Relevant to note diacritic usage is language-specific, and sometimes different orthographies for the same language prescribe different things. And since the text did a great job explaining it for French, might as well exemplify with another language, Portuguese:

• acute ⟨á é í ó ú⟩ - stressed vowel in an unexpected position; ⟨á é ó⟩ are [ä ɛ ɔ]
• grave ⟨â ê ô⟩ - stressed vowel in an unexpected position; ⟨â ê ô⟩ are [ɜ e o]
• tilde ⟨ã õ⟩ - nasal vowel in a position where spelling ⟨n m⟩ would be awkward; typically [ɜ̃ ɔ̃~õ]
• diaeresis ⟨ü⟩ - omitted from newer orthographic standards, formerly used to distinguish ⟨qu gu⟩ /k g/ and ⟨qü gü⟩ /kʷ gʷ/ before ⟨e i⟩
• grave: ⟨à⟩ - grammatical aid indicating crasis; for most people it doesn’t change pronunciation, although a few ones pronounce ⟨à⟩ as [ä:] in slow and monitored speech.

For real, I like old style emoticons way better than emojis. For a few reasons:

1. Colour. Or lack of. They blend better into the text, I find the colourful emojis too distracting.
2. Mix-and-match. The author mentions this with different words, but: you aren’t bound to a specific set of icons, you create your own.
3. More platform-agnostic. Every single corporation out there has a package with a different set of emojis, and what they convey might change because of those differences.
4. I’m a millennial. I grew up with the old style emoticons.

Someone: “you are what you eat.”

Burb: “I’m frrrrrruit!”

I’m so glad I picked this series on a whim. It has been a banger from the start to the end. I would never guess Kivia would become a penal hero, like Xylo and the others. But it makes sense, it doesn’t feel like an arse pull.

…second season, please!

>greentext in plain colour

It doesn’t feel as satisfying. But yes, it’s an option.

It should, but I don’t expect either Lemmy or PieFed to implement it. Because, like, the original role of greentext was quoting, and we already have quote blocks.

Prime example on how “I can do it” should not be confused with “I should do it”. Because, sure, technically you’re talking about the series, so it isn’t off-topic, and most comms wouldn’t have rules against this (it would screw discussion); but still in poor taste, you know?

I’ve been using >code blocks for that, but I low key want actual greentext here.

Ah, that was part of the instructions already. As well as KeepRes=1 (otherwise the game gets stretched) and SFX Volume=1 (turning SFX off — no sound effects is better than getting them repeating in a loop).

I just tried it, through Steam. Using proton 5.0-10 the game launches but quickly crashes; using proton experimental the game gets unresponsive; other proton versions are like either, or don’t even launch it.

I remember trying the same some years ago, but… frankly I grew tired, and Civ5 has a native port anyway…

I’m still waiting for “the” Wine release that will let me play Civilization III with an actual map, instead of a dark realm:

But hey, regardless of the above: all those changes sound like great news.

My Spanish is mostly Rioplatense-based so I typically use “ustedes”. I do try to memorise the verb conjugations for “vosotros” though, mostly for reading/listening.

Then for the singular I typically use “vos” most of the time, and “usted” in the formal. I don’t know exactly the rules; frankly I simply hack it through Portuguese, if I feel like I’d call the person “o/a senhor[a]” I use “usted”, otherwise I use “vos”. But just like the above I try to memorise the “tú” conjugations.

I remember ranting about it in the past, but, basically: the page regarding Brazil is fairly accurate, you’ll find 9001 types of plugs, and a mix of 127V and 220V (no underlying plug vs. voltage pattern). It reaches a point I’ve seen people daisy chaining adapters to get their stuff working, it’s bloody hell.

Some residences have both voltages. Including mine; it’s a few 220V sockets for highly demanding appliances, and the rest is 127V.

Brazil aims to phase out the other types; see footnote. // (1) beginning January 1st, 2007 new residential, commercial and industrial wall outlet installations must comply with this new standard, and // (2) beginning August 1st, 2007 imported electrical devices must comply with NBR 14136 regulations. It is the aim to gradually phase out NEMA flat blade and Schuko devices in Brazil.

Hello, I come from the future. 19 years past 2007. The mess is still there. Try harder dammit. Prime example on how completely dysfunctional the federal government is, I bet shit would be already solved if up to the States, at least in some of them.

[Caveat lector: I don’t even speak English, to be honest.]

Give this page and this page a check. They’re a mess to follow, but to keep it short:

There isn’t a “single” Kiwi pronunciation, but a wide range between “cultivated” (resembling Received Pronunciation) to “broad” (rather unique). So if you can pull out a RP you could use it, but note you’d probably sound old-fashioned.

With one notable exception (Otago), local accents are typically non-rhotic. So for example, no *[ɹ] in “art”.

“Broad” pronunciations tend to raise vowels; so for example “trap, dress, price” sound like “trepp, driss, proice” in comparison with British accents. In the meantime “kit” is pronounced with the schwa, [ə], so it should sound the same as the first vowel in “about”.

Possible, but “better diet” on its own should apply to all five.

Another interesting bit in that pic is India. It was in a rather steep curve up from before '85 to ~'92[?]. Then it dropped, stagnated, started climbing back.

Mao died in '76. This wasn’t some great achievement, but the end of one of the most catastrophic policies any country has submitted its own population to.

Nah. Even if we eyeball the start of the curve, like I did, it clearly starts way before 1976+19 = 1995:

And upon further inspection even my eyeballed 1991 is a bit too late; 1969+19 = 1988 would make a better fit. It’s something that happened before the 70s.

Improved health conditions. The start of the curve is around '91, and given this graph is for 19yos it’s probably some change around '72. I don’t know which change.

That’s why you should only invoke foocubi — dealing with sour demons is a pain.

…my ⟨L d α⟩ look exactly like this, but unlike whoever wrote this table my ⟨o a⟩ are indistinguishable too. And my medial ⟨s⟩ is almost indistinguishable from ⟨f⟩, both look like ⟨ʃ⟩, except ⟨f⟩ gets a horizontal stroke . My calligraphy goes from amazing to nasty depending on how much effort I take.

Venetian:

• (ƚe) ciacoƚe ['tʃa.kɔ.e] (gossips, chitchatting); singular (ƚa) ciacoƚa ['tʃa.kɔ.e̯a]
• ciacoƚar [tʃa.kɔ.'e̯äɾ] (to gossip, to chitchat)

Not some fancy word, I know. But it’s nice to get this sort of everyday stuff.

This isn’t even a “lie”. It’s worse than that: it’s an empty statement misleading readers to see meaning where there’s none.

Commitment is intentions. Even between human beings, you don’t know someone else’s intentions, at most what they claim about them; so there’s no way to check if the “I’m committed to $thing” claim is true or false. But to make it even worse, a company is not a human being, it is simply an abstraction, unable to have “intentions”.

So, let’s call bread “bread” and wine “wine”: people working for Microslop noticed it’s being called “Microslop”, they know why, and they’re trying to minimise brand damage — trying to convince you that Microslop does not output slop, and that the Moon is made of green cheese. That’s it.