If the win is out of reach for me, I at least try and make them earn the rest of their victory. The more you make them have to actually work for it, the more they’ll enjoy the win. I guess I kinda think of it like a D&D game where I’m the DM: now my job is to facilitate the other player(s) having fun.
Either that or I’ll ask questions and try to learn, so I can come back stronger next time.
Their writing systems have their own cool histories. Japanese technically has 4 writing systems (kinda 5 if you count the original purely chinese-character based system). Korean used to have Hanja, a Chinese based system, but then some emperor just decided “nope, this sucks, I’m making a new thing”, and came up with hangul. Imo hangul is one of the coolest systems out there.
Baltic languages are awesome. I only wish I could master those case systems!
Chinese did influence a lot of east Asian languages, but it’s more like the relationship between Latin and English - lots of borrowing and influence, but it’s not an ancestor.
Linguistics. Did you know English and Bengali are related? They share an ancestor about 5000 years ago. Russian, Latin, Farsi, and Greek, and lots more are in that family too.
Do you know what languages are not related at all, absolutely 0% aside from borrowings, even though if you know a bit about em they seem like they should be? Japanese and Korean.
Not right now, but I will tomorrow I promise
So I noticed this in the user settings (at least here in Liftoff, not sure how it looks elsewhere), but you can set a “display name”. Seems like a cool feature.
Ever tried a bidet? I can never go back to just tp now. Thinking about getting a travel one too
Yup, exactly this for me too. Been done a thousand times before by companies like them. Plus the fact that the fediverse is not run by any company is just really nice - we don’t need them.
I definitely did. A lot of the communities I’m interested in are even smaller here, so I can actually post without just falling off the ‘new’ feed. Plus I’ve been commenting more too, and it seems like I’m not the only one. Got some local restaurant recommendations lol
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