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[–] Gork@lemm.ee 67 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Nobody expects the Spanish language inquisition.

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

¿Donde está la biblioteca?

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Me llamo T-Bone. La araña discoteca.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

I'm so happy I get this reference

[–] oce@jlai.lu 55 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The essence of reality is in the difference between "ser" and "estar".

[–] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Ser and estar aren't that difficult. I mostly see people struggle with por/para or the subjunctive mood.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's not about the difficulty, it's that what they differentiate has philosophical consequences.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Imagine casting a spell and mixing your prepositions.... immediate disaster

[–] neutron@thelemmy.club 1 points 6 months ago

I put on my robe and wizard sombrero.

Subjunctive is the bane of my existence

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Si es certo, pero estas equivocado

Es como Heisenberg

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Watch who you’re callin’ equivocado hombre!

I’ll teach you about the limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties, such as position and momentum, can be simultaneously known!

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Yep but with error margin aka big chance of missing the target

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

(Actually I definitely won’t as you may be able to tell from me copy/pasting from Wikipedia)

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

philosophy isn't real, your life is a lie, everything you've ever known and loved is a social construct made up at some point to appease the human brains insatiable desire for structure.

And yet, philosophers still exist for some reason. Curious.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I too hear the call of the void, brother.

the call of the void is the philosophers bedding.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago

Become a soulist

[–] spiderwort@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

All form is interpretation.

So is interpretation just physics? Like, mass and inertia?

interpretation would be a linguistic concept. Specifically regarding the structuring of sentences in a language. Unless we're referring to the physical act of conceptualizing a real concept, which then again, falls back onto linguistic roots.

Math, physics, and science, would all be a fundamental existence of the universe, our construct of that system in the universe is merely our common interpretation of how to conceptualize and explain that thing.

You place one stick on the ground, you have one stick on the ground, you place two sticks on the ground, and you have two sticks on the ground. This sentence is merely a conceptualized representation of the concept that things are static, and can be conjoined into bodies.

It nature this can be seen at the atomic level, or on a beach of sand for instance. Though the atomic model we have, is yet another interpretation of something.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Second language teachers are all a little crazy.

My German teacher was nuts, but mostly in a fun or benign way. She genuinely cared for her students, though, and there were a lot of lessons that had nothing to do with language skills at all.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

My high school French teacher split in the middle of a semester to join the Bagwan Shree Rajneesh cult in 1984, so yeah.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

I remember an argument between the spanish and french kids. the french kids were saying the spanish teachers were the most insane. The french kids the opposite.

It was quite heated.

They all looked at me and my other friend that was also in german looking for a tie breaker. "I don't know what your talking about. [The single German Teacher] is definitely the craziest." it was a point of pride. they were quite taken aback. She had been caught on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall and took several weeks out of the year to talk about both the holocaust and east germany and how awful they were.

and it wasn't the sugar coated 'murica-great' oorahrah that was history class.

[–] CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You decide. The followers all worked on the farm, wore very simple clothes, got rid of all their worldly possessions. The Bagwan was driven around in a Rolls Royce, lived separately from the commune. He also didn't pay taxes and the government thought he owed them millions.

I think there's a documentary on line somewhere now.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Found the doc: Wild Wild Country on Netflix

[–] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 21 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Really and truly though, it's physics.

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 36 points 6 months ago (1 children)

actually physics is just applied math. and in fact, it is actually philosophy. which is applied language. so the spanish teacher is right.

[–] UNY0N@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was on reddit for years, now lemmy since the reddit enschittification started. This is the best comment I've ever read. So many layers of truth, meme reference, and wit!

You made my week.

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 months ago

thank u my friend :))

[–] supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

And beginners french!

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Physics, chemistry, biology, neuroscience, whatever other physical sciences are all the same thing when you get down to it, just a different applications of it for describing different things...

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No it's all bits and bytes all the way down.

[–] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Relevant username

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Unironically, language dictates how we think.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

It was. And it is called Sapir–Whorf hypothesis.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

So if you're bilingual or speak more languages you have to cast a vote every time you make a decision?

What am I having for dinner?

Hot dog - screams your English speaking part

¡Tacos! - says the brain from your mother's side

No, curry! - comes your dad's side of the brain

Gagh, petahq - who knew? Seems like you're 5% Klingon

Omelette au fromage - that's the part that stayed on Reddit for too long

Voting results: I think I'm fasting tonight

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Spanish is just the bastard child of Latin.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Proto-Italic? Well that's just someone's amateurish, slanted opinion.

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 5 points 6 months ago

It's bastard children all the way down.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

...and Arab

[–] spiderwort@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

The entire universe is beige

(Says a man facing a beige wall)

[–] leddit@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

Essence of Reality? Tan cierto.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

I never realized this but it seems logical. I grew up in a French speaking area of Canada, English is the second language, but the provincial TV was broadcasting Spanish lessons. From the earliest moment that I can remember watching TV, there was Spanish lessons on it.