Haven’t they been doing this since cowboy times?

Get one of those magnetic charger buttug adapters. It’s probably too late for this phone but if you use one for the next phone it’ll never gape

Didn’t know I was a Rodong Sinmun editor this whole time.

Elon had a broken clock moment. Rich elderly Anglo who regularly visits Thailand is 100% a pedo.

I bet you’re the type of guy to speak gibberish French in Paris and get mad when the locals reply in English.

3/4 nouns in that sentence are loanwords lmao. Anglos are so averse to learning other languages that they’ll just insert random English words into Japanese sentences reverse weeab style. There’s no way “schoolbus” is a common loanword.

What do you think Gaza will look like once Israel completes its genocide and turns it into beachfront property for septegenarians from New Jersey?

Western style suburbs like the rest of Israel, and definitely not anything resembling traditional Palestinian architecture. The building in the Xinjiang picture is in a traditional-ish architecture style for the region.

OK apparently the standard italian spelling is “capocollo”. I’ve only ever seen it spelled capicola or gabagool in the US. Wiktionary also lists capicollo, capicolla, and cappicola. Honestly just highlights my point. There’s what, 70mil Italian speakers? Imagine having to deal with this for the Billions of English speakers.

I’m not an Italian speaker but from what I remember. Italian Americans pronounce it “gabagool” because that’s how 19th c. Neopolitan pronounces that word, and presumably the “proper” spelling of “capicola” also comes from that region/era. c —> g, p —> b, and dropping word final vowels are apparently the phonemic rules for that dialect. Little subtleties like that exist for basically every phonetic writing system, even ones artificially constructed to be phonetically regular like Pinyin or Hangul. I’m sure if you asked Tony Soprano he would also think “capicola” is a perfectly phonetically regular way to spell it the same way French people don’t think the extra consonants at the end of french words are extraneous.

Simplification merged 73 characters out of tens of thousands. Simplification was just the codification of shorthands people have been using for thousands of years, some predating the Latin alphabet. It was mostly a nothingburger especially since people don’t handwrite much in the modern era and obviously Taiwanese people can still read and write fine.

Simplified Chinese was neither a massive reform nor is it a modern reform. Most of the simplified forms are pre-Qin from before 200BC and predate the Classical Latin Alphabet. The sum total of differences between traditional and simplified is literally only one page long. The current reforms were only accepted because they were based off of shorthand that people were already using. When the government tried to do a 2nd round of artificial simplification people just ignored them. Most people in the mainland still know traditional just from encountering it day to day or in historical documents.

The sort of phoneticization you want to do for English is closer to the reforms applied to the writing systems of minority languages like Yi and Zhuang and the result is that literacy rates for those languages are super low and those who do know how to read and write still use the old logographic orthography.

There’s currently a small movement of people who want to bring back traditional chinese in the mainland since the whole premise of it being harder to learn is objectively wrong since everyone already knows it. The only real opposition is just that HK/TW are so annoying that people associate seeing traditional online with liberal/chud opinions.

Also phonetically regular spelling reforms for English do exist and they usually require using a new alphabet and like 100 different edge cases. They usually aren’t compatible between American and British English and I doubt the type of nerd who comes up with these things have tried applying it to AAVE or Scots.

I don’t pronounce those words the way you’ve spelt it and I suspect if you paid close attention you don’t either. There are 20 vowel sounds in English and 5 vowel letters. Anyone who insists you can achieve phonetic regularity with the garbage writing system that is the latin alphabet should get their ears checked. Next time you hear some European brag about how their writing systems are “phonetically regular” just remember that Italians spell “gabagool” as “capicola”. Phonetic spelling is less about actually spelling things how people pronounce them and more about gaslighting people into believing that they’re pronouncing it wrong if they don’t match the spelling. Continental Europeans, being particularly weak willed and provincial, are more easily gaslit into this. The one good thing about the British is that they managed to jurry-rig a facsimile of logography with the shit orthographic hand they’ve been dealt.

I remember ADL said South Korea is “the most antisemitic country in Asia” once. Likely unrelated to Israel though.

Insults don’t have to be profound.

He is dumb.

Actually this is very funny.

This ain’t it chief. You could do that with almost any politician.

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I saw a homesteader guy jury rig a hot tub to run off a wood fire. He doeasn’t even have running water. I don’t think hot tubs have a particular stereotype tbh.

They’re gentrifying even the Yakub lore now. It wasn’t bubbling tanks it was Trickonomics and Eugenics!

shitting on F1 makes me feel patriotic.