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Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 01:31:04 JST Adrianna Tan

I used to pay a Mandarin teacher from Beijing to read academic and technical journals about databases with me on weekly calls. I wanted to stay on top of developments in China. She said she was thankful for the easy money but it was an incredibly boring job.
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  Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 01:32:35 JST Adrianna Tan
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  Thinking of her today as I’m going to reach out to her and ask her to do this again with me on AI ethics and safety in China
  
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  Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 01:33:43 JST Adrianna Tan
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  (I can read well but academic and technical Mandarin just isn’t something you can easily pickup unless you studied those topics in Mandarin, I feel)
  I always love how database is 数据库 (shu4 ju4 ku4) or, data pants
  
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  Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 01:35:37 JST Adrianna Tan
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  @slothrop the open source alternative to Datadog. Data Pants.
  
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  SnoopJ (snoopj@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 01:38:50 JST SnoopJ
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  @skinnylatte @slothrop it's like the Pants build system, but for data.
  
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  your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 02:46:54 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
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  @skinnylatte okay, how do you pronounce shu4 ju4 ku4? i’ve transliterations like that and have no idea how they should sound.
  
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  Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 02:46:54 JST Adrianna Tan
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  @blogdiva video on the fourth tone
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaBUykXAq-s&pp=ygUYbWFuZGFyaW4gYmx1ZXByaW50IHRvbmVz
  
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  Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 09:17:10 JST Adrianna Tan
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  @xdydx @shreyas @blogdiva https://youtu.be/ssZvVExdeVo?si=tFNIqoyuh15jmtVx
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  Death by Lambda (xdydx@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 09:17:11 JST Death by Lambda
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  This. Did. Not. Help!
  
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  shreyas (shreyas@x0r.be)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 09:17:15 JST shreyas
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  @blogdiva @skinnylatte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Chinese_phonology#Tones
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    Standard Chinese phonology
    
    The phonology of Standard Chinese has historically derived from the Beijing dialect of Mandarin. However, pronunciation varies widely among speakers, who may introduce elements of their local varieties. Television and radio announcers are chosen for their ability to affect a standard accent. Elements of the sound system include not only the segments—e.g. vowels and consonants—of the language, but also the tones applied to each syllable. In addition to its four main tones, Standard Chinese has a neutral tone that appears on weak syllables. This article uses the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to compare the phonetic values corresponding to syllables romanized with pinyin. Consonants The sounds shown in parentheses are sometimes not analyzed as separate phonemes; for more on these, see § Alveolo-palatal series below. Excluding these, and excluding the glides [j], [ɥ], and ...

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