SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
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SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
15hr ago
TIL I'm not Finnish because I regularly use words that have the letter c, q, w or z (none of which exist in native words).
Frankly, your so-called argument is just complete bullshit.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
I'm not an expert, but I think the key aspect of intelligence here is the ability to model the world. I am a little hung over and off my game this morning and I did not immediately recognize this as a trick question.
I don't think that's a trick question at all. It's simply a question where the trivial autopilot "answer" is not the correct one and you need to actually model the system on a very basic level
I'm reminded of when a certain friend of mine asks me questions related to programming or electronics. While he has a pretty good understanding of tech in general, he lacks an internal model of how electronic circuits or C++ work. He makes guesses but more often than not they are wrong because he's simply making assumptions from what he's read and what I've explained to him before without understanding how those were influenced by other things and how the specifics of his current project affect things. IOW he lacks a model of the system that he could use to make predictions of its behavior when changing some thing.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
5d ago
"Ma'am, this is Wendy's."
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
6d ago
I've always felt that the entire term "latchkey kid" was super weird. In the 80s in Finland that was simply considered the norm. Some families were well off enough that only one parent worked (or the other only worked part time) but those were exceptions. Our immediate neighborhood had a bunch of kids of similar ages and one mother worked only part time so we knew where to go if we needed help.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
6d ago
Don't try to spread your applestasy! It was agreed at the Council of Citrus that the taste of oranges is superior apples.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
6d ago
Ah, but you’re not using FancyModel 4.97-q35-r2 so it’s No True AI.
Or because they don’t work on the kinds of apps and problems you do and detest people who insist on trying to gaslight and force them into using something you happen to like.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
6d ago
IMO, apples taste slightly better
This is heresy! You should burn at stake, you filthy witch!
French is pretty much an extreme example in the language purity debate. In Finnish there is little to no controversy in using such loanwords but they are inevitably changed into a finnish style pronunciation, usually without changing the spelling. So c becomes k or s, q becomes k, w becomes v and z becomes ts. It goes even further than that in some common names so that the name is pronounced as a best effort pronunciation without the spelling being changed. Thus curry sauce gets written "curry-kastike" and pronounced as "karri-kastike" (but if you were to actually write it like that, it would sound like sauce made from a person named Karri).
Which is all to say that cultures take up loanwords all the time without necessarily caring one bit about the root or changing the spelling. Doubly so for anything related to internet or recent trends.
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