It’s pretty clear based on this response that you don’t understand the concept, Matt.

You sure do assume a lot, huh? I’m not going to explain it better than the top comment of the thread already did. You should read it. You should also take some time to think about how you come across.

Wow.

Anyone so convinced of this has never been raped.

I have in fact encountered a bear in the wild, a mama bear with her cub. They weren’t interested in me, just crossing my path trying to get to the river. I stopped walking and started talking so they’d know I was there. They went on their way, I waited a little bit to make sure they weren’t coming back, and then I went on mine.

I’ve also been raped by a man I thought was my friend.

Also even for accounts that are more than six days old, that’s the beauty of the fediverse. Your instance does something you don’t like, hit the bricks.

A viewpoint from someone who would choose the bear:: I don’t think all men are by default violent sexual predators. It’s much more about the fear that we won’t be believed.

Nobody questions whether you wanted to be attacked by a bear. Nobody makes the case that the bear just made a mistake and we don’t want to ruin his future. Nobody suggests that you lead the bear on then changed your mind. It behooves us to be wary of being vulnerable with men until we have more information about the specific man we’re engaging with because of things go sideways there’s a good chance we’ll be blamed.

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Your assumption is correct, thank you, I edited :)

I had no idea that there was ever actually a moment for Esperanto that got blocked! I figured it had just been dismissed out of hand since its inception.

Honestly I think so menu little many people would be on board with something like this since so many people speak multiple languages. Unfortunately, I can’t imagine a world where even 50% of Americans would even try to learn a second language. I think many would outright refuse as a matter of anti intellectual and xenophobic ideology.

It’s not really that diverse though. Overwhelmingly, the language of diplomacy and business currently is English.

William Shatner made that movie though

Honestly I was trying to learn Esperanto for a while, it’s very easy since it was constructed to not contain irregular conjugations or pronunciations. But getting everyone to learn Esperanto would never happen.

If the global language ever changes from English, I assume it will be to Chinese.

Dialect was probably the wrong word, because of course there’s many different dialects in many countries. (In fact, your aside about “sounds very US American” is funny, since I guarantee the US has more dialects than Spain. Plenty to hate on the US for, but that ain’t it.)

Anyway idk if there’s a word for this but like, the intermediary level between a language and a dialect. There is a wide gulf between Spanish spoken in Spain vs Latin America the same way as English in the UK vs USA. That macro-level distinction breaks down into trees of further distinction in regions, cities, towns of course.

Also check out !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml for more questions like this one.

The tipoffs to being Spain Spanish if they teach extra conjugations for vosotros and if they speak evening with a lisp because at some point it was decided to emulate a king with a speech impediment.

I think it’s silly to say that Spain Spanish is canonical, though. Like, says who? Spanish people? Spanish in Spain is a dialect just like any other Spanish-speaking country. Imo it makes sense to teach the dialect that learners are most likely to encounter based on their geographic location, with context about the other dialects.

OP, you and your husband should download the Stellarium app. You can compare stars together when you talk. 🙂