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Cake day: February 28th, 2021

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  • I think it makes a lot of sense to encourage unbranded words like “personalizer”, but I also think a specific tool needs a name.

    For deem, I think it would be delightful to have a name like “Peertube Owl Personalizer”.

    I personally like to not use a direct verb as a name, because it becomes more abstract than it needs to be. Therefore I have swapped the word “sight” with something that symbolizes sight, in this case the bird owl. One can also be more specific like eagleowl or elect another species with great sight such as the eagle.

    An extra benefit of electing natural life as names for your tools can be that it increases attention towards nature. Oppositely, you can elect a name that draws attention away from reality towards something unreal, such as fairytales, science fiction or pokemon, this would have the opposite effect.




  • That is false. Esperanto is eurocentric. Thats true. But the reason it is so easy to learn is not because it is a merge of european languages. Rather it is because it is consistent and its many elements which by design makes the language easy to learn.

    • All present tense words ends in -as, all subjectives ends with -o.
    • The letters are always pronounced the same.
    • The morpheme ‘mal’ is used a lot which creates the antonym of a word. Varma and malvarma means respectively warm and cold. Sana and malsana means respectively healthy and sick.
    • Esperanto gives the speaker the -n suffix which is marking the direct object. In essence, this grants more flexibility to switch around on sentences to better fit how you want to speak the language.

    In contrast, english is consistently inconsistent and thus makes it very hard to learn. The pronounciation changes depending on the words. The morphemes are inconsistent.