#language library

Another HelloTalk experience that leaves me dumbfounded: people messaging me to say hi, looking on their profile and it says "I want to talk to people who have the same hobbies" and their hobbies are like, baseball, sushi and One Piece. I've never played or even watched a baseball game (nor do I have any interest in sports), I don't eat fish or seafood and I don't like One Piece. My interests are listed on my profile, so if you'd bothered to check you'd have realised we have absolutely nothing in common. So why the fuck did you message me.

Today's brute-forcing my way through the language barrier: couldn't remember how to say sunset, went with "太陽のさようなら時" (the sun's goodbye time) 🤣

HelloTalk has this AI bot that comments on people's posts giving "corrections" and every time I see it it's taken something that sounds completely natural and turned it into some janky google-translate vibe garbage 😒

Commented on someone's post on HelloTalk and also told them the post contained no errors, the English was perfect, and their response was "well I used AI to write it :)" and ????? I'm so ??? confused ????? why the fuck are you on a language learning app if you're just gonna use AI to speak the language for you anyway?????

Trying to track down the history of why Norwegian and Danish use æ and ø while Swedish uses ä and ö and all I'm getting is "Norwegian and Danish use æ and ø while Swedish uses ä and ö" and I'm like YES. I KNOW. BUT WHY. WHY DID THIS HAPPEN. WHY IS SWEDEN THE REBEL CHILD.

Quick, Irish-speaking/learning folks! How do I wish my supervisor "Happy St Patrick's Day" in Gaeilge?

Italki lesson in 32 minutes and what am I doing? Looking up the history of feminine gender in Danish and Swedish