[-] joranvar@feddit.nl 7 points 3 months ago

This is still salvageable by pronouncing it as "an earl".

[-] joranvar@feddit.nl 18 points 4 months ago

In Dutch we don't use the Latin names for zodiac signs (and we call them "sterrenbeelden", which means "star images" or maybe "star statues"). Aquarius is "waterman", which I guess would translate to (surprise) "water man".

Why? Not sure, but it might be because of Simon Stevin who insisted we use Dutch words for mathematical concepts, and thought up some words like "evenwijdig" ("same distancey") for "parallel" and "wiskunde" ("certainty knowledge") for mathematics.

[-] joranvar@feddit.nl 9 points 5 months ago

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[-] joranvar@feddit.nl 19 points 5 months ago

I like that I can hear that omitted space there.

[-] joranvar@feddit.nl 11 points 5 months ago

Like the Dutch "ezel" (which is the same word used in Dutch for painting-supporters which in English are called "easel").

[-] joranvar@feddit.nl 4 points 5 months ago

You can see the wololo-waves radiating from a cross if you put it in the earth.

[-] joranvar@feddit.nl 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I guess it is a matter of how "fluent" you are in the language. With some foreign languages, e.g. when I started learning a bit of Japanese, I could recognize some kanji, understand some bastc sentences, but still had no idea what it would sound like. Maybe it's similar to that. We get good at recognizing patterns and interpret them just enough to accomplish what we need, and if we haven't had any use for "knowing exactly what it sounds like" (maybe just enough to recognize we are missing some notes while playing), we save the energy needed to learn more.

But a conductor would definitely need to know what it should sound like (or how they would want the orchestra to make it sound), so it is part of the interpretation of the pattern.

Same for lords patrician and other intra-audiophiles.

[-] joranvar@feddit.nl 4 points 7 months ago

The Sith Lord's ~~right~~ left hand.

[-] joranvar@feddit.nl 5 points 8 months ago

I would say not much different from looking up whether they are in the +0530 or +0630 part of India. I guess the perception of convenience also depends on what you are used to seeing.

[-] joranvar@feddit.nl 8 points 8 months ago

That information won't be lost, though. It just would be expressed differently. They are no longer in a +8 hour time zone, which given your own location in a +1 hour zone would lead to a most likely open time of 8 - 8 + 1 = 1 til 17 - 8 + 1 = 10 your time, but in an area where opening hours are most likely between 0100 and 1000.

There is still a lookup, but no longer a lookup of time difference of the area, but a lookup of usual business hours in the area.

[-] joranvar@feddit.nl 18 points 10 months ago

I like the use of the phrase All rights reversed when talking about copyleft.

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