Arabic you probably have come across learning materials for dialects like Egyptian and levantine. But in reality you won't find uni courses for those dialects because academics don't consider them to be proper languages with clear grammar and an established vocabulary.

Languages with phonetic writing in the modern day likely achieved that through a language standardization process that included spelling reforms.

Not Arabic. It is pronounced as it is written. Except a handful of words that have a different transcription to make them easily distinguishable.

Those women don't deserve you. Live your life for your own enjoyment. But keeping a healthy weight is important to enjoy your later life.

Aren't apps on android hermetically sealed from other apps and malware. How could this be achieved ?

I struggle to make my mum take my advice about subjects of my field of expertise for which I had spent 5 cruel years at Uni. So I am at peace now not being able to make my point across the internet.

This makes sense as there still billions of other potential users around the world. Add to that the fact that other nations like content of their own cultures in their own languages. It means even if they will feel the change the platform won't collapse because it is missing US users. Now If other countries follow in the US footsteps then it becomes a different story.

The problem with Lemmy and with reddit too. Is that conversations Die off or stale too quickly. Reason being most engagement happens with older more upvoted comments. And newer contributions don't benefit from the same exposure. Which doesn't give much incentives for people to comment. Which in return deplets the platform of its userbase. Lemmy apps should ship with viewing newer comments by default to combat this. And Lemmy users should also change this setting in their apps.

I struggle to comprehend how people were paid to design this demagoguery.

To be honest. The last picture looks too sterile and lacking character. And The shops have become transparent.

But most importantly it has the mark of an elitist urban designer who goes everywhere by car and doesn't really use the spaces they design, otherwise they would have never missed to provide benches for walking people to rest. Especially the elderly and the obese.

Shawarma sandwich

Linux Mint is king. The rest are imposters 🤪

The send of novelty and usefulness that came with the use of the internet. Especially with things like messengers. Irc. Forums and online multiplayer games.

With about a thousand new daily sign ups to mastodon it feels like it is going back to its rapid degrowth that it has been on before the Twitter debacle.

Some teachers deserve all the good in the world.

Shouldn't the sea lion be afraid of bigger fish?. Of does sunfish have a reputation among bikini bottom inhabitants

It is headed the way of quora. Where almost every response is a marketing post. Those who stayed on reddit aren't bothered by this anyways.

I know I shouldn't dunk on free software. But I have never been frustrated by a software before like I was with blender. Everything seems half developed. And I always need hacks I never knew I needed to complete the smallest of projects. Modeling tools are half finished.

Like try to snap the knife tool to the midpoint of an edge? no luck. Try to constrain the knife direction to one of the vertex directions ? No luck. Try to make the curve profile width consistent in 3d? no luck . do proper precision modeling ? Impossible . snapping in unreliable half of the time. and on and on and on .

I am very grateful for the free software and the devs hard work. I bet trying to make blender do many things at once keeps it in a state with many unfinished tools .

Isn't it the case with western Europe. Like don't most British people who don't have mixed origins speak only English. Or nearly hold onto what they have been taught at school

Monté Christo was quite skillful.

All you need is salt to make them taste like sea bugs.