

Jordi Cassany-Bates
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Jordi Cassany-Bates (Valèntia, 1979), linguista romanista, docènte et músico.



“The smartest people are all Self-taught, even if they went to school.” —Naval Ravikant

World civilizations, according to Samuel Huntington:



Veritats com a punys sobre la llei Rovira que tot amant de la llengua valenciana, del partit que siga, ha de saber: 1) La "llibertat d'ensenyança" que proclama la Construcció no atorga a les famílies el dret a triar la llengua vehicular en l'educació obligatòria dels seus fills.

Eurovision 2026 public vote winners.

Today, on the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, this map highlights how unequal LGBTQ+ rights remain around the world 🌈

Something most people do not realize is that the ancient Greek population may have been around 5–6% of humanity. For comparison, that is close to the European Union today, which is around 5.4% of the world population, and above the United States, which is around 4%. If we count mainland Greece, Asia Minor, Cyprus, Sicily, southern Italy, the Black Sea, and the rest of the Greek Mediterranean, estimates for the fourth century BC reach around 7.5–10 million Greeks, while the whole world population was probably around 160 million. So ancient Greeks were not a tiny people demographically. The difference today is that the rest of the world, including much larger and more fertile lands, populated massively over time, while modern Greeks are limited to only part of the much wider ancient Greek world. This is also why the idea that Greeks were too small to leave any genetic impact in Anatolia makes little sense. The Greeks had a major demographic base before the Hellenistic period, and after Alexander, Greek settlement spread in almost all of Anatolia. Most of the Hellenization of the east was not Hellenization in the modern sense of states forcing people through schools and language laws. It came through mass Greek colonization, where Greek-speaking settlers moved east, founded cities and communities, mixed with local populations, and increased the number of native Greek speakers. Greek did not spread just because it was a prestige language. Sources: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2007/2007.04.58 census.gov/data/tables/ti…



Most (but not all!) countries give their speeches at the UN General Assembly in English.



How did Rome manage to constantly supply its citizens with fresh water? Aqueducts carrying a ton of fresh water per Roman citizen hundreds of miles away; and they are still operational! From Simple.History!


A 17-year-old lioness survived for 5 years with blindness because her daughters refused to abandon her.