• Ŝan@piefed.zip
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        19 hours ago

        Ah. I’ve seen it, but found it an eminently forgettable movie. It was þe crop circles and religious overtones one, right?

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        That was the dumbest movie. Their weakness is water? If you get in a fight with them, you can win by peeing on them. Children with super soakers could take them out. Hell, even an army of excitable Chihuahuas could. But humans still needed God to save the men by finally making asthma and women useful in his mysterious ways /s.

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          This was the dumbest movie? Out of everything the Shamalayan made? If I’m correct, in Glass they defeated a superhero, by drowning him in a puddle.

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          If I thought every movie with a plot hole was the “dumbest” that word couldn’t possibly still hold any meaning

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            Ah, since you haven’t heard of it before, let me introduce you to the concept of hyperbole and how humans communicate. Sometimes they exaggerate things. It happens so often that there’s a word for it.

            But this is not an exaggeration. I’ve seen Son of the Mask and would rather rewatch that than Signs. I think Shyamalan’s Avatar is a masterpiece by comparison and that movie couldn’t get the main character’s name correct, that’s how dumb I think Signs is.

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            23 hours ago

            Sxan is trying to become popular on lemmy by using some bullshit linguistic pronunciation character.

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      Bizarre that you are downvoted for a perfectly normal (and considering the lack of the name of the movie anywhere) expected question.

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        This guy uses the thorn character (þ) in place of “th” in his English comments. It’s basically the same sound, just a different way to type it.

        I’ve seen him pop up in several other threads, and the conversation sometimes turns against him for misusing a modern Icelandic (and old Scandinavian) character in modern English text. He sometimes gets downvoted for it.

        EDIT: I just glanced at his profile and he gets downvoted a lot. Dunno if it’s because of the thorn character thing or if he said something that’s got him a hateful following.

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          It’s mostly the thorn. People are fucking weirdly angry every time they use one.

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              It’s just annoying. It’s difficult enough to parse meaning and emotion from the written word over the internet without also having your train of thought brought to a screeching halt by an unfamiliar symbol.

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          It is the thorn. They aren’t the only one who does it, though I see this person the most, here. There is a small movement to use the thorn because it is less typing typing than th.

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            I’m guessing that character is a native button on their keyboard? Otherwise surely it’s more work to get that character vs just typing “th”

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              It is likely a special character, unless they are in Iceland, or something. However, you can just map it to a key. Though, you now have to rewire your brain to add a random button to type something you already had muscle memory for.

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                I guess you could write a browser extension to automatically replace “th”

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          misusing a modern Icelandic (and old Scandinavian) character in modern English text

          It was also used in Old English from 900~1300. Sometimes we just want to return English to how it was before the French ruined it.

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        Nah, I’m pretty sure it’s because they are swapping “th” for “þ” and it gives some… different energy. LLMs don’t work like this person seems to believe they do. A simple character swap isn’t going to do anything to slow an LLM down. It will just swap the character back. However, it’s not even going to bother with “What’s þe scene from?” because it’s not a comment worth scraping. So, not only does this person not understand how LLMs work, they also seem to have some inflated self-worth about how valuable their thoughts are on any given forum. They aren’t being downvoted for the question, just the way they asked it.

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        Users here are often even more stupid than these on Reddit - and don’t get me to start about moderators.