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  • Hawke@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneSwed deez nuts
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    23 days ago

    How in the fuck do you read this in order?

    This is like the worst mixture of top- and bottom-posting I’ve ever seen.

    Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.

    > Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

    >> Top-posting.

    >>> What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?




  • Hawke@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    2 months ago

    Glad to help!

    I found it useful as a little kind of mnemonic to call out the distinctive features of each language.

    The one major thing it misses is that Japanese uses some of the Chinese characters, so you have to check for the “stabby/loopy” characters mixed in to tell; and sometimes there aren’t any if the text is short.










  • Hawke@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldKansas City
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    3 months ago

    can anyone comment how often that is used by people in the region?

    Frequently, though it’s mostly informal shorthand for “the greater Chicago metropolitan area”, you probably wouldn’t say “I live in Chicagoland” unless you were intentionally being vague.