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Comment · 9 years ago
Due to phonetic shifts in the programming language community, we now say that barbarians are people who say "var var var".
Comment · 9 years ago
It's the usage that originated with Lewis H. Morgan. Engels used it in "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State", which Wikipedia has a good summary of:
> Barbarism – the period during which man learns to breed domestic animals and to practice agriculture, and acquires methods of increasing the supply of natural products by human activity.
Comment · 9 years ago
Even closer to home is the England/Portugal alliance, which started in 1373 and has run continuously since then.
Comment · 9 years ago
> I can only assume that someone else was the talent at Bullfrog and Lionhead.
You should look into the career of the Carter brothers (Simon and Dene).
Comment · 9 years ago
We've thought exactly the same in the past about depression, homosexuality, unmarried mothers and outspoken women, but yes, maybe this time medicalizing something before we know much about it is the right answer and won't make us look like abhorrent barbarians to our grandchildren.
Comment · 9 years ago
In the literature these are called Barnum Statements (after PT Barnum, of "there's one born every minute").
Comment · 9 years ago
I understood the /converse/ to be the hyponyms of x's hypernym that were not x.
So "spoon's" converse are forks, knives, maybe chopsticks, etc.
Comment · 9 years ago
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Comment · 9 years ago
I don't think that you literally mean literally, but an obvious difference between slavery in the United States and conscription in the United States that you can avoid the latter by permanently renouncing your citizenship.
Comment · 9 years ago
Not a lawyer, but I imagine they have not ability to exercise the fifth amendment as it's not self-incrimination, and I believe only natural persons (i.e. not corporations) are protected by it.
Comment · 9 years ago
You may enjoy knowing that the singular of criteria is criterion (Greek, not Latin). A criterium is a bike race, from the same root: a κριτήριον is a decision, with the same nuance of meaning as English judg(e)ment.
Comment · 9 years ago
Neither online nor free, but the Cambridge Latin courses are justly acclaimed as classics in the Classics.
Comment · 10 years ago
If your business model relies on you paying people less than a minimum wage, there's no particular reason that a society who's decided that's a bad idea should allow you to limit your liability to losses.
Comment · 10 years ago
And all people on zero-hours contracts love that and all children who worked in factories were violently against being sent to school.
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