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  • rnercle@sh.itjust.worksto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerègle
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    a multilingual can write what you wrote. Monolinguals are shaped by the limits of one language (and mostly a poor utilitarian corner of that language.) They can’t think of something with which they have no words for or don’t even feel like they’re missing words for something they need to communicate



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    I grew up knowing the most popular language, why would I learn some backwater dump of a language like french only spoken by like 3.8% of humans unless I’m going to go live there or in one of the places they fucked over? Mandarin I could get, same with Spanish just due to total surface area and the best Venn diagram result. But there are so many little languages in the world and humans have finite time to live.

    because, if nothing else, it would make your English better

    Middle English borrowed vocabulary extensively from French dialects, which are the source of approximately 28 per cent of Modern English words, and from Latin, which is the source of an additional 28 per cent.

    when you learn more about a language that influenced “your language”, those borrowed words open up and gain more meaning. You master their intricacies and start using them with more tact


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    thanks for taking the time to write a thoughtful comment.

    Can you elaborate on “English is really afraid of hiatus and will do anything to avoid it"? I can’t understand what you mean by this and i’m very curious. Sounds interesting.

    The sheer amount of vowel phonemes
    French and German do “a lot of vowels” properly

    i wouldn’t consider french vowels to be properly done with regional differences and nasal complications in addition to using 3 vowels to pronounce 1 with mute consonants here and there. What a mess. But i’ve met people who can see precision in that madness 🤷





  • rnercle@sh.itjust.worksto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonescr(ul)ew [new even worse version]
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    The credited inventor of the Phillips screw was John P. Thompson who, in 1932, patented (#1,908,080) a recessed cruciform screw and in 1933, a screwdriver for it.

    Biography
    After failing to interest manufacturers, Thompson sold his self-centering design to Phillips in 1935. Phillips formed the Phillips Screw Company in 1934. After refining the design (U.S. Patent #2,046,343, U.S. Patents #2,046,837 to 2,046,840) for the American Screw Company of Providence, Rhode Island, Phillips succeeded in bringing the design to industrial manufacturing and promoting its rapid adoption as a machine screw standard. American Screw then spent $500,000 originating a method of manufacture. One of the first customers was General Motors, who used the innovative design in 1936 for its Cadillac assembly-lines. By 1940, 85% of U.S. screw manufacturers had a license for the design.

    Due to failing health, Phillips retired in 1945. He lost his patent in 1949. He died on 13 Apr 1958 at age 68 in Portland, Oregon.