Justin Douglas
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ductusamongus.bsky.social
Justin Douglas
@ductusamongus.bsky.social
Language nerd /iːᶻ/ > /ð̠˕ˠ/ • runner • former musician and translator

Developer of the best-ever Russian dictionary for learners @ slovarish.com
"Tonight? No I can't tonight. I planned to stay at home tonight."
"You planned...?"
"Yeah, I planned it six weeks ago, I was gonna stay at home tonight"
"What are you going to do?"
"Nothing, but I planned to do nothing, so that's the plan"

youtu.be/BzxCIw26NTs
Pardon My Icelandic – Italians of the North Clip
YouTube video by Netflix Nordic
youtu.be
July 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
German articles are pretty tough, and German gender is usually not predictable. I actually think that part is harder than Russian, because only the article changes, not the noun itself.
July 9, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Of course, if you made an appointment to hang out with Mr. Higashi in Tokyo to buy 3 bundles of something, then it could be complicated lol
July 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
They seldom appear together and 束 rarely appears alone, so you can safely assume 東 almost always.

The most common word with 束 is 約束, and the only other word I can think of is 束縛 (a distant second!) or a counter word for bundles.
July 9, 2025 at 4:40 AM
🤦🏻‍♂️ I don’t mind if the feature is there but YT shouldn’t automatically make it the default when it is. It also potentially makes the creators look bad(?) if they weren’t aware that they had to turn it off, so a double disservice
July 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Huh. I hope it’s not something that individual creators are allowing or disallowing 🤔
July 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I get this on the computer:
July 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Go to the gear, then “soundtrack” or something similar should be an option, then “ABC (original)”

I have my YouTube in Swedish so I don’t know the exact wording
July 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Спасибо большое за поддержку! 🫡
July 7, 2025 at 6:29 AM
I can't even understand *that*. The tone of the AI voice doesn't match the original voice at all! It's so noticeable on the Japanese videos I've seen with dubbing—the original creators are soft-spoken, while the AI is on full blast, lol
July 7, 2025 at 3:42 AM
also, at first I thought the repetition of words on keybr would be good but after a while I realized I was just memorizing patterns for words, because when I went to do free typing, I had to think about each key individually
July 1, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I recently started learning Colemak but keybr is way too difficult to learn on (vs. improving at a familiar layout). After 80 lessons I progressed from ARLINE to add T but could not get further even after 120 more lessons. You need to be perfect AND fast to add new keys, which is unrealistic
July 1, 2025 at 2:31 AM