Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
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Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
5hr ago
Immersion as the sole means of learning is not as efficient as jump-starting it with grammar and translation drills. But it is key to actually becoming fluent. And you can eventually become fluent with immersion alone. You will never become fluent with grammar and translation drills alone.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
5hr ago
Only a few language nerds find topics like present imperfect or the dative case interesting and understandable. The rest treat it like algebra; arcane nonsense that you have to memorize just long enough to pass the exam and then never use for the rest of your life. And they are right. Nobody learns to speak a language like that. Nobody writes like that. It's useless knowledge.
It might be useless knowledge (unless you're a language teacher) to know what "present imperfect" means. It is not useless knowledge to know how to use it correctly.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
6hr ago
I don't want to blow you off and be accused of ghosting again. I also don't have the time to write a response with the effort this requires. (I am actually traveling this week.) The problem with responding with the effort this requires is that I have to read all your links and then debate each item point by point (the thing I said I hate doing), which means each one will become pages of debate. What it looks like to me (but not to you) is that two things can both be true: we can live in a country where opposition politics still exists and neither side has achieved the total victory you claim/fear, and we can live in a country where a lot of people would really like to achieved total victory and are completely unprincipled about it. E.g., cases from California which offend every classical liberal sensibility but which do not, in my mind (but apparently do in yours) round to "We live in an authoritarian dystopia where you are not allowed to disagree with leftists."
Oh hell, let's take one example though I said I didn't have the time to go into the weeds.
The left will not be murdering political enemies with impunity
You responded with Matthew Dolloff.
Okay, let's suppose I take everything you are implying (but which is unstated in that article) at face value: a leftist totally got away with killing righties because the DA and judge were in the tank for the left and think killing conservatives is Just Fine. This requires me accepting your version on faith and assuming that the DA's and judge's reasoning as stated in the article is politically motivated fiction, but let's give it you, even though I only know what I just read in that one article (sorry) and will not be reading a bunch of other articles to research it further (not sorry). So I stipulate this was a heinous injustice. Does this mean it's now legal for leftists to shoot conservatives, or a heinous injustice occurred? I don't know how many such cases it would take to prove to me that the law has legalized murdering conservatives, but that number is >1. Do you not think someone as motivated as you in the opposite direction (say an Impassionata or a Darwin with research skills) would not be able to provide ample links of conservatives doing awful things, awful court cases to support their narrative, and thus argue we functionally live in a fascist police state? No need to guess- I see these people on my socials! And if you take their posts and linkspam at face value, they too make some compelling cases.
There's some longer point to be made here where your secondary thesis is that leftists wailing about fascism don't really believe it because they don't really act like it, while rightists wailing that they have no right to protest loudly protest in public.
My reason for not believing MadMonzer when MadMonzer says that number is that four months ago he called anyone making it an idiot. Insert the Frieren meme here.
Again, is this just us not agreeing about what certain statements mean? MadMonzer says anyone calling Trump a Nazi is an idiot. MadMonzer also says he thinks there is a 10% chance Trump suspends the Constitution. Regardless of whether I think his number is too high, I do not think those two statements contradict each other. You do. Why? I say leftists cannot shoot conservatives with impunity. I also say your example of a leftist who was not prosecuted for shooting a conservative was (taking your version at face value) an injustice. I do not see these statements as contradictory. You do. Why?
I spent way more time typing this than I wanted to and not enough to even dig into counterarguments. You typically impress your fans with your collection of links and walls of text. No, I do not find them impressive because I think, as I have said before, much of what you throw at me is what I used to call mischaracterization, strawmanning, or cherrypicking, but now I think may simply be a fundamental difference in what we think is actually being asserted. But trying to engage with you is exhausting, because as I have also said, I have a really hard time following what you are even claiming from one paragraph to the next. I'm exhausted and I know I will be given no credit for trying to respond to you in good faith and the next round is going to be even more exhausting.
Yeah, a lot of other countries that have English as a required second language throughout primary school and secondary education (Japan and Korea, for example) are terrible at it. University students who have theoretically been studying English for 12 years often arrive barely able to manage basic introductions or simple phrases.
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