TheSanSabaSongbird

Again, the difficulty of language acquisition is determined by how similar the new language you are trying to learn is to the languages you already speak. There isn't any kind of objective measurement of language acquisition difficulty.

For whatever reason people are often very resistant to this fact, but just speaking several languages fluently doesn't mean you actually know shit about linguistics, and this is a very well-established concept.

So a native Mandarin speaker would probably find English and German equally difficult to acquire because they are both so unlike their own language.

Fun fact about English; Old English was even more grammatically complex than modern German but it got stripped down over the years and now accomplishes through syntax much of what it used to do with grammar.

There are also a couple of very odd qualities to English that may have come from the Celtic languages, but the idea is still pretty controversial.

Languages are "easier" or more "difficult" based on how similar they are to your native language. There isn't some objective measure of difficulty across languages.

The first too is misspelled. It should have two Os.

Right? That said, I care about his opinion on AI about as much as I care about the opinions of all the anonymous loudmouths on Lemmy.

Lol, no one thinks he's "one of the best singers of the last half of the previous century," WTF are you smoking?

I'm not angry at all. I downvoted your comment because it's stupid and your edit is condescending as fuck.

Somebody should probably mention the fact that there are storm clouds a-brewing on China's economic horizon as well. And that's not to mention their little demography problem.

I'm not bashing China, I just want to provide a little perspective.

Do you work in the industry? It seems like you don't. My company does a ton of contracting for chip manufacturers and we are absolutely swamped for the next 5 years due to the CHIPs Act. If you live in Ohio, Oregon or Arizona your local economy is definitely getting a huge bump.

In journalism the writers don't write the heds. That's an editor's job. It goes back to the days of print journalism when only the editor would know how many column-inches they would have for a given story on any given page. It's still industry standard for digital publishing as well.

Russia was facing demographic collapse before it invaded Ukraine. The war has only worsened its outlook.

The US has an easy way out of the demographic trap through immigration. Countries like China and Japan don't have that because no one wants to immigrate to China and Japan basically doesn't allow it at all.

The issue is that demographic collapse can and almost certainly will have devastating economic consequences for the countries facing it.