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7 votes
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Are you a purist or evolutionist? What your language 'pet peeve' reveals about you
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Rabbis express concern about excesses of Purim celebrations
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The Lighting Budget of Thomas Jefferson
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Why are millennials burned out? Capitalism.
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The art of biblical translation, part two: Modern translators and their tin-ear to the literature of the Hebrew Bible
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Trying to switch from Literature to Linguistics: similar experience and/or advices?
Hi! I've recently graduated as a BA of Italian philology. But I am interested in pursuing my further studies and academical career in linguistics, studying language contact and linguistic strata...
Hi! I've recently graduated as a BA of Italian philology. But I am interested in pursuing my further studies and academical career in linguistics, studying language contact and linguistic strata in particular. I was wondering if anybody took a similar path and am interested in advice from such folks and also any other humanists here. I'm studying some online material and will try to partecipate in some local university's linguistics BA as a visiting student (I guess it's called a freemover in English) if I can find an affordable option. Also I have found out recommended reading material from local universities I'm interested in and some papers about my field. Do you know of any useful resources for making the transition smoother? What has been you experience if you've taken a similar path to your studies? Thanks in advance!
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The Neanderthal renaissance
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The laughing gas parties of the 1700s — and how they sparked a medical breakthrough
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Jesus warned against men like Cardinal Pell. His message could save the Church.
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Cardinal George Pell has been sentenced to six years' jail for sexually abusing two choirboys when he was Catholic archbishop of Melbourne in the 1990s
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The imitation game: Some of the most beloved objects in Washington museums are not as authentic as visitors might assume
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Mansa Musa: The richest man who ever lived
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The art of biblical translation, part one: On the eloquence of the King James Version
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The banality of empathy
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This, too, was history. The battle over police torture and reparations in Chicago’s schools
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Maya ritual cave ‘untouched’ for 1,000 years stuns archaeologists
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Kyoto temple enlists android Buddhist deity to help people
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There’s new evidence for what happened to people who survived Vesuvius
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First confirmed Denisovan skull piece found
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Hearing hate speech primes your brain for hateful actions
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Where does London stop? | Unfinished London
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Getting rich teaching Hong Kong's kids
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Hindu monastic order is reclaiming transgender people’s status in Indian society
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The top six medical inventions during the American civil war
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Logical Consequence
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United Methodist Church votes to maintain its opposition to same-sex marriage, gay clergy
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Oh or zero? When the evolution of language clashes with linguistic purism
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Australia’s most senior Catholic cleric, Cardinal George Pell, has been convicted of sexually abusing two choirboys while he was archbishop of Melbourne
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Wild Bill Hickok: He Claimed He Killed 100s, But His Fatalities Were Closer To 10
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How Spanish got its ñ - the story behind that "n with a tilde"
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Atheists and non-believers could soon receive civil rights protections under Portland law
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Who is really a socialist?
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Wikipedia editors have been fighting over corn for at least a decade
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Personal vs. private property in Marxism
Consider three examples: I am a farmer. I have a piece of land that can grow just enough potatoes to feed me. I work this land, I gather potatoes, ad nauseam. I am a farmer, but this time I have...
Consider three examples:
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I am a farmer. I have a piece of land that can grow just enough potatoes to feed me. I work this land, I gather potatoes, ad nauseam.
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I am a farmer, but this time I have ten times the amount of land. I hire four workers and also work myself. Together we grow enough potatoes to feed all of us, and we also have a surplus. I sell this surplus potato for ¤5000. I am a greedy man, so I take ¤3000 for myself and give ¤500 to each of my workers.
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The situation is the same as in 2, but this time I am a just man. I share the money equally, so everyone including myself gets ¤1000.
It seems to me that in the first case the land can be considered personal property, since there is no exploitation and no surplus is generated. In the second example the land is clearly a piece of private property, because I use it to exploit other people, taking most of the profit for myself.
But what about the third example? On one hand, the profit is distributed equally, so there is technically no exploitation, right? On the other hand, I am alienated from the workers, because I still have the power to fire one of them (or all of them if I know I can replace them) or to distribute goods unfairly (even if I don't do that). What is the Marxist point of view here?
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American History Textbooks' Lies: Everything Your Teacher Got Wrong - Myths, Education (1995)
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Tildes folks, are you learning another language or multilingual?
pretty straightforward ask. i have some basic, rusty Spanish (on and off learning) and a bit of Esperanto to my name (currently learning) but not much else eventually i want to speak French...
pretty straightforward ask. i have some basic, rusty Spanish (on and off learning) and a bit of Esperanto to my name (currently learning) but not much else
eventually i want to speak French conversationally since my boyfriend can and i think it'd be neat to converse with him in more than English, but that's a long term goal.
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Our increasingly fascist public discourse
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Revolutionary War fighting ended in 1781. The last shots exploded two months ago.
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Are we on the road to civilization collapse?
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The Metropolitan Museum will return prized gilded coffin after learning it was stolen
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When it comes to learning a foreign language, we tend to think that children are the most adept. But that may not be the case – and there are added benefits to starting as an adult.
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Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault - On human nature
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Confusion over medicine names threatens lives
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Pope makes unprecedented move of defrocking ex-cardinal McCarrick over sex abuse
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Teutoburg Forest 9 AD - Roman-Germanic wars
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In 1939, 20,000 Americans rallied in New York’s Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism
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Melbourne Archbishop enlists LGBTI faithful as church tries to reset
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What is the difference between translation and interpreting?
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The assassination of Fred Hampton
5 votes