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Thanks. I know there are thousands of languages, but Jamaican is the only ‘patois’ I’ve encountered in wide discussion, so amn’t used to differentiating. It seems also to be an umbrella term, whereas Jamaican Patois is actually a creole language.

‘The Harder They Come’, a popular Jamaican film, was referred to as “the first English-language film shown in the US with subtitles” due to thick Patois used in it. So there’s indeed pervasive confusion, but in the end Patois often just can’t be understood by English-speakers.

Fun fact: Patois developed starting in the seventeenth century, and mixes languages of West and Central Africa, used by the slaves, with British and Irish English and Scots, used by the slaveholders. Where Scots is itself a sister language of English, descended from Early Middle English.

Yeah, the salute is just him appealing to his Ancient Roman base.

Patois is a creole language whose vocabulary largely comes from English, and there’s a gradient of dialects between Patois and Jamaican Standard English, but pure Patois is considered mutually unintelligible with Jamaican English and thus a separate language. Moreover:

A 2007 survey by the Jamaican Language Unit found that 17.1 percent of the population were monolingual in Jamaican Standard English (JSE), 36.5 percent were monolingual in Patois, and 46.4 percent were bilingual, although earlier surveys had pointed to a greater degree of bilingualism (up to 90 percent).

With stuff like rsync, diffs can be calculated on the fly. But it requires way more server cpu than just chucking files onto the network.

Yeah, grandma’s been sending me those ‘good luck’ chain mails since the nineties, and I’ve still not seen any luck at all.

More like, how many Mars orbiters have been lost because of the US measurements?

We’ve been through that.

Kefir is great for complaints from the stomach. And great in general.

because the UK spent so long as the dominant world power and just saturated all international discourse

From what I’ve heard, German was still the go-to international language in academia until WW2, when it fell out of favor and US’ post-war boom took over. So it’s a bit more complicated.

Time to conquer Malbolge with ChatGPT.

This question, asked by Jim Jefferies in his bit about guide dogs, ruined my wiping experience. When I was younger, my ass smaller and and my shits smoother, it was enough to give a single wipe and go on with my day. Then Jefferies asked the question of how blind people see the poop on the paper, and the next time I had to look at the paper and do a control wipe to see that it’s clean. But now that I’m fatter and my shits messier, I have to do like six wipes to get a clean one. Curse you Jim Jefferies.

That was in fact one of the original propositions of communism.

Languages accepted by the user is like the second header in http. It’s in all your requests.

There’s some nuance in that

a) I treat US politics as entertainment for the last ten years — seeing Trump crush over Mamdani, are you kidding, it’s top kek;

b) I like to know the zeitgeist on the platform where I spend time;

and c) US politics are in almost every major community anyway, regardless of its topic — just like on Reddit.

I wouldn’t mind not seeing twenty posts about Peter Whatshisname Kegsbreath missile-ing Venezuelan fishermen. I got it the first time.

Is that community blocked on .world? Can’t find any certain info on that, only the list of blocked instances — but Voyager doesn’t show anything in that community.

‘Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den’

Get with the times, it’s all about ‘I Think You Should Leave’ now.

I’ve just recently moved, and I barely see any difference. Same US politics dawn to dusk, just more Linux and commies.

I was wondering who’s gaming on their thermostat.