The irony of someone named Soggy telling me about data preservation on paper is wonderful.
It’s not even really the change, it’s the rate of change. We are accelerating towards mutually unintelligible dialects at an outstanding rate, and at the same time do-nothing linguistic graduates are pleased to denigrate the idea of at least having a single widely-understood vocabulary so that a Malaysian can speak to a Scotsman without having to carry a dictionary.
For me it’s adjective/superlative escalation. Hey, this bagel is awesome. It fills me with awe. It’s much better than this soda which is terrible, it strikes me with terror how bad it is. It results in having to throw in intensifiers, which we’re exhausting as well. Wow this movie is so fucking good. It was worth leaving the house for.
I’ve also been both a second language teacher and second language learner. It is really hard to teach a language where 50% of the words are culture dependent and old texts are completely irrelevant. It’s very hard to learn simple language and be told it’s wrong now.
People talk about descriptivist drift like it’s 100% inevitable or even good, ignoring that we have finally reached an era of long term preservation of text and speech, and of global communication. We could be the first generation to be understood plainly for millenia. And what we are deciding to do instead is to make language from 100 years ago sound like Chaucer.
How many times are we allowed to post articles about this tiny bit of stolen Danish swampland changing to LibreOffice?
Everything else is “a hack” in the sense that it is literally just the way to get Jellyfin working outside your network too.
Remote access via their servers.
Sounds don’t fossilise so we can’t be sure
Cicero lived in the Roman Republic
I’m beginning to think memes aren’t real?
You keep hearing about the same 3 german states moving to LibreOffice. That’s not quite the same thing.
Lollipop Chainsaw RePopped
It’s so silly
I appreciate your admission that there would be some bugs but the no comment cult took your input and made it the nominee voice to disagree with me. Anyway, here’s the incredible list of bugs this release caused, many of them install-breaking.
Ok buddy for that I’m naming my next distro Squirrel
Particularly if they are releasing so many small changes. This is a nonsensical change log and really shows the difference in maturity between this and other projects. Releasing lots of small changes all in one release is a bad idea. This should have been a major version release or 3 patch releases.
Edit: I have angered the Jellyfiles
Are you aware that more than one country exists?
Just so we’re clear, you’re proposing UBI as a solution to a global website showing ads
I mean these were quite literally nomadic cow-herding tribes acting independently and frequently fighting each other even across the sea so “imperial” is a bit rich.
Probably a much better comparison to the Vikings who did something similar: individual gangs raided British coastlines and then eventually began to settle there. Except the Gaels/Scotii did it during Roman times, the Vikings later.
Both are Irish. Ó means “of” or “from”, and sometimes is interpreted as a looser association with a clann (family).
Scottish is Irish. Gaelic peoples settled Western Scotland from Ireland. Literally the word “Scot” used to mean “Irish”.
lol look at this guy still thinking in terms of “the crime comes first”.
You arrest the dissident, then choose which ‘law’ they’ve broken. Don’t worry about the details. ‘Who is responsible’? The guy you just arrested. Duh.
100% of Irish people can speak English and do so without sounding as ridiculous as the Dutch do.
Sure it is. Short and straight.
Go on, lecture an Irish person about cultural genocide. I so wish we had a culture but we don’t speak Irish anymore so of course we are a grey blob that nobody would recognise as distinct anymore 😪
Edit: downvote and run when “we just observe 💛” college rhetoric meets physical reality.
The reason most Americsn linguistics students equate language and culture is because a foreign language is the only different culture they’ve ever been exposed to.