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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•If you speak a language that has a formal 'you', when do you use it?
5·1 month agoIn ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada): ನೀನು (neenu) is the informal you and ನೀವು (neevu) is the formal you.
Pretty much all verbs can be conjugated into formal and informal variants with varying levels of respect indicated. And a ton of words have spoken and written variants - but let’s not get into that now.
Ex for verbs:
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“go”
- ಹೋಗಿ: hogi, gender neutral formal
- ಹೋಗು: hogu, gender neutral informal
- ಹೋಗೋ: hogo, male informal less respectful
- ಹೋಗೋಲೋ: hogolo, male disrespectful , almost like “fuck off dude”
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“stand up” is ನಿಂತುಕೊ (ninthuko, informal) or ನಿಂತುಕೊಳ್ಳಿ (ninthukolli, formal) etc.
Where I’m from, we use the formal variants when talking to pretty much anyone. The informal version is mostly used if you’re talking to friends, toddlers, or cousins (of your own age). The other use case for the informal versions is if you want to insult someone without swearing at them or using the completely disrespectful variants.
Rules change from one city to the next though, and there are regions where using the informal variants is the norm. This leads to some extremely confusing situations - the first time my girl friend met my parents, she addressed them using the informal you and they were shocked (till I jumped in and clarified) as they thought she was dissing them, but it’s just how people spoke in the city where she grew up. 🤷♂️
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I had to get a new battery for my OP6T after using it for over 5 years - exclusively charging it using the fast charger. I’m sure that I can get another 3 years out of this phone, at the very least.
The battery + replacement service fee was around 40 USD.
I don’t expect much more from the battery TBH.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How serious are you guys when you talk about punching nazis?
91·1 year agosolely for being nazis
At what point do you think it’s okay to punch a nazi?
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is your favourite open source software that you discovered in the past year, that you can no longer live without?
1·1 year agoI just checked out fWallet and it doesn’t support importing random PDFs so that’s a huge downside to me since a lot of events I attend only send a PDF with barcodes/QR codes.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are the best resources for getting started with hands-on electronics and robotics?
2·1 year agoAwesome, thanks!
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are the best resources for getting started with hands-on electronics and robotics?
2·1 year agoWhere does something like “use a DC motor to build a tiny little fan” stand, in terms of safety?
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are the best resources for getting started with hands-on electronics and robotics?
3·1 year agoThanks, fire safety concerns have definitely played a major role in why I haven’t actually started building stuff. I’ll keep this in mind.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are the best resources for getting started with hands-on electronics and robotics?
4·1 year agoWhat you said makes sense. To provide context for why I am/was looking for the exact opposite –
I have a long string of failed hobbies and junk accumulated from all the stuff I’ve bought for them. I carry a ton of guilt because of this.
I guess I’m too hesitant to buy parts and have them lying around if I don’t end up using them all if I abandon this too. That’s the reason why I was hoping to buy a fixed set of parts for specific projects so that way I can at least convince myself that I used it all at least once.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are the best resources for getting started with hands-on electronics and robotics?
3·1 year agoThanks for the helpful links. :)
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Should we stop splitting sports by gender and just let everybody compete together?
5·1 year agoA lot of sports don’t have a men’s tournament per se. It’s “women only” and “everyone allowed”. So women can almost always go participate in a “men’s” cricket match or whatever but they’re at such a severe disadvantage physically that they can’t get too far.
The only way to statistically (dis)prove all this is to repeat [this] (https://www.tennisnow.com/Blogs/NET-POSTS/November-2017-(1)/The-Man-Who-Beat-Venus-and-Serena-Back-to-Back.aspx) with a large enough sample set.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Can anyone name some mysteries in stories where the answer ended up delivering and was better than the mystery itself?
3·1 year agoAnd whatever you do, don’t watch the sequel. It’s quality is the exact opposite of the first movie.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Should we stop splitting sports by gender and just let everybody compete together?
29·1 year agodo you think every sport is about strength?
A lot has been written about why chess has separate tournaments for men and women despite physical strength not being a consideration for the game. Presumably, similar logic holds true for other non-physical-strength based games. I’d recommend you to look it up yourself, but the TL;DR (with some potential inaccuracies since it’s been some time since I read it all) is as follows.
Historically women weren’t even allowed to participate in chess tournaments because men considered them to be inferior and incapable of thinking as well as a man could. It was considered “ungentlemanly” to defeat a woman who “obviously” couldn’t keep up with men. This led to a cycle of women not even learning the game because why bother, eh?
Now the thing about games like chess is that you can definitely learn it at any age and master it. BUT - doing so at a very young age tends to give people a huge edge over someone who started later (all else being equal - memory, effort etc etc). So, the same person starting at age 4 who’d probably be level 9000 Goku by the time they are 23 might never get to that level if they only start at age 35.
So, when women were allowed to participate in chess tournaments, there were very few of them who had started at the right age and could hold their own. This led to a need for a women’s tournament to grow the sport.
How does that grow the sport? A little girl watching a woman on tv after winning a tournament might get inspired to pick it up. The girl might be able to point at the other women and tell her parents that she deserves to play chess too and that it’s not just for boys.
These gendered leagues also give a “safe space” for women to participate in communities where people of different genders interacting is frowned upon. Etc etc etc.
Please do fact check me by looking up things on your own though – it has been years since I went down this rabbit hole.
Please continue running your own blog. Don’t give some other company “free” content.
I hate that the entire modern internet is controlled by a few corporates.
The downsides to running your own blog are lack of technical knowledge/interest, and reduced monetization. Since you’ve already overcome the problem of technical knowledge, and you aren’t looking for monetization, please continue running your own blog.
As for visibility, maybe your could start sharing links on lemmy? Perhaps you could start a dedicated community of your own if you’re hesitant to post it on other existing communities.
Why can’t you just use a butterfly to manipulate bits like a normal adult?
Kids these days with their fancy pants editors. SMH.