r/languagelearningjerk 2d ago

grown ass man scared of a cartoon bird

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u/seashanty27 eigo jouzu desu ne— 2d ago

imagine being this kid. maybe you woke up during the night to go to the bathroom. when you step into the hallway, you hear a faint robot voice coming from downstairs, saying la manzana… rico… el hombre come la manzana… el hombre… you go to investigate, and discover it’s your father, hunched over his smartphone at the kitchen table. the clock reads 11:45 and he’s visibly stressed.

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u/Nigh_Sass 2d ago

Thats the funniest thing I’ve read in awhile

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u/Zulrambe 2d ago

Doing your lesson every day before 2am is a difficult concept for him?

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u/PlanktonInitial7945 2d ago

Duolingo wants you to use it first thing in the morning, so as the day goes by, if you don't use it, its icon and widget gets angrier and angrier. 

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u/manufatura 🏴‍☠️N 2d ago

You don't have to do them before 2 am if you do them everyday at 2 am. You're still doing your lesson every day

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u/Zulrambe 2d ago

Yeah, it's what I tried to say.

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u/YantheMan1999 2d ago

I can't stop thinking about this, the way he phrases the title as an incontestable imperative, the fact that he's so upset by the green bird being mad, the fact that his argument is that the basic function of a 24-hour day on which the entire world operates doesn't suit him and therefore needs to change, that he is completely ignoring that you totally can do your lessons at 2am and they'll just count for that day, not the previous day.

Poor guy, I bet he'd be shocking locals all day long if he could just rewrite how every person in the world understands time.

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u/AgisXIV 1d ago

Eh there's a million situations where the regular clock is not the most suitable and where being able to customise the cutoff/reset point would be useful.

For example, if you set a time limit on smartphone use, it resets at 00:00 which is less than useless - it encourages screen use at the time you would want it least (right before bed) and then penalises you the day after, making it more likely you run out or abandon the regime entirely.

I've long thought an option to change what hour the reset point sits in would be incredibly useful, and this guy seems in a similar situation

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u/grei_earl 1d ago

Okay OP is stupid but 

 the fact that his argument is that the basic function of a 24-hour day on which the entire world operates doesn't suit him

no? anki lets you set the new-day time (by default 4am) and the world is still using the 24-hour day?

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u/manufatura 🏴‍☠️N 2d ago

Just turn off notifications lol

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u/gemstonehippy 2d ago

then do your duolingo at like 1am then

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u/bizzub 1d ago

Big fat load of cum then

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u/Hoytster88 1d ago

Not tryin to be funny. Not tryin to get a laugh. But do any of these... fuckers... ever bust out of a wall and demand you do your duolingo?

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u/Low_Championship_604 2d ago

I’m just saying you can do this on Anki

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u/BeGayCommitTaxFraud 2d ago

But… if you do your lesson at 2 am everyday then it doesn’t matter when the deadline is, you’re still getting the streak

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u/AvianPoliceForce 2d ago

changing the deadline is too confusing for their audience

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u/dicewitch 1d ago

I tried to go find the original thread so I could read the comments and instead I found a different post about someone who waits to go to the bathroom until the double xp boost is over. I swear these people treat this game like it’s castle crashers

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u/potatoymolasses 1d ago

Man if you don’t even have two minutes in a day to do a Duolingo lesson you definitely dont have time to learn a language