wizard-beta

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by wizard-beta 5y ago
Relevant, from deep in the footnotes of a 1820 edition of Nennius I found in a used bookstore >Not only men, but women were thus occupied, to whose insufficiency the defects of many manuscripts are assignable. (P. Sarti de Profess. Bonon
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by wizard-beta 5y ago
Legalized caste system
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by wizard-beta 5y ago
Yes, considerably.
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by wizard-beta 5y ago
>I'm sure the inhabitants of the many countries the British invaded and continue to hang on to would disagree. Propose one colony where the indigenous society was freer
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by wizard-beta 5y ago
>Not. No one cares about the Fed's muh "consumer prices". No one cares how much the price of furniture or museum tickets or televisions or cigarettes is changing (which together count for over 1/3 of the index, btw) N
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by wizard-beta 5y ago
The etymology suddenly makes me wonder whether living somewhere in which your "tribe" (race, etc.) is not reflected in the majority might be the cause of many anxiety disorders. It certainly makes me feel anxious. I don't thi
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by wizard-beta 5y ago
No. There's a third side pushing for the Scandinavian solution. Pro-vaccine, but anti-mandate. A little while ago, everyone wanted to be like Norway or Denmark or Sweden -- now they pretend these countries don't exist. Edit: of co
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by wizard-beta 5y ago
Not an argument
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by wizard-beta 5y ago
So? If the extent of the "ban" is discontinue of availability at a middle school by the authority of a local government or citizen school board in Oklahoma or some such place, it is still a very feeble form of censorship that I do
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by wizard-beta 5y ago
A distinction should be made between banned books that were actually censored by governments, and "banned books" that merely featured in pathetic political quarrels at American middle schools and whose "banning" consiste
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by wizard-beta 5y ago
Even though people are not so familiar with classical Indian civilization, they were very highly literate and the extant corpus is enormous. It easily rivals or exceeds classical Greek and Latin. I have heard that the Mahabharata is 10 time
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by wizard-beta 5y ago
Not necessarily - it was literally anything. Any publication whatsoever in Europe up to about 1800 was apt to be in Latin. Science, history, geography, correspondences, laws, records of all kinds, etc.
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by wizard-beta 5y ago
I have studied linguistics at an advanced academic level, but I cannot parse the title. The article itself is less coherent than those AI random text generators. Maybe the author should focus on basic literacy before worrying about typograp