I’m moving my posts from Reddit to Lemmy before delete them.
This post is from 2021-03-09.
Funny enough, the Japanese doesn’t have the word “the” per say. It most depends on context and how you translate it. Example: ねこは赤です -> literal translation: Cat red Now time to add some English words to make it sound ✨better✨ “The cat is red”
I think that’s what the meme was trying to say.
I think that’s what meme was trying to say
Japanese has demonstratives like “that”, just no articles.
‘That’ wasn’t meant to be deleted, so thanks for pointing out typo. (Sorry if this is double posted)
“Cat red” makes Japanese sounds way more vague than it really is, you’re just not bothering to attempt to transliterate the grammar structures because it’s too hard for English speakers to understand without a half-hour lecture.
It’s “Cat (topic marker) red (basic copula)”, which obviously carries a lot more information than just “cat red” to a person who intuitively understands what those weird grammar markers signify
Japanese not having articles is just as weird as PIE languages not having things like topic markers.
はい、そうです。
If you’re interested, please do crosspost this (and any other linguistics memes you have) over to /c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
Heh, that’s my kind of humor. Will do. :)
Why say many word when few word do trick?
Latin: German has 4 cases? That’s cute.
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Years ago I studied Malayalam while living in India (Malayalam is the language of Kerala state on the southernmost tip of the country). When I learned the grammar I was surprised to see that it had nominative, dative and accusative cases just like German, which was convenient since I’d studied German in high school. Turns out the grammar had actually been sort of imposed on Malayalam centuries ago by a wandering German monk.
Also Russian
“Yeah, we don’t have articles. But the words have genders. Just deal with it.”
Meanwhile: plural in Japan (kind of).
Tagalog: Ang
Bonus: Tagalog pronouns are all gender-neutral. “He” and “She” is just “Siya”, indirect form is just “Niya”, and possessive form is just “kaniya”.
Also bonus: Ang is an article for objects. There is another article designated for people (or sentient beings): Si.
Use your data export to ensure you delete all your posts and comments before deleting your account. Using something like power delete suite does not get everything if you have a lot of activity on your account.
Already doing that, wonder how long will it take. :)
I ran into a “too many requests” a couple of times so I just put a 3 second cooldown on each request (it was naturally going like 1/second naturally through PRAW) took about 14 hours with my delay, but at least I didnt have to babysit it.
I didn’t have that problem and it’s finally over. Hope they don’t bring them back since some of them cannot be modified because of archived lock.
Running it twice?
It seems like Reddit slowly starts filling in those deleted comments. In my experience, like as much as 5 per day. There’s no guarantee it’ll eventually get all comments even if ran repeatedly, and if you have 17k comments like me, it’s still probably take years to get all comments at that rate.
