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  Is English a hybrid language?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  the short answer is no, it is not.. i have heard one or two proposals that it is, including from langfocus, a usually excellent youtube channel.. but no, english is actually a germanic language which has borrowed many words from other languages.

  here are several reasons why english is germanic at its core .... 1. verb forms.

  i play - ich spiele.

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  Anony Mous

  I am multi-lingual (both in Roman and Germanic languages), English is in most cases structurally the same as Germanic languages, but it borrows a LOT of words and most grammar exceptions are similar to French. Basically it’s a Germanic language, with a strong influence from French/Romance-like grammar but the early English didn’t want to deal with things like gendered words and implemented the rules without the reason (the gender).

  I do think that older English is structurally closer to old Flemish (especially West Flemish) and Frisian which are Dutch ‘dialects’, Flemish also borrows heavily from French, which is where I see similarities.

  I’m not sure when borrowed grammar and words make a hybrid language, I’m not a linguist, but the case can be made it is a hybrid, a significant amount of words you use daily are Romance.

  Things like human (Latin humanus), manuscript and manual (Latin word man for hand) etc etc.
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  AI Generated Art - Impact on Artists

  by Simon in

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  unless you've been hibernating under a rock for the last couple of years, you're probably aware that ai is the new hotness.. chatgpt gets a lot of attention but equally amazing is how capable ai is at generating art.

  if you'd been ask to name anything that would be the last holdout for humans, creative arts such as writing, painting, and music would probably be some of the things at the top of the list.. yet those seem to be the things that ai can do best.. it's fascinating to use the tools, but one thing you realize is that they are just combining patterns and shapes, there isn't yet any real "intelligence", artificial or otherwise.. as an example, you can ask it to create a painting in the style or a particular artist, with a whole raft of things you want to include.

  it will do a great job on first glance, but can often give people more arms or fingers than is normal, and lamp-posts can grow to different heights, like trees.

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  Anony Mous

  Here’s the thing, it uses existing inputs, it can only give existing outputs, it won’t generate anything novel in the sense that you won’t get a new style like Cubism in the early 20th century (Picasso).

  Here are the things that will be replaced: generic artists, the people in advertising that look to influence the average person with safe, generic boilerplate ‘template’ art. It can generate a website, copy and images with a simple prompt, where current website systems (eg. wordpress) have oodles of templates that no sane person could ever pour over, you’ll basically ‘search’ for your style and it will generate that style. Big companies like Coca Cola will never use it, but instead of having a 1000-person website team, they’ll now have to seek out select true artists and pay them a lot more.

  I’ve used it in the field of computer and neurosciences, where I currently work, it’s great IF you know what you’re looking for, it improves your productivity but it can’t do anything new. So your code is now better commented because you have to form better sentences to have it generate semi-decent boilerplate. But it won’t implement your logic, it doesn’t understand starting points and end goals.

  So what will happen: people at the low ends of each industry, the ‘gophers’, they’ll have to quickly adapt and either get better or get out. You won’t need to fill offices with useless people like HR, PR. In most fields however, people won’t be allowed to stay ‘junior’ for very long as the junior roles will be completely replaceable. People at the top will get better and more productive as they won’t have to think about and work out small details anymore.

  It’s going to have a huge impact, people that haven’t taken up the ‘knowledge economy’ in the last few decades, the accountants that stubbornly stick to Excel and QuickBooks instead of specializing in R and SQL, the 50 year old entry level IT person making $80k+ because he creates his own work, the HR and legal at your average company that just search through hundreds of pages of rules, those are all gone because I can ask a trained model the same questions and get the same answers.
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  England v Ukraine

  by BoogerMan in

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  so nice to see thousands upon thousands of fighting-age ukrainian men managed to escape the war and reach wembley to support their national football team yesterday.

  things must be improving, eh?.

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  Again, I cited my sources, it’s easy to find yourself the modern history of Ukraine and both Russian and US-backed conflict, not even the US government is denying it https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-02-25/ukraine-cia-insurgents-russia-invasion

  If you somehow can debunk the stories from major papers in the early 2000s and admitted to by President Bush himself at the time go ahead.
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  England v Ukraine

  by BoogerMan in

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  so nice to see thousands upon thousands of fighting-age ukrainian men managed to escape the war and reach wembley to support their national football team yesterday.

  things must be improving, eh?.

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  @Corney: everything I said is easily researched and anyone with a bit of knowledge of the region knows.

  Even Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas_(2014–2022)

  Between 2004 and 2017, the US sent Chechnya’s separatists a ton of aid, both financially and militarily, a lot of that found its way laundered through Ukraine. Not only that, but Ukrainian military members fought in the Chechen war (https://archive.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/russian-officials-consider-una-unso-fighters-in-2-3882.html) And Chechens are currently fighting in Ukraine.

