Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
Today, 09:42 PM
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Replies: 429
Views: 15,037
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
Today, 11:23 AM
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Replies: 132
Views: 1,426
If your entire objection was to “African...
If your entire objection was to “African American” you certainly took the scenic route to get there, dazzling us with your strident linguistics opinions based apparently on hunches and ad hoc...
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
Today, 11:01 AM
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Replies: 132
Views: 1,426
Could you please at least learn to spell...
Could you please at least learn to spell vernacular. Your misspelling of it makes up in terms of consistency what you say black vernacular lacks when it comes to grammar. And no, it is not ironic...
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
Today, 10:01 AM
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Replies: 132
Views: 1,426
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
Today, 09:41 AM
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Replies: 132
Views: 1,426
I think there is an interesting idea that...
I think there is an interesting idea that essentially art comes down to conspicuous consumption.
In the past, art could only be obtained by the wealthy (nobles and the church). They wanted either...
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
Today, 09:34 AM
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Replies: 132
Views: 1,426
Huh? You’re just making stuff up now. All...
Huh? You’re just making stuff up now. All languages and dialects have what is known as sociolinguistic variation. This is something noticed by William Labov who studied the way in which mall workers...
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
Today, 09:24 AM
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Replies: 132
Views: 1,426
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
Today, 08:48 AM
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Replies: 132
Views: 1,426
There seems to also be a longer video on this,...
There seems to also be a longer video on this, which looks like it could be interesting, again by John McWhorter.
One thing that I notice is that he refers to the dialect almost exclusively as...
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
Today, 08:23 AM
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Replies: 132
Views: 1,426
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
Today, 07:03 AM
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Replies: 132
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
Today, 06:44 AM
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Replies: 132
Views: 1,426
Funnily enough, my A-level history teacher...
Funnily enough, my A-level history teacher refused to let his garage put on Pirelli tyres during his car's MOT because of the CEO's close ties with Mussolini. He apparently yelled to the bemused...
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
Today, 06:37 AM
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Replies: 132
Views: 1,426
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
Today, 01:58 AM
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Replies: 1,164
Views: 54,447
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
Yesterday, 09:59 PM
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Replies: 132
Views: 1,426
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
Yesterday, 08:36 PM
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Replies: 132
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
Yesterday, 07:52 PM
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Replies: 132
Views: 1,426
I think you have no idea what you are talking...
I think you have no idea what you are talking about and you are now getting emotional. It also makes no sense to talk about a spoken vernacular as “illiterate”.
It’s strange that you think there...
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
Yesterday, 04:11 PM
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Replies: 132
Views: 1,426
Nope. I just pointed out that someone could...
Nope. I just pointed out that someone could literally make the same argument of "broken grammar" for Standard American. In fact, almost all linguistic changes in English began with people decrying...
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
Yesterday, 03:33 PM
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Replies: 132
Views: 1,426
Surely AAVE is “slang coupled with defective...
Surely AAVE is “slang coupled with defective grammar” in the same way as General American is. After all, in American, you people say “I wrote him” because your defective grammar left out the “to”...
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Forum: USA Politics
16th March 2024, 08:54 AM
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Replies: 1,565
Views: 39,834
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Forum: USA Politics
16th March 2024, 04:30 AM
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Replies: 357
Views: 17,127
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
14th March 2024, 07:51 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 253
When someone goes anti-vaxx you know it isn’t...
When someone goes anti-vaxx you know it isn’t stopping there. And don’t ever be fooled by “I’m not anti-vaxx, just this vaxx!”
I mean it happened with Rogan and Bret Weinstein, now they deny HIV...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
13th March 2024, 04:17 PM
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Replies: 813
Views: 24,158
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Forum: USA Politics
13th March 2024, 12:04 PM
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Replies: 348
Views: 6,561
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Forum: USA Politics
13th March 2024, 12:03 PM
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Replies: 348
Views: 6,561
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Forum: USA Politics
13th March 2024, 11:45 AM
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Replies: 348
Views: 6,561
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Forum: USA Politics
13th March 2024, 11:41 AM
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Replies: 348
Views: 6,561
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Forum: USA Politics
13th March 2024, 11:28 AM
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Replies: 348
Views: 6,561
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Forum: USA Politics
13th March 2024, 11:18 AM
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Replies: 348
Views: 6,561
Wait… who benefits from the system where anyone...
