argh_another_username

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[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca -3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Outsider here. Where’s Hillary?

Blue Screen Of Death.

They linked the community, not a particular post.

[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Diseases? The last group we knew of in Brazil died from bullets from illegal miners.

[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They’re “late”.

[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

One of my duties in my first job was to build diskless computers. I’d record an EPROM in the station and boot from a Novell server.

[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Because of course they have shitty warp drives, they keep crashing on Earth, they almost never land smoothly on the planet.

[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

For people in Canada, Pix is like Interac with automatic deposit activated.

[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Quebec was a French colony, they lost a big war, they hate the monarchy and dream of independence from Britain and the English part of Canada.

[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

They try everything so people keep speaking in French. They force kids to go to French schools and reduced the places in English schools. They’ve had teachers and monitors forcing kids to speak in French even during recess. Of course it doesn’t work and kids will speak in whatever language they want, mainly English.

[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago (7 children)

It wouldn’t be a big loss. That painting is ugly as hell.

[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 39 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I have a little bit of experience in this. Brazilian living in Quebec. So, my friends almost always spoke in Portuguese with their children, school and TV were in French. After some time, school starts also to teach English and they chose the language of the TV. Now the kids are almost always speaking in English, although the are fluent in Portuguese and, of course, French.

Now, my wife and I hated the TV in French, so we kept it in English. So, my kids had to deal with three languages from the start. They mixed everything up and we screwed up by saying words in all three languages. We speak mainly Portuguese but we would use words that they learned in other languages in those languages instead of in Portuguese. In the end, my kids mix all three languages in a single sentence, which is weird as hell. They’re slowly separating the languages and we too. Now, every sentence we speak is in a single language. Their friends help in a way, because they also speak French in class but English outside (and Quebec’s government hates that).

So, if both of you are Portuguese speakers, I’d only speak Portuguese with them and let the TV and school teach English. They’ll know how to keep things separated.

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