  Again, do your own research, whatever you’re being spooned today is bullshit. This is equivalent to the Middle East, Arab and Muslims have been at each other’s throats for centuries, finding a good party is ludicrous.
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  England v Ukraine

  by BoogerMan in

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  so nice to see thousands upon thousands of fighting-age ukrainian men managed to escape the war and reach wembley to support their national football team yesterday.

  things must be improving, eh?.

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  Anony Mous

  You say Ukraine has to "stand up against it's aggressor", however, Ukraine has invaded various Russian regions both before and during the current continuation and recently their defense minister said they won't stop "until they get to the Red Square" (the Kremlin). In December they even hit Ryazan and Engels, about 300 miles from the Ukrainian border and there have been terrorist bombings in Moscow by Chechen separatists who have been backed by Ukraine all the way back to the 90s.

  If it was just about 'retaining' a region they weren't even properly holding before Russia got involved, why would they keep pushing into Russian cities (which if you look geographically, involves crossing various natural borders)

  The conflict is a lot less black and white than what the media tells you. The region has always been a hodgepodge of separatists and both Ukraine and Russia are the big players backed by respectively NATO and China to keep the pot stirring.
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  England v Ukraine

  by BoogerMan in

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  so nice to see thousands upon thousands of fighting-age ukrainian men managed to escape the war and reach wembley to support their national football team yesterday.

  things must be improving, eh?.

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  Anony Mous

  This is the long tail of socialist policies and fellow travelers in the West (places like the NYTimes and various academia, suppressed the truth about Lenin and Stalin back in the day).

  But yes, the truth is that Stalin completely eradicated the Ukraine people in Crimea and replaced them with Russians. The NYT and others in the left wing media knew about this and refused to report on it at the time. Moreover the people of the Donbas have ever since the October Revolution dreamed to be independent from either Ukraine or Russia.

  Moreover Crimea is the only place the Russians have access to a waterway that connects to the oceans that isn’t controlled by NATO or frozen every winter.

  The question is thus, given the past 10 years Ukraine has been fighting a civil war against independence in Donbas and given Ukraine can’t hold a majority Russian Crimea, what is the end goal. The best option could be to get out with a negotiated deal (by China, because Biden is too weak) where they give up claim to Crimea and Donbas and let the Donbas be an independent “new” buffer country.

  Giving them F16s means they can fly into Russia, which Russia would see as an escalation. Then again, trying to re-take Crimea will be very bloody. At this point Ukraine hasn’t lost anything yet land. The Donbas was already opposed, Crimea was already lost.

  To Russia, invading Ukraine cost them relatively very little Ukraine lost over 25% of its forces, they lost most of their gear that wasn’t donated by the US and another 20-30% of military aged reserves were lost to emigration and with that a generation of potential military recruits - the Russians lost less than 5% of their active military and gear, not even counting reserves. Russia thus eliminated the threat of having them invade through the Donbas or Crimea for the foreseeable future. Russia completed its goals, Ukraine and the Biden admin is refusing to end it.
  
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  Why the name change from Watchtower Bible College of Gilead to Watchtower Bible School of Gilead?

  by was a new boy in

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  did too many jehovah's witness kids get curious about wanting to go to a real college?.

  they really don't give an explanation, it's like old light and new light, one reads the new light, and .

  in the spirit of loyalty, the subject gets dropped, and there's no more talk about the old name again.. .

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  Because saying you run a college may construe that it is somehow accredited. NYS instituted a ton of legislation and regulation to any institution calling themselves a college, amongst other things, colleges, even non-accredited ones must send their curriculum to NYS Dept. of Education and comply with various inspections and guidelines so it probably became expensive to comply.
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  Sparlock 3d Printer

  by enigma1863 in

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  so i have access to a 3d printer for a short time and i want to print out a 3d sparlock i don't have time to design my own.

  does anyone know if there is a stl or any 3d files available to print out a sparlock?

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  Anony Mous

  That’s a very obscure figure, so I can’t find any public files, but you should be able to simply convert the 2D image to 3D STL and then you only have to round it off a bit.
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  Cost of living crisis

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  during the height of the pandemic all elders had to report to the co anyone who was struggling with bills or who couldn’t pay the rent.

  the co reported it to the branch.. i don’t know what happens next.

  do the branch help at all?

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  Anony Mous

  They do something with the information: they approached people like me, who were more affluent to see if we could assist somehow with particular members, then they would pretend the borg is the one providing.
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  New blood card

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  all elders just got letters about this new blood card system .

  “language-coordinating congregations will receive separate parcel(s) containing the revised durable power of attorney for health care (dpa-e) for all congregation(s) in their literature group.“.

  my questions are - why the revision and what has been revised?.

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  Anony Mous

  You may as well call them your last will and testament to personal stupidity. Even as a JW I was never comfortable with it and haven’t had one since I was about 16 years old.
  Blood is only used in the most severe cases as the last option, there is no cabal of surgeons that just want to use it. The Red Cross actually limits the supply of blood as a profit motive.