LordGronk

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by LordGronk 4mo ago
It’s also that, with the current system, a person who is young, talented, and ambitious who is interested in public service has little to no reason nor incentive to work outside the beltway or a state capital, leaving local governance to re
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by LordGronk 1y ago
I would love this if it were to produce viable unabridged ebooks of Francis Parkman’s “France and England in North America” vol 2-7. All the existent digital editions were poorly scanned and don’t separate footnotes from the main text.
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by LordGronk 2y ago
Damn and here I was looking forward to the day when I could finally marry Lockheed Martin
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by LordGronk 2y ago
I would love to someday see a version of this or a hardcopy of Byrne’s version but with the original greek text and a modern apparatus criticus.
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by LordGronk 2y ago
As I recall, JCRI does know the identity of each author.
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by LordGronk 3y ago
He mentions Ian M Banks, who was not from the US
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by LordGronk 3y ago
Just looking at the list below, there’s no way that anyone could get me to enter a building with two or more stories if I were an important Russian.
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by LordGronk 3y ago
History shows that many humans of the same species can “interact” without friendly communication, or, for that matter, preserving fully functional languages (Just look at the Minoans, Etruscans, Harappans, Rhetics, and the numerous other pe
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by LordGronk 3y ago
I would say Coptic and Latin are not exactly a 1 to 1 comparison, primarily because today coptic is attached to a specific ethnic identity and the attempts at community revival that come with that. Of course one might argue that there are L
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by LordGronk 3y ago
I think a better and more interesting question would, perhaps, be “What is the most conservative language as supported by written and spoken evidence (the variations of ancient greek dialects tracking with orthographic differences shows tha
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by LordGronk 3y ago
it has a steady liturgical use and children are raised to understand it in church, along with small spoken revival groups here in the states so, while not exactly living, I would say it’s in a far better state in its community than Latin po
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by LordGronk 3y ago
There’s no evidence that Homo Sapiens, aside from some interbreeding with other hominids interacted with other hominids who were capable of complex language for that to be possible. And a multiple origin scenario for behaviourally modern hu
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by LordGronk 3y ago
Historians and linguists generally agree that Sumerian, Akkadian and Egyptian are the oldest languages with a clear written record. All three are extinct Umm, what? Coptic is a (barely) living Egyptian. It is close enough for us to have d
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by LordGronk 4y ago
The 2nd edition JACT Reading greek course is excellent, I highly recommend it.
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by LordGronk 4y ago
I use Freedom on Ios and SelfControl on MacOS to limit myself to 30 minutes of slack per day. Using those apps it is literally inaccessible outside of a predetermined window (turning them off outside of the window requires a lot of work, or
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by LordGronk 4y ago
Personally, I would think there are two answers to this: a) the "we" in the question is exclusive, i.e, it only includes those that are part of the deal. In this case, I think "maybe". It brings to mind a perhaps slightl
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by LordGronk 4y ago
I think the issue he is pointing out is that China has plenty of laws that, as written, guarantee the exact opposite of what the state actually does. For instance, article 35 of the PRC's constitution guarantees "freedom of speech