What's the point of grammatical gender?
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The philosophical reason you shouldn’t call people liars
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A Modest Proposal: for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick (1729)
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Language learning thread: Share your tips, progress and questions
As discussed and suggested here. What are you learning? How is it going? Share your progress, tips and tricks. Ask other learners questions. Writing in non-English languages is welcome in this...
As discussed and suggested here.
What are you learning? How is it going? Share your progress, tips and tricks. Ask other learners questions.
Writing in non-English languages is welcome in this thread if you want to practice, but please at least include a Google Translate or Deepl translation in a foldable paragraph, using
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Interesting histories: Female — Male — Woman — Man
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Mike the headless chicken
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Mechanization and monoculture
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With Stalinist architecture, a prominent bust of Lenin and posters extolling the motherland, Pyramiden is the abandoned Soviet mining town in Norway's Arctic
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The six villains of language learning
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A homework task prompts kids to reflect deeply on learning, and its limits
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How Mormon missionaries learn new languages in 6-9 weeks
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What happened to giant hovercraft?
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Chasing the treasure fox
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After the end of truth - part 2: Lawson vs Searle (2015)
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The rules for rulers: How dictatorships work, and why Russia is heading towards a coup
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After the end of truth Part 1 : John Searle defends objective truth (2015)
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What is the Cyrillic alphabet?
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Beside the point? Punctuation is dead, long live punctuation
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My students cheated... a lot
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Interactive International Phonetic Alphabet
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Weird Weapons - 'Bike' chain flail
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Why are there no bridges in East London? | Unfinished London
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How politics poisoned the Evangelical church
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Deep dive into the history of Kennywood's Old Mill ride, the cancelled Garfield theme park, and the infamous Garfield's Nightmare dark ride
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Misleading vividness
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Letters from the loneliest post office in the world
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Who made these circles in the Sahara?
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When is a ‘tank’ not a tank?
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You're not allowed in this cave. But there's a copy.
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Satanic Temple Gathering
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Schools offering “Finnish education” are emerging across Indian cities – activity-based learning over textbook-based, test-oriented education
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The case against the Supreme Court of the United States
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Why the GOP won't deliver on any of their promises (including Roe v. Wade)
@GCR, Ezekiel X: PredictionRoe vs Wade will not, actually be overturnedThis is a [tactical] leaked draft opinion intended to show the base they 'tried'It would be a 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 for the GOP to actually overturnThey lose their most salient wedge issue to dangle in front of evangelicals
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Where Roe went wrong: A sweeping new abortion right built on a shaky legal foundation
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He spurred a revolution in psychiatry. Then he ‘disappeared.’
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The Druzhina - Knights of the Kievan Rus | Units of History
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How to be an incipit
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How men found love in 1800s America was so awful it’s funny
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Poland and the Jews. It’s complicated.
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Did medieval peasants travel?
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Greenland offers a roadmap for how to get Inuktut taught in Nunavut's schools
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Is Christmas actually related to the birthday of Sol Invictus?
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How polyester bounced back
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What happened to the debts of conquered countries?
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The problem of nationalism
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Accusation of hate
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Neoslavery: The part of US history you've always skipped
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Why Noam Chomsky is garbage
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The Council on National Policy-a shadowy but powerful ultra-right leadership institute
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The world’s fastest bomber: The XB-70 Valkyrie
3 votes