I have a similar experience.
Whenever I send message to my Japanese colleagues their response is always detailed and precise.
They might take time in replying as of course they use AI and auto translating tools but the reply will be accurate.
In fact, I find the worse level of English understanding the better the answer they provide, and it’s not only the work they put into it, there is a feeling of respect and importance towards other people work which I really appreciate.
You should ask the EU what happed with the Digital Markets Act, and if it's possible to install arbitrary software on an iPhone today. If the answer is "no, you can't", then that should give you a hint of how effective the EU really is when it comes to these issues.
I keep hearing about this and honestly I don’t get it how does this continue to happen?
Here I am, a real human, decent person and a nice guy lol
yet I can’t find a good job.
What are these companies doing, how is this possible?
They aren’t telling the truth when they apply. They’ll use stolen identities, fabricated backgrounds, fake reference checks, hacked LinkedIn profiles.
They are professionals at lying and interviewing. When it’s your job to get jobs and you’re doing it with organized support, you will find something.
They also don’t really care if the job is good or bad. They’re just farming any and all jobs they can get and hanging on to them until they’re pushed out. At many companies, that can take years.
The Norks basically just steal a very qualified persons identity and info and then use that info to apply for jobs. So on paper, the job applicant looks pretty good but its just all larping from the threat actors. For being such a hermit kingdom, they are very good at infiltrating large companies and stealing cryptocurrencies.
While most the time they display replica, sometimes they do show the original, like for example right now.
Sadly no live sumo in Ryogoku, the next tournament starts this Sunday in Nagoya.
Yes and no. Ostrava, as a huge industrial center, had an unique mix of ethnicities (Czech, German, Jewish, Slovak, Galician, Silesian, Polish etc.) that interacted and created a mixed language. As a result, the dialect is different from the one used in the Silesian countryside. There is a lot of very specific words that probably weren't used in the original agricultural setting of Silesia (such as "papaláš", meaning a high-ranking official).
And reading collections of old Silesian folklore from the villages, I noticed the rustic language having some extra features no longer present in Ostrava as well.
But the staccato accent is pretty much the same, yes. As is the preserved pronunciation of hard "y" which died out in standard Czech some 600 years ago.
I’m familiar with the staccato accent (first time I heard was an angry train station janitor in Bohumín :D) but what’s the hard “y” sound? I’d known of tvrdé y/ý and měkké i/í depending on some consonant but I think you’re talking about something different (and interesting!)
Tvrdé y/ý and měkké i/í exist in written form in standard Czech, but they have been pronounced in the same way, softly, across most of the country since the late Middle Ages or so. That is why many pupils struggle with "where to write y and where to write i", because it does not correspond to their daily experience with spoken Czech.
An interesting exception is the region around Ostrava, where "y" remained a clearly different vowel in pronunciation until today.
I was just curious what the difference is, but that might be hard to convey over text :-D I have a friend from Frydek-Mistek, I’ll ask her for a demonstration :)
