I'm pretty sure the Romans, French, Spanish, Germans... must have thought like this at some point
Sure. At a point where there wasn't any television, movies, radio, printing presses, recorded music and... I'm sure I'm missing something else but I can't quite put my finger on it.
I thought the entire point was to *not* do what other countries do, because communism and #MAGA and NUMBER ONE!
Or does that only apply to things like public healthcare, not allowing crackpots to run round slaughtering anyone they don't like the look of, or separating politics and religion?
Languages needs to develop and to have concepts which are fused into one (by becoming interchangeable) or split into multiple ones (through increased subtlety).
It was that or the Russians and they're hardly going to blame themselves, are they?
I suppose they could blame Mexicans but most of them don't even know where Mexico is. On second thoughts, that doesn't seem to prevent Americans doing it.
Just because we've made fast progress in one field doesn't mean we are capable of making equivalently fast progress in a completely different endeavor.
It's a bit like how we can cure some cancers but there's fuck all we can do about asperger's.
To pick a purely arbitrary example totally at random.
Working with these organizations requires a sales and marketing team, a customer support organization, a finance back-office, and lots of other "business stuff" in addition to technology.
Unfortunately, it also requires Lennart Poettering and whichever spaztard messed up Gnome.
in the end no company ever pays taxes itself. It all gets passed on in some form to the customer or taken out of the employees paychecks (or future raises).
I agree. Its totally impossible that some rich asshole has to make do with a 250 foot yacht instead of a 300 foot one.
There is a history of fines in EUR multi billions. Not a great idea to be flip about this one.
Of course if the fine had been in that ballpark the usual subjects would have been frothing about liberal gay cake baking eurofaggots hating murcan businesses and so on.
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Careful. You'll set off the "languages evolve" twats who'll find some convoluted way to eggcorn it.
Sure. At a point where there wasn't any television, movies, radio, printing presses, recorded music and ... I'm sure I'm missing something else but I can't quite put my finger on it.
> come up every few seconds on it's own
Quality journalism.
I thought the entire point was to *not* do what other countries do, because communism and #MAGA and NUMBER ONE!
Or does that only apply to things like public healthcare, not allowing crackpots to run round slaughtering anyone they don't like the look of, or separating politics and religion?
That must be why they say the plane was brought down by a missal or that medieval peasants lived under the futile system.
Don't get me started about ''nuclear''. See where the ''u'' is? See what's between the ''c'' and the ''l''?
"Vunce zey go up, who cares where they come down?
Zat's not my department," says Wernher von Braun
And here's another thing - they all used plain ol' ascii. None of that poncy unicode shit.
Belgium, Switzerland, India, South Africa.
Probably best to shoot them anyway, just to be on the safe side.
Since this thread is about science, how about we do an experiment?
Method: take one standard off-the-shelf USA, and have it not adopt an official language. Leave it a couple of centuries.
Result: no problems of French and English use like in Canada were detected.
Conclusion: you are full of shit.
No they doesn't. Stop lying.
Not just that, it blends!
It was that or the Russians and they're hardly going to blame themselves, are they?
I suppose they could blame Mexicans but most of them don't even know where Mexico is. On second thoughts, that doesn't seem to prevent Americans doing it.
I always put the ladder flat before climbing. It's a lot safer.
It's a bit like how we can cure some cancers but there's fuck all we can do about asperger's.
To pick a purely arbitrary example totally at random.
Gear ratio - because millenials find "efficiency" too confusing.
Unfortunately, it also requires Lennart Poettering and whichever spaztard messed up Gnome.
A bit like programmers, then?
It stands to reason that if they were hired for their abilities they'd just be plain old hires.
If the market would bear higher prices they'd already be higher.
I agree. Its totally impossible that some rich asshole has to make do with a 250 foot yacht instead of a 300 foot one.
They tell Ireland that they pay it in the US. They tell the US that they pay it in the Netherlands. They tell the Netherlands they pay it on the moon.
Good thing too. It gives me a headache.
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Of course if the fine had been in that ballpark the usual subjects would have been frothing about liberal gay cake baking eurofaggots hating murcan businesses and so on.
The flavour goes great with roast lamb as long as you don't use too much. If you like rosemary, substitute about 1/4 of it.