Polyglotism. Being able to speak every language would be practically a superpower.
This is a neat idea until you’re in a situation where you remember 38 different words for a thing, just not the one in the language you need
I only speak one language fluently and one language extremely poorly.
The number of times I’ve been able to come up with the word I want in my second language and completely blanked on it in my native language baffles my mind.
This is why I learned the shit out of English: If I forget a word, there’s like 6 more words that are close enough to the one I forgot.
This is why Spanglish is a thing.
If I could ‘cheat’ and say ‘I know every language in the world’, and that included programming languages and things like scientific notation as a language, I’d take that in a heartbeat. If not, I’d take programming, as at least then I can create things and make money.
If speaking every language included dead and forgotten languages too though, then it would be a very tough choice.
This is probably super pedantic (bloody programmers right?) but I really feel like it would depend on what is meant by “know every programming language”. Like being able to remember every syntax and construct is sort of useful but not all that practical. Understanding how to implement the language in a useful way is the valuable part, not just knowing the keywords.
I guess I would kind of compare it to the difference between being able to read Shakespeare and being able to write Shakespeare,
Correct. Learning a programming language is trivial. Far easier than a foreign language.
If we think of it in terms of learning a language, what matters is the grammar and ability to use it to struct prose to create a coherent story.
There’s also a lot of reuse which requires knowing what’s available. The closest analogy there is how music sampling is used.
If we’re being pedantic, in The Matrix, Neo says ‘I know kung fu’ to explain that he both knows what all the moves are, and how to use them. As that was the topic of the post, I used the same sentence structure to mean the same thing about all languages, including programming 😉
I’d make tens of dollars as the scholar to decode the Harrapan/Indus Valley script!
Or I make makes millions as a YouTuber decoding the Voynich manuscript…
Our society is broken:(
I can’t even imagine how powerful I would be if I could be ignored in every language.
If it was just one language and writing system as a choice, I might say Japanese.
There are so many different characters in their writing as symbols instead of phonetic sounds, that bookstores in Japan are divided into sections, in which one has books that use… say 500 characters, then another section with books that use 1200 characters, or 5000, or 10,000, or more!
To read Japanese or Chinese with a mastery of over 10,000 symbols might be my choice. The richness and depth of those writings must be something incredible.My second choice, for shits ‘n’ giggles, might be something like Sumerian or Akkadian, in the original Cuneiform!
The rpg munchkin in me hopes polyglot misleading includes computer languages.
Yea, the best option.
This is a back up power to me. The best power is the power to control time however you like.
You could learn every language ever created with the ability to control time. As you would also live as long as you wanted.
You also would be able to timelock any object making it unmoving and indestructable.
You can heal anyone from anything by rolling them back to when they werent injured
No end to what you can do with controlling time
You also would be able to timelock any object making it unmoving and indestructable.
Technically, if you stop something in time and space, it would disappear before your very eyes if it was on Earth, as the Earth would keep on going on its orbit around the sun, around the Milky Way Galaxy, etc. and your object would be floating somewhere. Against what reference point would you lock it?
Against what reference point would you lock it?
Depends on what you need it to do (or not do)
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Universal language module. Not to translate all into English but to understand all of them.
Just put this fish in your ear.
You’re now a protocol droid.
Ok I think - except that I am absolute shit at protocol so now I’m gonna get someone killed.
Download more RAM. My working memory is shit (ADHD).
You will just be more (less?) Efficient and being efficient.
I might be a little obsessed with efficiency. Possibly due to my issues making me inefficient by nature, I tend to seek efficiency wherever I can, like some mirage in the desert of my mind.
Did I write this comment? I used to think I just did my best to deliberately waste as little time as possible to balance out all the time I waste involuntarily. Now I realize that I just can’t tolerate being idle, so the moment I initiate some automated process that will take more than a few seconds to complete, I start yet another task while waiting. This looks a hell of a lot more efficient on paper than it does in reality, though…
I thought the issue there was the processor not being able to run a single core long enough.
Or maybe it’s just how the operating system works?
Have you tried Linux? I use Arch btw.
If I had to liken ADHD to computer terms, I think I would blame a faulty task scheduler. That’s what issues the threads to the CPU. When Ryzen came out and also when Intel moved to Performance and Efficiency cores there were issues with efficient task scheduling.
Ability to complete a household project with only 1 trip to the hardware store.
When I was driving instacart between jobs or what not I had one for just that. Pick up 4 items from Lowes. Called them and she said they just left there and weren’t going back, haha
How to people.
I have great ideas and am horrible at explaining them.
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I’d upload a few languages. Instantly being able to speak and read an array of languages and traveling the world would be fun.
This is a good one. I interact with a lot of East and South Asians in my spare time, and I would love to speak all of their languages. Especially since their English is not the best (in my circle, that is).
Playing the piano and other instruments like a master. Music conveys feelings we can’t convey otherwise.
That can be said about any form of communication. Words on a page convey what words spoken can’t always.
The right touch in the right way Can connect you more than any sound or word could ever hope to.
A painting can make me feel things a book can’t make me understand. A performance or dance can show me something i can’t hear or speak
It’s different ways of experiencing experiences. What is communicated is not always the same between different subjects and objects. Even if they often do
But also to your point hearing music IS different from feeling music and different from creating it. I think music as a communication tool is fuzzy and not very good at communicating clearly. Powerfully i dont deny but not everyone can be affected the same way by the same music either so it’s not a dependable form of communication.
And sometimes yes those feelings can be conveyed by other means.
But you seem like you might enjoy this song
Ren - Hi Ren (the music video is worth watching if you listen to this one)
The ability to make an ability uploading tool.
Read and write all languages. Be it swahili, mandarin, latin, hieroglyfs, python, c++ or java. ;)
You had me until Java.
I agree. But i want ALL languages ;) even the crappy ones.
Is Maths a language?
For sure.
Ability to fold a fitted sheet.
Poke your hand until you hit the corner of a seam. Do the same with the other hand on an adjacent corner.
Bring hands together so both corners touch.
Now unfold the corner in one hand onto the other hand.
Smooth it out. Repeat with the untouched corners.
You can do it one more time or just fold from there
You say that but when you put the four corners together you get a trapezoid or triangle instead of a square or rectangle. I’ve even watched videos and tried to copy but failed at this.
That’s all seems pretty complicated.
Im just gonna stick with the tried and true half fold mostly ball method.
I know it’s a thought experiment but try to be a little realistic.
Musical ability — perfect pitch, great rhythm. I’m an okay musician after years working at it, but I’d love to be better.
I want to understand, intrinsically, and be able to manipulate to my liking, all the financial systems of the world.
At worst, I’d quickly become a well-paid accountant. At best, I’d become an extremely talented, untraceable, modern Robin Hood.
This would be a pretty dope tv show for about a season.
How many episodes and his long are they?
Kung Fu
Skateboarding. Looks so fun
The ability to sew anything. I love to binge sewing vids so being able to take some scraps and make cool shit would be amazing.
There’s a sewing store that is selling everything off in a retirement sale near me. I’m going to check it out as I’ve never been in the store before. Anything you think i should look for?
Sewing notions like button sets, zippers, interfacing, binding tape etc. All that stuff is nice to have on hand regardless of the project. Other than that I think I’d be looking for patterns rather than cloth unless you have a specific project in mind.
Idle curiosity. Sad to see a shop like that close even if i dont havr much use for it myself
