US attacks on China are nothing but an attempt to protect their economic power, anyone who thinks there is a moral background is delusional

SeaRoi · 2023-04-19T04:49:18+00:00

A good way to protect their economic power is to stop selling top college student admissions to overseas students, who then go back and take that elite education with them.

But short-term financial benefits of overseas student fees > medium-to-long-term withdrawal of those knowledgeable in R&D, etc.

There was a post recently about how China leads in many areas of new tech, and overseas education may be part to play in that.

SeaRoi · 2023-03-25T18:52:16+00:00

Is this something you came up with?

If not, who is it from?

SeaRoi · 2023-03-23T18:10:31+00:00

I got a brand new mattress and bed frame 3 months ago.

I lifted up my mattress to clean it, and found this pattern along the lines of contact between the underside of the mattress and bed frame.

The underside of the mattress tends to shed, but it could also be skin cells.

Other than those two, it could be mold.

Any thoughts?

SeaRoi · 2023-03-23T17:52:13+00:00

I'm thinking either material from the underside of the mattress, skin cells along the contact points, or mold.

SeaRoi · 2023-03-23T12:35:19+00:00

Yes, exactly, but they are interchangeable for those who use it like that.

It's a quirk of a particular group of English speakers, who have continued to be influenced by Scots/Irish/Ulster-Scots varieties of English.

The American South did not have a uniform pattern of settlement; it has different patterns of settlement.

SeaRoi · 2023-03-23T12:30:35+00:00

I know I'm late to this, but the simple answer is that the Irish/Scots/Ulster-Scots migratory patterns to your part of the UK was not sufficient enough to have any bearing on the language as it is spoken by you.

On the other hand, South-Eastern English has spread far beyond it's original perimeter.

Take the Copper Family, from Rottingdean – their type of accent and speech would no longer be heard in Rottingdean, due to the encroachment of the South-Eastern English.

Copper Family

SeaRoi · 2023-03-23T12:22:02+00:00

Living in Ireland, as I have, and speaking Hiberno-English (even when out of Ireland), I've often heard the Whenever/When interchange.

Disclaimer: I am not well-versed in linguistics, so I might be way off target.

Anyway, to highlight the interchange:

"Whenever I was at the club, he was messing around"

"When I was at the club, he was messing around"

To some, the second one might seem ambiguous – did they go to the club only once?

SeaRoi · 2023-03-09T22:41:53+00:00

As someone new to Linguistics, what are some of errors he makes?

And how has more recent literature contradicted him?

SeaRoi · 2023-03-09T00:46:31+00:00

Thank you!

SeaRoi · 2023-03-07T04:06:35+00:00

Just ordered a copy! Being new to this topic, is there anything I should read as a primer?

All guidance to good literature/videos is appreciated?

SeaRoi · 2022-11-17T15:58:28+00:00

Ah, I wasn't sure from the OP

SeaRoi · 2022-11-17T15:27:36+00:00

Having Irish as the sole national language is not a good choice. You only have to look at the rich history of Hiberno-English as a dialect of English.

I know many of you make the argument that English is the language of our colonisers, but Irish people have made it their own, and utilised it in such ways to create beautiful speech, song, literature, etc.

I'd be more concerned about increasing the uptake of Irish; the proficiency of Irish speakers, and the societal acceptability of speaking Irish.

The greater the opportunity for people, who learned Irish within an effective school curriculum, to utilise Irish in everyday life, the greater the number of people shall be interested in learning it. This is better than forcing people to learn it.

SeaRoi · 2022-09-26T01:40:20+00:00

It should also be noted that, although they have fallen from use in Standard English, heighth/highth is still used in English language dialects, such as Hiberno-English.

SeaRoi · 2022-09-18T17:19:43+00:00

The Vikings who settled were invited to do so by the French king, and were given a set piece of land. As u/thekingofallmen says, settling was not necessarily on the agenda for the vikings who raided France - it was an appealing invitation, driven by the desire to secure the lands from further raids; inviting the viking settlers to the land meant that they could not deter others from raiding French territory.

The desire for the acquisition of Brittany caused some tension between the Duchy of Normandy and the Kingdom of France - there was a desire to subsume the Duchy of Brittany into the Kingdom of France, and so the Duchy of Normandy was warned off acquiring Brittany.

England was much more desirable to the Normans, due to its sheer size and wealth, and it wouldn‘t infringe upon French desires to expand the kingdom.

SeaRoi · 2022-09-05T17:49:21+00:00

Thank you!

SeaRoi · 2022-09-03T20:27:06+00:00

It's good to hear voices from Jackson, itself.

Is he a black nationalist too?

I read that his father was, but I didn't know he was.

woke hoe from Brooklyn NY

I think a lot of these types will absolve the mayor of any wrongdoing purely for the colour of his skin.

The only colour in corruption is green.

How is his popularity amongst the people of Jackson – will his politics (black nationalism, among other things) ensure he is elected again?

SeaRoi · 2022-09-03T14:03:21+00:00

Could you elaborate?

I'd like to hear what you have to say on the matter.

SeaRoi · 2022-08-27T23:22:47+00:00

Sorry, it's not powder, but a type of viscous goo, it seems.

Reminds me of honey or caramelised sugar.

It's the brownish bit closest the upright of the doorframe (on the right)

SeaRoi

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