Edit: It's a "pronunciation dictionary". Ppl just record how they say words and indicate their geography. Super useful for languages like English where there are a lot of regional varieties.
And you can contribute too to the dictionary of your language. :)
I'm no affiliated w/ it btw, just really love this website, have been using it for years.
No, this is wrong. It sounds like it's being mispronounced by a native German speaker. There is no hard initial vowel sound; the first syllable is not emphasized like that. There are three syllables in the word: com-mun-al and it's pronounced "kəˈmyo͞on(ə)l,ˈkämyənəl/" so the stress is on the second, not the first syllable.
Comments in this thread are kind of trippy but also so heartwarming to read.
I was born in independent Ukraine but, unsurprisingly, I studied math and physics with the help of all of those Soviet handbooks: Perelman, Irodov etc, basically all of them are household names.
It's amazing to realize that somebody from a totally different culture, continent, language, was slouching over the same problems as I was, maybe even at the same time.
Good points. I am in India. When in college, used to buy and read those books, for math., physics, etc. Good content. I remember Ya. Perelman's [1] books in particular, for popularizing physics to the layman. Stuff about perpetual motion machines (explaining why they cannot work), physical phenomena related to refraction, reflection, etc., and much else besides.
Nabokov is absolutely considered a Russian writer by Russians themselves, both lit critics and casual readers.
He wrote 8 novels in Russian and identified himself as both Russian and American and, according to his own words, loved the Russian language most.
I haven't played it too but from what I've read about it, I suspect it might cause a so called Tetris Effect when the game mechanics basically invades people's though patterns.[0]
It can be used as a somewhat effective "distraction" for your brain during episodes of anxiety[1] helping to overcome it. So if someone is planning their crops, they're probably just distracting themselves from anxious thoughts.
Just my understanding from reading the article and different opinions of players.
Anecdotal: a friend of mine used to play some casual mobile game for quite some time (Candy Crush or something), she told me once that when she was giving birth she involuntarily started to "play" the game in her mind when the stress and pain became too strong, she said it helped her both to distant herself and to focus. :)
You sound like someone who has never had Tetris vision. It’s mildly frustrating. You close your eyes and your brain starts simulating whatever game you’ve played too much (in my case, dungeon crawl stone soup). But it’s not a fun simulation, it’s more so just a random imagined game state and then predicted next state, vaguely dream like.
Honestly it’s probably the same mechanism as dreaming. Just your brain training itself too hard while you’re still awake.
when i was a kid i fell asleep on a pokémon game and for a few hours after waking up lived in a world echoing with one pokémon song. sleep deprivation from staying up all night playing pokémon surely doesn’t help. toying around with the tetris effect is fun. human sensory perception is whack, even without drugs! our brain can play us scenes if we guide it a bit.
For someone who might be interested in reading some research on the topic:
Videogames may help with anxiety. They may be used as a healthy alternative to otherwise compulsive behaviors (self-harm etc) and just as a general coping technique battling anxiety episodes[0] and also offer a healthy distraction for people suffering from PTSD[1] but it's not a 100% safe route, sometimes videogames may trigger even more anxiety, sometimes people will fall into compulsive/obsessive territory and develop an addiction (which will basically start a vicious loop of anxiety-compulsive gaming-more anxiety-more compulsive etc).
I really like this article - [2], it looks broadly into the issue which is multi variable.
P.s. Regardless of their effectiveness as a psychotherapeutic tool, videogames which are dealing with mental health as their main theme and exposing these issues to wide audiences, are obviously very needed and important.
P.p.s. Hellblade is amazing, breathtaking and everyone should play it. Yes.
The thing is that burnout among therapists is real, everyone I know who worked in counseling came with lots of, how shall I put it?, infatuation, enchantment and everybody got severely disenchanted at some point.
So until the author has worked for a couple of years in the field, he comes off as a little bit... naive.
I don't mean to come off as condescending, I hope he finds happiness in his new profession.
Interesting.
I quit psychology/counseling and work in tech now and the thought of my work being absolutely meaningless gives me a lot of anxiety, I hope I'll come to terms with it one day.
Correction, I'm sure I'll come to terms with it but the transition is far from being smooth and takes longer than I expected.
i really feel for people who drive themselves crazy over their work, its impact, and their overall purpose. My poor wife struggles and suffers constantly over these things year after year.
Maybe i'm just mentally handicapped in some way but i like to code and solve business problems and so i'm a consultant who codes and solves business problems. I've never thought about if my work is meaningful, it's impact whether good or bad, or worried i'm not pursuing the true purpose of my life. It just doesn't come to mind.
You're not mentally handicapped, you're just in harmony with yourself which is amazing and very rare. :)
I would advise your wife to try volunteering (for whatever cause she finds important) if she hasn't already.
I've started volunteering at a local NGO after switching careers and it's easily my favorite time of the month, gives me lots of energy and peace of mind, wish I could do it more often.
If it's meaningless, maybe try a different industry?
I develop healthcare software and consider that quite meaningful. Before that I've worked on OA repositories, another thing I find useful.
I'm not sure if I'd feel the same if I was work for a bank or something though.
Yes, of course, there are lots of tech businesses that I would find myself content working for.
I just don't really have the luxury of choice atm: started later in life, no solid CS background, immigrant, no real talent (to be honest) etc.
I'm sure it'll work out when I gain more experience. :)
I was a child psychologist (specializing in development and planned to go deeper into social work) and it was/is the biggest passion of my life, so switching to tech feels weird to put it mildly.
IT is fantastic, don't get me wrong, I would not go back.
And risk ending up in jail, murdered or dying poor? One may love their country but loves their life/family more.
I don't know where you're from but if you're from postsoviet countries you should know how freaking difficult it is to oppose the system and, in case of Russia, also dangerous.
As I replied to the another guy under this parent, any analysis done on previous years it absolutely out-of-date by now. We'd need new reviews to make a proper assessment how (in)secure it is.
Edit: It's a "pronunciation dictionary". Ppl just record how they say words and indicate their geography. Super useful for languages like English where there are a lot of regional varieties. And you can contribute too to the dictionary of your language. :)
I'm no affiliated w/ it btw, just really love this website, have been using it for years.