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Looking for sources related to "The Repetitive Nature of Human Tribulations"
Hello everyone :) I write as a hobby and have had an article in my drafts for a long, long time. In essence, I'd like to discuss the "repetitive nature of human tribulations/suffering/life", that...
Hello everyone :)
I write as a hobby and have had an article in my drafts for a long, long time. In essence, I'd like to discuss the "repetitive nature of human tribulations/suffering/life", that is, the fact that regardless of superficial characteristics we all are confronted with extremely similar circumstances throughout our lives.
Whether it's 10 years into our lives or 40, there's joy, heartbreak, loss, a need to belong, some desire for freedom, a need for a purpose, lack of direction, obsession with a newly found direction, etc.
I'd love to come across poets, philosophers, psychologists, etc who have touched upon this subject: we are not defined by our circumstances, as they are, in very broad strokes, largely the same, but by how we are able to adapt and reinvent ourselves amidst those same circumstances.
Looking forward for your answers :)
Thanks!
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Researchers have decoded more than half of the characters in the so-called Kushan script by comparing them with inscriptions in a known ancient language called Bactrian
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AI often mangles African languages. A network of thousands of coders and researchers is working to develop translation tools that understand their native languages
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Lumière - A.M.I.E.S.A.M.O.U.R (2021)
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Madredeus - O Pastor (1990)
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A simulation of first contact ran on May 24, 2023. Here is the website with the details.
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Tuna chewing: Why some say "chube" and some say "toob"
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Duolingo alternatives for learning Ukrainian
Hello! Привіт! Pryvit! I started learning Ukrainian on Duolingo in February 2022 following Russia's attacks. It was my first time attempting to learn a language for 10+ years and it just clicked....
Hello! Привіт! Pryvit!
I started learning Ukrainian on Duolingo in February 2022 following Russia's attacks. It was my first time attempting to learn a language for 10+ years and it just clicked. I grew to love the language, became entranced with the culture, and had desires to keep learning. Prior to Duolingo's redesign, I had a year+ streak and made it fairly far in the course.
The redesign has absolutely killed that passion. Maybe it's just the Ukrainian course, but it felt like I was going in circles and not really progressing as I once had. I've shelved my learning for a few months, but I really desire an alternative to Duolingo. Unfortunately, there's not many options that offer Ukrainian and I want to ensure I am learning the language as intended. I've read into how Russian influences have attempted to modify the language and I desire to learn the form that Ukrainian's would use.
I'm not quite at a level to learn from books or more static resources, and would prefer the interactivity of an app to help get me to that comfort level again. I've tried Pimsleur and wasn't as much of a fan of their format that reminded me of language tapes. One of the things I enjoyed with Duolingo was the verbal parts of it that helped with my pronunciation, and Pimsleur didn't appear to offer that.
Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated! I have seen old posts referring to a SubStack and other resources, but at this time I need a refresher before I feel comfortable diving into those. I would love to incorporate learning a little bit of Ukrainian everyday again! Слава Україні!
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Learn a foreign language before it’s too late
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A very interesting video on the phonetics of English regional accents, spoken by a polyglot in the accents
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The art of translation
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PassCode - GROUNDSWELL (2023)
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Who else partakes in worldbuilding/mapmaking and those sorts of things?
Looking for some worldbuilding buddies here on tildes. What's a brief history on your current world? What's your favorite creation? Person, animal, location, etc.
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Overuse of commas
First I thought to myself, "I seem to use too many commas." Now I'm no writer, but I've noticed that professional writers (and editors) clearly use less commas than I do. For example, here's a...
First I thought to myself, "I seem to use too many commas." Now I'm no writer, but I've noticed that professional writers (and editors) clearly use less commas than I do.
For example, here's a sentence in a book that I'm reading: “As the victim was usually unconscious it was obvious they were totally reliant upon third parties and whatever action they took would determine their fate.”
I thought it was interesting, because I would've put a comma after "unconscious" and a comma before "and."
So, I found this helpful resource on grammar rules: https://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/commas.asp. 4a and 5b in particular were situations where I learned I could get rid of commas.
Still however, in the example sentence above, you'd think to put a comma before the "and" to separate the two clauses. I haven't found an explanation for omitting it, other than some writers are grammatically correct in a stricter sense, and others use commas more stylistically.
Is the use of commas more of an art, if you will, than I thought? How do you use commas personally?
Interested to read others' opinions!
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OpenStreetMap in the classroom: Application possibilities, potentials and challenges
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Place to learn Japanese
So,this has been on my mind for a long time and i have tried some available/widely known methods to learn japanese language.So far iam not satisfied with my results.Can someone suggest me some...
