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How scientist think you can learn languages:

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Space Repetition sucks. Here is a way to make it suck much less, and also more effective, *specially* for language learners

A quick #langtwt 🧵

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@dhh Quite accurate, with 1 caveat: Big cities, specially Copenhagen, are not as homogeneous any more. Official comms in English are more and more common.
Many sectors can't find enough skilled workers, so they are forced to open up - even if most political parties don't want to

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@dhh @KDEFRAH Yes, but why coupling client *and* server in 1 product-service?
The beauty of email is that you can use any provider with pretty much any client.
Hey is a walled garden (ran by nice people, I'm sure, but a walled garden nevertheless)

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@Clint_Davey1 I'm not a game designer, but I much suspect that the secret is the same for books, movies, video games, toys, phone apps, and many other consumer products:

80% do everything PERFECT + 80% luck... with a little room for maneuvering, perhaps...

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@MLautmer @MamaShellington They don't ask you for directions that you don't know ;)

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@dhh

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@dhh @florian_karsten A private 1 hour visit to Danish hospital on your own costs +500$, I find it pretty obvious what is better.
Public healthcare here was awful 10 yrs ago, but much better now.
No way I trade your home country for the US, even as tech worker.

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@JaimeObregon Al final te has rendido a los encantos de la RAE y has puesto ja, ja, ja con las comas ;)
En esta carta hasta quedan bien.

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@itsolelehmann One does not appreciate what they have until they lose it.

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@itsolelehmann Social welfare. Life expectancy. Work-life balance. Livable, walkable cities. Cultural diversity. Castles, Alps, National parks, Ocean beaches, etc. at 2 hour flight - or less. Mediterranean gastronomy and climate. No guns in schools.
And 1000 other reasons, honestly.

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@JaimeObregon Para mí la mayor dificultad en escribir bien es que Twitter/X no me dejar editar mensajes para corregir legítimos errores ortográficos (como en mi mensaje de arriba).
Eso sí que jode.

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@JaimeObregon Steven Pinker: "Uno puede elegir obsesionarse con las reglas prescriptivas, pero estas no tienen más que ver con el lenguaje humano que lo que los criterios para evaluar gatos en una exposición de gatos tienen que ver con la biología de los mamíferos"

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@JaimeObregon Lo siento, pero yo creo que las normas sí son arbitrarias.

Me da fastidio que se use un anglicismo cuando hay equivalente ("fake" por paparruchas, por ejemplo), pero si no existe palabra para un concepto, que hay de malo en cogerla prestada sin más?

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@GergelyOrosz @mipsytipsy if you like a good rant, ask her about "the 3 pillars of observability"

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@MLautmer Totally, it happens to me as well! But I think that often results in bare frustration, no an "its my identity" thing...
And some times one chooses to not prioritize that because there are only 24 hours in day, and that is fine too :)

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@MLautmer And also believe, to be clear, that "not bothering with" is a perfectly legit attitude; it is your choice what you want to work on and not. Just no need an excuse :)

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@MLautmer IMO everything that start with "but my identity is" is always an excuse for something.
But in this case I believe the excuse is for "not bothering with", rather than "not being able to".

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@jon_language the best kind of fun :)

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The ideal study method is both fun *and* effective. But what if you can only have one?
Do you rather do something not so fun but very effective, or something not so effective but very fun?

#langtwt

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@MLautmer Maybe because you don't like to give orders? :)

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@MLautmer I have different skills depending on how I learnt. For example in English I can read almost as fast in Spanish, but in Italian, that I understand perfectly, I am an extremely slow reader and struggle a lot. Because I didn't learn it that way, I did very little of it.