greater-than-the-sword

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hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate

BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard (under My Filters) to get rid of it!

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)

youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3

ukulelekatie

swarnpert

if making whoopee is old timey slang for sex then are whoopee pies named that because they look like.......well......you know........

swarnpert

thank you for giving me that wonderful visual

little-king-john

Never expected memes in 2023 to require a working knowledge of German.

zackisontumblr

averyluckyclover

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aturnoftheearth

i’m gonna make you a soup

aturnoftheearth

i realize i may have worded this wrong

greater-than-the-sword

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artistically-gay

I'm sorry, I don't want to come across as harsh, but this is honestly ignorant as fuck.

I'm not gonna claim to know everything about the importance of studying dead languages, but I think I can safely say that it would probably be a really bad thing if we lost these languages to time if we didn't have people studying them.

We can lose hundreds if not THOUSANDS of years of story-telling history if these languages end up forgotten.

I can't put it into clear words right now because I'm busy or go int depth because I only have a common sense understanding, but I just wanted to address this. So if anybody on Tumblr who's more qualified to speak on this kind of matter wants to explain, then please take the floor for me.

wherenightmaresroost

Many, many English words have Latin roots, so studying Latin can expand your English vocabulary to the point that you won't even need to check the dictionary meaning if you can recognize its Latin roots.
Additionally, you can make up new words as needed by mashing together Dead Words.
Lots of scientific jargon use Latin and Ancient Greek exactly because they're dead languages - the meaning of those words are set in stone. Studying those languages can help you understand and remember the extremely complex strings of words common in those topics.
Latin is the Mother of Romance languages. Just studying Latin can make it easier to adapt to the grammar rules of the other Romance languages, or even help you Frankenstein out a meaning of a simple paragraph.
All translation is a series of compromises. Even if Ye Olde Latin Text has been translated to English again and again and again, there WILL BE several points where the translator had to circumnavigate the translation to a phrase because the exact tone and concept is difficult to convey in English!!! (I am bilingual and this problem frustrates me to no end!!)
And that's approaching this problem in good faith. We have a history of people outright lying about their translation credentials, deliberately translating a text "wrong" for their own benefit, or adding flourishes that drastically change the tone of the translation. Reviewing that 18th-century English translation of some 13th-century Latin book instead of just thoughtlessly reprinting it is vital to having a clear understanding of that book and placing it in its proper context.
We have a LOT of untranslated archived material that have text written in dead languages, Latin included. Translating these provide us history.

And last but not the least:

Things do not have to be "useful" to have value.

marten-blackwood

also dead does not mean no longer in use, it means no longer CHANGING. No new words are being added to that dictionary. That’s all it means. Latin is only dead bc new words aren’t being added to its dictionary

libertarian-druid-on-the-hudson

Gaulish is barely kept alive by a particular band and a few druids, but in my opinion, it's still a beautiful language and one that'd be worth bringing back if it were possible.

domina-honoribila

Also, Latin is very useful if you are Catholic? It is the official language of the Church, only the original Latin texts of documents are considered official. Most of the saints wrote in Latin originally. Many hymns are in Latin.

schoonersandstarships

Adding to that, many Catholics speak Latin! Regularly! Generally at home / with their family, but if people worldwide are unironically yelling at their kids to clean up their room in a language, calling it 'dead' is a stretch. (Technically, yes, it's dead by some definitions. But seeing as French is on it's deathbead by those definitions, maybe it's simply not that good of a term in the first place.)

greater-than-the-sword

I'm pretty sure the definition of a dead language is actually that there are no native speakers

thetellyvision

What counts as a native speaker for a language this old? Like someone mentioned, Latin is the official language of the church. Do Catholics count as native speakers?

greater-than-the-sword

Only if you learned it before any other language. I dont see why the definition changes because it's old.

skeletonbonecurse

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afloweroutofstone

Sorry to everyone who’s enjoyed the last 130 years of science and culture journalism, but Disney needs the money to fund Toy Story 9

greater-than-the-sword

incomingalbatross

My favorite English antonyms are cleave "to split, part, or divide by force" (thought to be descended from PIE root *gleubh- "to tear apart"), and cleave "to adhere, cling" (thought to be descended from PIE root *gloi- "to stick").

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eruscreaminginthedistance

hatingongodot

I get missing the Honeymoon Phase of the relationship once you're out of it but like what is a relationship if not Hanging Out. There is no higher form of love, of human connection, than Hanging Out. Why would you ever give up on that. All of mankind's endeavors, the very instinct wired into us as biological creatures, all of it points towards the holiness inherent to Just Chilling With Someone

greater-than-the-sword

rohirric-hunter

Today I learned that apparently the reason why we don't use text-based captchas anymore is because the captcha system was used to. Okay listen. The system that presented you with an image that a human could understand and a robot couldn't right. That system. Was being used to train AI to recognize written words. Like. A system that hinged on the inability of AI to understand slightly distorted words. Was being used to train AI to understand slightly distorted words.

This is cartoonish. This is just that machine that does nothing except immediately turn itself off.

tikkunolamorgtfo

anyroads

Love it that reddit refugees are posting things that break containment as soon as they arrive. This is so different than the twitter exodus. Y'all get it. We've been siblings living in neighboring towns this whole time, it turns out. Great having y'all here. You're already enriching the enclosure.