Interesting Links for 04-12-2023
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andrewducker- 1. The West's lacklustre support for Ukraine is empowering Russia
- (tags:Russia Ukraine USA Europe OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Everything you never knew you needed to know about wild boars (and their semi-domesticated brethren)
- (tags:pigs )
- 3. The UK is FATALLY SPLIT on the most important Christmas question of all! (Whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Breakdowns available by age, gender, politics, etc)
- (tags:movies Christmas polls UK )
- 4. Information transfer between autistic people may be more successful than information transfer between an autistic and a non-autistic person.
- (tags:autism communication )
- 5. "The Fannish Accent" (It is very obvious to me at this point that there is a lot of autism going on here)
- (tags:language autism fandom )
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Date: 2023-12-05 12:55 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2023-12-05 01:08 pm (UTC)I think we over-privilege Classical languages as a source of rightness, don't recognise the evolutionary nature of language and under-privilege proto-Indo-European.
At least in my view.
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Date: 2023-12-05 01:21 pm (UTC)There's a class thing here, where upper-class kids are taught Latin, and that it makes then stand out, and the Romans and Greeks are the source of all things good.