KuroXppi [they/them]

idk why mossad is wasting the effort, Albo and state Labor are more than happy to tighten the screws regardless. Public support/opposition is immaterial

Genuine comrades would not carry out attacks like those focussed upon in the media (or attacks at all). The anti-Semites who burnt the synagogue in Melbourne and the child care centre in Sydney are almost certainly fascists. They achieve the double aim of terrorising Jewish people living in Australia and drawing increasing police attention against leftist protest against the genocide. Jews Against Fascism, based out of Naarm (Melbourne) is a good follow for anti-fascist news on this.

It’s called Rubi, and you can input it with the markdown {bottom text | top text} and you can put the floating text over anything basicallykitties are cute

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Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province North East China

https://baike.baidu.com/item/“共产党员号”机车/65167634

“Have you tried ‘kill all the poor’?” (cw: csa, ablist slur)

Standard riichi mahjong with gacha mechanics to get anime avatars. Has some mode variants that keep things interesting. The Dark Souls of mahjong is probably Tenhou where the serious players play

(Edit: also good joke )

Mine came back a couple hours ago, amd the update was about 100mb. The LTM is fun (Sky High Ambition, I think it’s a repeat) but the New Year event I don’t really get it. I liked the dice roll one more (got so many coppers to fuel a massive losing streak )

Likewise thank you very much for facilitating this AMA, and to your diplomat friend for taking the time to read and answer our questions 🤝🫡

I wish I knew how to cross post ,I would’ve cross posted to chapo trap house

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Yay majsoul servers finally back online :nyanshi-happy: i dread the day that HB and majsoul have overlapping downtime though 😨

Yeh, it’s v inconsistent for me too. Duck duck go browser has an inbuilt ad blocker but no screen-off play unfortunately

The show? ? (i don’t actually know cos i didn’t watch it but guessing)

One good trick is that the majority of alveolar sounds in English are actually made closer to a position just behind the teeth in Chinese. In phonetics this is a ‘denti-alveolar’ sound.

So for example the d in 但是danshi is made by holding the tip of your tongue behind the top row of your teeth, then letting the pressure release. It is /not/ made on or behind the alveolar ridge*

For these sounds too, you do not need to engage your vocal chords to make the characteristic added ‘rumble’ or ‘weight’ of an English d sound. This means it is an ‘unvoiced’ sound.

These two aspects (tongue position, voicing) differentiate the English /d/ from the Chinese one, and are what is likely responsible for the thickness/heaviness of your accent.

(*if you run your tongue along the roof of your mouth, the alveolar ridge is the ridge line about a cm behind the teeth, before it hits the hard palate as you make your way to the back of the throat).

You can learn more about Chinese phonetics at the wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Chinese_phonology

And to answer your second question, no, you will still be largely intelligible if you consistently use English sounds in the place of their Chinese counterparts.

The ones to look out for English background speakers (if applicable) are the sh of 是shi and the x of 习xi as the latter doesn’t exist in English really for most speakers, and Eng speakers may use the same sound for both. The other is zh of 张zhang and j of 江jiang for the same reason. The quickest trick to get the x and j sounds down is to start with the tip of the tongue behind the bottom teeth and feel how the bulk of your tongue is pressed towards the alveolar ridge. For the x sound, you slowly hiss air through that small gap. For the j you let the pressure build and then release.

… to be America’s friend is fatal

o7 for a phantump fan

Obligatory Prozd video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOzFab1izbg

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