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> It wasn't me who gave English as an example for a shared language. "Shared language" in this context is your own phrasing. My examples refer to intelligibility. > By your logic they all "share a language" et
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Anything by Wodehouse. Only started reading him a couple of years back. Some of the funniest stuff I have ever read.
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One of the funniest debates on this subject is in the Pilot episode of House MD when House tells Cameron that he hired her because she was extremely pretty.[1] Cameron: Why did you hire me? House: Does it matter? Cameron: Kinda hard to work
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> Ah yes. English. How did you put it? "To say that a people who have no sense of their own nation created the Indian nation is a joke." You should get your timelines in order. English is used in modern India. However, like eve
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> India has more than two thousand ethnic groups With strong cultural bonds. You put a guy from Karnataka in the same room as someone from Assam and they will have more in common with each other than someone from Ireland with someone fro
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> What is that then? Because it can't be race, religion, language etc etc. It can be all of those or none of those. A tribe or ethnic group can be a nation by itself. They could join other similar peoples to form a nation if there
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> I don't understand this "Indian exceptionalism" point of view that seems more prevalent these days. I suppose if you retroactively apply some national idea of "india" that was foreign to people living in the In
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> Sure, but just lately DDG started deteriorating for me as well. Might be an issue with one or more of their backends censoring certain phrases in a sporadic fashion. While they do have their own crawler,[1] I don't think it has a
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I moved to DDG a few years back and don't miss Google. While it is possible that Google might have provided similar results to what DDG did for the same query, I have noticed that when DDG fails to provide good results, Google fails wi
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> Critics have noted that the prime minister voiced support for farmers in India who blocked major highways to New Delhi for a year in 2021, saying at the time: "Canada will always be there to defend the right of peaceful protest.&q
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Last year, Trudeau and the western media supported the so-called "farmers protests" in India against the Indian government where roads around Delhi were blocked for months on end, hundreds of policemen were injured, people were ly
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> He had a chance to try to lose 80 pounds in six months, but didn't try because "it’s not the most healthy thing in the world to do" It is very doable. I am currently following a diet that has resulted in a 35 pound weigh
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> The new attempt is to help setup private sector managed entities. I get that. But these projects cannot run on political will alone. Ministers change. And parties can lose in elections. The only constant is the bureaucracy. And I have
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The initial attempt failed in spectacular fashion back in the 1980s.[1] Given that the same incompetent bureaucracy still runs the country, this is never going to happen. [1] India's Semiconductor Failure ( https://www.youtu
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> Kazakhstan keeps redefining the narrative, what is so strange about many foreign media outlets not keeping up with that? What Kazakh politicians say is not very relevant here. The media outlets themselves are reporting that presidentia
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ThriftBooks as a seller on Amazon India was a nice way to pick up used books. International shipping makes non-Amazon purchases not very worthwhile.
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It is always a surreal experience to see the sheer scale at which western media outlets deploy propaganda and rewrite history. Attempts to overthrow governments in Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan are "protests." So are attacks on t
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The problem with articles like these is that rational people don't need them to be convinced while those that do are not rational. Watch this mixed relay race[1] to see how Poland, which has a 5s lead at the beginning of the last leg,
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So AJ managed to write an entire article on the history of Urdu in India without referring to how the imposition of Urdu by the newly formed Pakistan on its majority Bengali-Muslim population eventually triggered the Bangladesh Liberation W
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> not understanding the difference between majoritarianism and democracy Democracy literally is: rule of the people. If the majority in a country votes one way and this way is not acceptable to the minority, there are a few ways to frust
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> The judges said indiscriminate spying could not be allowed and highlighted the “chilling” effect it could have on freedom of speech and freedom of the press. I don't know if this is what the judges said or if it is the Guardian&#x
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A few years back, when groups carrying Orwellian names like these[1] started appearing within these massive tech companies, my first thought was: this is a joke, right? But even then it was clear that it was anything but. Things start makin
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> What's the point of doing that when you also give them enough time to spread the lie on your other platforms Here's an article on Reuters that claims that Namibia has suspended the use of the Russian Sputnik-V vaccine "o
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> Then violence flared in Kashmir I guess the Washington Post had to spew so much bullshit that it couldn't be bothered to devote enough space to expand on the nature of this "violence:" Forty Indian soldiers were murdered
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You can use whichever phrase best represents the concept: "non-sterilizing vaccine," "leaky vaccine," "imperfect vaccine." What you should not do is lie, obfuscate or pretend that everything is hunky dory with
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> It certainly made me think there was an earlier 'sterilizing' vaccine, which is why I asked for clarification of what was meant. The issue is not whether any previous vaccines for covid or any other infectious disease have be
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> "conspiracy theories ... with the hidden intention to exterminate part of the population" .. "sterilizing vaccine" walterbell didn't use the phrase "sterilizing vaccine." You did. He was talking about
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> tl;dr - outside of a specific medical context, scholarly publications describe the term "sterilizing vaccine" including in online forums, as a FUD term by anti-vaxxers. This sounds like a conspiracy theory. The first paragrap
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Convention of Kanagawa(en.wikipedia.org)
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> Hindu nationalist state that is tearing down a multi-religious and multi-cultural democracy. India is "multi-religious" and "multi-cultural" because the Hindus are a peaceful people. They have rarely invaded foreign

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