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What should, theoretically speaking, happen if an object that has a number of ants on it is brought to a different place, a place that is very far away - at least by ant standards - from the ants' original colony? Let's assume the ants are all workers, with no queens, drones, or larvae among them. W...

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Observing horrible attitudes in someone you care about a lot must be really tough. Commiserations.

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Can you even be precise about how many registers a language has? I would have thought whether a language has, say, three or four registers is a matter of interpretation.

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Oh my. Sorry to hear that, doctor shark.

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doctor shark wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 12:03 pm Start date in Luxembourg got delayed to 15 August due to the slugs at the HR not getting me the documents I need to apply for the residence authorization! [insert snarling noises]

That's messed up. [joins in the snarling]

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keenir wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 7:38 amand comparisons to Latin just reinforced that, as I knew it was a liturgical language, but I also knew that, in most books that were written in Europe had at the very least their titles in Latin.

But Latin still had to be learned, often together with reading.

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You often hear that from people who aren't exactly progressive luminaries on feminism or LGBT rights themselves. The phrase "scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds" proves to be more and more true. I was really thinking of conservatives. Not that left-leaning folks are entirely blameless,...

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Does anyone know enough about the situation in Ireland to make an educated guess about how big the risk is that the far right actually gets somewhere in the next Irish election?

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Wow, thank you for the work that went into that!

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Thank you!

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keenir wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 5:14 am but I don't see why you think the Jewish people would have been awarded part of Germany at any point.

The idea seems to be quite popular as a kind of thought game among some people these days, but I don't see who would have made such a decision in the 1940s, either.

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Why is the collection of built-up areas that serves as the capital of the UK generally called "London" and not "Westminster"?

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Ares Land wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 2:02 am
My German is more than rusty, but hey, I'll give it a try

Oh, thank you! You don't have to put yourself into misery for me!

Raphael

Anyone interested in reading about Irish/British history in German? Perhaps your first language is something else, and you want to brush up on your German, or specifically on a pseudo-scholarly register of German? Earlier this year, for no good reason, I wrote this it-was-meant-to-be-brief-but-ended...

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keenir wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 4:42 pm No, that just demonstrates it knows how to hide its evilicity.

I think I kind of like the word "evilicity".

Raphael

a really interesting collection of essays in a rather lovely edition I received my copy of The Philosophy Graduate’s Fallacy and other essays (by Raphael Landeck, ed. Mark Rosenfelder) yesterday and am really enjoying it! Oh, thank you very much! I wouldn't have thought anyone would like the book s...

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Since Travis brought up subtitles: I have the impression that movies, TV shows, etc. rarely get different BE and AE subtitles, while, at least on Netflix, you can apparently often choose between Spanish Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Portuguese Portuguese, and Brazilian Portuguese subtitles.

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Shouldn't this be in L&L?

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Get better, malloc!

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zompist wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 5:10 pm Any sentence, or word, can start to sound dubious if you stare at it too long.

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