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fuzzyred ([personal profile] fuzzyred) wrote2020-08-10 12:44 pm
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[personal profile] flameandsong was right; the people in the Diamond League are absolutely crazy. We are only 16 hours into the week, and the leader already has over 1700XP. How am I ever going to get the achievement for being first in the Diamond League? I have to *work*, people. :,,,( XD
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[personal profile] ex_flameandsong751 2020-08-12 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, actually, I learned runes and Tengwar back in the 1990s, my brain was a lot more plastic back then. While I didn't mean for this to get dark, PTSD sort of short-circuited my brain and I suspect that's why it's harder for me to learn new alphabets now, I have some other cognitive difficulties that didn't start until my PTSD got really bad so I think that probably went along with them.

That's interesting that the top 5 in your Diamond League is mostly monoglots. I wonder why I keep running into extreme polyglots in my Diamond League...
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[personal profile] fuzzyred 2020-08-12 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
That could be it then. I'm sorry you've had to deal with something that difficult.

Hmm... Luck of the draw maybe? It does make sense that people with more XP/more invested would have a tendency to pick up more languages. You'd probably also end up with some hyper-focused ones. Funny that they split that way though.

On another side note, I just started the English course for French speakers for shits and giggles, and the audio sounds so robotic. I wonder if other languages speakers thing the same about their native audio.
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