At this point I'm impressed by how much effort Twitter devs must've have put into making the site shittier and less accessible.
Kosovars (Kosovo Albanians) are not Slavs.
By the time you finished making this snarky meme, you could've set up a program to OCR a book yourself.
When someone says "osam" (eight), you reply with one of the rhyming insults
"Nos ti posran" = Your nose is covered in shit
or
"Na kurcu te nosam" = I carry you on my cock
They're rather silly insults, I think nobody actually uses them beyond the age of 12, but everyone knows them.
I've no idea why Croatia and Bosnia have 69 while Serbia and Montenegro have 8, when surely both "funny numbers" are well-known in the area equally. 420 is also known just about everywhere, not just Netherlands.
Native speaker here, never had any issues with this or any other common homophone in English.
Ok? I didn't say all natives make such mistakes, it's just that they're substantially more prone to make them, "by design". Non-natives will make various spelling mistakes too, just of different sorts, rarely those based on homophones.
“Learning by ear” is just another excuse for laziness and/or ignorance
But that's how every native language is learned, it's not "laziness". You listen to your parents and learn to speak years before you develop usable reading abilities. Writing is learned afterwards, and largely bases itself on your knowledge of the oral form of the language. This applies to any language written in an alphabet (i.e. disregarding Chinese and similar).
Pick up books, read extensively, and like anyone else not marinating in cultivated ignorance, you too can utilize the language effectively and correctly.
If this humble advice is directed at me - thanks a lot, but we've been talking about native English speakers, which I am not.
Super interesting. Is it possible to tell how much code has been inherited from one game to another? Or do they start from scratch too frequently?
Non-native English speakers usually don't make such mistakes. Natives write "by ear" (which is how you initially learn your first language), so they can mix up homophonic words, whereas non-natives usually learned to write at the same time as they learned to speak the language, and they also had the rules and words explained 100% explicitly from the start.
I never said, nor implied, either side were “dumb” or “barbarians”.
Your stance implies it, in many ways. You're not really trying to understand the people there, and treat them in a completely dehumanising manner.
Like, do I have to explain why it's not a good idea to take most goods and history away from a nation and dump it somewhere near the polar circle?
Do I have to remind you of that other guy who thought a fabricated cultural conflict could be solved by moving the Jews away to Madagascar?
the populace of both sides are brainwashed by organized religion, and authoritarians and terrorists are using that as a cudgel to achieve their own selfish aims, and are the real poison here.
The only way to take away their power is to remove the dispute over the region.
Since you're already proposing completely impossible fantasy solutions, why didn't you propose e.g. deposing of those authoritarians and religious extremists who fan the fires of conflict, assembling representatives willing to work out a tolerable solution to the conflict, and thus allowing the area (especially Palestine) to gradually develop, and naturally ease and dispose of the extremist culture that most people there are born into?
No, that sounds boring, let's just take everyone, terrorists and normal people together, and dump them into the Amazon rainforest or Tierra del fuego. Even in your fantasies you don't seem to wish for especially nice things for those people.
Initially I uploaded a whole picture to Lemmy, and it didn't work on other instances. When the other poster warned me of that, I replaced it with a direct link to ibb, and I thought it should work fine, but now you notice not even that works. Again, thanks for notifying me, it's quite weird, perhaps due to some overzealous filtering on .world, or just a bug on db0...
This "solution" makes you sound as if you're just annoyed by hearing and reading about those dumb middle-eastern barbarians and want literally any solution that would get them out of your news feed, rather than actually wanting much good to those people.
lol