18 minutes of Linguino Italian
Tumlare wrote:Cavesa wrote:Am I getting too old? too nostalgic? too much of a procrastinator?
No, just the continual
enshittification of the internet.
Memrise still stings. I am looking forward to revisiting Clozemaster when they update the Swedish and French tracks though!
Thank you. This is a word I will clearly use more and more, just like the rest of the world.
And yes, Memrise stings. I still remember the awesome Memrise Beta. And then it went to worse and worse in several huge waves. Now I just need to learn how to save my favourite courses and put them to Anki.
Iversen wrote:Cavesa wrote:we finally saw the Dune 2 a few days ago!!! And I love the double subtitles in cinemas so much!)
I rarely watch films, but I did watch Dune in the latest version on my way to Madagascar, and it was OK - but I missed the creepy little Bene Gesserit girl from the old version (and maybe also the surrealistic Harkonnen monster) which I must have seen soon after it appeared in the 70s. And I have got 4 or 5 books written by mr Herbert himself, but I have read on the internet that others now have made an industry out of prequels and sequals and ratherbesidethepoint-quals to the original series.
Yes, the old film is very good! I need to read the books, I am really curious about them. But I have a problem: In which language??? That's the issue.
Yeah, the pre/se/beside-quals are a hit and miss. Or rather, they rarely work. In some cases, they can be interesting, whether it is a movie or a book (The Wheel of Time prequel is one of the good examples), but it is far too often just an attempt to milk something popular.
It is totally weird. On one hand, today's creators insist on tiny short 8 episode seasons, which do not leave enough space to really work with the story, they need to shorten far too much the source material, and they also do not create huge fandoms, that would give them money for decade or a few decades. I highly doubt Star Trek would have been such a success, if it had to fit the main story in 8 episodes per season.
But then the creators want to create more, and go for the -quals. Which are not the same thing as the main show. I don't understand. Why cannot they just go back to 13 episode seasons again?
And I love subtitles on TV because then I can turn down the sound.
YES! My beloved and I have observed, that the newer movies and shows have a very different sound than the old ones. Very silent speech, and normal or strong other sounds (music, explosions, shooting, whatever). It is made for cinema, where you can hear the speech as loud, and all the rest as hyperloud. So annoying!
So, we use subtitles more than before. It is a way to watch stuff without annoying our neighbours.
As for historical pivot points: the world would have been quite different today if Hitler had stuck to his agreement with Stalin and kept out of Russia.
Yeah, but not that different. Russia always finds/creates and excuse, so perhaps it would have ended the same. And between those two, it is hard to choose your preferred murderer.
Most of the alternative histories would not turn out much better for the Czechs anyways. Simply a bad geographical luck.
As for enshittification: I do like the word, and it describes what has happened to a number of formerly relevant media. Right now my main fear is that even Wikipedia will disappear into the dark swamp of evilness since I can't possibly keep all its information in many languages on my home computers. But I have a house full of books and music files which could be my rescue if internet content suddenly becomes pay only (and shittified as part of the process).
Yes, Wikipedia is in danger too, especially due to the AI use (or misuse or even abuse). I am still forming my opinion on AI in language learning, but it is certainly worrying to observe some of the effects. Wikipedia is in danger due to the AI, due to the hybrid/information wars and propaganda and fake news, and partially also due to people not valuing it enough. Which reminds me: next time it asks for money, I send some.