Wait… who benefits from the system where anyone wanting to go to college must first do paid work if they can’t afford it? Rich people, obvs! Because they have the money already and they can go and...
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Forum: USA Politics
11th March 2024, 10:21 AM
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Replies: 348
Views: 6,561
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Forum: USA Politics
10th March 2024, 04:36 PM
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Replies: 348
Views: 6,561
Indeed. Bad decision by the government to let...
Indeed. Bad decision by the government to let such a state of affairs happen in the first place and weigh down its educated citizens with debt and in fact to deter its citizens from getting an...
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Forum: USA Politics
9th March 2024, 06:19 PM
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Replies: 348
Views: 6,561
That said, it is in Biden’s power to counteract...
That said, it is in Biden’s power to counteract that narrative. The State of the Union was a good start; but he’s going to need to do more of that kind of thing, preferably with non-friendly media in...
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Forum: USA Politics
9th March 2024, 05:59 PM
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Replies: 348
Views: 6,561
I think there is a difference between the Cult...
I think there is a difference between the Cult who are essentially equivalent to Scientologists in their conviction and beyond reasonable help, and those who might vote Trump because they are GOP /...
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Forum: USA Politics
9th March 2024, 06:26 AM
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Replies: 348
Views: 6,561
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
9th March 2024, 02:26 AM
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Replies: 54
Views: 1,335
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Forum: USA Politics
8th March 2024, 06:09 AM
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Replies: 100
Views: 2,306
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Forum: USA Politics
8th March 2024, 03:23 AM
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Replies: 246
Views: 4,923
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Forum: USA Politics
7th March 2024, 03:26 PM
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Replies: 246
Views: 4,923
If Biden plays it right, the State of the Union...
If Biden plays it right, the State of the Union address could be a chance for him to arm-twist Congress into agreeing to aid to Ukraine and the proposals for the border which the GOP are cynically...
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Forum: USA Politics
7th March 2024, 05:13 AM
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Replies: 1,565
Views: 39,834
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Forum: USA Politics
6th March 2024, 07:29 AM
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Replies: 62
Views: 1,607
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
6th March 2024, 05:09 AM
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Replies: 1,490
Views: 69,814
Fine. Sod the Canucks then!
It is...
Fine. Sod the Canucks then!
It is an international incident by definition.
Nope. Why is it fearmongering? I am not here to monger fear. I am here to point out disreputable behaviour....
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Forum: USA Politics
6th March 2024, 04:55 AM
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Replies: 62
Views: 1,607
Yeah, he is a religious nut and no doubt he...
Yeah, he is a religious nut and no doubt he believes that if the good LORD wanted women to have children he would let the seed grow in their womb, and should the womb be barren or the man's seed be...
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Forum: USA Politics
6th March 2024, 02:26 AM
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Replies: 62
Views: 1,607
Speaking of small-l libertarian, I can assume...
Speaking of small-l libertarian, I can assume that Christopher Rufo is anything but.
I meant to post this before, but in response to Michael Shermer saying that the GOP's recent campaigns to ban...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
6th March 2024, 02:09 AM
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Replies: 1,490
Views: 69,814
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
6th March 2024, 02:06 AM
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Replies: 1,490
Views: 69,814
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
5th March 2024, 11:58 PM
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Replies: 1,490
Views: 69,814
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
5th March 2024, 11:48 PM
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Replies: 1,490
Views: 69,814
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
5th March 2024, 08:31 PM
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Replies: 1,706
Views: 70,246
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
5th March 2024, 04:20 PM
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Replies: 1,490
Views: 69,814
This is my objection exactly.
It seems to...
This is my objection exactly.
It seems to rest on a few premises, two of which are said out loud, and another two which are suppressed but are the corrolary of the argument and therefore must be...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
5th March 2024, 05:40 AM
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Replies: 1,490
Views: 69,814
Could the UK strip all members of Ulster...
Could the UK strip all members of Ulster "loyalist" terrorist organizations on the basis that they are also Irish?
I mean, that would be quite a troll by the UK.
But maybe Ireland will...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
5th March 2024, 05:07 AM
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Replies: 1,490
Views: 69,814
It would be different for me if she had been,...
It would be different for me if she had been, say, born in Bangladesh and acquired British citizenship later. In that case, stripping her of her British citizenship would be just reverting her to her...
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