Chomsky, incoming!
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I would assume that in Yoda’s native language, grammar is structured differently than English, and that if language acquisition follows the same process as in humans, then Grogu will speak like Mando and other humans. Of course, that’s logical, and may not actually happen.
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Maybe, but where was Grogu for the first 50 years of his life? And would that have an impact?
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True, although at this point, he is preverbal, so I guess he’s about, what, maybe 16 months old in terms of development? Maybe even a bit younger. He’s walking, but not talking. A human child, if raised in one language to that point, but learning a second language exclusively after that, would quickly forget the first language. But Grogu isn’t human. And yeah, we don’t know where he was; was he with his own people, or with humans, or another species?
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Or, what George “pray that I won’t edit the existing movies any further” Lucas said.
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Not sure if this belongs here or in the Enshitification topic, but Lingonaut can’t launch soon enough as far as I am concerned.
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You could cross-post…
Yeah, that fucking sucks.
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von Ahn says that “Duolingo will remain a company that cares deeply about its employees” and that “this isn’t about replacing Duos with AI.” Instead, he says that the changes are “about removing bottlenecks” so that employees can “focus on creative work and real problems, not repetitive tasks.”
Translation: This is all about replacing Duos with AI. How can we increase our profits if we keep having to pay people?
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I second this going into Enshittification, because AI has been messing up things for this company for a while now. AI voice pronunciation and translation is incorrect a disturbing amount of the time. In an app where students are expected to repeat or type what the characters are saying, that’s a problem that leads to mistakes.
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The channel might be useful for learning german.
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And yet “yes, let’s” seems to be perfectly normal, I think more so than the expanded “yes, let us”. 
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Being really into Frankenstein while at the same time being Chinese is so funny because every time Lord Byron gets brought up, the way his name is pronounced always makes me think of the word 白人 (bái rén), which translates into “white guy”. Lord White Guy.
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Rapper name?
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…or an old school Jamaican musical artiste. Lord Fly, Lord Tanamo, etc XD
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About poetry, and languages. And why most of the time you need a poet to redo the poems instead of translate them.
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Duolingo strikes again. 
Started a new week in my league and they changed the promotion/safe/demotion numbers. It used to be 4-5 in the Promotion and Demotion zones, with ten positions in the middle that would remain in place. They must have figured out people weren’t progressing on purpose.
Now, it’s 4 in Promotion, 6 “safe” spots, and 10 in the Demotion zone. Unless they change it back, more people have to fight to stay in the middle. What do they think this is, The Hunger Games?
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I’ve noticed this as well. I’ve found it’s much easier to get demoted and harder to get promoted than before. In the past I could ride the middle for weeks with minimal effort.
I’m considering turning off the whole leagues aspect entirely as it’s just not adding any value for me. I haven’t really cared all that much about trying to get into higher ranks for a couple of years now so it’s more of a distraction than anything.
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Same. Just looked up how to turn my profile private on the desktop so that goes away in the app. I spent two weeks in the Diamond league once, and felt like that was a stressful waste of time. 
I’m curious to see if the loss of gamification leads me to practice fewer hours, but after all these years daily study is part of my routine.
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