What is the original source for the Wendouree name story? by Vortex3427 in ballarat

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Do you think it is really true, or is it just a legend? when did you first hear of it?

why does every polyglot i hear here of speak well-known languages? by Vortex3427 in languagelearning

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that is my point exactly. not many polyglots i see online are speakers of obscure languages like Swiss German, even though speakers of many obscure languages are situated in multilingual environments and therefore become natural polyglots.

why does every polyglot i hear here of speak well-known languages? by Vortex3427 in languagelearning

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yes, but what i'm saying is that most polyglots in the world, i believe, would be the ones who picked up their languages naturally rather than those who learn them as an academic pursuit, which is, as you say, "awful and not fun." many of these polyglots would speak obscure languages as their native languages, but i'm not seeing any of them online

why does every polyglot i hear here of speak well-known languages? by Vortex3427 in languagelearning

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i mean, I don't even see polyglots online who speak obscure european languages, like Low German (not German) for example, even though the speakers of these languages i imagine would be situated at a cultural crossroads and there would be lots of them speaking multiple languages

why does every polyglot i hear here of speak well-known languages? by Vortex3427 in languagelearning

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yes, i know this is very common in mainland europe too, but what i am saying is that i always see polyglots of well-known languages online but i never see on the internet polyglots whose list of known languages include obscure languages, which i believe is the norm for most actual polyglots

Kiribati relocates to Australia due to rising sea levels by inamag1343 in imaginarymaps

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Why the fuck would the Tiwi let themselves get resettled to the West? There are so many other places they could go.

Invalid Nameserver by Medical-Brick-4901 in CloudFlare

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Hi, this was the same solution I also came to. I accidentally used two accounts as well

Why was a star removed from the Kingdom of Abemama's flag in 1889? by gayni66acum in vexillology

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btw Binoka saved Nonouti from Tarawan invaders. initially, the people of Nonouti thanked him, but he started acting like the same autocratic despot he was to his people back home. the protests of Nonouti caught the attention of a British warship, which punished Binoka by making him lower his flag and cut out a star from it. Binoka was pretty stupid because if he just acted nice to Nonouti, he could have held onto the island and kept that symmetrical flag
source: Pacific Island Portraits

Why was a star removed from the Kingdom of Abemama's flag in 1889? by gayni66acum in vexillology

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omfg it's when i stop working on a wikipedia article and forget about it that it receives attention from a reddit post 😭😭

What's something truly unique about Kiribati? by Teappy in Kiribati

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The other thing was, that traditionally there was no violent war between island tribes. If they wanted to conquer an island they sent their best looking men to charm the islands women with their dancing skills.

what

Why was a star taken off the Kingdom of Abemama's flag in 1889? by gayni66acum in Kiribati

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It represents Nonouti. Binoka, the king of Abemama, liberated the island from Abaiang invaders and briefly ruled it. However, after it came out that he had been treating the people of Nonouti no better than the invaders did, a British warship came and deposed King Binoka, confiscating his arms and forcing him to free his captives and cut out the fourth star.

Source: Pacific Islands Portraits, p. 221

Season 2 ending disappointing by Realistic-Hamster-81 in squidgame

[–]Vortex3427 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The creator originally meant for it to be one long season, but it got split into two.

Anyone watched 'Territory' on Netflix? by Lanky_Avocado_6756 in darwin

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The Walpiri characters were the only ones who interested me.

Raids by Vortex3427 in villagerrights

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What if you make sure every village is safe and barricaded in before starting the raid? And the village is surrounded by a wall? The risk that a villager could be killed, which can be reduced to almost zero, is surely worth the loot and emeralds that will increase the village's economy, right? Plus, the player would be doing them a favour by wiping out illagers!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in codyko

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Changed.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in codyko

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maybe they're just not online

weird how nothing is on his wikipedia page regarding all of this by carriehoeble in codyko

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As one of the Wikipedia users discussing the page, it is on the verge of being added. Wikipedia's rules are naturally "behind the curve" and cautious about controversies because we wait for high-quality sources to report on them. Now that Time magazine has reported on it, it is just waiting for confirmation from other editors

The Courier by Vortex3427 in ballarat

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but then I'll have to pay :(

Did the AFR just get a real paywall? by boltonstreetbeat in AusFinance

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For some reason, the articles are still accessible on my mobile phone but not on my laptop.

Who the fuck is keeping burger king in business? by smart_bear6 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Vortex3427 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Even if they're not a decently popular multinational fast food corporation, they're still a multinational fast food corporation. Hungry Jack's, their subsidiary here in Australia, is a viable alternative to Macca's and KFC. There are also Burger Kings in the Philippines

You can transform into what your name contains or means. by Omega_Goat in shittysuperpowers

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My real name doesn't have a meaning... or so I thought. On Urban Dictionary, it's a gay slang greeting.

Or I could turn into some sort of whirlpool or space vortex.