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The ones thing I want more than anything from google or DuckDuckGo or anyone really is the ability to give a list of domains and never have their results show up in my searches. I know I can do this on a per search basis but I want it to be a configurable setting.
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Yes, I can see that. Pervasive hyphens would resolve most of the ambiguity and make it easier to learn. (But they also look kind of ugly.) Just be glad you ain't learning Turkish or Finnish, though.
I find the difficulty of learning Finnish is being consistently exaggerated on the Internet. Source: Learned it as an adult myself.
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I find the difficulty of learning Finnish is being consistently exaggerated on the Internet. Source: Learned it as an adult myself.
What languages did you speak before learning Finnish and what level are you currently at?
In order of skill, or chronological? C: German, Swedish, English, and French. S: Swedish, English, German, and French.
> and what level are you currently at?
"Level"... Lived and worked here 26 years (longer than in any other country), usually speak only Finnish with colleagues. (Exception: my previous job, 2014-18, at an unusually international company; quite a lot of English there.) What number is that, on whatever scale you were thinking of?
[EDIT:] IOW, it's gotten to the point where I fear my actual native language is only my fourth-best any more, Finnish having pushed it off the podium. [/EDIT]
Anyway, my point was: I may have improved a bit since, but was probably quite close to my current "level" after two or three years. It really isn't all that humongously difficult as it's made out to be.
The logic of a multi-inflected agglutinative language may feel unusual at first, but once one gets used to it, it's just that: logical. The orthography and especially the pronunciation of Finnish is the most straightforward of all the languages I've dabbled in (smatterings of perhaps half a dozen more besides the ones I speak). And I think, above all, it has the fewest cases of "this is the rule, but the exceptions are this, that, and the other", where you just have to learn by rote that "this word works that way, but that word works this way", of any language I've come across. Learn the rules and you know it; no exceptions to learn.
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What languages did you speak before learning Finnish and what level are you currently at?
> What languages did you speak before learning Finnish In order of skill, or chronological? C: German, Swedish, English, and French. S: Swedish, English, German, and French. > and what level are you currently at? "Level"... Lived and worked here 26 years (longer than in any other country), usually speak only Finnish with colleagues. (Exception: my previous job, 2014-18, at an unusually international company; quite a…
I'd say that it's fluent level then. I've met people that have lived in Finland for 20 years but can't still form sentences in Finnish.
The "Finnish is hard" trope is probably a mental block, Finnish probably seems hard on surface but it's very logical if you dive deep into it.
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> What languages did you speak before learning Finnish In order of skill, or chronological? C: German, Swedish, English, and French. S: Swedish, English, German, and French. > and what level are you currently at? "Level"... Lived and worked here 26 years (longer than in any other country), usually speak only Finnish with colleagues. (Exception: my previous job, 2014-18, at an unusually international company; quite a…
Sori jos kuulosti hyökkäävältä, kiinnosti vain kuulla lisää miten suomen oppimisen vaikeus koetaan :) I'd say that it's fluent level then. I've met people that have lived in Finland for 20 years but can't still form sentences in Finnish. The "Finnish is hard" trope is probably a mental block, Finnish probably seems hard on surface but it's very logical if you dive deep into it.
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> None of these sites condone, enable or remotely desire such content. Yeah, and that's the difference, isn't it? 8kun might not condone any of these things, officially, but it very much enables and desires them. This kind of discourse is seen as the "price of freedom", its presence a demonstration of absolute tolerance and blind faith in freedom of speech. Facebook, reddit, MySpace and Twitter are more strictly mode…
Do you know why 4chan evicted Gamergate?
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Yes, I can see that. Pervasive hyphens would resolve most of the ambiguity and make it easier to learn. (But they also look kind of ugly.) Just be glad you ain't learning Turkish or Finnish, though.
I find the difficulty of learning Finnish is being consistently exaggerated on the Internet. Source: Learned it as an adult myself.
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If Google, or CF, or whoever are fronting illegal activity with their services, they are absolutely responsible for damages the party they are proxying. Platforms must be responsible for the content they are hosting, broadcasting, and publishing. One to one communications between two people exchanging ideas and having a private discussion is different from mass broadcasting.
> Platforms must be responsible for the content they are hosting, broadcasting, and publishing. > One to one communications between two people exchanging ideas and having a private discussion is different from mass broadcasting. The highway is used both by those visiting their friends and those doing mass deliveries. Is it the job of the highway maintenance crew to control for what purpose their network is used? I wo…
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Do you know why 4chan evicted Gamergate?
Enlighten us, I'm sure your explanation will reframe 8chan in a way that makes it seem a lot more respectable.