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Cake day: March 10th, 2026
  • faith_in_strangers@lemmygrad.mltoComradeship // Freechat@lemmygrad.ml•Anyone else learning any languages at the moment?
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    20 days ago

    Its similar to Tamil but different. മലയാളലിപി (Malayalalipi) is what we use to write Malayalam. This and tamil were written in vattezhuthu (zh/ഴ has no english equivalent), but later mixed it with grantha script and modified it heavily to create malayalalipi. Modern tamil script has a different origin, don’t know much about it.

    Random passage I found online for example, script is almost phonetic: പണ്ട്, പറന്നു പറന്ന് ചിറകുകടയുന്ന നാഗത്താന്മാർ പനങ്കുരലിൽ മാണിക്യമിറക്കിവെച്ചു ക്ഷീണം തീർക്കാറുണ്ടായിരുന്നു. നാഗത്താന്മാർക്കായി പനകേറ്റക്കാരൻ കള്ളു നേർന്നു വെച്ചു. പനഞ്ചോട്ടിലാകട്ടെ, അവൻ കുലദൈവങ്ങൾക്കു തെച്ചിപ്പൂ നേർന്നിട്ടു.

    The script got simplified again a bit for ease of typesetting by reducing the number of glyphs back in the 60s by the Communist Government here in Kerala. Since its digitised the old script is coming back. Most modern fonts (except the one rendered in the web, maybe Noto Sans) use old script.

  • faith_in_strangers@lemmygrad.mltoComradeship // Freechat@lemmygrad.ml•Anyone else learning any languages at the moment?
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    21 days ago

    Malayalam at the moment. Native tongue, but unfortunately rusty in expressing things in without resorting to english words. Basically trying to go from native speaker who is fine with colloquial tongue to literature oriented, mildly fancier writing. Probably need to read a ton of literature.

    Going beyond colloquial Malayalam is quite painful (kinda diglossic language). Tried to read some books and the frequency of dictionary look ups can be very demoralising lol (And a very specific annoyance of e-reader dictionaries sucking because its a heavily inflected language).

    I’ve been wanting to learn other Indic languages (Tamil - sister language to Malayalam basically, Bangla, Hindi) and Spanish. I maybe getting too ambitious.

  • faith_in_strangers@lemmygrad.mltoComradeship // Freechat@lemmygrad.ml•If I was fit and healthy I would sign up for this
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    1 month ago

    Fecal microbiota transplant is an actual treatment for an antibiotic resistant bacteria. Healthy person’s (healthy) gut microbiome from the stool get transplanted into the person with the infection. Healthy bacteria will kill the problematic ones. Weird treatment, but more efficacy than some of the antibiotics used for this infection. (Antibiotic resistance problem is also avoided)

    Edit: problematic bacteria in question is clostridioides difficle, which infects when gut microbiome is not doing good. Can be due to long ass antibiotic use fucking with gut microbes.

  • faith_in_strangers@lemmygrad.mlOPtoComradeship // Freechat@lemmygrad.ml•Help with BPD
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    5 months ago

    Staying off of bourgeoise social media, marxist theory, and staying away from my family (hindutva shite ಠ_ಠ) is what had helped me the most as of this point. I will check out the website, thank you for linking me.

    I haven’t suffered with addiction thankfully, but I disassociate alot. And I just completely hole myself up in the room as well, for months. Occassionally figuring myself out of it, then minor inconvenience, then back again.

    I identity as a man (AMAB as well), there was very little info I could actually find on male BPD, most of these resources just focus on dehumanizing women. Personality disorder discourse in general feels very murky.