Yeah i think just having experience with a different grammar at all forces you to be more flexible. When you only talk to other english speakers as a first language, the rules are somewhat rigid in the sense that everyone’s interpretation assumes your intent aligns with what is spoken. If that’s your only experience you might try to apply that assumption with non-native speakers. So I’m suggesting regardless of your knowledge of any particular other language, having learned some of any secondary language in practice forces you to re-evaluate the rigidity of those social rules and think more critically about what an English learner is trying to say.
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I wouldn’t expect Scandinavian countries to move much. Most of them learn it to fluency as part of primary education.
- England
- Ireland
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Bahamas
- Nigeria
- USA
Checks out.
I wonder what the numbers look like between English first language ‘with no second language experience’ versus ‘some or fluent post-childhood learning second language experience’. Because there are a lot of English only speakers.
I’ve been told im awful to practice English with because i just understand. But i have teen/adult learning experience with two other languages.
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11·7 days agoIndefensible argument, it’s literal murder.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Anti-AI people, did you ever like AI? If so, when did you stop?
3·7 days agoI’ve been a luddite since long before AI. AI is black box engineering. It’s a shield they can and do use to create a malicious product.
As you pointed out, the most obvious use case is reducing cost of labor regardless of whether total labor is reduced.
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11·7 days agoThey’re literally taking you literally and you’re literally upset. Literal batshit.
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4·7 days agoModern and cozy at the same time!
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1·7 days agoI’m not going to differentiate between Greek and Latin roots and I’m going to keep my freedom of interpretation from Latin thank you.
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1·7 days agoThe only sane pineapple take
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31·7 days agoAnd the Bri’ish accent was made up by fancy bois and was supposed to be a cool way to speak. It’s entirely artificial. So if some try-hard tries to criticize your English scream "Gubnuh!“ at then and tell them to go have a wank.
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10·7 days agoYou would hate my utilization of the karaoke stage.
but their many relationships are entirely performative. and they have built up their entire life as one big act.
Is precisely the part i disagree with if you’re going to generalize the way you did in your first reply. Hence talking about the experience even with honest meaningful deep non-performative relationships.
it means they are mentally ill.
Psychological health indeed impacts it, hence why i brought up depression and anxiety to name just two of many conditions that could contribute.
The wealth disease, on the other hand, is probably generalizable in the way you’re suggesting. I couldn’t really care it someone is sad about being ultra-wealthy. Maybe they should give it up and be a depressed laborer like the rest of us.
I’m more bothered by the hour and minute hands having the same length.
Edit: make the minute hand shorter to make it worse
This is an extremely reductive take based on anecdote.
There are a lot of reasons people can feel lonely. Hell you can even feel lonely when you have deep meaningful relationships. Sometimes it’s a result of anxiety or depression, or an abusive relationship.
Of course some people fall into the category you speak of too.
My anus is bleeding
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2·11 days agoI have found one use for it: getting information from behind login/paywalls.
It still feels gross to use AI at all though. It’s like putting my hand in toilet water.
The market flooding is a classic silicon valley strategy of free today charge tomorrow except they’re over invested in this one financially, in global supply for GPUs, and land with viable power infrastructure.




Human art, even when claimed to be AI, conveys emotion and connects with people through it. Generative images lack the expression of emotion, and so they are found lacking connection when compared to art from a human of even moderate skill.