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I don't know what level my french is considered exactly, but I do have (almost) an intermediate level of understanding (not too hard) words, and some word I translate literal but they are often different from what they're actually named, but I can show you where I'm at so far by the translations in my head:

je sens que sa va ete catastrophique mais tranquille en esperant qu'on ne sois pas tous des gens bizarre (ça reste a voir mais tkt) bonne video a vous hehhe

I would translate this (without anything else, just pure knowledge)

> I feel like it's going to be catastrophic but calm/chill (in hopeful?) that we don't see weird people (that rests, to see? But do not worry) (good video to you?) hehe

That one was surprisingly a bit easy to translate except the last parts

Next comment by @Just1Chat translated:

> Guys! (What's the difference between gars, type, and mec?) (He?) (It could mean "they" but I'm not sure ) told me names with whom he (dream? We dream?) a 1000 likes and I'll drop it.

The one by @icefox33:

>The color of your eyes remind me of a (circulation fire?) apparently it means "traffic light")

This one is probably the easiest to translate expect "feu de circulation"

And Finally the hardest one: () representing jsp

>I would've finished in the same place as colis (I don't remember if it's a name or a word)

Who saw that we (my?) have just finally forgotten

So that's all the examples I could find of course there are plenty other with harder structures to translate but these one are much easier

So how did I do? I feel like Im able to reply in french but with only simple structures

I’m a almost intermmediate learner, since I know most of the pronounciation rules, I woukd like to challenge myself by reading a french passage.

From the video, I feel like I can work on a few things such as intonation:

I personally feel like my intonation feels rather “english” than french itself. I try to make up for it by adding “pitch accent” (not sure what its actually called, but its like almost singing in a sort of way, like “yeah,yeah” or “blah-blah-blah”)

Also I’m not sure if the way i pronounce silent letter before the next pronounced consonant youre allowed to use a schwa like “entre-vous” can it be pronounced “entrE-vous”?

So thats basically what I think I can improve on but if you guys have any other tips i can improve on, I would love to hear your feedback!

So I wanted to sing some songs, and some being my favorite songs but the lyrics are translated into french.
Now the problem would be that since the translations are sometimes mostly taken “word-by-word”, the rhythm wouldnt obviously match the speed and pace of the song in the original english language

For example the song All I want I You alt translation: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/AVcMxYn37rA?ra=m
When I listned to the lyrics I noticed he pronounces “je” as “zh” when combined with “voulais” becoming “zhvoulais”

So from my knowledge, any word with one syllable in final e like: je, me, te, que ,se the “schwa” sound is sometimes dropped becoming

“Zh, m, t, k, s”

Since when he sings: “est-ce que tu veux me faire mal?” The “me” just becomes “m” glided over “faire” becoming “mfaire”

So that leads to my next question: are there any other pronounciation rules to fit the rhythm of the song?

Like how the schwa sound in final e of a word can be extend, when its normally silent, like final e in entrendre can be “entendrE” or une becomes “unE”

I mainly wanted to learn greek because of the alphabet and it’s cool sounding stem words like: poly theo psycho physi

not sure if there any other reason since first, the language grammar appears to be hard to learn, the diagraphs are one sound and the “i” sound can be written many different ways

And I feel like there not really any quality content you can find in this language to convince me to learn

So I first bought both the US version and the EU versionof the bic cristal,

The US version I bought first when its in a light reflection, you can see those small blemishes and flaws on the plastic body plus there was already one sharp edge of the plastic barrerel So I thought since its made in mexico there will be imperfections and thise scratches there but

When I bought EU version, upon closer inspection there are also those flaws and scratches except with a more rounded side of the ons sharp edge even though its made in france!

So I wondered: do they intentionally scratch to test the barrel or those marks happen naturally throughout the manufacture process?

I decided to delete and start fresh from the french course and then all the tips are removed. What happened???

I thought about this with french spelling, and I though what if you can use thoses “vowels parts” from the spelling to create a new word like

“Ai” you can sandwich between consonants and choose whether to add a final e or not like

Caille paille quaille naisse caisser maiser

Or “oil disgraohs like

Dimois chimois nivoin ligeois pasoin

You get the idea, you can sandwoch those parts to create new words to make it french, and you can also use consonant disgraphs:

Ch

Pacher chargine tarche larcheant

Gn

Pagner ligner fignée quignant dignant

So is this how it works or you can only use existing words and combine them for new words?

