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mrundkvist, to languagelearning
@mrundkvist@archaeo.social avatar

Y, most Anglophones will agree, is a consonant. Swedes however consider it a vowel for a complex set of reasons that will confuse Anglophones.

  1. Swedish doesn't have the 'dj' consonant sound in judge, jam, Jones.

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siljelb,
@siljelb@snabelen.no avatar

@mrundkvist @SimonRoyHughes thank you for leading me into the rabbit hole that is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_phonology 😅

forteller, to norge Norwegian
@forteller@tutoteket.no avatar

Arbeidet med å bygge fellesverkstedet for sykkel, hvor alle medlemmer kan komme innom når som helst og fikse egen sykkel med proft utstyr, og alle som vil kan komme på enkelte dager og få hjelp med reparasjonen, er igang!

Men innsamlingen er ikke i mål, og i dag er siste dag for å bidra. Jeg har aldri bodd i Bergen, men har gitt en slump, for dette er sånt vi trenger masse av overalt om vi skal ha en god framtid!

Håper du og vil bidra https://www.spleis.no/project/362702

siljelb,
@siljelb@snabelen.no avatar

@forteller er dette litt som et makerspace for syklister?

RL_Dane, to ADHD
@RL_Dane@fosstodon.org avatar

Day 1 of medication. Took my first dose not quite half an hour ago.

Kinda feel like I just had some strong caffeine. And this is a non-stim medication.

siljelb,
@siljelb@snabelen.no avatar

@RL_Dane hey, congrats on getting started! Hope it'll work out well for you! 😊

siljelb,
@siljelb@snabelen.no avatar

@RL_Dane it is rather wild! I started about a year ago, and it's crazy to think how dysfunctional I was before 🤯

damieng, (edited ) to random
@damieng@mastodon.social avatar

I've read a lot online about how "Y2K was overblown". As an engineer who worked like crazy in 1999 to correct our systems this drives me crazy.

Today I read about games going offline, watches getting frozen and airline tickets showing the wrong date.

Because of a leap year. Which happens every FOUR years (give or take).

Yeah Y2K was a one time thing. (Well at least until year 10000)

Isn't 2038 going to be fun.

siljelb,
@siljelb@snabelen.no avatar

@damieng are there any available overviews of what kinds of systems still in widespread use have the 2038 32-bit time issue? The Wikipedia article mentions embedded systems specifically, but are we talking about all cars, kettles and vacuum cleaners made before a certain date, or things like purpose made industrial machines?

siljelb, to Powershell Norwegian Bokmål
@siljelb@snabelen.no avatar

Asking the fediverse for help again: Is there a way to update an existing zip file by putting a file into a specific directory within the zip file?

siljelb,
@siljelb@snabelen.no avatar

@cjerrington thanks for the suggestion! I don't think the .net method is available in constrained language mode? What I've done till now is using the -Update switch, but I can't get it to put the file into the correct directory within the zip file; it just puts it into the root of the zip.

kristian, to random Norwegian Bokmål
@kristian@falk.cafe avatar

Jeg bad MidJourney om noen KI-genererte bilder av i fremtiden. Nærmere bestemt år 2500. Her er to av bildene.

Plausibelt? 🤷

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siljelb,
@siljelb@snabelen.no avatar

@kristian sånne fremtidsvisjoner, enten de er framstilt av maskiner eller mennesker, ser alltid for seg at ting skal byttes ut i mye større grad enn det som generelt er tilfelle. Med mindre det blir krig eller noe sånt da.

(bank i bordet)

tanketom, to random Norwegian Nynorsk
@tanketom@tutoteket.no avatar

@jostein spurte meg kva mitt mest boomerske trait var her om dagen.

Eg svarte at eg ikkje heilt klarar å ta folk som drikker databrus i staden for kaffi på alvor.

Det er irrasjonelt, og eg prøver å bli eit betre menneske, men det er no ein gong slik det er.

Kva er ditt?

siljelb,
@siljelb@snabelen.no avatar

@tanketom @jostein usikker på om det er boomersk eller bare unødvendig kverulerende, men jeg har en lei tendens til å påpeke at sukkerfri "energidrikk" ikke inneholder energi 🤷‍♀️🫣

siljelb,
@siljelb@snabelen.no avatar

@LarsFosdal @tanketom tok meg et par minutter før jeg skjønte at orgelbrus ikke var et kallenavn på en type sprudlende drikke 😆

siljelb,
@siljelb@snabelen.no avatar

@LarsFosdal @veronica @tanketom disse overgangsårene er jo ikke akkurat eksakt vitenskap. Selv plasseres jeg (født 1980) noen ganger i genx og noen ganger i millennials, men føler definitivt større tilhørighet med millennials 🤷‍♀️

siljelb, to random
@siljelb@snabelen.no avatar
siljelb,
@siljelb@snabelen.no avatar

@cmyrland vi hadde kurs i klarspråk på gamlejobben. Fikk beskjed om at jeg ikke kan ha parenteser i hver setning. Begynte med innskutte bisetninger, eventuelt veldig korte setninger, i stedet. Usikker på om det er mer forståelig.

siljelb,
@siljelb@snabelen.no avatar

@Jostein @gaski @cmyrland det er viktig å holde orden på rekkefølgen av innskutte setninger, samt å lukke alle parentesene sine. Derfor skal jeg nå begynne å skrive alle mine tekster med indentation 😆

sarajw, to random
@sarajw@front-end.social avatar

Want to know why Germany is protesting?

https://correctiv.org/en/top-stories/2024/01/15/secret-plan-against-germany/

"The scenarios sketched out in this hotel room in Potsdam all essentially boil down to one thing: people in Germany should be forcibly extradited if they have the wrong skin colour, the wrong parents, or aren’t sufficiently “assimilated” into German culture according to the standards of people like Sellner. Even if they have German citizenship."

siljelb,
@siljelb@snabelen.no avatar

@sarajw I'm counting on them coming for me and my family next (not being in Germany, but this sort of thing can happen anywhere):
✅ Queer
✅ Neurodivergent
✅ Haven't added any new taxpayers
✅ Have a foster son with an intellectual disability

mrundkvist, to linguistics
@mrundkvist@archaeo.social avatar

There's a place in Germany named Illertissen. This means "the ferret boob" in Swedish. Act accordingly.

siljelb,
@siljelb@snabelen.no avatar

@mrundkvist seriously? It's not the exact spelling (there's an 'r' too much), but in Norwegian it's close to "the bad pee-pee"

evacide, to random
@evacide@hachyderm.io avatar

Sometimes I think about how describing a man as "extremely divorced" and describing a woman as "extremely divorced" mean very different things.

siljelb,
@siljelb@snabelen.no avatar

@evacide what do they mean, respectively? Genuinely curious

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