tpholland

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by tpholland 1mo ago
OK. There's not much antisemitism in London though. It's a major world city.
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by tpholland 1mo ago
It will be fine. Most Brits are comfortable with the poor quality of Orwell commentary from over the pond. American Orwell fans mostly don't even read his key novels like Keep the Aspadistra Flying, just his juvenile science fiction st
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by tpholland 2mo ago
And the word "suspenders" in British English means what Americans would call a garter belt, hence it sounding particularly odd over here.
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by tpholland 3mo ago
Hi! It sounds like you may have misunderstood the TV license as you seem to be describing it as a recent thing whereas it was introduced 80 years ago in 1946. The point of the license was always to fund broadcast content--not sure how this
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by tpholland 3mo ago
OK, you probably have a point. As they say, once you've seen the La Tène cultural package....
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by tpholland 3mo ago
I quite agree. It's a diversity of peoples who have developed an umbrella identity that dates back a long time. And it's been very successful! They have a successful federal structure; much more so than more recent confederacies r
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by tpholland 3mo ago
Ah, a generally homogenous Western European metaculture then, like that Canada! Thanks for engaging with the specifics of the Swiss Enlightenment you can keep the change
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by tpholland 3mo ago
Sorry if cultural history and facts are a bit dull. I don't really want to argue about *something else* though; let's leave that to the *something else*ists.
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by tpholland 3mo ago
Absolutely agree, and of course I would never argue that "diversity" explains Switzerland's wealth. It occupied a pretty unique and interesting place during the Reformation, and maybe there is something there. But the idea th
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by tpholland 3mo ago
Absolutely! Although I would have thought it was common knowledge. 62% of the Swiss population have German as their main language, 22.7% French, 8% Italian, and 0.5% Romansch. This is an extraordinary level of diversity for a European count
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by tpholland 3mo ago
What did you mean when you said homogenous, given the reality of Switzerland, its history, its civil structure, its languages, and its culture?
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by tpholland 3mo ago
Then they should say white. I'm prepared to give a lot of leeway when conversing with non-native speakers but as somebody who has grown up within a culture that understands that the concept of cultural homogeneity cannot refer to nativ
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by tpholland 3mo ago
But Switzerland emphatically does not have a homogenous population. It has an exceptionally diverse population, linguistically, religiously and culturally. And yet as you say it has an exceptional record when it comes to cohesion and social
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by tpholland 3mo ago
Switzerland does not have a homogenous population, and to a reasonable person who has travelled in Switzerland I think this is an insane thing to be defending. A significant proportion of the population (certainly for Europe) do not even sh
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by tpholland 5mo ago
> Karrimor Jaguar Nice. Karrimor backpacks (or rucksacks/daypacks as we called them back then) were the high water mark--I worked in the industry in the 80s and, in the tone of the article, it's very sad to see what's happ
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by tpholland 10mo ago
...but you're often lucky to travel even a metre or so on the M25 in two seconds when it looks like that!
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by tpholland 1y ago
I read all Baudrillard's books, back when he was relevant in the day. You've not missed much. In fact you seem more insightful than those who do have them all to set.
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by tpholland 1y ago
Don't worry, that one has the energy of <i>the guy that was fired for buying IBM</i>
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by tpholland 11y ago
Thanks a lot for the feedback--we'll change the rather lame screenshot at the bottom into something that does a better job of showing off the different showcase templates as a quick fix. I'm looking at restructuring the homepage
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by tpholland 13y ago
I take the London-Edinburgh sleeper fairly regularly, and have only ever had good experiences. That said, although in theory standard-class passengers have to share, this has only ever happened to me once. I can imagine that if you drew the
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by tpholland 13y ago
An interesting post looking in detail at the methodology and implications of this study on Language Log: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=7715