megane_kun

megane_kun , 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

I agree about being able to grasp the gist of the message with some basic Japanese, but IDK about being able to actually read the message.

　お願い

　この先は危険ですので、これ以上前へ行かないようお願い致します。

There are some parts of the message that I don't think is included in basic Japanese lessons:

• 危険 → dangerous
• 以上 → exceeding, beyond
• 行かないよう → probably related to the V+ようだ construction, which with the following bit, might be a polite way of making a request.
• お願い致します → probably some polite way of saying ‘please’

If I were to translate the message with my meager self-taught Japanese, I'd probably render it as something like

Request

Because of the danger ahead, not going beyond here is humbly requested.

Though I don't think that fully captures the nuance of the message itself.

megane_kun , 9 days ago

Thanks! About the translation, yeah, my primary concern is putting across the wording of the original, that's why it became too literal. You know, that basic Japanese newbie learner tendency to be too literal.

I am also a bit stumped about the grammar used for the last sentence, but I'm guessing it's some polite construction which wouldn't affect the English translation too much.

megane_kun , 20 days ago

I didn't get it until I started trying to say "hot potato" in the middle of a sentence, like "Look out! Hot potato incoming!"

The 't' in "hot" became more and more like a glottal stop as my tongue started to touch the gums of my top front teeth less and less.

megane_kun , 19 days ago

The alien impersonator was me all along!‌ HAHAHA!!!

I mean, seriously, I am not a native English speaker, but even with my weird English accent, it only became weirder if I try to speak fast while keeping the emphasis on that 't' at the end of "hot". My native accent also probably lends to that glottal stop taking over the 't' and merging it with the upcoming 'p' sound. It also helps that the two sounds (glottal stop and the bilabial 'p') are on opposite sides of my mouth, so I‌ can quickly sound them in succession. The end result sounded to me like an exaggerated "posh British" rendition, as if the alien watched way too much‌ BBC before invading Earth.

It just sounded way weirder than I otherwise would be. I can't really describe it.

megane_kun , 28 days ago

Tagalog, my native language, has one that I've always wondered about: ‘umay.’ I would translate it as “too delicious, it's almost sickening.”

Imagine a cake that's too delicious, overwhelms your senses with sweetness, tartness, bitterness and all the good things that in moderation, would have made for a perfectly delicious cake. For example, “Masarap naman yung cake ni Maria, kaso nakaka-umay” (“Maria's cake is delicious, really, but it's a bit too much for me”). I guess one can put it as ‘too much,’ or ‘overwhelming,’ but there's this additional element of “it's actually kinda good, you know, but it went a bit too far.”

Now, I've been wondering if it's related to the Japanese 美味い (うまい), and the wiktionary entry I linked earlier has it as a possible origin. I find it kinda (morbidly) funny wondering if it got its present meaning during the second world war, when the Japanese invaded the Philippines. I'd imagine Filipinos would just keep saying "it's delicious, it's delicious," just to placate the Japanese, even if they're already too sick and tired of it.

megane_kun , 2 months ago

Rule of thirds, framing, and leading lines are the ones taught to me when I first took interest in photography. It's been really helpful to me, but it's really the rule of thirds really that stuck to me.

I guess cameras having those rule of thirds (or fifths) guide lines helped a lot too.

megane_kun , 2 months ago

You got me writing ‘vacuum’ and ‘anniversary’ in cursive, and got so conscious about how I write it that my speed crawled to a stop and my handwriting got even worse than what I started with, lol!

In casual writing, I separate out v, w and other letters that are trickier to write in full cursive. Same goes with t, i, j so that I can do the crosses and dots before moving on.

All those seems to have done the job of making my cursive a bit easier to read. All hell breaks loose when I need to write really fast though.

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EDIT: stupid formatting, lol!

megane_kun , 2 months ago

I tried writing them so that I can post this. I might have failed in making them both cursive and legible, lol!

That very last line is my attempt at writing at speed. 😅

https://i.imgur.com/kYioUoU.jpeg

megane_kun , 2 months ago

Lol~‌ Thanks.

I grew up at a time when cursive is a requirement–not just for one class, but for all classes in primary school. I remember our teachers checking our notebooks and making comments on our handwriting. All our compositions and essays were required to be in cursive, and they check for penmanship, keeping margins and all that. It was a whole lot of effort for something that I rarely get to use in higher levels. I switched to print in HS, when cursive is no longer required.

megane_kun , 2 months ago

IIRC, cursive capital Q is supposed to start way down, so that it’d look like an O with a broken infinity symbol in its butt, like this:

https://i.imgur.com/xenh0Fc.jpg

The direction of the strokes in the image is not how I learned it, though. Stroke 1 for the capital starts where stroke 2 starts, but going clockwise until just past where it starts, then smoothly start the second stroke (same direction as shown in the image).

However, I can see how it can look like a more flowy 2 and how people can say “yeah, that’s a capital Q.” Heck, cursive lowercase r barely looks like an r but people kinda get it.

megane_kun , 2 months ago

I remember coming across a similar comment chain, and someone brought out cursive Hanzi, and everyone lost their minds.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3d/e5/67/3de56754b6857353ffee589906ba6ca4.jpg

megane_kun , 2 months ago

Oh, yeah! Sometimes context helps, but if you can’t even read a single word, you’re just out of luck!

megane_kun , 2 months ago

What helped me get back to block print after six years of being required to write cursive is a shop/engineering drawing class that required us to use block print for our plates.

Our teacher in that subject taught us how to do block print, paying attention to each and every stroke and in what order we write them. I remember one of our first handful of plates just being the alphabet and some of the often used symbols. That helped us with our penmanship, without shaming anyone who might have had developed bad habits from previous years. Everyone is required to do it, so there’s no shame in sucking at it.

megane_kun , 2 months ago

Oh, yeah! It can vary from place to place and even from school to school even in the same place! There were even people saying that they can guess from which school someone graduated from based on how they do cursive. I think that’s just nuts.

My cursive nowadays is just reserved for when I‌ really need to write fast, and would tend towards some kind of a personal shorthand than any sort of legibility. 😅

megane_kun , 11 months ago

I’ve got enough reason to believe that any mentions of Lemmy, are met with shadow banning.

And like the master of gaslighting that it is, it doesn’t happen all the time, but often enough to deliver a chilling effect.

They want the dissenters to leave without a word.

megane_kun , 11 months ago

It might take a while before anything gets outputted. I think it might also be good if you try the –dry-run option first just so that you’d know what to expect.

Here’s a sample output from one of my runs. It’s already been scoured clean, so there’s nothing to do.

sample shreddit output for an account with no posts and comments

I usually just run it through a bash script with the relevant line being:

<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;">./shreddit-linux -u ${uname} -p ${pword} $dryrun > "logs/${uname}_${tsstr}.log"
</span>

Where ${uname} and ${pword} are my username and password respectively, and $dryrun is either –dryrun or the empty string.

The output is then saved to a log file with the name pattern username_timestamp.

Also, I noticed that you’re using the gpdr-export option. I think there’s some wonkiness regarding that? I am not sure though. I still recommend using the –dryrun option first just to see what’s up (without actually doing any changes to your account.

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EDIT:

I forgot to clarify, shreddit-linux is what I named the executable file I got from the repository.

megane_kun , 11 months ago

Before you give up on it, you might want to check on your shreddit.env file. The command line parameters override the stuff in there, but it might be a good idea to check anyways.

Best of luck!