Full stack web developer currently working mostly with #PHP / #Laravel, Vanilla #Javascript and #SCSS. Love learning more about (almost) anything, but particularly #MySQL and #InfoSec. Currently learning Arabic. Husband, father of two boys, Christian.
The more I’m trying to learn Arabic the more I’m becoming convinced that whoever came up with that script, did so with the express intention to mock learners.
How else can you explain that ج ح and خ all make very different sounds, whilst the sounds for ث and ط are essentially indistinguishable 🙄
And in case you were thinking this is an isolated case: faaaaar from it.
There are
ى and ا - different letter, same sound.
س and ص - different letter, same sound
ع and غ very different sounds
And my favourite: ذ د ز ر - four similar letters making different sounds
And these are just some selections.
Oh, and each letter looks completely different in a word, because Arabic is always written in a cursive font, where letters are connected to the letter in front and/or behind, sometimes changing the latter shape beyond recognition.
@loke oh, don’t worry. They do plenty of that in Arabic too! Whilst each letter has their nominal sound, once you add them to a word all bets are off. Especially because they tend to omit most vowels in writing it’s literally a matter of guessing how a word is pronounced … @skribe
@skribe yeah, in Arabic these are literally different languages, with completely different vocabulary. So effectively I’m learning two languages in parallel at the moment 😬@loke
@skribe for written Arabic: whatever Duolingo is offering. Sadly they don’t specify. For spoken I’m learning Egyptian Arabic, as my wife is Egyptian. @loke
I’ve just spent quite way too much time scratching my head today thinking ‘I swear doing request()->route('param') used to get me the full model. Why is it only getting me a string now?!
Ugh, #microsoft blocked my wife's account for "compliance reasons". This happened as we added the Office 365 minutes into Skype.
We've had a ticket open for more than a month without any progress, and it’s impossible to get connected to them in any way (they don't respond the emails either).
Does anybody know how to get in touch with the "Microsoft Account Safety" team? we have our family pictures on OneDrive (including our kid's last birthday) and it's a distressing situation for our family.
Unfortunately, I don't think I have enough writing chops to make it to the top of HN :S
@g3rv4 ps one of the main disadvantages to Hetzner is ultimately that you can’t get video thumbnails. It’s simply impossible, which is a really big shame.
They wouldn’t tell us much, but they left after about 30 min without patient. So … I’m not sure what to think… either the person is dead or it wasn’t as serious? 😬
I would like to add my Mastodon instance to my browsers search engines list. Interestingly, Miskey and Sharkey and some other federated platforms I've been to are already added.
I'm getting great results for content from my Mastodon search than Google and Bing, + no ads, and tracking.
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