climate change ... who doesn't believe it?
crazy fools and science deniers ... right?.
it seems like it's become the new religion, the new orthodoxy, that must be accepted and believed as gospel and preached to all.. is it ok to be skeptical?.
The first thing you have to ask yourself is, is carbon dioxide a green house gas? It is, and it makes the Earth trap more heat.
We are at an unprecedented place in history. Over 400 ppm of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Ice coverage is at a historic low in the Artic, polar bears are migrating inland and mating with grizzlies.
We are treating our planet like a blank check, expecting infinite growth on a finite planet. You can expect more mass migrations in the future.
just though i'd start a thread devoted to languages, dialects/sociolects and accents, with the idea being that posters can comment on any language, or dialect or accent of any language, on this thread.. any phrases, expressions or idioms that you find interesting are also welcome.
first, the subject of english accents came up on another thread.. the british isles have many different types of accent (although many of the dialects may be dying out), and if i start to take a closer look, i can't help but see 'patterns' .... in received pronunciation of standard english, the letter r is pronounced initially, between vowels, and after consonants, e.g.
red, arrow, break.
Hey Luhe, as a dabbler in linguistics, I've thought about the issues you brought up. Yeah, politicizing languages is a thing, unfortunately.
I used to think Chinese was a language, until I found out about Mandarin and Cantonese and the many different mutually unintelligible languages within China all considered Chinese! The only unifying thing they have is the written language.
As a Spanish speaker, I can speak to a Portuguese speaker in Spanish, and they back in Portuguese and we understand each other. That really depends though. Slang is an entire subject on its own. I don't understand their slang at all. Every Spanish speaking country has their own slang as well. I had to learn how to speak Cuban slang in order to really understand my Cuban friends.
As an example, English slang:
What's hanging? What's up, dude?
Cuban slang:
¿Que bolá acere?
Literally means "What are you up to, group of smelly monkeys?" It only refers to a single person though.
kiss.
steve miller band (abracadabra).
eagles.
Most rock groups have connections to the occult. They admit it themselves.
i was intrigued by a forecast made by damo academy, the in-house technology and science research arm of china's, huge e-commerce business,, alibaba.. they seem to be predicting the following technology trends for 2019 and that artificial intelligence would continue to be the ho area of progress.. so what do any techies hanging out here think?
safe predictions?
wild guesses?
Millions of jobs will be displaced. Wealth inequality is already at an all time high. What makes us think automation will usher in an utopia?
Here's further reading to digest on, what the singularity could bring.
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html
It's a long read, but totally worth it if your into this sort of thing. You should be, it's already influencing your life somehow.
if humans have to suffer to have free will and to disprove satan's challenge to god as mentioned in the bible...then why the f*ck do animals have to suffer as well?
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satan's challenge involved humans and not poor animals.. i'm looking for an honest explanation from believers.. at this point, the older i get, the less i believe in a god who is "love"..
unsure, the statement that there is no extra biblical support for the existence is Jesus is not true.
if humans have to suffer to have free will and to disprove satan's challenge to god as mentioned in the bible...then why the f*ck do animals have to suffer as well?
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satan's challenge involved humans and not poor animals.. i'm looking for an honest explanation from believers.. at this point, the older i get, the less i believe in a god who is "love"..
I wish I had all the answers, unsure.
I myself still have many questions unanswered. I can't tell you why there are so many denominations. I can't answer why out of the same book come out so many different interpretations. I can't answer why some have had experiences with the supernatural and others never had.
I can only tell you my personal experiences and that I really truly believe in the core of Christianity. Jesus was a man that walked this Earth, perfect and sinless, to have his blood shed for us. He is the only Savior, the Son of God, the Lamb of God, the only way to the Father.
He wasn't a mythology. He was a real man crucified under Pontius Pilate.
I tried living my life without God, and it was meaningless. Anything you do on this Earth perishes, and all your hard work, your joy, your accomplishments, your failures, come to nothing when you die. I tried living my own life, the life I thought would satisfy me. There was only a temporary satisfaction. Solomon said it best, it's all vanity, chasing after the wind.
