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The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics 3
The Central Dogma
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Dr Mike Ward - @schroedinger99.bsky.social
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Dr Mike Ward - @schroedinger99.bsky.social
@Schroedinger99
Retired data-modeller with background in genetics & philosophy of science. grandfather, sceptic, deracinated cosmopolitan, citizen of nowhere, & angry old man.
West Yorkshire Katılım Mart 2009
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@AmazonHelp You don't need to look at my specific case. You need to improve your feedback gathering system so you can gather feedback on your site so I don't need to complain on here!
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@Schroedinger99 Hello! We understand your issue with creating your return. We're unable to access account details from social media platforms for security purposes please reach out to us here: amzn.to/UKContactUS, so we can take a look. -Sara
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@AmazonHelp Had a minor problem with filling in the details for a return (basically I couldn't choose an appropriate option or describe my reason for return) so tried to leave feedback about my return. Guess what? I couldn't choose an appropriate option or describe my problem.
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@OliverKamm @DAaronovitch Though I suppose the some of the same historical and geographical facts that led to the creation of English may have also played a role in the spread of that language around the globe?
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@OliverKamm @DAaronovitch I think there's a grain of truth in the claim that English has inherent qualities of greater expressiveness, but this is a reflection of its mongrel character rather than its "British" character, and had bugger all to do with its adoption as a lingua franca.
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Who could possibly believe such nonsense?
Rob Henderson@robkhenderson
"The reason English is the world's lingua franca and America is the sole superpower now is because British women had loads of kids for a hundred years. The reason Britain defined the 19th century and much of the 20th century is because of birth rates." louiseperry.co.uk/p/who-doesnt-w…
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@DAaronovitch Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table
Habermas when on the lash
could structurally transform Hegel
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Not being able to tell my Habermas from my Heidegger I've started the week very confused
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@PubyWax @OliverKamm I suppose people (cf petrol tanks or similar) don't have hard and fast limits. Thus "I'm full" simply means "I've eaten a lot"; and "I'm very full" could mean "I've eaten even more". :-)
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@Schroedinger99 @OliverKamm It's interesting you parse 'very full' as 'almost full'. I think I'd see it as meaning 'more than full' with full meaning satisfactorily replete not absolutely stuffed to the limit 😄
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I know all these ghastly phrases have become normal as English evolves but “very complete” is very ugly. Complete, almost complete : fine. But “very complete” when something is not complete at all bothers me. I’m probably tired! Goodnight.
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@PubyWax @OliverKamm Yeah. I think I agree with Oliver LK that there is nothing grammatically (or otherwise) "wrong" with "very complete", but I agree with you that it's an abomination that should rarely (if ever) used by anyone aiming for clarity.
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@Schroedinger99 @OliverKamm True. The difference to 'I'm very finished' couldn't be clearer. In the end I suppose, like most things linguistic, there's no deep structure, just usage habits.
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@PubyWax @OliverKamm @krishgm Well yes. The difference occurs because the adjectives are unlimited in the case of adjectives like "fast" (pace Einstein :-) or limited in the case of adjectives like "full", "empty", "complete" etc. But nobody would object to "very full" - meaning ~"almost full" (cf "overfull")
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@Schroedinger99 @OliverKamm @krishgm I'm not sure if I agree. For me the difference between the two examples lies in the adjective in each case not in the function of intensifier.
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@PubyWax @OliverKamm @krishgm But there is no similar problem with saying "my petrol tank is very full".
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@Schroedinger99 @OliverKamm @krishgm This very dead, very ready, very complete etc are all either ambiguous, humorous or jarring.
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@PubyWax @OliverKamm @krishgm Yeah, when I said 'there are 2 senses of "very": ~ "even more" and "almost"', I was just trying to describe the two alternatives by offering replacement terms that would illustrate the difference, not offering true synonyms.
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@Schroedinger99 @OliverKamm @krishgm Neither of these means "almost". Both are intensifiers indicating the quality is present to a particularly high degree (speed, emptiness, respectively). In the absence of the quality, i.e. when it has "almost" been achieved, "very" is odd or inappropriate.
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@PubyWax @OliverKamm @krishgm "Very complete" is not a very common phrase, and when we hear it (especially when uttered by Donald T), we incline to hearing it in sense 1 (above), and it jars.
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@PubyWax @OliverKamm @krishgm I think the problem here is that it can be both. A very fast car is faster than a fast car, but a very empty car is not emptier than an empty car. IOW, there are 2 senses of "very": ~ "even more" and "almost".
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@MikeTappTweets And the irony is, that anyone in the EU could circumvent these rules entirely by travelling through Ireland.
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@MikeTappTweets Appalling! Yes, getting a passport *may* "only" take 9 days or 4 weeks, but either is a long time to be stuck abroad trying to find a British consulate who will do this; and passports *may* take much longer. If you first need to register a child born abroad, you are really stuck.
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Today I spoke in Parliament about the thoroughly planned communications we have been delivering for dual nationals impacted by new border measures, the speed of acquiring a passport and transitional arrangements in place.
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@elonmusk So what should black and Hispanic and native Americans fight for? BTW, as a white English man I'd never fight for the values you subscribe to.
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For a country to survive, there has to be a common culture.
Nobody dies to defend a “multicultural economic zone”!
American culture, with its English-Scotts-Irish origin, is great and worth fighting for.
Some may not realize it, but that’s why people come here.
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Important segment starting at 25 : 39 in Tucker’s video on who is a “Heritage American”, a now necessary term. A young Anthony Scalia, future Supreme Court justice, upholding Anglo-American law, consciously bristled at his ethnic and religious distinction from the WASPs whom foreign professors assigned a foundational status. But then he went to England and saw it and felt it;
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They seem to have reopened it now.
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They seem to have reopened it now. As you were! :-) (and sorry to bother you)
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@epkaufm @DAaronovitch Well, given the breadth of electoral support for Mr "grab them by the pussy" in the USA and the enormous scope of Epstein's fan-base, I'd say that we are permitted to do a bit of generalizing here.
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@DAaronovitch They generalised about men, using that to call for a revitalised woke and metoo
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Alistair and Rory (the 'grown-ups') sanctimoniously assert - based on a handful of Epstein emails - that half of men are sexist pigs, which is why metoo and woke must come back.
When sacred progressive shibboleths are in play, science and logic go out the window.
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