SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
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That’s a bit like a frog accusing a toad of being a dirty amphibian.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1d ago
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.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1d 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
4d 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
6d ago
"Ma'am, this is Wendy's."
Isn't that how English has behaved for the last N hundred years?
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