@IRANinSWEDEN bashariyat is an Arabic loan word. You should say mardom instead
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Rob O'Callahan
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Did you know Persian is a gender-neutral language?
Possibly the only one still widely spoken this way today.
It’s the language we (Iranians) think in, which has shaped our way of thinking.
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@male_leo_xxvi Aluminium would absolutely bubble and fizz if you put it in a caustic cement mix.
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Why can't we just coat the rebar. Zinc it or nitride it or dip it in epoxy or something. Surely there's a solution here. What about just a shitload of aluminum rebar. Is there a voltaic thing
Steve Mouzon@stevemouzon
Reinforced concrete is fragile because it is self-defeating: the host material (concrete) is a really heavy sponge, delivering water right to the reinforcing that supposedly makes it strong, but water rusts steel. This bridge endured for less than a decade.
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@brianluidog China is famous for having an ancient 5000 year tradition of color photography
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@jkimballcook Wow, do they have more AUM than Temasek? What composition of assets do they have?
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because after the church operated on the edge of insolvency for almost a century after its assets were seized by the Federal government, and high conversion rates in third world nations meant that revenue would not keep up with operating costs, church leaders began to invest 1/
Reese@Reeseforsure
Why is the Mormon church sitting on 350 billion in assets
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@TopMontagnard The Indo-European group we call the Hittites were the larpers, larping as the Hatti, the pre-IE ANF people
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Do any nationalist projects call back to the Hittites? Most prominent ancient civilizations have at least somebody LARPing as them but I can’t think of anyone
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@X16D3 @shabashewitz It's a French word for a stick, like Palo Alto
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@shabashewitz I have been reading this word "Pale" - can someone explain what it means? What was the Pale of Settlement? What does the name derive from?
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There were no “Polish” or “Russian” Jews, there were Jews of the Pale of Settlement. No meaningful borders existed between what later became a bunch of countries, and no matter where exactly Jews lived, they were perceived as just Jews and never as Poles, Russians or Lithuanians.
Anonymous@YourAnonCentral
The propaganda that claims Netanyahu's family origin is Polish is partially true but it was Russian occupied Poland, his earliest known family origin is from Russia, in particular the Belarus and Lithuania former Russian regions, the further you look the more Russian he gets.
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@LazarusEngi Shit, I did not know this. Seems I confused dormice and deer mice (Peromyscus spp.). Thanks.
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This is actually a famous ecological case study. This conclusion is wrong, not that predators aren’t important.
Wisdom held that deer were vectoring the deer tick. So they killed a ton of deer, didn’t help.
Turns out it was dormice, spread by deforestation and development.
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Why aren’t there serious proposals to build datacenters in northern canada or Alberta where there aren’t people?
Samswara@samswoora
Value acrues to whats scarce. The models will begin to get commoditized. Chips will be commoditized. Intelligence and talent commoditized. Physical infrastructure becomes the only constraint. And every project on earth has a million political issues attached..
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@SandyofCthulhu They never summited Mt Olympus because they were afraid Zeus Pater would zap them
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Oh no the ancient Greeks didn't know that getting higher in the air got colder. Didn't they have weather balloons? Satellites? Scout planes?
The idea that it got warmer closer to the sun is actually pretty logical. The main way to disprove it if you can't fly is to look at mountains, but perhaps there is some other reason the mountains are cold up high.
藤原華｜流しの作家@editor_hana
ごめん、誰か知ってたら教えてほしいんだけどギリシャ神話にイカロスっていたじゃん？ 太陽に近づきすぎて、蝋で作った翼が溶けちゃった人。 だけどさ、実際のところ、地上から上空に向かうとどんどん気温って下がるじゃん？ 飛行機に乗ってる時ってだいたい高度約10,000メートルの上空にいるけど、あそこまで上空に行くと外気温がマイナス40度とかになるじゃん？ 熱源であるはずの太陽に近づいているのに、なんで気温は地上よりも下がるの？ ってかイカロスは太陽に近づいて蝋の翼が溶けたはずだけど、上空って寒いから溶けなくない？ それとももっと上に行けば、気温は上がるの？どれくらい上に行けば蝋が溶けるレベルの気温になるの？ 対流圏？成層圏？それとも電離圏ぐらいまで行かないと無理？ でもそこまで行ったらもう空気がないから呼吸できなくね？ じゃあ、イカロスはどうやって「蝋でできた翼」が溶けるくらい高温かつ上空に行ったの？？
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@benbawan What is the methodology for Turkish being only slightly more than 50%? Not counting common Arabic names as transparent?
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You can call it transparency – so if a name has a understandable meaning in the respective language.
And there are indeed huge differences, with Asian and African given names most directly intelligible, Middle Eastern ones in the middle, and European ones most opaque.
Analytic Valley Girl Chris@ChrisExpTheNews
It's wild that in the English speaking world, actually naming a kid something that's intelligible in English is the outlier, not the standard. And also way more common for girls for some reason
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@sanjeev_ru @AkbashEfendi Aurat (Hindustani) and Avrat (Turkish) are the same Arabic word عَوْرَة that means nakedness or pudendum
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@AkbashEfendi In Indian languages like Hindi and other dialects the word for a woman is still "Aurat". Although it's not derogatory and a normal word.
