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15·2 days agoFor near-native fluency, there is an age cap at around 10 years. It’s much harder for adults, as their critical learning period is closed: https://news.mit.edu/2018/cognitive-scientists-define-critical-period-learning-language-0501
However there is evidence that psychedelics can open up critical periods for social learning (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06204-3) and ongoing research about other critical periods, language learning being one of them.
Granted. You are born in the cleaning supplies storage room by one of the low-status staff members.
3·1 month agoIt’s the other way around … yellow is choleric and black is melancholic
What? C++ is definitely black bile and Cobol is definetly yellow bild.
3·1 month agoWhatever you do make it optional.
5·3 months agoNot reading all of that but
Gynephilia = attraction to female bodies
Androphilia = attraction to male bodies
Easiest solution: just reply
OK /Dad
to everything regardless of whether you read it or not
Hah, I didn’t have that particular one in my subscription list actually. Just a bunch of other ones.
Colemak-DH on a Corne (42, chocs).
Hello [email protected] :)
Been eyeing graphite though. Might make the switch over the summer when there is less workload.
Correct.
It’s quite the opposite. I’m realising more and more as I age, how important it is to be able to cooperate and be nice to others both on individual and societal levels.
Granted, some environments won’t allow for altruism without harming you (for instance, toxic workplaces where unselfishness will be taken advantage of). If I was in an environment like that I wouldn’t change my core values – I’d switch environments.
Can you play DOOM on the light switch?
“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense”
- Hanks (probably)
In properly formatted text, you use en dash for ranges.
En dash: 20–40
Hyphen: 20-40
Some (most?) modern text editors will substitute two hyphens with an en dash, so you can easily generate them by typing
--.(I get your point though! Just wanted to point out that there are much nicer and more appropriate glyphs than the hyphen.)
Morticia and Gomez Addams.
“Go fudge yourself” is linguistically intresting. With “fudge” being slang for feces, would you say “go fudge yourself” is closer to “go fuck yourself”, “go shit yourself”, or both (“go fuck yourself up the ass”)?
None. It’s like they’ve never really lived up to the hype and attending live music events has somehow always made me uncomfortable. Same with movie theatres.
The most immersive and impactful musical experiences I’ve had have been me sitting alone listening.
“Dump 100 average 10-year-olds in Spain and most will be able to reach near-native fluency without much effort. Dump 100 average 35-year-olds in Spain and most won’t reach near-native fluency without struggling a great deal.”
is NOT saying
“Having an accent is bad; only perfect pronunciation is good enough.”
“You need flawless grammar to be able to communicate.”
“Hard = impossible”
“There is no point in learning a language if you struggle.”
“35-year-olds shouldn’t even try.”
I got a bunch of downvotes for my comment. I guess you’re not the only one reading “it’s much harder” = “there is no point”. I did not say that. The article I linked did not say that. On the contrary, the article talks about hos the critical period seems to be longer than they previously thought.