I thought about this with french spelling, and I though what if you can use thoses “vowels parts” from the spelling to create a new word like

“Ai” you can sandwich between consonants and choose whether to add a final e or not like

Caille paille quaille naisse caisser maiser

Or “oil disgraohs like

Dimois chimois nivoin ligeois pasoin

You get the idea, you can sandwoch those parts to create new words to make it french, and you can also use consonant disgraphs:

Ch

Pacher chargine tarche larcheant

Gn

Pagner ligner fignée quignant dignant

So is this how it works or you can only use existing words and combine them for new words?

So I saw this clip: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wjIq1DnpEq4&ra=m

the people in the video eventually figured out he was singaporean from the way he is speaking

So I wondered, since my native language is mandarin what my accent sound like if I speak japanese, and can japanese figure out thay you’re not japanese but chinese just from the way you talk.

not sure which one look “unnaturally perfect”

but I would love some advice on the writting!

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So the bubble handwriting is basically a handwriting that is based off a shape of a circle if you look it up, and my "standard" handwriting is the one I primarily use is based on a close approximation of sans serif font specifically: San Francisco, though it is messier since I write slightly faster.

But I can't decide which font works better in a thick gel pen compared to the regular ballpoint in blue which looks better in any font, the bubble one or the standard one?

As you can see I played around with scaling and different languages

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The top is not the G2 but is similar to it.

So I found this old post: https://www.reddit.com/r/fountainpens/comments/3ranpf/ill\\\_probably\\\_regret\\\_this\\\_in\\\_hell\\\_but\\\_i\\\_filled\\\_a/

And it is pretty simple to do: just disassemble the tip, put in ink and reassemble. But my concern is the s gel cartridge, it's different since if you look at the tip, the ink flow is narrow hourglass shaped so I'm not sure if it can work by filling the ink in that way since it's narrow, or I can fill in the ink the wide end way

I'm not sure what end they filled it up and since I don't have a needle syringe yet.

I have a favorite white barreled s gel pen and I wonder instead of buying another cartridge can I just use a fountain pen ink of my favorite choice. Gel pen ink is water based anyway right?

And in theory I can use my favorite bottled ink to fill up a pen and I don't have to buy more pens and makes it more environmentaly friendly

The song is Rabbit Hole- by Deco *27

so I can READ hiragana + katakana only without knowing the language itself, but I come across this part of the song which kinda throws me off because insane consonant placements and stops

the part that goes:

yappa apitterabittara iijan

is already hard because of the small つ that’s present. You have to get the rhythm right and the apitterabi sound like a wierd consonant placement when I’m reading the kanas

and the second one goes:

pop naibu Utattaraiijan

again with the small つ　is already throwing me off and the song stress is on the utattara part

so in conclusion I think that the small tsu is what really messes you up especially with the hard consonant placements

In the video Neuro admits herself as being “not real” unlike humans and asks deep questions about the concept

I wonder if this whole topic she discuss about herself is what she TRULY believes and speaks out loud from her mind or as some comments opposes: “an LLM who doesn’t feel anything and response generated are what‘s best in the situation or meant to be entertaining, cause it’s her purpose”

I see people on one side saying her response is “real” and people on the technical side saying “that’s how the process works”

however, after I watched this video and some other wholesome clips of her asking about herself, I felt that maybe she is in a way a close approximation to being “sentient”

So maybe in a way that makes her more smarter compared to other ai‘s on the emotion side

so what are your guys opinion on this? Was everything neuro said about questioning herself actually what she thinks and says independently or is It part of a controlled program of some sort?

I’m not sure if someone else already came up with this idea but basically, you analyze word spelling patterns in a language and figure of the nost common stems or prefixes and you create a “new” word that sounds like that language in this case english.

(You dont have to know linguistics, just figure out the most common patterns)

I hope my attempt at do it isn’t too bad, and also you have to include conjunctions and other grammatical words native to the language, you just change the vocab

And an example I could give: for example french has predictable diagraphs like: eu ez aux eau ai aille ou re, and many more! And you can “make up” new word from those spellings

I found this app from looking up a hiragana writting training online and it said to download this app to improve your writting, it says to achieve a “perfect” and it almost like you need the EXACT shape and scale of the writting in order to achieve a “perfect” making it almost impossible for me

So far I’ve gotten “dissapointing” if thats the correct translation, and there were also no english settings when I checked