[-] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Subjective in this sense would mean everyone has their own singular way as opposed to "its the same/similar indepently of the person looking at it".

[-] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Well my point is just it's neither fully determined as in ahistoric rule nor random as in "changes all the time" or "everyone has their own singular definitions and concepts". And in between there is the sweet spot of understanding, interpretation and development..

[-] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Objective and socially constructed isn't a 'hard' contradiction.

Yes of course language evolves and so on, but in a given time(period) it needs to be interpretable more or less independently from the specific actor (a dictionary ensures this, even though it needs to be updated regularly).

In other words yeah sometimes language comes up with new stuff. If it would do it all the time, it wouldn't function

[-] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago

This is a week analogy.. french only works as a means of communication because it has internal rules that are objective (as in different people understand the same/very similar thing when hearing/seeing a symbol/word).

Singularity of experience is cool, but anything social requires communication/synchronization.

Even though gender is used as a box or definition people are forced to fit into (and this is bad), reducing human experience to a blackbox kind of singularity is a highly individualist take.

You can work on understanding each other without forcing anyone to fit into your definition..

[-] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

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[-] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago
[-] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

Imagine the letter H and G would look similar. Now imagine there was a language that didn't have the letter H. People who spoke that language would post: "Hot Dog" and then go like "aaaahahaha imagine God Dog, like a god thats a dog".

Now add the fact that germans know and use the word burger regularly and do posess knowledge of the existence of different languages and that "burger" is an english word, thus pronunciation differs.

So I'd say no, not funny.

Then again I have laughed about and made jokes that made use of the similarity of burger and Bürger. But I guess the "rofl different languages"-element needs to be combined with smth more to qualify as a joke.

Yours, german giving german answers

[-] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Lots of points for gryffindor

[-] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago

I disagree. From my POV it seems like the majority of interactions on lemmy aim at sharing info, checking it and discussion.

There is some clickbaiting and some BS, but i tend to interpret it as a residual of BS internet culture and a product of the general shit aspects of society. Mostly people here seem to try good.

We are all a product of history, so this is fine as long as you somehow try to improve (together), imo.

[-] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Development of history toward equity is blocked

"So you wanna change it back to even worse times!!??"

[-] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Accepting it is a choice with practical consequences. We should work on understanding what is to change and how and focus on doing it.

Making prophecies about what "Eventually" happens is self handicapping, wich does not help :)

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Since recently (2-7 days, dunno) my Jerboa crashes when I hit those bars in the corner that let you "sort by...".

Honestly I have no clue how to report such a thing, sorry if I'm messing it up rn. Shoutouts to everyone making this app work!

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