It's comforting to know that you are never alone. That even when you have no answers left, God is the answer. If you've messed up, if things have gone horribly awry and you have no hope, no control over the situation, you still have hope and love in God through Jesus. You can hang your hat on the Rock, the eternal one.
i was intrigued by a forecast made by damo academy, the in-house technology and science research arm of china's, huge e-commerce business,, alibaba.. they seem to be predicting the following technology trends for 2019 and that artificial intelligence would continue to be the ho area of progress.. so what do any techies hanging out here think?
safe predictions?
wild guesses?
I've always loved to dabble in tech. AI will become ever more pervasive. The big leap will be, I believe, in quantum computing. That's the real game changer.
The question is when.
just though i'd start a thread devoted to languages, dialects/sociolects and accents, with the idea being that posters can comment on any language, or dialect or accent of any language, on this thread.. any phrases, expressions or idioms that you find interesting are also welcome.
first, the subject of english accents came up on another thread.. the british isles have many different types of accent (although many of the dialects may be dying out), and if i start to take a closer look, i can't help but see 'patterns' .... in received pronunciation of standard english, the letter r is pronounced initially, between vowels, and after consonants, e.g.
red, arrow, break.
LUHE, Arabic sounds like a difficult language to learn, especially the writing and pronounciation. However, I think it's cool that most words are based on 3 letter roots. So they've got that going for them.
Why did you choose to learn Arabic? Just curious. I think it's a cool language for sure. Really, I think all languages are great. They all have a unique way of describing and looking at the world.
just though i'd start a thread devoted to languages, dialects/sociolects and accents, with the idea being that posters can comment on any language, or dialect or accent of any language, on this thread.. any phrases, expressions or idioms that you find interesting are also welcome.
first, the subject of english accents came up on another thread.. the british isles have many different types of accent (although many of the dialects may be dying out), and if i start to take a closer look, i can't help but see 'patterns' .... in received pronunciation of standard english, the letter r is pronounced initially, between vowels, and after consonants, e.g.
red, arrow, break.
LUHE, I only speak English and Spanish fluently.
I can communicate and understand basic Romanian. I haven't spoken in a bit, so I'm starting to lose it. I can read Portuguese much better, and speak it to some degree better as well, but still not fluent.
I tried learning Russian for a bit, but it's difficult. At least I can read the Cyrillic alphabet, and I've studied a bit of Koine Greek as well. I'm a jack of all trades, but a master of none.
just though i'd start a thread devoted to languages, dialects/sociolects and accents, with the idea being that posters can comment on any language, or dialect or accent of any language, on this thread.. any phrases, expressions or idioms that you find interesting are also welcome.
first, the subject of english accents came up on another thread.. the british isles have many different types of accent (although many of the dialects may be dying out), and if i start to take a closer look, i can't help but see 'patterns' .... in received pronunciation of standard english, the letter r is pronounced initially, between vowels, and after consonants, e.g.
red, arrow, break.
I love the study of languages. Indo-European languages especially.
My mother is Colombian, but I was born in the States, so I grew up speaking Spanish at home and learned English from TV and school.
Being bilingual fueled my love for languages. I would love to compare English and Spanish cognates.
Some examples:
Commence - comenzar
Obedience - obediencia
Salute - saludar
I often found myself sounding more sophisticated than my friends because I would use the Spanish word in English.
For example, I was discussing something with my friend and I remember I used the term aggrandize. I could have used something more English sounding like inflate or boast, but aggrandize came naturally because of my Spanish substrate. Not that there is an exact cognate, but 'engrandecer' came first to my thoughts, and so out came aggrandize. I even had to look it up later in the dictionary to make sure I was speaking properly, and it turns out that yes aggrandize does exist.
One of my best life friend that I met in middle school was Brazilian and spoke Portuguese. I was fascinated with that language as well, it's so similar to Spanish. So I self taught myself a bit. There are some false friends you have to be aware of though.
Embarazada in Spanish is pregnant, where as embaraçada in Portuguese is the same as in English, embarrassed.
To top it off, my dad is Romanian. I got a chance to pick up another Romance language and use it. The grammar is more difficult than the other Romance languages, but I honestly didn't find it too difficult to pick up the basics, because of the Latin roots of all Romance languages.
It just fascinates me how languages evolved over time.
