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don't take it personally, you can blame your father for this!
haven't seen many pop team epic reactions around lately
crime & punishment
Do you block people in the same fandom as you just because you don't like their takes?
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>listening to nin
>hear a new layer to song ive relistened to over and over
>"wow i cant believe i never noticed this before! i wonder what kind of synth he used. its very forboding in a specific way only nin can achieve"
>pause song to write post praising nin
>the synth specifically keeps playing despite the rest of the song being paused
>look outside window
>garbage truck
same energy
la classique
Bamboozled again by the beauty that exists everywhere in the world if you listen!!!
How do you feel about the part of the day where all the europeans have gone to bed but the americans havent gone to bed yet and the australians havent finished school or work yet
that's when I have to be most careful about making jokes so I adjust my posting accordingly
"The creator definitely didn't put that much thought into it" well then clearly someone else has to and I think I'm the weirdo for the job
Number 1 US election post on this website is the time someone tried to joke that Eurovision's voting system was alien to Americans because "unlike America, the person who gets the most votes wins"
Well the person who gets the most points wins and-- Oh god Eurovision has an Electoral College.
Leonid Pasternak (Ukrainian, 1862–1945) - The Torments of Creative Work
oh leonid, we're really in it now
Leonid, you really understand it.
Save me Leonid, from my empty Word document
Leonid what should I do about the emails
Babe are you okay? you reblogged Leonid Pasternak's Torments of Creative Work again
Leonid Pasternak is the best! My favorite of his is The Night Before The Exam (1895).
never thought Disney would be bold enough to address the strain on Nick and Judy's relationship after the abortion
what the fuck is going on in the replies
following up on your previous ask, is there a reason people who know the language use mtl anyway? i've seen a couple tls say it and i'm not sure if that squares with what you're saying to be quite honest
first things first, I just need to specify: almost all of the translation projects with people that actually know the language basically never have mtl that isn't heavily edited to the point of basically being rewritten.
the main problem with using mtl without knowledge of the language is that you can't really ever know if you've got the right reading. just to list off a few examples: is there a proper noun messing with the output? are you encountering the hydraulic ram / water sheep problem? what about pronouns? references to other media? slang? or has the translator just eaten half the input since it couldn't parse it properly (surprisingly common for the mtls that value grammaticality the highest)? sure, you can solve some of those issues with a bit of googling, but can you solve all of them? what about the ones where the definitions aren't available anywhere in a language you know?
the reason that translators still use it sometimes is that a lot of those go away when you can manually correct the errors. not all of them, mind you: depending on the workflow and how bad the results are shaping mtl into a translation that reads well takes more work than just translating from scratch. however, in certain situations a quick and dirty lookup on a phrase dictionary with a search entry works as a first draft, and that's what you're seeing people talk about
years and years of language and communication just so I can fully comprehend the post someone made saying "goncharov is on poob"
