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Related to the question about whether facial expressions are universal.

Are there words/verbal expressions/sounds that exist in every language and have the same meaning in every language?

(I'd also count words that are very similar.)

One example, that I believe is universal is M followed by a vowel followed by another M and optionally another vowel, meaning "Mother".

At least in any language I know, this seems to hold true (mom, Mama, mamma, Mami, ...).

Any other examples?

Edit: To clarify, I am not looking for very popular words that have been imported into most languages (like how almost everyone worldwide knows what Ketchup is), but about words that are "native" to humans. So if you pick someone from an uncontacted native tribe and tell them nothing, they would be able to understand/use that word/sound/verbal expression.

Say I want to link to community x on instance y.org. How do I post this so that someone from instance z.org will end up at z.com/c/[email protected], but someone from a.org ends up on a.com/c/[email protected]?

Jerboa shows promise, but it feels like it's not quite there yet. There are still some important features missing (e.g. selecting the language for a post) and frequent bugs.

As a better alternative, you can also use a browser that allows you to install Progressive Web Apps on the phone (e.g. Firefox or Vivaldi).

Just open your Lemmy instance in the browser, press the menu button and then "install". This will then create a shortcut on your desktop which lets you launch the web UI of your Lemmy instance as if it was a native app on your phone.

For me this works much better than Jerboa.

I am using Vivaldi, and this allows me to e.g. control how I want to open a link. If I just click it, it opens in the same PWA window as Lemmy (useful if you follow internal links on Lemmy). If you long-press it, there is an option to "Open with Vivaldi", which then opens the link in the regular browser activity, which is useful for external links.

Someone forgot that bike lanes should actually have space for a bike. And maybe not cobblestones.

Legally, combined footpath/bike lanes over here should have a minimum width of 2.3m. Between line and tree there is less than 0.8m.

Triple the print speed with much better performance. Flexible filaments (I tried a super-soft Shore A88 filament) are no issue at all.

I adapted a mount I found online, I'll put my modification up somewhere if anyone is interested.

Never going back to Bowden.

All other similar extruders (super light Nema14 motor, dual large gears) should perform similar.

I randomly stumbled across the linked Wikipedia article. At the bottom of the article, there is a list for each state.

Quite a few states (Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming) have an age of consent, which is higher than the minimum marriage age.

How does that work out? Does that mean if these legally married people have intercourse it's statutory rape?

(Weird side fact: California, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Washington have a minimum marriage age of 0, which is just wrong.)

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States#Marriage_age

This article paints a much more disturbing picture of this practice:

According to Unchained At Last, the youngest girls to marry in 2000–2010 were three 10-year-old girls in Tennessee who married men aged 24, 25, and 31 in 2001. The youngest boy to marry was an 11-year-old, also in Tennessee, who married a 27-year-old woman in 2006.

I am getting physically sick when thinking of this.

Weil mich das blöde Zangendeutsch ("Las(s)es", "Unter", "Selbstie", "Lassmich", ...) so sehr nervt, hab ich kurzerhand einen hingehackten Fork von Jerboa erstellt, der Zangendeutschwörter durch die englischen Originale ersetzt.

Da ich mich mit Zangendeutsch allerdings nicht so recht auskenne, sind da noch nicht so viele Wörter in der Wortliste. Wer gerne noch mehr Wörter ersetzt haben will, postet es doch hier rein.

(Disclaimer: Es gibt von mir keinerlei Garantie, dass der Fork in Zukunft auf irgendeine Weise gewartet oder aktuell gehalten wird. Der ist rein zum Spaß da.)

Blöde Frage, weil neu hier. Es gibt wohl zwei unterschiedliche Communities für Österreich hier, nämlich Austria und Österreich. Beide haben nur eine Handvoll Nutzer. Statt die beiden fragmentiert zu halten, wäre es eventuell sinnvoller, eine der beiden Communities zu schließen, so dass alle Nutzer in der gleichen Community enden?