Kermode 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿@gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca

@menelion
Just kinda thinking now, and maybe babbling, but...
The problem with us people, OK, one of the problems, is that we're tribal.
So people get in this rut of being Labour, Republican or Conservative, because their dad and his dad...
No thought in it.
Same for Democrats or Greens, of course.
Me. I was raised as a nothing but a man u supporter ;-)
No politics, no religion.
So, when I'm talking about politics, I'm normally speaking to policy and ideas. I don't care which political camp they came from, so long as they're practical - or not.
About a particular candidate for something or other, that is different, yes. I've forgotten which country you are in, so I can't give an example of that just at the moment.

Kermode 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿@gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca

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@menelion It really does sound musical and nice I think.
My problem was the English. Of course.
They suppressed cultures wherever they invaded and colonized.
Anyhow. I don't have Welsh. Even though we lived in Wales and my dad spoke it, it was forbidden in the house by my English mother... so. yeah.
I only have a few words and the ability to make that double L sound ;-)

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Kermode 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿@gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca

Replying to @⁨menelion@caneandable.social⁩

@menelion That's very cool :-)
I only recently tried human languages. Like 3-4 years ago.
I always meant to...
Because I'm old, it's good for my brain to be doing things anyhow.
Montag, Dienstag, Mittwoch is french, spanish, german and repeat for the next three. Sunday is review cyrillic and attempt some more gurmukhi/punjabi. That last one is brutal, but I'm almost good on cyrillic. Pretty good.
I knew the greek (modern), so I thought cyrillic would be easy.
NO!
:-)
I have a tough time with things :-)

Kermode 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿@gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca

Replying to @⁨menelion@caneandable.social⁩

@menelion Oh yeah, shit, I forgot you were blind.
Yeah, it would be tricky.
It's even tricky, if you know the greek alphabet.
See, that's where I dicked up. I knew the greek one and though the russian would be easy...
BZZZT!!! no! :-)
33 letters plus a couple of pretenders vs the 24 of greek. Then they warp some perfectly good letter sounds into different ones, and and...
No.
It was a slog man.
And plus, I'm not into studying any slavic languages! :-)
Why did I do that to myself?
:-)
IDK!
I've seen some cool braille uses lately.
Like, our new hospital. All the signs and room identifiers have braille.
Also, tourist look outs. The balcony will have braille on the hand rail describing the vista.
Are things getting better you think or ... ?

Kermode 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿@gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca

Replying to @⁨menelion@caneandable.social⁩

@menelion Interesting thing: the native haida language of Haida Gwaii (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands) has the same sound in it :-)
When I was 15 years old, desk clerk in Prince Rupert, BC, Canada, I would listen to old ladies sizzling away in Haida in the lobby and I kept hearing the double L sound. It was quite pronounced.

André Polykanine@menelion@caneandable.social

Replying to @⁨gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca⁩

@gemlog I also researched about it. It is present in Icelandic, Mongolian, isiXhosa (Nelson Mandela's real name is Rolihlahla Mandela, and you pronounce R like in French roughly, but unvoiced, and Hl exactly like Ll in Welsh). It also exists in Tolkienian Elvish languages. for example, hlas is "ear" in Quenya, and you pronounce it with this sound also.