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Summary: ”Insurrection is good if we do it.” Sheesh.
An interesting view into the current Alice in Wonderland world of redefining words in the service of private ideological preferences. A bit eye-rolly, though.
’the Patriarchy” has been around since AT LEAST the early 1970’s.
It's a bit silly to use a show from the 70's to show that Brits can use the word pussy on TV. I doubt you'd hear it now.
I've always learned that there was meat in mincemeat and the name stayed the same after people stopped putting it in.
Juno and Paycock is by Seán O'Casey, not Yeats.
Jesus man, you couldn't make it 60 seconds without saying something transphobic.
Choosing to capitalize 'Black' and not to capitalize 'white' purely as a political statement is not the job of the linguist. That's the job of the propagandist
Also, per thinkers like Socrates and Walter J. Ong, it's pretty well accepted that members of oral-only cultures are far more capable of amazing feats of memory than we poor literates.
John, you note in this podcast that the Na-Dene languages are ferociously complex, "despite" being only oral and not written. Have you considered the fact that their orality may explain their unusual complexity? Based on my own sketchy studies on language history, it seems that the regularization of language often originates in the preference of scribes and other writing specialists for simpler structures that are easier to pass on to their own trainees.
Fascinating thanks
It exists and is real get over yourselves.
I seem to remember a study connecting financial debt vs saving being correlated to whether a language has conjugation or not. i.e. cultures with languages where everything is present (no/little conjugation) tend to have less debt
Shpilkas translates to “needles” in Ukrainian
Oooo... Raymond Scott background music! Arrival! What's not to like?
Seems like a lot of excuses.