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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 14:20:24 JST mcc

   One of the things I've started doing with my new tablet is jumping into a language app (Pimsleur) to learn Japanese and a problem I'm running into, trying to say words out loud, is I keep wanting to drag out my consonants, both due to southern drawl and due to if I talk slower it gives me more time to think, except in Japanese phonetics how long you draw out your vowels has semantic content so my southern drawl is actually probably destroying the comprehensibility of the words I'm saying

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 14:20:23 JST mcc

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     Pimsleur is VERY CLEARLY adapted with almost no changes from a books on tape series, which… well you know what it works about a thousand times better than Duolingo so if the audiobook wearing a shoddy paper mache app costume turns out to be a *good* audiobook, that's a win

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 14:20:23 JST mcc

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     Audiobook: You think you see someone you recognize, and you want to get her attention. How do you do it?

     Me [All memory fled suddenly except anime]: Oiiii

     Audiobook [sample voice]: Sumimasen

     [ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: UGLY AMERICAN]

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 14:20:23 JST mcc

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     Update: Oh no oh no "so des ne" idiomatically is understood to mean diametrically opposite things ("yes, that's true!" "hm, I'm not sure") depending on whether you say it quickly and confidently or slowly and uncertainly however because I don't speak Japanese I say everything slowly and uncertainty

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 14:22:29 JST mcc

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     *throws open the door to the Internet* I CAN COUNT TO TEN!!!

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 14:22:29 JST mcc

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     …is what I was GOING to say after tonight's lesson, however also this evening I watched an anime about a vampire who becomes a YouTuber, and I noticed a pattern, which means I can now count to *hovering in air glowing* 99

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 14:22:29 JST mcc

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     Note: I am assuming the Japanese language doesn't have some kind of French-style prank where the number "seventy" and nothing else follows a different rule from every number before it

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 14:22:30 JST mcc

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     Update: It finally got to numbers, and it taught us… 2, 1, 9, and 8… in that order… and no other numbers?? This is so specific I feel like it must be intentional but why? Pimsleur-sensei what are you doing

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 14:22:30 JST mcc

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     Is this a Clue to a Puzzle. At some point in the next 24 hours am I going to encounter a keypad to which the combination is 2198

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 14:22:30 JST mcc

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     Okay did the next lesson today and this time they taught us 3, 5, and 4, only those three and in that order. They must be doing this on purpose?? Maybe they think if they teach them in order we'll be bad at random recall because we'll be counting to 8 in our heads every time we need to say eight?

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 14:22:30 JST mcc

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     But it means this is literally me irl rn https://youtu.be/u8ccGjar4Es?si=8EE-m12fr5dLWZXM

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 14:22:48 JST mcc

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     The language learning app already explained to me the pranks on "3,000" and "7,000", you don't need to explain that to me

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 14:22:48 JST mcc

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     OKAY after getting some help from my wife I can now count to 109,999 but not a single unit higher

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 14:22:48 JST mcc

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     At some point I'm going to learn the Japanese name for Knuth's up-arrow notation and then y'all're fucked

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 14:23:03 JST mcc

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     *poking at Google Translate* "Knuthu-sensei no Yajirushi"? If I said that to a Japanese mathematician would it mean something?

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     AN/CRM-114 (flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 14:23:03 JST AN/CRM-114

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     @mcc waiting for the dub