Do you know how people of your target language do things differently in casual text messages/on the internet?
A good example: russians often drop the double dot from smiling face )))) vs. :)))) or how in some middle-eastern languages they write hhhhhhh instead of the “hahaha”.
Well. It’s what you might call productive procrastination. Instead of studying my 5K list I’m building a 23K list and still feeling like it’s not enough so I go and search a 1M word corpus and before I know it I’m writing code to parse these pdfs and tokenize and all this mess.
I haven’t even mentioned the few days I spent going down the rabbit hole of trying to procedurally generate a crossword puzzle out of my anki deck. Would be really cool but it’s a catch 22. To find a good solution you need many words, but to make it easy enough for me to solve you need few.
That is starting to sound like a serious hobby wow. Cool as long as you don’t burn yourself out.
If you do create a crossword puzzle out of an anki deck please let us know! That would be kinda useful lol.