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Re: Caizu
I also started learning English at 10 - and like you, I am thus not a native speaker. My point was an attempt at a reductio ad absurdum of the idea that Europe, during the centuries when Latin was a widely used language of liturgy and scholarship, had native Latin speakers. Or that modern Copts are...
- Wed May 22, 2024 1:21 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 736
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Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
Looking at the main zompist.com page, I just stumbled across this pretty old piece:
http://zompist.com/spoke.html
http://zompist.com/spoke.html
Re: Caizu
If Europe had native Latin speakers in the Middle and Early Modern Ages, wouldn't that mean that, by the same logic, I'm a native English speaker? Were you raised bilingually in German and English? No, I started to learn English at 10. Which is probably not that much later than when medieval Europe...
- Wed May 22, 2024 12:20 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1939
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Re: British Politics Guide
Depends on the council (and public schools keep their own timetable) but I checked the website for my local council and their summer term ends on the 24th of July. (Half-term is on the 27th of this month and goes through to the 3rd.) Thank you. I had been wondering if people might be kept from voti...
Re: Caizu
If Europe had native Latin speakers in the Middle and Early Modern Ages, wouldn't that mean that, by the same logic, I'm a native English speaker?
- Wed May 22, 2024 11:28 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1939
- Views: 1020115
Re: British Politics Guide
And the election has been set for July 4th. (IMO it's one of the more questionable features of the British system that the Prime Minister gets to make a campaign speech in the same announcement in which he says when the election is.) Serious question: When do the summer vacations, err, I mean, holid...
- Tue May 21, 2024 6:22 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1940
- Views: 15029651
- Tue May 21, 2024 6:12 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1940
- Views: 15029651
Re: Venting thread
I seem to have mislaid some fairly important documents.
- Tue May 21, 2024 5:44 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1940
- Views: 15029651
Re: Venting thread
Get better!
- Tue May 21, 2024 5:43 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1431
- Views: 446564
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
zompist, I mostly agree with your points here, but one small nitpick. This is a red herring, but the Nazis never won a majority. They had 33% in November 1932 (but Hitler was named chancellor anyway, as a result of negotiations with the conservatives). The election of March 1933 was not free, but ev...
- Mon May 20, 2024 5:15 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3734
- Views: 453555
Re: Random Thread
Thank you!
- Sun May 19, 2024 12:19 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3734
- Views: 453555
Re: Random Thread
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...
- Sun May 19, 2024 12:11 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1940
- Views: 15029651
Re: Venting thread
Observing horrible attitudes in someone you care about a lot must be really tough. Commiserations.
- Sun May 19, 2024 12:10 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2853270
Re: Conlang Random Thread
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.
- Sat May 18, 2024 7:07 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1940
- Views: 15029651
Re: Venting thread
Oh my. Sorry to hear that, doctor shark.
- Fri May 17, 2024 1:17 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1940
- Views: 15029651
Re: Venting thread
That's messed up. [joins in the snarling]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]
- Fri May 17, 2024 6:07 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 75932
Re: War in the Middle East, again
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,...
- Wed May 15, 2024 8:28 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Elections in various countries
- Replies: 1099
- Views: 609621
Re: Elections in various countries
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?
- Wed May 15, 2024 5:35 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1939
- Views: 1020115
Re: British Politics Guide
Wow, thank you for the work that went into that!