I’m sorry are you thinking you will be allowed to use your non-sanctioned devices on the phone networks?

No they will be blocked at the network level to ensure the safety of children.

You may select a phone from a nice compliant brand, like Apple, Samsung or Google.

Any further attempts to avoid letting the government protect you will result in you being added to the watchlist we share with Peter Thiel.

Look we have had some issues with emergency service “000” calls not going through and there are some tenuous connections to devices purchased offshore. Not discounting that. However we have had more and worse problems due to lack of investment in maintenance by the Telcos and we haven’t banned Telco C Suites yet. So… Yeah the game was rigged from the start. Knowing people who have worked near that level I know how little they actually DO. We could afford as a society to be without them.

Of course there is absolutely no chance this has been a situation which was overstated by Telcos that are salty about imports cutting into the profitability of their markets… Right! Right. Right?

Don’t know which country the origin guy is from, but in Australia they have been blocking “grey import” phone IMEIs because they may not work with our emergency services phone protocols. If 1 person could die from a problem not caused by the Telcos then that means a whole class of devices need to be banned…

As an Australian, we are exactly the same.

The next language I am going to put up is a lot more obscure, Tokelauan, apparently there are only approximately 4000 speakers. There are certainly no students from Tokelau in the class, but I know my friend will be excited by such a rare language being used, hope that flows through to her students as well. Thanks again, can’t express how much your help is appreciated.

So I went with “ô mossss, empilhascadêra fazenofavô?” and my friend told me the Brazilian students in her class “lit up!” They were so happy that they wrote a response: “Pó dexa, cumpadi” and apparently recorded a video together talking about how they came across their dialect in an English class at a little school in Australia. Thank you for making a bunch of people smile this morning!

I almost wish I hadn’t started using FBReader. It’s ruined me for everything else.

Everytime I try a different reading app it just feels wrong.

The way things are going, I wonder how long before a politician admits that it is more efficient to have the kids positively identify themselves and then be forced to provide their if details to which ever paedophile asks. We can’t have the inefficiencies of yesteryear in our modern world kiddy fiddlers need to move fast and break stuff.

After all it turns out the people agitating for these laws, when the mask is ripped off them like a pirate ghost at the end of a Scooby Do episode, the villain was the people who most directly benefit from government mandated doxxing all along, like fucking Meta and OpenAI. What a fucking amazing coincidence.

Maybe it’s just me, but I wouldn’t visit the US right now even if FIFA were paying me that much to attend.

Sure, why not! Thanks for getting back to me, again. Its little cultural things like this that I enjoy the most.

I wrote this on the board but my form was not as good as it might have been, the students corrected the mistakes I made and left me the following note: オッケー、まかせろ

Would this be an appropriate response, or would it come across as incorrect, rude or condescending?

先生方、ご意見をいただきありがとうございます。

Hey, I randomly selected a language to go first and it ended up being Czech. I got a reply under my note: Ano! Yea! But I must admit I am reasonably certain it was a machine translation. I don’t believe there were any Czech speakers in the class.

My friend was SUPER excited by the new language and apparently it sparked a good conversation in her class, she couldn’t wait to see what’s next.

Thank you again!

Σας ευχαριστώ

And

Faleminderit shumë

I really like that I am seeing common or similar words between languages.

Obrigado

The Greek part was copied off the web. I meant that I hope I can correctly write the Greek characters on the whiteboard. Hope they are legible.

Спасибо Or хвала ти

Is Cyrillic or Latin more used in Serbia? I like the novelty of trying to write Cyrillic clearly enough to be read but want to make sure I am using the more common form.

Kiitos

The lack of “Please” took me a moment to process, but I guess it’s just a linguistic niche that the language didn’t need to fill, and the use of “Thank You” made it redundant. Cool, thank you!

Cool, thank you!

Obrigado.

I’ve always wondered, if you know, how difficult is it to be clearly understood between Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese?

I have family who speak with a strong enough Scottish accent that understanding is very difficult for some people, but also there are words they use that are just different than what people in other English speaking parts of the world use. Is it like that, or less, or more?

감사합니다

I am shamed to admit that after 5 years of Tae Kwon Do and Hapkido as a kid, all I remember is hana, dul, ses and dollida.