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zorokash t1_jdi6x19 wrote
Reply to Santa must have been really unreliable at deliveries prior to cartoons. Almost every cartoon character has had to help him at least once over the last 70 years. by formerlyanonymous_
This is more of cultural misunderstanding of Americans not knowing how to deal with European customs and traditions.
Also this has something to do with American sentiment of anything old is bad and anything new and modern is always better.
zorokash t1_jb8pv4g wrote
Reply to comment by KindlyContribution54 in Florida man finds giant clam estimated to be 214 years old by citytiger
Oh yeah, my bad. Thanks for pointing that out.
zorokash t1_jb6pxkl wrote
Reply to comment by TrashJack42 in Florida man finds giant clam estimated to be 214 years old by citytiger
Not unless the clam was pre soaked in Mercury or cyanide.
zorokash t1_j6k9p2n wrote
Reply to comment by AwesomeDragon97 in European researchers are developing tech to let people have robotic third arms controlled with their brain's spare neural capacity by lughnasadh
Much easier. Robot limbs would be battery powered and connect to body mostly with just the neuron network. Actual bio limbs would be like an Organ transplant. Quite a complicated mess, and is lifelong commitment to immunosuppression.
I dont mean adding Robot limbs would be actually easy, just saying that is still easier in few degrees of magnitude than an actual bio limb.
zorokash t1_j6k8gro wrote
Reply to comment by AwesomeDragon97 in European researchers are developing tech to let people have robotic third arms controlled with their brain's spare neural capacity by lughnasadh
Yeah, extra limbs also need completely reworking anatomy neural networks, muscle memory, physiology. Lot more probably. Its gonna be quite a while before we get to that level.
zorokash t1_j6jw3k2 wrote
Reply to comment by arequipapi in The door handle to the restroom at work is marked by wedding rings. by BoardWithLife
Hm. Maybe this is a Christian thing? Wedding bands arent really a thing with other religions or even non religious from other cultures. Also, most cultures use the right hand for ceremonial/inportang rings and left hand for other fancy stuff.
zorokash t1_j6jt2y1 wrote
Or Rings in general. Theres a reason it's called the Ring finger, most people put their rings first on that finger wedding bands or otherwise.
zorokash t1_j6a54kx wrote
I love you Phillip Morris,
Jim Carrey plays a marvellous character and I just can never expect what his character will do next, but he does everything for the love of his life played by the beautiful Ewan McGregor.
One of my favourite love stories of all Time.
zorokash t1_j54fy2a wrote
Samjay? Really??? Its Sanjay you uncultured human.! How can you get the name wrong??
zorokash t1_j28461g wrote
Reply to comment by GatsbyFitzgerald in Unpopular Opinion: Better Call Saul is Boring. by [deleted]
Cool, my bad.
zorokash t1_j2844u6 wrote
Reply to comment by malapropter in Unpopular Opinion: Better Call Saul is Boring. by [deleted]
Oh. My bad. Still, thought the kettleman case was actually pretty good story.
zorokash t1_j282hfl wrote
Reply to comment by readMyFlow in Unpopular Opinion: Better Call Saul is Boring. by [deleted]
Ikr. Weird thing to watch 5 seasons of a show you could never connect with. Season 6 doesn't have any more bombastic scenes than any previous ones.
zorokash t1_j237zs2 wrote
Reply to comment by village_aapiser in In the future will we have random teens making movies like avatar with text prompts from their bedroom and flood the youtube? by village_aapiser
No, anyone with an iPhone can make mediocre content. To make content that has any amount of depth more than a cheap "interesting shot", there really needs to be plenty of hard work regardless of what media and tools you have at your disposal. Talent is not same as tools. And noone is "born" talented. Even geniuses who contributed to the field at young age will have had lot of exposure to it which noone else gets.
zorokash t1_j0svlq0 wrote
Reply to comment by LightIsWater in Ancient Grammatical Puzzle That Has Baffled Scientists for 2,500 Years Solved by Cambridge University Student by Superb_Boss289
You are missing one big difference.. Latin today is used solely for two purposes, as a liturgical language on religion, and scholarly study of the language.
Sanskrit has more than just those. There is literature like prose poetry and plays written, recited and enacted for crowds. There are philosophical discussions happening. There was recently a south Indian commercial movie released , made entirely in Sanskrit, for general public to watch and enjoy.
For these reasons. Sanskrit is not in same boat as Latin. People keep trying to push it in that, but it isn't.
Also, how a language changes along with time is entirely dependent on culture and the specific language construction itself.
Sanskrit was largely focused on oral traditions and was extensively worked out to prevent changes in language sounds. Paninis works shows how those time lasting standards and mechanisms were made and enacted. Due to its peculiar circumstances, it should not be judged on same standard as other language with little to no sound standards like in latin or Hebrew etc.
zorokash t1_j0sq3g3 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Ancient Grammatical Puzzle That Has Baffled Scientists for 2,500 Years Solved by Cambridge University Student by Superb_Boss289
Yes, not Noone. There are speakers who speak it regularly, in the several thousands. Just not as mother tongue.
zorokash t1_j0spg6c wrote
Reply to comment by LangyMD in Ancient Grammatical Puzzle That Has Baffled Scientists for 2,500 Years Solved by Cambridge University Student by Superb_Boss289
>Nobody is learning that language and using it in their day-to-day life as their primary mode of communication.
