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2023: July - October Political Notes

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October 2023 ( Official language push, JAM ) A large fraction of Jamaicans grow up speaking Jamaican creole , and when they later go to school and have to use English without havi

Morality and Abstract Thinking — How Africans may differ from Westerners — Chadnet

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to learn about African languages. In a conversation with students in Nigeria I asked how you would say that a coconut is about halfway up the tree in their local language. “You ca
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Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche

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on again. In the language of morality: humility. 32 There is a hatred of lies and simulation, stemming from an easily provoked sense of honor. There is another such hatred, from c

Korean Fakes & Plagiarisms - Roundup 2

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had received Japanese-language education in those days, so it was easy for them to translate the Japanese translations into Korean. They plagiarized the European and American chil
Korean fakes and Arrangements of Very famous Japanese Characters

Extracts from Jail Journal by John Mitchel

http://irishhistorian.com/IrishHistoryLinks/Historical_Documents/Jail_Journal.html

me for this once, language was never made to describe; but if any austere censor could find it in his heart to vilipend my manhood therefor[sic], I would advise him to wait until

Miller Microcomputer Services - Index Page

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Computer Programming Languages Computer Tidbits Techie Comics/Humor Otherwise links from Dick and Jill Miller: Bicycle and Pedestrian Environment Environment Resources Fair Voting
Business and pleasure by Dick and Jill Miller of Miller Microcomputer Services.

Ecclesiastical Latin Resources

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Church as her primary language to the present day. Knowledge of Ecclesiastical Latin affords one direct access to nearly two millennia of accumulated Christian wisdom. The Church
Information on Roman Catholic Canon Law, and other important issues in the Catholic Church, with articles, reviews, and resources.

Equality Versus Liberty: The Eternal Conflict

http://rcarterpittman.org/essays/misc/Equality_v_Liberty.html

of her Declaration language which, when translated back into English, comes out: "men are born and always continue free and equal in respect of their rights." Her Declaration then

1878 History of Ashtabula County, Ohio: Part 1

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of the English. The language would have been Gaelic instead of Anglo-Saxon; the dominant religion of the people would have been Roman Catholic instead of Protestant.   The co

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Novum Organum, by Lord Bacon

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converse by means of language, but words are formed at the will of the generality, and there arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind. No

Brand Blanshard "On Sanity in Thought and Art"

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on the world, “with no language but a cry,” the author of that phrase, Tennyson, was the most admired of poets, and Matthew Arnold, then only four years dead, was the most influen

Antifragile - by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Derek Sivers

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Book: "Through the Language Glass" by linguist Guy Deutscher Humans somehow fail to recognize situations outside the contexts in which they usually learn about them. How


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