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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The thing with English is you just have to learn phonetics by hearing, not by reading.

Sure. And you could say the same about Chinese, which is a fairly simple language to learn if you never want to be literate. But as so much of our communication is via text, the literacy angle is an insurmountable part of language learning.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

English spelling is easy enough that in 95% of cases you can match up the spoken word with the written word.

How's the percentage of that for Chinese?

In fact, if you want a language where it's actually hard to know how a word is pronounced if you only ever see it in the written form, you gave yourself the answer.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

in 95% of cases you can match up the spoken word with the written word.

I'd be curious to know if that's actually true.

How’s the percentage of that for Chinese?

If you know your radicals? We'll say "also 95%" just to be annoying.

But how do you learn the radicals? Same way you learn all the standard English pronunciations. Repetition.