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current hubris levels: quadrilingual by 2027

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I see the texts, the signs, hear the passers-by, and I can't possibly ignore the rich cultural complexity underlying all of this! I must learn, I will learn

can you feel the fortune flowing?

Incredible things are happening in the Singlish Dictionary

btw as of 2026 there are a total of 3953 emoji in Unicode For comparison, 2136 kanji are considered to be in common use in Japan. A corresponding number in Chinese is 3500 or so. Thus, if we wanted to make logographic English real, we should be able to do so now!

A "Billion Laughs Attack" sounds like an anime villain kind of thing, maybe a bit JoJo-esque, so it's disappointing to look it up and learn that it's just an exponentially expanding XML or Yaml

Maybe not as much, but I keep thinking of 尝 (to taste, try out, experience) as making a 😋 or 😛 sort of face, if you squint

I'm going to Hong Kong next week Everyone is telling me the following ahead of my trip: East Asian? | speak Cantonese | speak Mandarin no | 😲😲🥳🥳🎉 | 😲🎉 yes | 😃 | 🙅🙅👎🤬🤬 So even though I'm not East Asian, I'm still slightly scared to attempt Mandarin there I think

Accidentally wrote a bullet point in this form earlier today. Just a glimpse etc.

It's cute how there's often a meta-process for a process. E.g when tidying things up it's difficult to know where you want the things to be in the first place, but a sweep of one area at a time won't hurt, and that's how you slowly figure things out while making visible progress!

So now I know that the Sinosphere equivalent to Christmas decorations in early November is Mid-Autumn decorations starting mid-August

请注意月台空隙

the Tetris effect for language learning is that words echo through my head words like 你想吃什么 and 我要去旅行

I can't be a woke, I can't be a chud, I can't be an abundance lib, I can't be a don't-tread-on-me libertarian, I can't be a sewer socialist, I can't be a rationalist, I can't be an accelerationist, I can't be a doomer, I can't be a CCP shill, I can't be an LKY shill

Singapore CBD could go so hard if only they had the guts to pedestrianise it

Lee Kuan Yew: unlike those dirty overcrowded cities of Asia, I'll make Singapore a Garden City also Lee Kuan Yew: draws giant stroads through central SG what did he mean by this

Dipped prata in sugar today and it tasted so much like Polish faworki

Did you know that they broke the display of images over there at X dot com? you get to enjoy the exclusivity of good-looking image grids here now!

In some way, learning Chinese in Singapore is like what I imagine learning Dutch in the Netherlands must be like. You can see it everywhere, but no-one will ever speak it to you

I've come to associate this type of font with Singapore. I like it

A recurring brainworm of mine is that people would see malformed sentences from me and think it's a sign of ESL, when actually it's just me being a sloppy typist, randomly dropping words, or making an incomplete edit

At the cliff edge of the business core, arcologies stand like giants, and face the eerie emptiness ... what a stupid city

I wonder if some of my Japanese grammar gaps are from never having done a high-quality textbook. I'm having a revelation after a revelation right now!

Another friend's Discord account got hacked

in fairness, I'm kind of spreading myself thin between the two distinct research projects of "how do I speedrun Mandarin to where my Japanese currently is" and "can I become acceptably fluent in Japanese at all"