Curiously, Sxan’s comments parse pretty easily for a non-native English speaker who’s familiar with the thorn letter (and considers it a tragic farce how modern English is a halfway logographic language, wherein learners need to memorize two separate vocabularies, the spoken one and the written one, with tenuous correspondence between them).
Read more of their comments until you get smarter and it stops hurting. Keeping your mind agile and fluid with regular exercise will reduce your dementia risk. Next time you see Sxan, tell them thanks for warding off dementia for you.
Don’t you know about the cognitive benefits of learning more language?
Sure, this won’t improve your brain as much as learning a whole new language like Yolngu, but it’ll improve your mental fluidity a little bit. It’s a bite sized language lesson.
But it’s not a lesson if it doesn’t explain itself. It just turns their comment into a puzzle that they know most people won’t know how to read.
It’s gate keeping in the same way as intentionally using technical jargon when common parlance would suffice. It’s a bit insufferable.
If I need to Google what your letters mean then you better have something real damn interesting to say, otherwise I’m going to be annoyed. Especially since I don’t have anywhere else to use that “skill”.
Ugh now you just made them sound like those incels who think correcting someone’s language is flirting, that it makes them appear smart and that that’s attractive in any way
I respect their goals, but I am a moron and reading their comments physically hurts me
Curiously, Sxan’s comments parse pretty easily for a non-native English speaker who’s familiar with the thorn letter (and considers it a tragic farce how modern English is a halfway logographic language, wherein learners need to memorize two separate vocabularies, the spoken one and the written one, with tenuous correspondence between them).
Read more of their comments until you get smarter and it stops hurting. Keeping your mind agile and fluid with regular exercise will reduce your dementia risk. Next time you see Sxan, tell them thanks for warding off dementia for you.
It doesn’t make you smarter though. It just makes you able to read this one person’s post with less headache.
If you’re in love with them, you probably should, otherwise meh
Don’t you know about the cognitive benefits of learning more language?
Sure, this won’t improve your brain as much as learning a whole new language like Yolngu, but it’ll improve your mental fluidity a little bit. It’s a bite sized language lesson.
But it’s not a lesson if it doesn’t explain itself. It just turns their comment into a puzzle that they know most people won’t know how to read.
It’s gate keeping in the same way as intentionally using technical jargon when common parlance would suffice. It’s a bit insufferable.
If I need to Google what your letters mean then you better have something real damn interesting to say, otherwise I’m going to be annoyed. Especially since I don’t have anywhere else to use that “skill”.
Ugh now you just made them sound like those incels who think correcting someone’s language is flirting, that it makes them appear smart and that that’s attractive in any way
Since migrating instances, I am lucky enough to encounter them much less than I used to