Bilingualism is a bit overloaded nowadays, which I find kinda annoying given that word “polyglot” exists.

Anyways, if you can freely use another language in an informal exchange with a few people of different sobriety levels while failing to remember key words and recovering from that - you’re a fluent polyglot. Ability to exchange information is a key part of what language is, and that’s how you measures your proficiency.

Bilingual can also mean “natively proficient in two languages”. And if you’re older than three years old and are not native speakers of multiple languages already, the chances of you becoming one are slim.

Native proficiency is a result of a language acquisition ability that is not well understood and disappears early into child development. It results in a level of effortless mastery that seems to be impossible to achieve as an adult, i.e. a dedicated or merely attentive native speaker will be able to recognize that you are not one.

It’s not “people vs persons” but “those people vs they”.

Conversationally, “those/these” distances you from the group you are talking about, which is humorously weird when it’s your family you’re talking about.

It’s not the meaning of the words, but habitual (and often fleeting) attribution around them that tripped you up.

PS: “People” are uncountable, “persons” are countable. That’s basically the whole difference between the two plurals. Although it’s rapidly disappearing, as “ten people” won’t raise a single eyebrow in a conversation.

“Mistakenly”

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• Latexfauna
• Один в каное
• Клавдія Петрівна
• Casa Ukrainia
• Vivienne Mort
• Цвинтар
• Гордій Старух
• Харцизи
• SadSvit
• Структура щастя
• Хейтспіч
• Пиріг і Батіг
• Мур
• Valvi
• Жадан і собаки
• Курган і Agregat
• Sasha Boole
• Хамерман знищує віруси
• Діти інженерів
• Jockii Druce
• Ницо потворно
• Drudkh
• Артистка Чуприненко
• Braves Only
• Burned Time Machine
• Колос

This should cover a decent variety of styles and dialects.

Ten and a half. And that’s only if we discount Tuzla island dispute and continuous attempts to take control of politics and economy.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Considering that git doesn’t need federation, and email is the grandfather of federation, sourcehut has a working version of it this very moment.

By only caring of things when they affect you.

How very republican of you.

Laws of Ukraine explicitly state that elections cannot be held in a wartime. These provisions are older than current presidency and parliament.

Claim to illegitimacy due to refused elections is the best way to tell everyone you gobble up Russian propaganda.

Occupying a country that size doesn’t take a mere week. So no, it won’t.

Oh yeah, please do imagine there is no such thing as a time zone.

On an ellipsoid!

Teeth cannot produce enamel. Enamel is not a living tissue and it was produced by cells outside of the tooth in a coral-like manner. In order to grow a new tooth, you need it to be fully surrounded by specialized living tissue for the whole growth cycle.

PS: I honestly expected something like this to come out of bioelectric computation research, but progress seems slower there. Or rather knowledge and techniques in other fields is reaching critical mass, giving us these advances.

So in a choice between arrest and killing innocents, choosing to kill innocents is moral somehow?

Identification != Authentication

As obvious as this sounds, I’ve learned over the years that most people don’t understand what it means exactly.

Giving the life the middle finger is the ultimate expression of freedom.

Some people don’t care to continue living, some people face a mental decline that will destroy the lives of their loved ones, some are in constant pain, the list goes on.

Forcing them to keep on living is torture. Unfortunately some people are incapable of compassion and stick to medieval concepts of propriety devised to keep the serfs working.

It might be surprising to you, but there’s no beauty in suffering.

Monitor the room temperature.

It’s called Russia Law because it’s literally a Russian law copied verbatim

If you use HTTPS, the attacker can still see what websites you connect to, they just can’t see what you are sending or receiving. So basically they can steal your browsing history, which defeats the purpose of a commercial VPN for many users.

This is blatantly false. They can see IP addresses and ports of you connect to from IP packets, and hostnames from TLS negotiation phase (and DNS requests if you don’t use custom DNS settings). HTTP data is fully encrypted when using HTTPS.

If exposing hostnames and IP addresses is dangerous, chances are that establishing a VPN connection is as dangerous.