tiredofsametab @ tiredofsametab @kbin.social

Canadian-American software developer living in Japan since 2015. Into garde

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Yeah, we can do it in Japanese. Particles change. Passive voice and subjunctive mood can also be done without too much trouble.

Huh, I didn't even know this as someone born and raised in the US. I do say "no problem" or "no worries" a lot more than "you're welcome" these days, but I do tend to use the latter in more formal situations. I do think an "mmhmm" might strike me as cold or condescending. Then again, I've been out of the country for the better part of a decade now.

As soon as I stop hiccoughing and cut this bough

Yeah, German has that as does English. Host vs Hostess, Actor vs Actress, etc. There is a push to only use the male word (I've never seen it go the other way). What a lot of people don't know is that surnames also preserve things like this. Brewer was a male brewer but Brewster was a female one.

No, instead you have to learn to read and spell in a system that often sounds quite different to what is written. I want to read a book that's never been read. I want to live a life alive at a live show. Anything ending in ough which has something like 6 or 8 different sounds. I'm a native speaker trying to work with my wife on English (we speak Japanese at home). It's insane for any reading/spelling.

A lot of people will upvote anything on a list without even looking at the community or considering the relevance of the post to that community (/all, /subs, /new, etc.)

That's certainly an issue that also needs solving.

that unfortunately makes sense: school sports after class

I disagree that it makes sense. Get the sports out of the school system entirely and have them be community-based or similar. I think that should apply that to most extracurriculars. I participated in sports, band, theatre, etc. so it's not like I just hated it (I would argue that art, band, choir, gym, etc. are still good to have in the curricula of schools, just not the traditionally after-school part).

eh, n=2 isn't enough to make me worried.

Why get paid in cash to buy food, rent, etc. when you can be paid in exposure economy!

I did, too, until my early 40s when it caused a wicket wicked ear infection. Tiny pieces of cotton, like threads, eventually built up over time. I ended up with a fungal ear infection that had me in pain and dizzy for weeks. I was very close to having my eardrum burst. Never again. It was really hard to break the habit of using qtips, but it's fine now; ears are self-cleaning.

Reddit (only subs related to living in Japan since those didn't migrate here), kbin/lemmy, fark (though I almost never comment anymore), and an old-fashioned forum/bulletin board (more stuff related to living in Japan).

Edit: and I guess YouTube? 99% of the time, I'm watching from my TV which doesn't have comments or anything.

Ah yes, because the alternative, a racist guy who does Muslim bans, is going to be so much better. In the first-past-the-post, electoral college US, that's all you're going to get.

I'd love to take a slow (presumably more environmentally friendly) flight like that. Limited vacation time is the only issue.

I don't think he can be in a relationship with god. Assuming protestant, and often evangelical, there's a trinity of which Jesus is part and whom they consider too woke

I think so. That's what I meant to search for, anyway.

Entire movie needs to be with this guy from my childhood. I shall accept nothing less.

七 is for amateurs. 柒 is where it's at.

This post spurred me to see if Rift were still a thing; apparently it is! I got in quite early when it was still unfinished and played it well after launch. They ended up doing a pretty big overhaul at some point and that's roughly when I got out as I didn't want to have to figure things out again. I may pick it back up. I have no idea what the playerbase (or the actual game these days) is like, though.

In my opinion, licensed adult is not the same as professional instructor

Oh, definitely. I just added that in case anyone reading thought it meant they could just start driving on their own or something.