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Xiao’erjing is, at its core, a phonetic writing system which represents the phonemes of Chinese using adapted Arabic letters. In its phonetic aspect, Xiao’erjing is thus akin to pinyin, the system commonly used to write Mandarin Chinese in Latin letters, though differing notably in that tones are not explicitly marked. This lack of tone markings may be cause for confusion, given the vast repertoire of homophones in Chinese. In a given semantic context, however, native users of this writing system rarely encounter ambiguity, just as an experienced reader of Arabic or Persian has little difficulty inferring the short vowels of a given word despite the absence of diacritics from most texts.

Sharing this article that I thought might interest both Arab and Chinese speakers following me

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Fitzcarraldo, Werner Herzog, 1982

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hey folks if you have an android phone: google shadow installed a "security app".

I had to go and delete it myself this morning.

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ursula k le guin: if confronted directly with the knowledge that society requires suffering to be maintained, would you be capable or willing to abandon the structure and safety for uncertainty, strife, deprivation?

strange and inscrutable people who claim to know how to read: i would simply solve the problem

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what if i started doing steroids but in a leftist way

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humanity is so beautiful

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"no one hates america more than americans", there are very brave people out there who actively kill your soldiers, you do not hate "America" as much as them

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best thing tumblr ever did for me is the term "rotating it in my mind". it's really true that sometimes you think about something real hard but you can't tell what the thoughts are exactly. it's revolutionary stuff, i might even say

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*experiences a pivotal moment in my life that will change me forever* ok time to open tumblr

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That episode of the Twilight Zone where those astronauts crash-land on what they think is a desert world but it turns out they were in Nevada the whole time happens to me every single day in real life

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Worst Case Scenario ft. Nathan Tankus

43:30

"Functionally it's [using AI to shop for you] like living with like a partner with a compulsive spending thing, you know, you may well wake up one morning and it's spent like $5000 on magic cards or whatever and you are now homeless"

Again like, really don't want to put you on trial over it - sorry if the people in your replies find that "vaguely condescending" but whatever. Just hope you can see on reflection how equating a system that should not exist and doesn't care about you to a human who has a right to exist, cares about those around them and is doing their best with a condition that hurts them first and foremost would be a bit insensitive to those extant humans.

I mean yeah I guess. But I’ve been the partner with the compulsive spending thing and I don’t think it was hurting me either first or foremost

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Ceremonial axe, Elamite, Igi-Halkid Dynasty, 1345-1305 BC

from The Louvre

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