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Fomorian
2mo ago
Homeschool and exercise close, very close, supervision over what your kids do on the internet. I'd have hated this as a child. But the case for unrestricted internet and social media access for children being harmful, at this point, se
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Fomorian
4y ago
You're accusing this guy of only reading one sentence, when you "guessed" that the ancestors of the guy you replied to settled in the Midwest. He explicitly stated in his comment that they settled in the Midwest. Might be eve
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Fomorian
5y ago
It's so odd to be a Washingtonian from Snohomish, and hear about what a shithole Seattle is. Everett has a lot of the same problems but nowhere NEAR as bad as I hear things get down there. Broadly speaking I love Washington. I think th
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Fomorian
5y ago
The fact that you and other anglophones call the indigenous Scottish variety of Gaelic simply "Gaelic" is a pretty good example of why I continue to be very, very suspicious of those who insist upon "Scots" being a langu
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Fomorian
5y ago
People that have a vested interest in the suppression of the indigenous Goidelic language of Scotland - on both sides of the England-Scotland border - will always insist upon the full-fledged distinctive language status of Scottish English.
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Fomorian
5y ago
Because it's basically a dialect OF English. In fact, literally the only reason it's called "Scots" and not "Inglis", as it originally was, is as the Lowlander Scots gradually developed a sense of national iden
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Fomorian
5y ago
Huge surprise that it's Chinese ships doing this.
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Fomorian
5y ago
Sure. I probably wouldn't call Wuxi insignificant myself. My main issue was just citing Wuxi's historical importance and background to defend its significance, in comparison to pre-Anglo Saxon Britain. I see Chinese people do this
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Fomorian
5y ago
London was never Gaelic. The populations living in Southern England would have spoken Brythonic languages, not Goidelic. And at any rate... it's pretty obvious he was referring to Wuxi today. I don't think anybody's about to
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Fomorian
5y ago
Sounds highly reminiscent of the Military's way of handing out promotions.