Conor Giles

That guy with the dog
Software Engineer
Applied Computing Graduate
English, Gaeilge, Français, 日本語, en een beetje Nederlands
(sé/é)
also @[email protected]

[Conor Giles @MkGiles]

@CaitRoisc There's not exactly a remedy, but the way out is through, by forming stronger associations of the correct language in the correct context. i.e. build more memories in the appropriate language and your brain will catch on eventually.

[Conor Giles @MkGiles]

@CaitRoisc Language acquisition is a lot more complex than this thread makes it seem, but this is a pretty normal phenomenon that anyone multilingual enough struggles with (my brain grabs for Japanese the moment I run out of words in Dutch, because I started learning Dutch in Japan)

[Conor Giles @MkGiles]

@Dawisco1 @doctorow @Kickstarter @bluesky It's ActivityPub based, same as Mastodon and others

[Conor Giles @MkGiles]

@Dogen I had to pause the video because i got hysterical during the 如何 forms, the trauma is very much real.

[milk @miilkkk]

giving gifts stresses me out
getting gifts stresses me out
what a bizarre fucking holiday
there is a tree in my house

[Conor Giles @MkGiles]

@writerofscratch I've been in this boat with both a cishet group and an openly queer one, in both cases the intimacy of the space breaks down barriers. But only if everyone is on the same page? A closeted person would distance themselves in group A, and a cishet person might sit apart in group B.

[Conor Giles @MkGiles]

@writerofscratch I'd say a qualified yes? like, you don't care about the nudity because *everybody* is naked, so you're not self-conscious, and you kinda end up on top of each other. but i think for a less lgbt-adjacent group, the mention of homosexuality might add some distance between patrons.

[SteinMakesGames (at Bluesky) @SteinMakesGames]

How 3D modelling works:

[Conor Giles @MkGiles]

@ScriptingJapan Getting to the point where I could legitimately notice "the writing in this book is garbage" was such a freeing moment in my learning journey.

[Conor Giles @MkGiles]

@psypsytuki @kenlife202010 これが欲しい！どこで見つけましたか？

[Conor Giles @MkGiles]

@writerofscratch yeah any time I see someone is a "hyperpolyglot" I immediately disregard. Fluency in multiple languages is doable but pretty close to untenable past like 4 languages. Language proficiency takes constant maintenance because your brain keeps trying to chuck out stale languages.

[Conor Giles @MkGiles]

@Amylouioc *closes draft email*
*opens draft email to TG4 instead*