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by panglott 11y ago
Rather, what strikes me is that for all the excitement over the buyout, Zappo's seems to have survived with management-by-holacracy for surprisingly long time with seemingly good results. One would have thought, based on the convention
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by panglott 11y ago
...and oppressively sterile. Grim, even.
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by panglott 11y ago
Most studies about the gender gap in pay find that most of the 77% figure is attibutable to differences in career choices/training/&c., but there remains a rough 5% difference in pay that is not attributable to those things. A
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by panglott 11y ago
It wouldn't be quite so bad if there was a good one run by a non-profit or open foundation.
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Why are these all in the UK or US? Better transparency?
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"Gaining new speakers" is a less strong claim than "speaker population is increasing".
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by panglott 11y ago
Esperanto has certainly caught on. It just hasn't been more successful than English has been, which was always kind of a ridiculous goal anyway. Many of the reasons people give for learning a language are highly ideological and often p
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by panglott 11y ago
My favorite are words with that have opposite meanings, like "cleave" and "shaft".
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by panglott 11y ago
That English in particular is a bad language to be the international standard is no argument that any other language in particular would be a good international language. It may just be that any particular language is bad to be the internat
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by panglott 11y ago
Note that Geoffrey Pullum is a distinguished linguist, editor of the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, and a frequent blogger at LanguageLog. The tone of this article should be taken as more light than many here are; this sort of t
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by panglott 11y ago
I sometimes see American TV stations subtitle American-dialect speakers. Mostly this is due to audio quality, but it happens frequently enough with urban speakers of African American Vernacular English. Standard English on television probab
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by panglott 11y ago
If you notice, the <e> of people/peple is /i/, which is different from the <e> of edible/edbl that is /e/. The general rule of English taught in kindergartem is that the silent <e> makes a vow
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by panglott 11y ago
My only anecdata is that I have only noticed it in the past few years, and it makes my skin crawl. Don't know how to get good data on the extent or prevalence of this practice, sounds like a lot of work. I'm describing an extreme,
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by panglott 11y ago
Sorry, native speakers with language privilege will never give up on the idea that they speak "real" English, and the the "bad" English non-native speakers speak among themselves is anything other than a bastard pidgin.
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by panglott 11y ago
We will not have a technological Babel fish until we have portable (power-efficient) computers that are both 1. roughly as or more intelligent as a human and 2. understands the world in the same way as a human, including both semantics and
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by panglott 11y ago
People have begun to say this in the US, and it drives me nuts as a native speaker of English. I do not find it normal or acceptable. If you want kids, have kids or adopt them. Don't take an animal and twist it into filling your own em
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by panglott 11y ago
Esperanto's success is really astonishing. Esperanto is widely spoken around the world, and has continued to gain new speakers and even many native speakers for over a century. No constructed language can boast anything like that. (IIR
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by panglott 11y ago
To some extent. But less because the British forced it on everyone than because Nigerians, Indians, Filipinos have all found it useful for their own purposes: these are all polyglot societies in which the elevation of a regional language wo
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by panglott 11y ago
Support for English is wide but shallow. Compare to indigneous mother tongues where support is narrow but deep, with a small community of committed speakers passing on their language to their children in the face of massive social and insti
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by panglott 11y ago
The article talks about harvesting them by freeze drying them and milling them into a flour. Ultimately this is protein as a dietary supplement. People are willing to pay high prices for meat because meat is tasty and features in numerous d
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by panglott 11y ago
Americans are just plain obsessed with protein.
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by panglott 11y ago
There are lots of reasons to argue with people online. One is to run through the arguments yourself with informed people and see how they stand up. But in terms of persuasion, you're not likely to convince partisans to recant their her
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by panglott 11y ago
This is a factoid that I've been carrying around for a while, but it looks sort of true. Fibonacci introduced Arabic numerals in 1202, which slowly grew to predominate over Roman numerals/abacus use by circa 1600. So it's not
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by panglott 11y ago
The article calls it the "manpo-kei", but the Japanese sign clearly says "manpo mētā" (Manpo-Meter) with "meter" in katakana.
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by panglott 11y ago
You might also be interested in this living history/reenactor's channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fE5KzvOZRk
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by panglott 11y ago
"Well walla" and "kaka felota" are just quality conlanging.
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by panglott 11y ago
"Eyes Wide Shut" is probably Kubrick's most underrated movie. I still don't think I appreciate it fully, but it was the movie that really started me on appreciating Kubrick's movies, his visual languages, &c.
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by panglott 11y ago
"Popular" is a relative term. Early in the middle ages, long division was considered advanced, graduate-level work.
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The 17th century was the century that saw the rise of card games, which exploded in popularity due to printing. Checkers had probably supplanted Morris earlier. More important is probably its educational use in teaching Boethian arithmetic
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by panglott 11y ago
There's an applet at boardspace.net: http://boardspace.net/english/about_rithmomachy.html

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