throwaway41968

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by throwaway41968 7y ago
>But you were originally stating that subjunctive in French lost its semantic value. Now you making it narrow and added "compared to Spanish". I said almost lost , and I'm choosing to believe out of charity that you didn&
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
>That’s definitely not true, and what follows is thus complete bs sorry. Where does this come from to begin with? Alright I have my trusty Grammaire espagnole (Beschrelle) at hand, and here are the differences in use of the subjunctive
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
Except the subjunctive almost completely lost its initial semantic value of expressing the hypothetical or fictious in French, and in most cases has been replaced by the indicative. (Contrast with languages like Italian or Spanish that did
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
The way you learn as an adult is very different from the way you learn as a child. There's nothing compelling about kid shows. I don't know what drives your efforts to learn a language but, mine are about having access to interes
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
>I noticed that most of native speakers of any language are not that good actually in their mother tongue. That doesn't make any sense. Maybe they're not good according to the normative institutions attempting to control the l
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
> The future perfect is very much used both orally The past conditional, maybe. The future, really? Do you actually say things like nous nous verrons demain or il l'aura fait avant in casual speech? Well I don't know if yo
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
No one would bat an eye if you used crédits instead of bons in that context, nor would anyone do so if they said s'inscrire à une salle de sport instead of s'inscrire dans une salle de sport . Maybe they're gramaticall
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
Like most complex interactions in life, it really comes down to just feeling when the time's more appropriate. Sometimes people explicitly ask you to correct what they just said ("was that right?"), sometimes they halt in t
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
Couple remarks on the author's alleged "weaknesses": >Understand strongly accented speech. I understand essentially all the “standard” French without subtitles, but very little of the Quebecois. Most European French speake
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
Yeah basically half the "mistakes" in that text aren't even wrong. I mean perhaps some annoyingly pedant French teacher, grammarian or Académicien would find something to say about things like using à une salle de sport vs
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
I don't think genetic means what you think it does. In the field of genetics , a trait is said to be genetic when a genetic mechanism has been identified leading to the expression of that trait. Please, tell me more about the ge
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
Ah yes, the famously identified "career women" and "divorcee" genes with well-known genetic pathways.
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
I don't get this comment. Subjectively, how am I supposed to justify that I find PUA crap repulsive? I just do. Objectively, how am I supposed to prove that it's of any use when literal billions of people live happy relationships
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
At what age should one be exposed to different cultures at all so they learn that everything they've experienced so far isn't an absolute constant of human nature? Pretty early I'd say.
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
>Women are encouraged to not disclose their sexual history to partners or have sex too soon because they believe no man would ever love a woman who has sex quickly. >they do not support consensual BDSM, viewing porn, or having sex bef
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
Absolutely not. There's no clear, ambiguous definition of "species" that does not have counter-intuitive implications. No, the classic "fertile over two generation" thing you learn in high school doesn't cut it
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
...there are people who thought it was?
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
Your points are sound, but I'm puzzled by your last line: >It's really only Google and Facebook that get the vitriol. The way I read it, it seems as though it's unfair that they get away with doing questionable stuff when
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
Lol idk what your experience is but mine is that verlan has basically permeated all casual conversations among everyone under 40. I guess you'd look a bit odd if you hung around the kind of people who take pride in not using any of tha
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
Verlan has gone into common use by all strata of the general population, not just immigrants. It's been the case for 50+ years. It's much decried by the usual suspects like the Académie and whatnot but the truth is that everyone u
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
Bet you $500 it won't.
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
A few things: -It's basically a HBD blog. HBD proponents love to pretend they're doing "science" by posting huge walls of texts that masquerade as papers but would be thrown out of any respectable peer-reviewed popgen jo
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
Doing a bunch of point mutations that "look" like a normal evolutionary process seems awfully expensive just to engineer a virus that's less threatening than, you know, the flu.
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
>The amount of pseudoscience being peddled for attention or thrills in these threads is getting really worrying to me, I had expected something totally different from this community. :/ HN is good when it comes to technology, and th
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
While Taleb himself is kind of an asshole an endearing thing about him (to me at least) is that he pisses off bigger assholes and doesn't pull his punches when calling them out on their quackery. See e.g. the whole IQ debacle. Regardle
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
But we don't want cheaper Tesla vehicles. We don't want mass surveillance tools that masquerade as US technology. We don't want poor people to eat chemical-soaked chicken. It may surprise you but not everyone gapes in awe at
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
This is why using Gaussian models to predict something that's fundamentally fat-tailed (e.g. IQ vs. many forms of societal achievemnt) is doomed to failure.
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
Also give the woman in Kazakhstan behind it the peace Nobel price.
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
Oh no, who will think of the poor journal editors' profit margins? Sarcasm aside, that title is waaaay loaded. It sort of insinuates sci-hub users are the burden and not the journals.
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by throwaway41968 7y ago
There are only marginal benefits to Duolingo plus that can't be obtained with a proper adblocker. Many people who choose to subscribe admit they only do so to support the company.

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