I have no idea what you’re talking about. Throne room? Emperor with Luke and Vader? Jabba part?

RotJ?

Are you trying to push that silly 4chan conspiracy theory that there were movies after The Empire Strikes Back?

Look, I get it. Everybody wanted to see how things would turn out after the downer ending of Empire, but it just didn’t happen. You don’t have to hallucinate a hundred more movies like some kind of prehistoric LLM!

🤭

And it shows in your death rate.

Wuhan, Hubei, China.

My nick-knacks cupboard is a total mess: overfilled and has things just hastily tossed into it to the point that opening it guarantees that something will fall out onto you. I’ve been meaning to empty it and refill it in an orderly fashion, perhaps added dividers and bins as appropriate to help keep it organized.

For twelve years.

This is something I could literally do in an afternoon of light labour, but I haven’t.

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You use tones all the time. It’s just that you call it “intonation” and it’s at the semantic level of the language. In the various tonal languages (most of them in the Chinese family) they’re part of the lexis and called “tones”.

The difficulty isn’t in pronouncing them. Trust me, you pronounce the four tones of Mandarin ALL THE TIME when speaking English. The difficulty lies in the fact you’re using them for radically different purposes and this is screwing up the wiring in your head.

Your takeaway from this is that I was commenting on standardization?

Weird.

Unsurprising, but weird.

Yeah, it’s a pretty simple language, though you have to be VERY aware of context or you lose the thread rapidly.

I appreciate how information dense it is, though, if you’re paying attention.

I know.

The rest of the bullshit is what I’m talking about.

At any rate you show no signs of knowing how to actually converse, so goodbye.

Are you having an aneurysm? Or are you a malfunctioning LLM responding randomly to posts or something? This is the second time you’ve replied to me and in both cases what you responded with was a) incoherent, and b) not actually relevant to what you’re responding to.

What the fuck are you on about? Are we playing a game of Non Sequitur? If we are, here’s my turn:

I’ve got new socks on.

You got it. I’m waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too lazy to do it right!

The “right one” is to stop treating it as a “single issue” matter and dismissing literally decades of education research.

Maybe go read a modern textbook on education and see what issues there are, what the research on the subject says, and derive from that some conclusions about any “single issue” approach to education (whether it’s “TEHY JUST NEED MORE JEEBUS!” or “we should throw everything out and replace it with reading”).

So the “right one” is to shut the fuck up if you think there’s a one-size-fits-all approach to education. Kind of like if you think there’s a one-size-fits-all approach to anything. Even carpentry.

It has no declensions (tenses, aspects, moods, voices, grammatical number), no word forms and a purely-positional grammar.

So, no. It’s not even slightly close to German grammar.

Chinese languages are dirt simple … unless you want to read or write them. 🤣

Also those who haven’t become stars.

Sex work is work.

Spellynge and gramere ben of greet importaunce.

At the leeste, assayeth to doon it wel.

Save speche with folk, it is the manere whereby we commune with othere. It may be in craft (that is, professional wise), or in lightnesse (casually), or with felawes and frendes. With frendes, men mowe be ful unceremonious, and yif it be thy wone, thou mightest strowe thy writ with signes and ymages (emojis). Natheless, in casual wise, eek in writen wordes upon the net, folk oughten first to usen more formal stile, til they han y-espied the mood of the compaignye.

In matters of craft and office, ther is noon excusacioun; I care nat how “brighte” a man is holden, ne sholde he have licence for what-so-ever slouthe cometh doun the email weye (save his wit be y-joined with som sothfast diversitee of wit, as neurodivergence or swich). The vile writ that I have seen y-come from “professionals” is naught but shameful.

I mean if you’re using modern English you’re using hundreds of years of accumulated error.

(Be glad I only reached back to Middle English. Nobody wants to see what Old English looks like for this. What’s that? You do?)

Stæfcræft and stæfgewritnes sind swiðe mære.

At læste, wyrc þu þæt wel.

Būtan spræce mid folce, is þæt þæt we mid oðrum sprecath and dōð. Hit mæg beon on cræfte (þæt is, on weorce), oððe on lætlicum wisan, oððe mid frēondum. Mid frēondum mæg man beon untrum and spedig, and gif hit is þīn gewuna, þu miht asettan hīehte-tācn (emojis) swā hit þē licað. Ac on lætlicum wisan, eac on netgewritum, scyle man fremian þæt he brūce māre stiðre gewrit, oð þæt he ongyte hū þæt folc þearf hæfð.

On cræftum and weorcum is nænne forlætenes; ic ne gymð hu “glēaw” sum mann sy, ne sceal he hæbban forlætenes for swelc slæwð þæt cymð þurh þā e-mail weg (butan þæt glēawnes sy gemæne mid sōðfæstum mōdlicum ungelīcnesse, swā swā ānra gehwilc hæfð). Þæt yfel gewrit þe ic geseah of sumum “cræftum menn” is nāht būtan sceamu.

Ah. My apologies. I’ve heard so many people using that line about the cabal to explain why I should be using Linux that I mistakenly attached you to that. 🤣

One of many reasons I don’t trust “EVERYTHING MUST BE COMPUTERIZED!”

我总是嘲笑那些觉得英语拼写很难的人。中文加入了聊天。

These, while all probably true (I lack the technical chops to evaluate), don’t matter for most people.

What matters to most people is having a computer that doesn’t actively interfere with their ability to do their work. And that’s where Linux fails, regardless of the reason.

Nobody cares that their machine doesn’t do X on Linux because of some cabal behind the scenes arranging it. They care they can’t do X on Linux, but they can on Windows.