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Interesting that in both Turkish and German, the early modern words for "woman" (avrat, Weib) underwent a similar semantic shift: they gradually became derogatory and were replaced by words that meant "noble lady" (kadın, Frau). Any similar examples from other languages?
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@GeertPlas @AncPhi John 3 has multiple plays on words that only work in Greek
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Plato could speak to Christ in Greek, with Mohammed he shares nothing.
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@tc1415 It may please you sir, to remember that your Your Majesty's 4th-great-grandfather acknowledged that Americans are no longer subjects of the Crown at the Treaty of Paris 1783.
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Look, if you're going to do it, do it properly(*)
1) it's "May it please Your Majesty" but at least they omitted "Dear" and didn't do "Dear the King" which is hideous
2) the ending should be
"We have the honour to be, Sir, Your Majesty's humble and obedient servants"
and yes that applies even though they're American
(*) technically invites should be addressed to the King's Private Secretary. But I like some spectacle!
Jake Sherman@JakeSherman
As we reported last week, King Charles III will address a joint session April 28
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@NoahRevoy @CommunityNotes concrete, direct, sensory, testable are all latin words
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I am going to tell you a deep secret of the English language. When we want to tell the truth, we use Germanic-derived words. When we want to lie, we use Latin-derived words.
- Germanic (Old English) words → concrete, direct, sensory, testable
- Latinate/French words → abstract, bureaucratic, distancing, often euphemistic
Death / harm
Germanic (plain, testable):kill, die, hurt
Latinate (distancing, euphemistic):terminate, expire, neutralize, collateral damage
👉 “We killed civilians” vs “There was collateral damage”
Lying / deception
Germanic:lie, cheat, hide
Latinate:misrepresent, obfuscate, prevaricate
👉 “He lied” vs “He misrepresented the facts”
Money / exploitation
Germanic:take, steal, pay
Latinate:appropriate, extract, leverage, monetize
👉 “They’re taking your money” vs “They’re extracting value”
War / violence
Germanic:fight, bomb, burn
Latinate:engagement, kinetic action, force projection
👉 “We bombed them” vs “We conducted kinetic operations”
Bureaucracy / responsibility
Germanic:you broke it, you did it
Latinate:mistakes were made, systemic failure occurred
👉 Notice how the subject disappears.
Money / exploitation
Germanic:take, steal, pay
Latinate:appropriate, extract, leverage, monetize
👉 “They’re taking your money” vs “They’re extracting value”
War / violence
Germanic:fight, bomb, burn
Latinate:engagement, kinetic action, force projection
👉 “We bombed them” vs “We conducted kinetic operations”
Bureaucracy / responsibility
Germanic:you broke it, you did it
Latinate:mistakes were made, systemic failure occurred
👉 Notice how the subject disappears.
If you see a public statement filled with Latin-sounding words, you are being fooled, tricked, manipulated, or lied to.
Tom Rowsell@Tom_Rowsell
English es obviamente un lingua romance al core e would be vastly meliorated by le removal of le barbaric Germanic elements.
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There’s a cool feature in Latin, the gerundive, which is a verbal adjective implying that something should/must happen. A few of them survive into English words:
If someone should be revered, they are “reverend”.
If something must be cut away, it is a “dividend”.
My favorite: if a story is so good that it simply must be read by everyone, it is “legend”!
Latin reverendus/a, dividendum, and legenda. Pretty cool that what is sometimes a difficult concept for Latin learners is actually present in English, albeit rarely. Do let me know if there are any good ones I’ve missed.
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@PatrickHeizer Grokipedia has a lot more detail than wikipedia on this grokipedia.com/page/nist_ston…
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Just learned that I work less than a mile from the longest-running stone weathering experiment: NIST's stone wall test.
Built in 1948, it includes 2352 samples of stone from 47 US states and 16 countries, and uses two types of mortar.
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@CEBKCEBKCEBK It’s hard to read if you can’t imagine the sounds the words represent. Nearly impossible actually. So, yes, retarded from learning in that sense. Deafness is tragic.
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“Deaf people are just kinda retarded” theory
This is why 🍁they🍁 don’t just use closed captioning instead of sign language on TV, & it’s also why deafies make such silly faces when they “talk,” & why they want people to constantly make such silly faces back at them from the TV.
Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱@ryangerritsen
Instead of deaf people just watching the actual artists perform, CBC puts a sign language interpreter on to perform air guitar & drum solos for them to watch along side of it. Whats going on in Canada? It’s a 24/7 nut house
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@dramdarcy @MinooFramroze Gaeilge (or Gaelainn for those dialects who use the old dative) is the endonym for our language
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@MinooFramroze Universities in Scotland tend to give it its proper name, Scottish Gaelic; that's the name given to it in Ireland. We don't generally use the term Gaelic to describe our own language.
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Fascinated to learn from a retired colonel writing in to Speccie that lingua franca of Wellington’s army was Gaelic
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