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    13 hours ago

    no one is. this is the most ridiculous caricature I’ve ever seen and the immense snobbery of the so-called musician is unbearable. no one calls cellos violins. no one says Squidward flute or plinky plonk. literally everyone knows what a saxophone is, no one says careless whisper, which hasn’t been nearly as popular and ubiquitous as it was decades ago. i wouldn’t be surprised if fewer people know about careless whisper than they do about epic sax guy from Eurovision.










  • the reason to pick Chinese may be racist (possibly due to the writing system looking complicated) but the thought experiment itself doesn’t have racist connotations imo, and i don’t think it’s stupid either. doesn’t have to involve Chinese or a specific language at all.

    it’s a logical question to ask: if i can mimic speaking in a language to a point that it convinces native speakers, but don’t understand what I’m saying myself, am I considered a genuine speaker of that language? does what i say matter or have any value?





  • i currently live in an apartment and have only lived in apartments for more than three decades. i had noisy neighbors all my life. i usually let it go because it’s people living their lives and it’s fine.

    i have once knocked on the door of my neighbors upstairs because their music made it hard for me to actually hear myself talk. turns out they had friends visiting from abroad and they got carried away having fun. they apologized and turned the volume down. believe it or not, we survived that day.

    and where i live now there happens to be a noisy kid upstairs who loves jumping around. guess what, it’s a kid, that’s what they do. I’m an adult. saying fuck the planet I’m gonna live in a suburb because hearing other people annoys me is more childish than anything that kid will ever do.