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[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think about these a lot. It's a cool way to frame "how do we communicate to someone who may not share any languages or even iconography with us?"

Almost alien to think about. So cool.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 38 points 9 months ago (9 children)

The fact that me and a coworker can't both share our screens at the same time is absolutely batshit. 1x1 collaboration isn't even reasonable, nevermind anything more

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 16 points 9 months ago

Oh that's hilarious

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

🐾 Animal #470 🐔 I figured it out in 2 guesses! 🟥🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7.8

Holy crap, incredibly lucky guess for me

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 months ago

Kauai Coffee is a relatively large operation that exports to the continental US and is more like $9 retail (and perpetually on sale for $7.50 or so) for a 10oz bag in the grocery store.

It's not cheap coffee, but it's certainly not top of the line priced coffee.

They do make some coffees that are more than $25/lb, but not the "regular* stuff people would buy in a store.

Of course I agree that their price will go up with the market with tariffs introduced, and that in general the tariffs are a terrible, terrible idea.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 months ago

Super cool, I actually played in Japanese when I was in a good groove of learning a few years back, and felt like search was near unusable.

Now I'm learning Danish, so maybe I'll play in Danish to reinforce some random words

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

I feel the same, I've had a bunch of pixels since the 2

I'm going to be buying a Fairphone 5 when my current pixel needs replacing, which is coming soonish

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Right, for sure if you were to pluralize emoji (which is singular) it wouldn't be emojus in japanese.

I was gonna toss some guesses here but it's a word I don't think you pluralize really, as we don't in English

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 28 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Ah my favorite false cognate isn't here, that means I get to post about it!

Emoticon :) is emotion + icon in English, invented in the 80s or early 90s. Exactly what you think.

Emoji is Japanese 絵文字 which basically translates to "picture character". That word has been around for a long time; I don't know that I can put a date to it. But certainly a lot older than computers.

They just happen to sound similar

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

Echo that, same

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's so cool!

How old (ish) were you when you moved?

Did you speak any Japanese before?

Any consideration towards relocating again?

Any other stories you want to share?

ありがとうございます、友達

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Gotcha, okay. So you could do it either way, but for most people ($125k and below per person) it's probably just better to use the feie it seems

This is great, thanks for sharing all this.

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