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Still nothing on my end. How about your team member?
Just messaged he’s ok. Hoping your side ends up ok too !
Glad yours is Ok too!
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I called it Pékin for years and as far as I know the pronunciation is closer to the Chinese name than Beijing
It’s not. Beijing is pretty accurate as most English speakers say it (except for the tones), although I often hear people do really weird things with the j. The b and j sounds in Mandarin are not the same as in English, but they are closer than p or k to my ear.
Basically, say it in the most naïve way (for an American English speaker). Trying to pronounce the 'j' like it's a French word is wrong.
Meanwhile Russia continues it stupid war Ukraine…when something this shit happens. It’s a shame we can’t let out differences go.
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Years ago I made an observation that an earthquake would happen based on a near earth object. It ended up being the one in Chile. I do wonder if there's some kind of correlation considering that green comet is flying by
That's not how physics works. The sun completely dominates all other bodies in the solar system when it comes to gravitational effects on Earth (even the moon has less of an effect than the sun, despite its proximity). The Earth doesn't even notice this comet's existence, gravitationally speaking.
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Which isn't a concern as nuclear power plants are almost always designed to be resistant to earthquakes, even in non-earthquake prone areas.
Russian nuclear plant in Turkish earthquake zone sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Oh wow, that’s terrible. My spellchecker needs to be updated because it doesn’t want me writing “Turkiye.”
The good thing is that Türkiye is pronounced almost like Turkey, so you're saying it almost right ;)
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Why did the buildings collapse? They don't have a build code for seismic-dangerous zones? Or the possibility of this earthquake was never predicted?
It’s pretty hard to build for a 7.8. That’s ridiculously strong, similar to SF 1908 which pretty much destroyed the entire city..
https://sf.curbed.com/2018/6/18/17465696/highrises-san-franc...
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I disagree. The English language has spread around the world due to the US' work internationally.
More recently yes, but historically it was from the British Empire. US's influence has helped expand it to many countries that never had former extensive use of English creating many new second language speakers, but in terms of first language speakers, the British Empire is still the cause of almost all of them.