• EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
      50·
      1 year ago

      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

      • ccunning@lemmy.world
        30·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • shrodes@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        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,

        • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          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.

        • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          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 😉

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
      7·
      1 year ago

      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:(

    • niktemadur@lemmy.worldOP
      5·
      1 year ago

      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!

    • adam_y@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I can’t even imagine how powerful I would be if I could be ignored in every language.

    • Jarix@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      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

      • SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        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?

        • Jarix@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          Against what reference point would you lock it?

          Depends on what you need it to do (or not do)

  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk
    313·
    1 year ago

    The ability to upload any ability into my mind that I can think of and be amazing at it.

    Shashahshaaa!

    Runs away and throws pocket sand

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    211·
    1 year ago

    Universal language module. Not to translate all into English but to understand all of them.

      • GaMEChld@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • Lumisal@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • GaMEChld@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • frankPodmore@slrpnk.netEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    Musical ability — perfect pitch, great rhythm. I’m an okay musician after years working at it, but I’d love to be better.

  • The Infinite Nematode@feddit.ukEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    I’d love to know how to dance, I mean really properly dance for every situation, not just a generic two foot shuffle. I’ve seen some people who can dance properly and they looked cool as fuck.

    • Jarix@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      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)

  • sep@lemmy.world
    14·
    1 year ago

    Read and write all languages. Be it swahili, mandarin, latin, hieroglyfs, python, c++ or java. ;)

    • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Sounds like you need to download pretty much everything ever written on mathematics, physics, biology, and medicine. That info dump would also have to include a bunch of stuff that hasn’t even been invented yet, and probably won’t be within the next 500 years.

      Once you have all that in your mind, you’ll be incredibly frustrated that modern day technology is at least 500 years away from what you actually need. You would need to build a bunch of quantum electronics fabrication factories so that you can build the real factories that actually produce the machines you need for assembling the very first brain reading and recording machine.

      Although, since you have all that revolutionary science and tech in your head, you should use that to fix global warming, world hunger, cancer and a bunch of other stuff so that you can raise the trillions of capital needed for building the main project.

    • glimse@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      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

      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
        5·
        1 year ago

        That’s all seems pretty complicated.
        Im just gonna stick with the tried and true half fold mostly ball method.

      • stoly@lemmy.world
        5·
        1 year ago

        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.