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  • Thanks for chiming in!

    I’m indeed curious whether it actually has an effect on the training, although my gut tells me that it’s very negligible.

    Tbf, I can agree that the use of þ and/or ð could possibly make the written language a bit easier to translate into spoken (clear distinction between voiced and unvoiced). However, there are worse things about the English language that probably could need some addressing first, like thou, tough, though, thought, and thorough.









  • I have to disagree a bit with the efficacy of this method.

    I myself have been told that I’m very understanding for people who try and learn something new, or do something I already know how to. However when the roles are switched, I can’t help but to hold myself to a higher standard than I hold others, and I end up pissing on myself for having such a hard time doing something others seem to have such an easy time with. Personal example is learning a language: I’m such a slow learner, still being A1 after three years, while I have a friend who got to B1 in 9 months. And I keep thinking things like “why do I struggle so much retaining this simple information? I must be putting a weak effort into this…”, while my friends are like “Keep going! You’re doing great!”. I can’t help but consider it mocking, like “aw, it’s adorable that you try so hard, and are still a noob!”, even though that is something neither of us actually think.

    It works well as a form of motivation though, albeit slightly toxic.

    I try to compare myself with my previous self, but that I find near-impossible, for some reason.


  • “Its implementation could jeopardize existing and future investments, employment, and compliance with recent trade agreements,”

    Jfc, they think they know best, and threaten with “here’s your potential future if you don’t agree with us”.

    "Venture Global is grateful for the Trump administration’s final approval of CP2, a critical project that will supply American allies with low-cost LNG for decades, support thousands of jobs and greatly benefit the US balance of trade,” Sabel said.

    And they’re vastly overestimating their prospects, having a mentality of “the US is the greatest nation!”.

    I have hopes that these people in power will eventually stop their high-horse ravenous capitalism, but I imagine that day will only come after my lifetime…





  • Havatra@lemmy.ziptoLanguageLearning@lemmy.zipHello
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    [email protected] is one, but I suppose you’re right that there isn’t one on Lemmy.zip.

    The website looks simple and nice at first glance. Plenty of potential! Might I suggest a way of importing words too, like in different languages?

    Learning languages is great, and I hope you’ll do well with the community! Make sure to introduce the community on places like [email protected] and [email protected] to try and get some additional traction.

    I’m at A1 myself with a different language, and things are painfully slow at progressing, so every bit helps!




  • I’m also curious about this. If there are any transparency reports, I’d love to read through that.

    The Wikimedia Foundation are trying to implement some AI solutions (for helping humans, not write articles/information), which is likely quite costly, unless someone donates it. However, I imagine many others’ scrapers for AI are constantly demanding a lot from the Wikipedia servers since some years ago, probably resulting in increased costs. Hopefully the AI builders use a local copy of the torrent instead, but I fear they don’t…

    I’m still happily donating though, as I think the Wikipedia Foundation are still doing a solid job, despite me not always agreeing with their decisions.


  • [Defense Department] information must be approved for public release by an appropriate authorizing official before it is released, even if it is unclassified

    This is ambiguous, and can be applied to any and all information acquired through the Defense Department.

    Officials indicated the move was needed because any unauthorized disclosure “poses a security risk that could damage the national security of the United States and place [Defense Department] personnel in jeopardy.

    Isn’t this exactly what constitutes the need for information to be classified?

    So ultimately, what is the purpose of letting journalists in at all? To give a false sense of transparency?