So,this has been on my mind for a long time and i have tried some available/widely known methods to learn japanese language.So far iam not satisfied with my results.Can someone suggest me some ways that worked for them preferably for free/cheap.The main problem is the letters or characters.i can comprehend and manage to speak a very basic levels of the language mainly from consuming media from japan,some duolingo and such.....
any and all advice is appreciated
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Meridian Brothers: Tiny Desk Concert (2023)
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GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers
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Long COVID: The impact on language and cognition
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Denmark sets new record - month of June has been the most sunny since records began
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Japanese karaoke song recommendations
Every now and then, my Japanese class and I head out to sing karaoke. I've never really been a fan of karaoke, but perhaps that's because most karaoke libraries don't really have any of the songs...
Every now and then, my Japanese class and I head out to sing karaoke. I've never really been a fan of karaoke, but perhaps that's because most karaoke libraries don't really have any of the songs I've learned and/or want to sing.
So does anyone have any recommendations for Japanese karaoke songs? I'm not mentioning my personal music taste to keep the topic general, but feel free to ask if you're interested in helping me in particular.
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Are you getting these phrases wrong too? ("Egg corns")
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White guy speaks perfect Japanese from watching anime. Here's how he did it.
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The HU - Wolf Totem (2018)
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Recommendations with Japanese lyrics, or where to find it?
We have a language learner in our household and I am tired of listening to J-pop at random on road trips. Do any of you music lovers have japanese language songs or even better artists or bands...
We have a language learner in our household and I am tired of listening to J-pop at random on road trips. Do any of you music lovers have japanese language songs or even better artists or bands you really like?
Thank you very much
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花冷え。(HANABIE.) - TOUSOU (Run Away) (2023)
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The Initial Teaching Alphabet (ITA)
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What's the best way to make non-English posts on Tildes? Can you? Should you?
I'm guessing that it might just be that Tildes is an English only site, but as an avid language learner, I'd love to have a place to see and post non-English discussions. Is there a best practice...
I'm guessing that it might just be that Tildes is an English only site, but as an avid language learner, I'd love to have a place to see and post non-English discussions.
Is there a best practice for making a non-English discussion? Is it simply not allowed? Is it allowed but discouraged?
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Ten words for other people's children
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I improved the alphabet
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Accent diversity is fascinating
I committed an embarrassing gaffe today. I had ordered a keyboard online from a store from the Tyneside of north-eastern England: an area with a regional accent and dialect often referred to as...
I committed an embarrassing gaffe today. I had ordered a keyboard online from a store from the Tyneside of north-eastern England: an area with a regional accent and dialect often referred to as ‘Geordie’. I habitually speak in a ‘home counties’ accent, which is sometimes regarded as a contemporary variety of received pronunciation (RP), though it sounds quite different to historical and conservative varieties of that accent. A salesman called me earlier to inform me that the keyboard I wanted was out of stock, but that they would be happy to refund me if I didn’t want to wait for new inventory. Seemingly between the accent difference and the poor audio quality inherent to phone calls I misinterpreted ‘keyboard’ as ‘cable’, insisting with increasing urgency that I have USB-C cables in plenty and that they needn’t worry about supplying one with the order. We both went about in circles for a few minutes until it dawned on me what I was doing, at which point intense embarrassment flushed over me. Oops!
Accent diversity in Britain is rich and regional. It's not hard to place where someone grew up based on their accent. Would you consider your country to be diverse in accents? Even so, are there instances of accent discrimination?
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Progressive Punctuation: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks we should be using today
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Arthur Verocai - Dedicada a ela (1972)
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Lous and The Yakuza - Takata (Live performance, 2023)
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Elis Regina & Tom Jobim - Águas de Março (1974)
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Windows 11's latest endearing mess contains rigorously enforced Britishisms
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ChatGPT is cutting non-English languages out of the AI revolution
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Artificial Intelligence Sweden is leading an initiative to build a large language model not only for Swedish, but for all the major languages in the Nordic region
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This sound, the soft D, only exists in one language: Danish
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Mirny Mine – Döda Solen (2023)
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Greenlandic MP refused to speak Danish during a debate in the Danish parliament and instead spoke in her native Inuit language
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The history of the Hawaiian Luau
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The best writing about punctuation. Full stop.
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The history of the boycott: How one Englishman’s name has ended up in every dictionary since 1888
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Ox
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The Big Five are word vectors
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A Gaelic-speaking warrior queen called Aud is central to an emerging theory that Scottish and Irish Celts played a far bigger role in Iceland's history than realised
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Teaching ChatGPT to speak my son's invented language
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Artificial intelligence in communication impacts language and social relationships
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