sunbather

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[–] sunbather@beehaw.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

source? plus "western wages" is a pretty broad range and doesnt really mean anything without context

[–] sunbather@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

cant forget irish: masculine an+T, an+L, an+D / feminine an+L, na+H, an+D / plural na+H, na+E, na+H

[–] sunbather@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

suggestions off the top of my head are countries with or near significant colonial influences, eg madagascar and indonesia seem to be pretty similar across the board

although far from comprehensive such is the case of languages listed on wiktionarys translations dropdown on the english entries of the countries at least

the only notable exception i spotted is the navajo name for indonesia apparently being "Kéyah Dah Ndaaʼeełí Łání" which is quite interesting and i dont really have an explanation for that discrepancy (perhaps its pronounced similarly and orthography just isnt idunno) but navajo isnt a national language anywhere anyways so it doesnt really matter for the original question

[–] sunbather@beehaw.org 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

society has become so used to girls and women being considered less that there is a scary amount of rationalization as to why its fine actually to completely annihilate all remaining bodily autonomy they have left. this is an explosion in suicides of young girls and adult women alike begging to happen. wake the fuck up.

[–] sunbather@beehaw.org 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

also as a swedish person i think by far the most notable aspect is how level the playing field is when it comes to respect, primarily in schools and the like but even in other spaces.

its the norm that students and teachers are on first name basis and honorifics are almost never used anywhere. the plural 2nd person pronoun "ni" has largely fallen out of use in its other meaning as a singular 2nd person formal pronoun, being replaced with its informal counterpart "du" most of the time.

students and employees alike can freely and commonly do criticize and talk back to teachers and employers/bosses if theres a genuinely valid reason to do so and the general dynamic between different social positions is so relaxed to the point of it being fascinating. i think meeting the literal king of the country would for many people not warrant that big a change in behaviour other than obviously just being particularly nice.

as a result of this i think people have an easier time seeing each other as people rather than just as cogs of society, and being a person who struggles a lot with reading social cues its an enormous relief to so far in my professional life never had to worry a single time whether i should refer to someone as mr. or ms. or if i should be speaking in a particular register

[–] sunbather@beehaw.org 10 points 4 months ago

nothin like the feeling of being stuck in a body you cant control

[–] sunbather@beehaw.org 3 points 4 months ago

mind supplying concrete examples? isnt judaism literally supposed to be the religion of peace in theory? to be clear im not a fan of religion either but im also not a fan of ignoring the real issues and saying "just read their scriptures" on the assumption that what you consider to be obvious signs of this supposed agenda is the universal interpretation

[–] sunbather@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

i may be misinterpreting your comment but do you imply religion is what? cuz colonialism is by insurmountable lengths the bigger culprit

[–] sunbather@beehaw.org 13 points 5 months ago

wonder if this has anything to do with an inability to say youre not interested when someone starts talking to you about something (at least in my case because i perceive it as being rude and i absolute hate feeling like ive been rude) leading to the actual development of a larger range of interests

[–] sunbather@beehaw.org 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] sunbather@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

my go to for remembering which one to use is translating the sentence to english and if "the" or "they" is correct use "de" and if "them" is correct use "dem" (remember by thinking dem = them)

[–] sunbather@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Primarily math but also biology

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