What difference does it make if the communication is the primary mode or secondary mode. What kind of arbitrary rule is this that there should be people who call it mother tongue for them to be considered a speaker of that language?
>"No native speakers" is a rough approximation of that, but still pretty much accurate - someone's primary day-to-day language would be what their kids learn.
That is irrelevant for it to be a qualifier for life of the language. A language spoken by 1st language speakers or 2nd language speakers is still the same language and usage. If do not use english for anything except in professional life should I not be considered part of the speaking population keeping it alive? Literally by speaking it, I am keeping the language tendencies accents inflection popcuktural references phrases and idioms, all relevant and recognizable. How is that not adding to keeping the language alive and well?
> An "undead" language, if you will.
So a Zombie language? Dude , the definition of living person vs a zombie is a human imagination. Just say its Alive without using complex "undead" status.
Besides, Latin is not used as extensively outside of religious services as Sanskrit is used.
zorokash t1_j0snvmy wrote
Reply to comment by youdubdub in Ancient Grammatical Puzzle That Has Baffled Scientists for 2,500 Years Solved by Cambridge University Student by Superb_Boss289
You are literally forgetting how Sanskrit works. There has always been an unbroken line of scholars who have learned the language and have a vast understanding of the inflection and verbal varieties.
There is plenty supporting evidence of how vedas being recited in vedic schools with aid of oral traditions, are reciting in the exact inflection and speech variation as the ancient times. The oral traditions have literally constructed mechanisms to ensure this as a system that is widely studied as well. Sanskrit is not some language that people stopped using it for hundreds of years. Never the case. Infact the last Sanskrit scholar who wrote extensively in the language was no more than a 150 years ago.
There have been several Sanskrit schools of learning before and after that person. You are in denial of how the language actually functions and exists and studied continually. And all of these do cause language variations and trends just as much as any other language, or maybe fewer, but not zero.
zorokash t1_j0smzeh wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Ancient Grammatical Puzzle That Has Baffled Scientists for 2,500 Years Solved by Cambridge University Student by Superb_Boss289
I literally explained how people are speaking it as a secondary language for various functions such as speech, poetry, prose, and theatre. People are speaking and writing it. There are schools teaching it in the hundreds. You are using the word "speaking" but not giving a satisfactory definition of it.
zorokash t1_j0smk06 wrote
Reply to comment by TurkeyDinner547 in Ancient Grammatical Puzzle That Has Baffled Scientists for 2,500 Years Solved by Cambridge University Student by Superb_Boss289
The entire work of Panini : Astadhyayi is the set of rules being discussed here. The rules are approx 4000, which have a system of construction of words and sentences. The debate of solving the system is to use it to get the resulting sentences which always differed from reality of actual Sanskrit language.
The student/scholar recently found the right interpretation of the rules, which is what the achievement is. Now the rules and algorithm produce results as prescribed by Panini in his ancient work. It is called a machine cos the rules act as a mechanism acting on a sound based input and producing a meaningful words and sentences as outputs. Hence a machine.
zorokash t1_j0sfjok wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Ancient Grammatical Puzzle That Has Baffled Scientists for 2,500 Years Solved by Cambridge University Student by Superb_Boss289
They are dying BECAUSE noone is speaking them... going extinct if it makes more sense to you?
zorokash t1_j0sff4k wrote
Reply to comment by FoolishConsistency17 in Ancient Grammatical Puzzle That Has Baffled Scientists for 2,500 Years Solved by Cambridge University Student by Superb_Boss289
Languages change due to act of speaking. Not related to it being native to anywhere or not.
English is not native to 99% of Indian population and some approx 20% can speak it. But if you removed those 20% and isolated them from other english speakers, the English they speak will still continue to change and adapt for newer needs and trends in language and pop culture.
This logic of a language is frozen if spoken only by second language speakers is entirely flawed. I know 6 languages, but if my 6th language got new trends among similar 6th language speakers of same language, I will still register that and it may or may not propagate back to 1st speakers of that language depending on how popular it gets.
zorokash t1_j0se5fm wrote
Reply to comment by youdubdub in Ancient Grammatical Puzzle That Has Baffled Scientists for 2,500 Years Solved by Cambridge University Student by Superb_Boss289
People are having conversations in it, writing literature, has a news telecast in Sanskrit, there are drama and theatre , .... what else needs to happen for it to be considered "speaking" it?
zorokash t1_j0sdvrl wrote
Reply to comment by Shibbledibbler in Ancient Grammatical Puzzle That Has Baffled Scientists for 2,500 Years Solved by Cambridge University Student by Superb_Boss289
There are a few everyday speakers of Sanskrit, who use it sort of a vernacular in public speaking.
zorokash t1_j0sdbc1 wrote
Reply to comment by TurkeyDinner547 in Ancient Grammatical Puzzle That Has Baffled Scientists for 2,500 Years Solved by Cambridge University Student by Superb_Boss289
Dude, the article clearly says this is about language and grammar. Why would you think about stones and machines? This is pseudo algorithm techniques.
It didn't make too many errors, the rule book was never correctly applied, and hence no accurate and conclusive results. That's the argument made here. And once the correct application is deciphered the errors are reduced to nearly zero. And thata why it is an achievement.
How bad are you at reading comprehension?
zorokash t1_jdi7unw wrote
Reply to comment by formerlyanonymous_ in Santa must have been really unreliable at deliveries prior to cartoons. Almost every cartoon character has had to help him at least once over the last 70 years. by formerlyanonymous_
Were those cartoons American or European?