western tankies denying Chinese imperialism towards Vietnam should try talking to 1 (one) Vietnamese communist and see what they have to say about it lmao

"i don't like the value judgment implied in 'that kid can't read so well'" AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Przerywamy nasz stały program, żeby podzielić się najświeższymi informacjami! Paulina Matysiak została dziś wyrzucona z Partii Razem.

The effects of the proposed cull of languages provision at the University of Nottingham and the University of Leicester will be massive: for the wonderful staff, for current students, and for future budding linguists. Esp those who, like me, come from working-class backgrounds in the East Midlands.

I did it as a challenge to myself because my uni professor said it would be impossible to translate, but my experience with video games helped. There's a lot of workarounds, like instead of saying "you were [gendered adjective]" you say "your face was [adjective]" etc.

it's very hard to do in Polish but not impossible, I had to do it when I used to translate video games like Fallout 2, where you can choose the gender of player character but we had to match English lines 1:1.

I'd change main narration to present tense, then verbs are not gendered, and when you need to use past tense or gendered adjectives etc. I'd still try to paraphrase as much as possible, use impersonal forms etc.

Cool. I remember reading something similar a long time ago (don’t remember what book) and I’ve always wondered how translators solve that for languages with gendered verb conjugation. How would you solve something like that, @ausir.bsky.social ?

Holy shit, the guy who invented the way that schools teach reading thinks that dyslexia doesn’t real and his evidence is “vibes”

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

and it seems like this intellectual tradition, the thinking about programming as a craft, and considering longevity, and outcomes (especially negative ones), has been replaced with nothing but tool choice

Never thought of that but I can see (not literally tho) how LSD might not work well on people with aphantasia

I also don’t have any kind of internal monologue and until very recently I thought it was just a metaphor, not a real narration people actually have in their head and then I was wtf I just think in… thoughts, not words or images most of the time

I have some visual memory, can visualize stuff I remember, but not visualize new stuff from scratch based oń description

After reading first Murderbot book recently I saw the TV show (1 season so far) and then read the rest of the books and I could visualize characters who are in the show while reading later books, but newly introduced characters remain faceless because I can *only* visualize from memory

"As a result, the strategies that struggling readers use to get by — memorizing words, using context to guess words, skipping words they don't know — are the strategies that many beginning readers are taught in school." that's...that's how you learn to read in a foreign language without a teacher

I'm glad this is not how I learned to read (I don't really know how exactly I learned how to read, allegedly as a three year old I kept asking parents what each letter means and then somehow learned to read on my own based on that? granted, Polish spelling is much more phonetic than English)

Space Jam is a bad movie because it stars the Looney Tunes when it should be about the Muppets. Way to fumble the ball.

⚠️ New paper! Why do words sound so similar? In an agent-based model + communication game, we show that production/comprehension pressures trade off to shape lexicon structure. In @cognitionjournal.bsky.social w/ @simonkirby.bsky.social & Jenny Culbertson. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I’d have Gonzo as Bond, Kermit as M (he’s best as theatre manager frustrated with hijinks of performers) and Honeydew as Q, testing his gadgets on Beaker

Bond, Kermit Bond is strapped to a golden table. A "laser" is creeping towards him. Bond says "Do you expect me to talk?" Goldfeather turns to Bond and says, "No Mr Bond, I expect to do a song and dance routine!"

This is baffling to me because quite clearly you just make another James Bond movie about James Bond that does the things James Bond movies do. Use the same actors, use different actors, use a mixture. Tell a new story, remake an old one. Nobody will bat an eyelid.

Kermit is M, Miss Piggy is Moneypenny, Bunsen Honeydew is Q

Bond is a muppet, the villain is human

According to the Star Trek Adventures RPG 2nd edition rulebook, Mae Jemison (first African American woman in space) was an inspiration for Uhura. IRL, Mae Jemison was herself inspired by Uhura (and later had a cameo on TNG). Quite a causality loop! #StarTrek

The Colour Out of Space

you should probably be fine if after 2043 you compile your own version of the Silmarillion from original JRRT fragments presented verbatim in History of Middle-earth, but Tolkien Estate might still claim copyright to the Christopher Tolkien-compiled version

Only the original version where Bilbo fairly wins the magic ring from Gollum by playing riddles will be in the public domain in the US in 2033, though, not the revised version matching LotR

I have to push back against this. We have at least two contemporary documents that referred to a Darth Vader, even if it is true that a few years after the death of Vader there was *another* lesser known proclaimed dark lord of the sith *also* named Vader

US-EU copyright law differences mean that The Hobbit will be in the public domain in the US before the EU but The Lord of the Rings will be in the public domain in the EU before the US

Note that this is the US public domain. Some of these are already public domain elsewhere, and some will not be for a while. Be sure to check local laws before putting a film into production based on your Miss Marple/Betty Boop slash.

Time to stop dooming over the shutdown deal and focus on what really matters: Pointlessly hostile left-coded Star Wars hot takes.

Is it only me or do new accounts added to blocklists remain unblocked now for anyone else? Has been happening at least since yesterday.

Oops and i forgot “in defence of a wealthy minorities undeserved grotesquely increased income”

Since January 2022, we (me, 93% Club & SS) have been working a project that tackles accent bias in Higher Education, focusing on the 'elite' institution where we're based. Today, we're launching the project website which brings together all our work: accentbias.ed.ac.uk

On this day, Dr. Manhatten first reappears after his atomized destruction in a lab accident. Happy November 10th to all who observe.

Everything could have been stopped long ago in 2014 if Ukraine had received immediate help, but the world chose WW3. Well…

My god this BBC criticism report is by a man who thinks professional wrestling is a genuine competitive sport.

This is your reminder that Alabuga advertises this program on twitter

Live your life in such a way that when you die people don't literally rise from the dead to shit on your grave.

Notable how many Americans define things as Protestantism that Luther and Calvin would have been competing to defenestrate people for.

This systemic deliberate Russian terror, year after year, generation after generation, country after country. The impact of all this on health and wellbeing… the scale of this, that has never been properly accounted for

Besides Star Trek, another long standing interest of mine is Mesoamerican history and archaeology. You wouldn’t think there are a lot of connections between the two, but there are a few! So I thought I’d write a short thread about them (apologies if you’ve seen it before on the other site)… 1/

in Poland gender ID is even part of the national ID number (it determines whether one of the digits is odd or even), and legal gender transition is the only way the number can change other than birthdate correction

Took a while because he first had to find the floppy he saved it on, then find a working floppy drive, and then convert it from Word 6.0 to docx, but it worked!

In 2011 as admin of the Fallout Wiki (then The Vault, now Nukapedia) I managed to contact the writer of the canceled 1998 #Fallout movie to see if he still has the unmade film treatment.

Jeszcze nawet rozumiem te próby dogadywania się z PiSem w sprawie budowania infrastruktury, nawet jeśli nadal uważam za głupie Ale Ziobro of all people? To tylko Papciowi Chmielowi na starość potrafię wybaczyć.

I really enjoyed reading this review. I wish it had mentioned Krasznahorkai's translators. George Szirtes translated The Melancholy of Resistance. I translated Herscht 07769, the book under review here. Even a simple byline at the top. 'Translated by...' It's important.+

Niniejszym deklaruję, że nawet jeśli jeszcze zagłosuję na #Razem, to jako na mniejsze zło. Nie wiem co chcieli wygrać wspierając tak obrzydliwego człowieka, rozumiem że wkalkulowali utratę zwolenników takich jak ja. OK, mam nadzieję że zyskali dużo więcej (ciekawe co - ale to już nie mój cyrk).

Ok, this is brilliant. Acknowledged.