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Nick Houston 🇨🇦 (intothewestaway@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 06:22:55 JST Nick Houston 🇨🇦
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Not to be a pedant, but Lisa (not @lisamelton ) was a year ahead. Pre-Mac Gui but still pretty cool. Our lab had 2 for work.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa
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  Apple Lisa
  
  Lisa is a desktop computer developed by Apple, released on January 19, 1983. It is generally considered the first mass market personal computer operable through a graphical user interface (GUI). In 1983, a machine like the Lisa was still so expensive that it was primarily marketed to individual and small and medium-size businesses, as a groundbreaking new alternative to much bigger and more expensive mainframes or minicomputers such as from IBM, that either require additional, expensive consultancy from the supplier, hiring specially trained personnel, or at least, a much steeper learning curve to maintain and operate. Earlier GUI-controlled personal computers were not mass marketed; for example, the Xerox Alto was manufactured in several thousands only for Xerox and select partners through Xerox PARC from the early to mid 1970s. Development of project "LISA" began in 1978. It underwent many changes and shipped at US$9,995 (equivalent to $29,400 in 2022) with a five-megabyte hard drive. It was affected by its high price, insufficient software, unreliable Apple FileWare floppy disks, and the imminent release of the cheaper and...
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Nick Houston 🇨🇦 (intothewestaway@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 00:01:01 JST Nick Houston 🇨🇦

I am on Day 280 of #Duolingo. I am learning #Korean. I have come to admire the beauty of the Hangul alphabet and writing system and its relative simplicity. Once you get your head around Subject Object Verb grammar (vs English Subject Verb Object) it becomes easier.
The new fun is Korean Count words, for specific objects and events, which follow a number. Ten cows translates to 소 열 마리
(Cow ten animals).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_count_word
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  Korean count word
  
  The Korean language uses special measure or counting words for specific objects and events. These suffixes are called subullyusa (수분류사; 數分類詞) in Korean. They are similar to the ones employed in the Chinese and the Japanese languages. In English it is "two sheets of paper", not "two papers". Analogously, in Korean jang (장/張) is used to count sheets or anything that is a paper-like material, for example "ten bus tickets" is beoseu pyo yeol jang (버스 표 열 장 / 버스 票 열 張), literally, "bus ticket ten 'sheets'". In fact, the meanings of counter words are frequently extended in metaphorical or other image-based ways. For instance, in addition to counting simply sheets of paper, jang in Korean can be used to refer to any number of thin, paper-like objects. Leaves (namunnip 나뭇잎) are counted using this count word. In this way...

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