cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36752354
Got a 7 day ban on !memes@lemmy.ml after responding to this very abusive commenter with this image:
I reported their abusive comments somewhat expecting to get banned as well. It came as a shock to me when i saw my ban but this commenter got off scot-free. They didn’t even so much as get a single abusive comment removed.
This is the most blatant double standard I’ve encountered on that instance.
Link to the thread: https://lemmy.world/comment/19699062
Well shit, thank you for the fairly comprehensive breakdown there!
Yeah I am not gonna pretend I know… how … any of those pronounciation keys actually work or sound, but I will look them up later, lol!
See this is the sentiment that I naturally lean toward, but am obviously not proficient enough in… any Chinese variant, nor really with the history of China beyond what a Chinese person would probably view as grade school level…
But I have spent a bit of time studying the absolutely fascinating wealth of languages and language groups that… my ancestors basically drove to literal, or near total extinction… and… that makes me very, very sad.
The worst part is that… most of them just usually did not write that much down, it was almost all spoken, so its basically up to the fairly few remaining actual native speakers, and an effort of something like forensic linguistics, to try to reconstruct it as best they can, but the good news is that there are a number of schools that have actual curricula to teach at least some of these native tongues, and prevent more linguistic extinction.
I think at least a few of them now have reserved charsets in some kind of more recent version of UTF, but I am not 100% sure about that off the top of my head.