There are plenty of languages that have perfectly phonetic spelling
In part that's because those languages got lucky, and the pronunciation has been more or less stable since printing became widespread. In other languages, people started using slightly different pronunciations interchangeably, and it made sense to keep the older and more familiar spelling rather than use two spellings for what everyone agreed was the same word just with two equivalent pronunciations. Then the old pronunciation died out and that left the pronunciation and spelling inconsistent. In some languages the spelling could keep up but English in particular had massive pronunciation changes and the spelling were left behind, and now there isn't even an expectation that the written and spoken forms would be related.
Past a certain complexity, it would be interesting and noteworthy, but merely 'organic' is going to include almost everything if the concentration of carbon is high enough.
If someone sincerely believed the ground to be truly sacred, wouldn't a telescope that helps bring enlightenment to all of humanity be one of the *best* possible uses of the land?
To respond seriously (heck, why not?), what a constructed language really needs is not particular grammatical or word-building features, but a ready-made collection of material, such as science books, engineering and medical textbooks, plays, novels, biographies, histories, etc. Plus have one of the larger versions of Wikipedia.
One thing that Zamenhof did right with Esperanto was to use it for translation thereby allowing him to trouble-shoot the language and confirm that it actually worked, and to create a body of language examples which is a necessity if people are going to learn it.
The weakness of English is the 500+ year divorce between the spoken and written languages. Though it does help that there are (essentially) only two versions of English spelling (correct spellings, and US spellings) even though English in Britain, South Africa, India, Australia, Barbados, Canada, etc. sound different enough to make a mess of any attempt at strictly phonetic spelling.
It varies by jurisdiction (obviously), but typically speeding by itself is not criminal, but speeding that constitutes dangerous driving or endangerment or some such likely is. That means one is much easier to prove than the other.
What's the simplest explanation? There's a supreme deity with magical powers and mental health issues? Or that humans evolved as social creatures and their brains need metaphors for their community and their environment, and invent those metaphors as needed?
SJW of all stripes have one thing in common: a relentless drive for conformist groupthink on the issues they fight for.
I would say it's not so much groupthink, rather it's that once you define yourself as a social justice warrior, your very identity is threatened unless you are crusading against a social injustice. Thus many will crusade against an imagined injustice, or a former injustice that is resolved or very nearly resolved, rather than search for less glamorous injustices or accept that they might have achieved victory.
Systemic biases do exist, of course, but more and more they are so minor that it's difficult to find a response that isn't disproportionate.
Their fear that someone might be having fun somewhere cannot ever be discounted
Their fear is actually that someone is having fun without paying a price and/or facing consequences. To be fair, it's generally a good idea to be suspicious of anything that seems to be that kind of fun.
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This seems to be pretty common in spoken English and even informal written English.
There are plenty of languages that have perfectly phonetic spelling
In part that's because those languages got lucky, and the pronunciation has been more or less stable since printing became widespread. In other languages, people started using slightly different pronunciations interchangeably, and it made sense to keep the older and more familiar spelling rather than use two spellings for what everyone agreed was the same word just with two equivalent pronunciations. Then the old pronunciation died out and that left the pronunciation and spelling inconsistent. In some languages the spelling could keep up but English in particular had massive pronunciation changes and the spelling were left behind, and now there isn't even an expectation that the written and spoken forms would be related.
It's all a plot to push down everyone's salaries. The anti-sexism public relations bit is just a happy coincidence.
Past a certain complexity, it would be interesting and noteworthy, but merely 'organic' is going to include almost everything if the concentration of carbon is high enough.
If someone sincerely believed the ground to be truly sacred, wouldn't a telescope that helps bring enlightenment to all of humanity be one of the *best* possible uses of the land?
To respond seriously (heck, why not?), what a constructed language really needs is not particular grammatical or word-building features, but a ready-made collection of material, such as science books, engineering and medical textbooks, plays, novels, biographies, histories, etc. Plus have one of the larger versions of Wikipedia.
One thing that Zamenhof did right with Esperanto was to use it for translation thereby allowing him to trouble-shoot the language and confirm that it actually worked, and to create a body of language examples which is a necessity if people are going to learn it.
The weakness of English is the 500+ year divorce between the spoken and written languages. Though it does help that there are (essentially) only two versions of English spelling (correct spellings, and US spellings) even though English in Britain, South Africa, India, Australia, Barbados, Canada, etc. sound different enough to make a mess of any attempt at strictly phonetic spelling.
It varies by jurisdiction (obviously), but typically speeding by itself is not criminal, but speeding that constitutes dangerous driving or endangerment or some such likely is. That means one is much easier to prove than the other.
What's the simplest explanation? There's a supreme deity with magical powers and mental health issues? Or that humans evolved as social creatures and their brains need metaphors for their community and their environment, and invent those metaphors as needed?
Once you get rid of the drivers, then you're not providing a taxi service, but a car rental service.
There's a difference between being a driver and being a passenger.
have you seen a dollar bill recently
Something about trusting in gold. (I assume that's short for Goldman-Sachs.)
there would be law suits and the Government would lose
Thanks, I needed a good laugh.
Bad things happen in war.
In a way, it's a good thing that people have luxury of forgetting that.
The thing is, people rarely identify themselves as SJWs.
I mean people who have internalized the crusading mentality. No-one ever confesses to being on the lunatic fringe.
issue arrest-on-site warrants for the user/owner of the phone that made the call.
That will mean the end of public pay phones. Except for the cases where the intended victim's phone was the one used.
"[D]ispatch of armed personnel" is not an unreasonable response, as long as it's not dispatch of an undisciplined trigger-happy SWAT team.
That's completely different. They had a patrol cop *and* an out-of-his-jurisdiction off-duty cop.
Probably not murder, but the lesser forms of homicide are still pretty serious crimes.
I believe 'terrorism' is now reserved for fake threats. Tying up police resources is an actual security problem.
SJW of all stripes have one thing in common: a relentless drive for conformist groupthink on the issues they fight for.
I would say it's not so much groupthink, rather it's that once you define yourself as a social justice warrior, your very identity is threatened unless you are crusading against a social injustice. Thus many will crusade against an imagined injustice, or a former injustice that is resolved or very nearly resolved, rather than search for less glamorous injustices or accept that they might have achieved victory.
Systemic biases do exist, of course, but more and more they are so minor that it's difficult to find a response that isn't disproportionate.
In California structural laws are designed to preserve human life, and structures are designed to survive the shaking enough to allow people to exit
Which is exactly what 'withstand' means in the context of structural engineering.
they deserved the low scores
How can a student deserve or not deserve a particular score when all the scores are artificial?
I agree with punishing that teacher, but it's not as though there was no logic at all behind the actions.
The world is full of hypocrisy - is Fiorina just noticing this now?
Their fear that someone might be having fun somewhere cannot ever be discounted
Their fear is actually that someone is having fun without paying a price and/or facing consequences. To be fair, it's generally a good idea to be suspicious of anything that seems to be that kind of fun.
Of course, it's a better idea to actually think.
Little tiny one ounce packets would be ridiculously easy to smuggle in.
True of both powdered and liquid forms.
Meaning, certain dumb people will try snorting, and certain other dumb people will try banning.