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by dghf 3y ago
Isn't it mostly general? Otherwise they'd have to speed the clocks up rather than slow them down.
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by dghf 3y ago
Elizabeth was never Empress of India, not least because India became a republic in 1950, two years before her accession.
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by dghf 3y ago
But "whisky" is just an Anglicisation of Gaelic "uisge". Why is "güisqui" an abomination, but "whisky" not?
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by dghf 3y ago
This is perfectly standard English usage. You can punish (inflict a penalty on ) a person, and you can punish (inflict a penalty for ) a behaviour. "To reward" is similar.
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by dghf 3y ago
FDR did get a fourth term. He died not quite three months into it.
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by dghf 3y ago
I'm assuming they mean the "degrees" part. These days, the standard is to say (for example) 200 kelvin, not 200 degrees Kelvin.
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by dghf 3y ago
The semicolon following that URL appears to be breaking the automatic link, as it's being interpreted as part of the URL.
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by dghf 3y ago
Is it any less logical than distinguishing between meat and fish?
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by dghf 3y ago
It seems pretty clear to me, especially with the context provided in the article itself: don't judge an artist solely by the last thing they made; don't write them off just because they're going through a bad patch.
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by dghf 3y ago
"It's spelled 'Raymond Luxury-Yacht', but it's pronounced 'Throat-Wobbler Mangrove'." https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7uv0n8
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by dghf 3y ago
> The one that annoys me is Cirencester, which is usually "sai-ren-ses-ta", and only occasionally "sai-ren-ster". Or, according to my grandmother, "siss-iss-ter".
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by dghf 3y ago
> Nobody is going to cast Brad Pitt as a Brit, an Australian, or a Kiwi. He's a fantastic actor, but they're going to use the homegrown talent. Except for Irish roles, for some reason. Brad Pitt as a northern Irishman: https:&
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by dghf 3y ago
Point of pedantry: some Latin infinitives are single words -- present active, present passive, and perfect active. Perfect passive, future active and future passive require two.
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by dghf 3y ago
Apologies, between and since.
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by dghf 3y ago
I'm sure we had legislative threats to encryption under Cameron, and Blair, and quite possibly every prime minister between. I'm uncertain whether to be relieved (because multiple previous attempts have come to naught) or worried
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by dghf 3y ago
A couple of linguists (one Norwegian) do argue that Old English/Anglo-Saxon died out in the wake of the Danish invasions, and that Middle English (and hence modern English) descends directly from Old Norse (with a large amount of vocab
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by dghf 4y ago
And Arabian for the place.
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by dghf 4y ago
> To avoid doxxing myself, I’ve carefully changed the address readers see.
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by dghf 4y ago
My favourite was the one addressed simply “Gobshites”, with no further details. It was successfully and correctly delivered to the Dáil (the lower house of the Irish parliament). ETA: source —- https://www.her.ie/amp/lo
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by dghf 4y ago
And "they", "them", "their", which is really interesting. I can understand a language borrowing nouns (or verbs, or adjectives) from a neighbour, but pronouns?
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by dghf 4y ago
I've only read his Dogs of War, which was also about animals with artificially enhanced intelligence and other abilities --this time a dog, a bear, a lizard of some description, and a swarm of bees with a hive mind, working as soldie
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by dghf 4y ago
I’m not an expert, nor even a well-informed layman, but my understanding is they argue that fossilisation is extremely rare, rare enough for a civilisation that may have only lasted a few hundred years to slip through unnoticed. See, for ex
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by dghf 4y ago
Parts of northeastern France are still off limits because of stuff left over from the First World War. Official estimates are that, at the current rate of clean-up, it will take somewhere between 300 and 700 years to clear the area comple
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by dghf 4y ago
Doesn't the hypothesis concern the possibility of civilisations a lot older than three million years, though?
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by dghf 4y ago
When the EU and UK had that recent spat about sausages [1], my immediate reaction was "But ... this was an episode of Yes, Minister ..." [2]. [1] https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2021/0614/1227938-sausa
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by dghf 4y ago
And Jason Isaacs as Marshal Zhukov, with a Yorkshire accent because why not?
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by dghf 4y ago
Sure, but the article gives four examples that took place over the course of thirty years, two of which were within twelve months of each other.
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by dghf 4y ago
As mentioned by others in the comments on the post, one possibility is that there are, in fact, visible indications. In one of the videos you linked to, the guy doing the demonstration pointed out a visible line in the gravel that showed wh
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by dghf 4y ago
It’s called the ideomotor phenomenon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideomotor_phenomenon You are making the rods move by subconsciously moving your hands.
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by dghf 4y ago
> The textbook I used said there are no deponent verbs in English. Some regional dialects of British English allow the use of “stood” for “standing”. E.g., “he is stood over there” = “he is standing over there”. Likewise for “sit”: “we

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