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Cake day: February 16th, 2024

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  • I think it’s less of a problem with gendered nouns and much more of a problem with personal pronouns.

    Inanimate objects rarely change their gender identity, so those translations should be more or less fine.

    However for instance translating Finnish to English, you have to translate second person gender-neutral pronouns as he/she, so when translating, you have to make an assumption, or translate is as the clunky both versions “masculine/feminine” with a slash which sort of breaks the flow of the text.


  • and they are not fun.

    Idk man one moment I was in the bus, next I woke up on a nice bed. Drove to me to the hospital and everything. Didn’t even have to walk in. Then when I woke up again, I rested for like 6 hours, then I asked for a sandwich and they brought me one. Took a bite, and then woke up in a somewhat darker room with a neat Harry Potter scar. I had fallen on the wheel of a trolley/bed. No recollection from me. Then they insisted on keeping me company for another 24 hours.

    No but all jokes aside mine were physically somewhat easy as I was unconscious, but the feelings with come with the realisation you can’t trust your own body are quote horrific.

    And I still haven’t got a reason for those. Which makes it even a scarier. As it wasn’t the only time.













  • Heard this on QI from Jimmy Carr; when film technology started, horses were still commonplace and horseshit was everywhere and slipping on some wasn’t something unheard of. Obviously it’s fun to laugh at the misfortune of others so they wanted to show that in films, but couldn’t put in shit — as they’re making art — that it was replaced with the innocuous banana peel.

    Granted it would be quite different if in Mario Kart you tossed shit at others instead of bananas.



  • And you know what this thing could do?

    It had FM radio and you had the capacity to record songs off the fking radio. In 2003. That was beyond crazy. I mean you can do that at home with a cassette player, but since this had a radio and recorder, it was basically one of those boomboxes people’s carried around in the 80’s. Functionally, if only because you had earphones and listened to it yourself.

    Although the quality would horrify the HiFi people, especially anyone under 30 or so. They weren’t mp3, more like AMR/ACR whatever have you. (A proprietary format called LSE).

    I vividly remember the sights and smells of walking and listening to Eminem - Lose Yourself on a very specific path I used to walk in the woods.

    Gods I miss being a kid.

    Edit to make it clear about the phone, it was essentially an improved 3310 (the classic unbreakable nokia) with a different case so it had qwerty and a few other improved features (like I think even WAP basically which was like a very crude mobile internet) and a few added games, like the 3330 (which was this improved version but in a standard Nokia 3310 case, with very minor alteration of a few mm)