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Having experienced similar when I was your age (I'm now 41) here's what I've found useful: 1) never ever compare yourself to others, especially based on age . do your thing. for yo…

The source will be released in full on June 1st with various components being released earlier.

That presupposes I understand them :-) My coding followed a specific talk which didn't go at all into why these particular gates are useful. Once I grok that, I'll improve the code…

While the affricate /d͡ʒ/ is not pronounced as a separate stop+fricative, it can result from the combining of the stop and the fricative and that is presumably what is behind the c…

Given all the confusion here, I've added what is hopefully a simpler and more introductory explanation: Django is pronounced with an initial sound that, in English is often written…

I'm not sure what the confusion is. I agree with what you've said above. Basically: 1. "d" in French is pronounced "d". 2. "j" in French is pronounced "zh". 3. "dj" in French is pr…

Not sure where you think I say that, but to clarify anyway: the sound at the start of all those words in English is not the same as the sound the French write as "j".

It just occurs to me: does French even have the affricate /d͡ʒ/ natively? Do some native French speakers pronounce "Django" with an initial /ʒ/? That actually would be a silent D a…

Well, firstly that comment postdates your initial comment that "everybody else in this thread" explains it better and you added the "(such as has pash's sibling comment)" after I'd…

I haven't seen anyone else explain why Django is spelled with a D. All I've seen is people reiterate the reason for the pronunciation given the spelling as "the D is silent" rather…

Also /d/ + /ʒ/ does become /d͡ʒ/ in English (and potentially all languages that have /d/ and /ʒ/) so even if you had a single symbol for /d͡ʒ/ that was unrelated to that for /d/, t…

But if you're trying to explain why Django is spelled the way it is, it's far more insightful to explain /d/ -> and /ʒ/ -> than to posit the comes from nowhere and is just silent.

I'm trying to think of other modifier examples. Not a perfect analogy but I don't think you'd say that, in English, the in is silent. I wonder about Italian, though. Would it be co…