Contexti

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by Contexti 3y ago
I wish I had known this. I tried a standing desk for six months some years ago. Standing on a hard surface damaged my heels. They still get sore sometimes. As others have said, the benefit of a standing desk is that you are not in the same
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by Contexti 4y ago
il is a pronoun[0] in French. I haven't learned French since high school, but here's how I would translate the examples: il la viola "He raped her" il viola la loi "He broke the law" [0]( https:/&#x2
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by Contexti 4y ago
> Does there exist an abundance of data for languages close to Linear A? If not, then I admire the work of all that try to untangle this with their brains alone. In the article, Dr. Ester Salgarella says: "we have not yet identified
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by Contexti 4y ago
To be pedantic, Finnish is not Ugric. Hungarian is Ugric, Finnish is Finnic. They both are Finno-Ugric, a.k.a Uralic. Many non-linguist Finns mix up Finno-Ugric and Ugric. The Proto-Uralic * weti "water" looks like it could come
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by Contexti 4y ago
Which reminds me of the gavagai thought experiment illustrating the inscrutability of reference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inscrutability_of_reference#Ga...
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by Contexti 5y ago
IBM Watson was using Prolog when it won in a Jeopardy! game: "We required a language in which we could conveniently express pattern matching rules over the parse trees and other annotations (such as named entity recognition results),
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by Contexti 5y ago
I thought dinosaurs were not adapted to aquatic environments? Marine reptiles like mosasaurs, plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs were not dinosaurs. Spinosaurus, though, was semiaquatic.
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by Contexti 5y ago
The Finnish word for walrus, mursu , was borrowed into Finnish from Sámi, as mentioned in the WordSense article. The Northern Sámi word morša is likely a loanword from some Palaeo-Laplandic language, borrowed when the Proto-Sámi language