Language difficulty

@notsoneutral said ^

@notsoneutral

You said the usage of gaming terms IS A BIGGER DEAL compared to children killed in war. And put a 'lol' after that. I'd report you, except this is the Off-Topic Discussion and the mods no longer intervene.

Can't you read sarcasm ?

Now that I wrote this

Children being killed is not funny

you still pretend I think children being killed is not a big deal ???

If you aren’t lying you truly have the worst sense of humor I’ve ever seen.

@Voldstar said ^

If you aren’t lying you truly have the worst sense of humor I’ve ever seen.

With civilians being killed on a regular basis in wars going on, I could not care less of a gamer making a drama pretending to be forbidden to use loot box.

What is funny is the gamer going berserk against a language like French. On the language of difficulty Mandarin and Cantonese is scoring higher than French I guess.

Again Toubon Law mandates the use of French in all public commercial, workplace, and official contexts in France, ensuring consumers and employees can understand information.

Unlike what you want us to believe.

@Voldstar said ^

I’ve got Uyghur and minority group classmates and they’re allowed to practice their traditions. There is no ethnic purge, no concentration camps, and no forced assimilation. There are programs to get them equal opportunities when compared to the Han majority.

Sure if you say so, it must be true regardless of HRW and UN have to say on this subject.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/02/04/china-repression-deepens-extends-abroad

President Xi Jinping mobilized the government to impose strict ideological conformity and loyalty to him and the Chinese Communist Party. Tibetans, Uyghurs, and other communities with distinct identities, including members of unofficial churches, face the most severe suppression of rights. Government repression of Hong Kong has also escalated.

“The Chinese government under Xi Jinping has amassed an increasingly disastrous human rights record, expanding and deepening its crackdown on fundamental freedoms,” said Maya Wang, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “Foreign governments have largely been unwilling to push back against the threats the Chinese government poses to the international human rights system, let alone within China.”

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/01/un-experts-alarmed-reports-forced-labour-uyghur-tibetan-and-other-minorities

According to the experts, forced labour in China is enabled through the State-mandated “poverty alleviation through labour transfer” programme, which coerces Uyghurs and members of other minority groups into jobs in Xinjiang and other regions. They are reportedly subjected to systematic monitoring, surveillance and exploitation, with no choice to refuse or change the work due to a pervasive fear of punishment and arbitrary detention. Xinjiang’s five-year plan (2021 to 2025) projects 13.75 million instances of labour transfers. The actual numbers have reached new heights.

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You sound similar to the dude saying I'm not racist because I have dark skin friends.

@notsoneutral said ^

If you aren’t lying you truly have the worst sense of humor I’ve ever seen.

With civilians being killed on a regular basis in wars going on, I could not care less of a gamer making a drama pretending to be forbidden to use loot box.

Yes, because you asked me to provide an AI example. For me, it’s not such a big deal, in comparison to world affairs.

What is funny is the gamer going berserk against a language like French. On the language of difficulty Mandarin and Cantonese is scoring higher than French I guess.

This is a forum about difficult and complicated languages. Now if it was a thread about war, of course it would be insensitive. But this is a thread about languages, so I brought up languages. PS mandarin is hard but they don’t force people to speak it. English is more prestigious than Chinese here.

Again Toubon Law mandates the use of French in all public commercial, workplace, and official contexts in France, ensuring consumers and employees can understand information.

Unlike what you want us to believe.

Now who’s making a big deal? Should I say “children are dying in war, and you’re defending some random law?” See how illogical that sounds? Wars have nothing to do with this conversation and virtue signaling using it is completely tasteless.

What’s funnier is you pointing to the “China flag” in my profile and trying to link it to alleged “human rights abuses” when your flag is of Germany, which committed the worst human rights abuses in history.

@Voldstar said ^

What’s funnier is you pointing to the “China flag” in my profile and trying to link it to alleged “human rights abuses” when your flag is of Germany, which committed the worst human rights abuses in history.

Unlike China, we in Germany is not denying it. Unlike China, Germany went through the Nuremberg Trials (1945–1949), where 24 major Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes, crimes against peace, and crimes against humanity.

I have a trivial solution for your gamer problems. Blocked me, and you'll be able to ignore me. Instead of bringing in this conversation one of France Regulation targeting only corporations.

@Voldstar said ^

This is a forum about difficult and complicated languages. Now if it was a thread about war, of course it would be insensitive. But this is a thread about languages, so I brought up languages. PS mandarin is hard but they don’t force people to speak it. English is more prestigious than Chinese here.

UN and HRW do not agree with you. ;-)

@notsoneutral said ^

What’s funnier is you pointing to the “China flag” in my profile and trying to link it to alleged “human rights abuses” when your flag is of Germany, which committed the worst human rights abuses in history.

Unlike China, we in Germany is not denying it.

Because it would be hard to deny killing 6 million people. How are you supposed to hide that?
Meanwhile, foreigners are allowed to visit Xinjiang. Go there if you want to check.

Unlike China, Germany went through the Nuremberg Trials (1945–1949), where 24 major Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes, crimes against peace, and crimes against humanity.

No, this was imposed by the Allied forces. “...conduct these trials stemmed from the London Agreement of August 8, 1945. On that date, representatives from the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the provisional government of France signed an agreement...”
So the existence of the Nuremberg trials is only due to the fact that the Allies won. There was no collective realization that the genocdie of 6 million was, in any way, problematic. That is, until they had lost the war already.

I have a trivial solution for your gamer problems.

I argue not a a gamer, but as someone who opposes language censorship. I’m not personally affected by whether or not so dev is fined for using “loot box,” but I find it unjust nonetheless.

Blocked me, and you'll be able to ignore me.

Thanks for the only logical thing said so far.

Instead of bringing in this conversation one of France Regulation targeting only corporations.

Ok, and I suppose this conversation was about... wait it couldn’t have been about language, right? Not about the “children killed in war” or China, right? Oh wait, that was the exact topic of the conversation.

@Alientcp said ^

French. for 3 reasons.
The first. It just makes no sense. The written part has no correlation with the pronunciation.
The second one. Its quite ugly to hear.
The third. The French people. They are very rude if you have a bad pronunciation. As if that ugly language was a treasure of humanity and needed some kind of sacred protection lol.

Im really not that interested in learning a third language, but if I had to choose which one to not learn, that would be french.

If you hate Francais so much, can you tell me why you use the metric system, which was invented in France and uses Francais for it's original definition?

@Alientcp said ^

French. for 3 reasons.
The first. It just makes no sense. The written part has no correlation with the pronunciation.

Very strange and interesting statement, because usually, many people think the opposite... Except if you're about the endings of verbs, like the verbs that finish in "er" in infinitive, but with the silent r. I can agree that it have evolved in a very interesting way since, if I remember well, the r wasn't silent every time, but it was non rhotic. The pronunciation evolved faster than writing, we kept rules that were used both by pronouncing and writing in the 17th century

The second one. Its quite ugly to hear.

You're not the only to think it. Even Mozart said so

The third. The French people. They are very rude if you have a bad pronunciation. As if that ugly language was a treasure of humanity and needed some kind of sacred protection lol.

I agree with this point that, unlike English or even Russian, French are the first to notice when you have an "accent" and most of them are very picky when you make a mistake or pronounce something not the way it should. But they're also the first to compliment you if you make the effort to learn and to improve