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i wonder what it is about romance languages that just makes them not click in my brain. french, spanish, and italian are supposed to be some of the easiest languages to learn for english speakers, but i've done all 3 of those and never had much luck.

i suppose with french it could be bc it was taught so badly in school for years so it just always feels annoying and hard to get into bc i never was taught grammar. but honestly the same thing could be said for welsh too, which i can speak now (largely due to self-teaching bc the teachers wouldn't teach us anything useful), and i have a much better time with celtic languages than romance ones. also i did italian for a year at university and i was taught grammar then but the language just didn't click with me. maybe i'll hop around some other romance languages until i find one i click with better. or maybe i'll come back to italian in the future.

even in progressive trans spaces online people seem to have difficulty accepting that someone can be a man and a woman at the same time. and that someone who is both a man and a woman could still face misogyny.

people like to talk about how female and male aren't inherently opposites that can never coexist, but then they don't actually seem to integrate that into their beliefs. acceptance for multigender people but only in theory.

i want to learn more about free speech bc i really dislike censoring (and obviously minorities get affected by it the worst) but also i don't want to see the hate speech that inevitably comes with freedom of expression, and i'm not really sure how to deal with that.

a number of free speech advocates i've seen recently online have just been using it as an excuse to be openly bigoted and hateful. and just plain mean tbh. even a lot of leftists are way too comfortable with being mean to people if they're being mean to the Bad People Who Deserve It instead of the Good Ones.

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cymru wales sans is a welsh font with digraphs!! (except NG and PH, for some reason)

(i've used it on my website if you want to see what it looks like in use https://smmg.neocities.org/. works best on desktop.)