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"English is not pronounced the way it is spelled" remains a fallacy.

Not exactly a fallacy, but certainly an erroneous way of stating the problem, which should be straightened out.

Eng ...

I have never quite understood what is meant by this Great Vowel Shift.

Which version of English are you using as your datum and how can the standardised spellings of the official written form tel ...

Can you really hear a difference between the first aspirate in "gelado" and the one in "jeffe"? I can't and I have been studying
Spanish for about 6 years.

I've been living i ...

Here are a few relevant quotes from the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish:

We should not justify suicide bombers. We are against the suicide bombers, but we must understand what drives these young p ...

Jesus. Look at the history before making such a judgement. They were attacked first. From the Six Days War onwards. What do you want from Israelis? Lie down and let themselves be blasted unto Zion? ...

Only a liberal can graduate from an institution of higher learning believing 99% of everything 99% of his professors believed, having been congratulated and rewarded for the correctness of those belie ...

But let that last observation go, it's not important. The point is that individuals, who are the possessors of life, don't live on the average. Humanity-on-the-average, whether we look at Jews or Hott ...

And why all this attention to supposedly racial averages? Very well, if the study was correctly conducted, African IQ results are lower than in other places, but this proves neither that race is a rea ...

It's all very well to say that you don't accept racist assumptions, but when everyone complacently agrees that the chaos in Africa is due to a lower-than-European/Jewish/Chinese average IQ, the focus ...

In short, Mick, your sympathy is nothing but condescending arrogance.*

You have a point: you do have an advantage over me: you've been trained in concision of argument, you get to the point with gr ...

Right. Carry on.

Some time ago, I hypothesized that the body regularly "cures" itself of cancer.
Curiously I had this same idea, also some time ago, thirty years or so, but not as a general concept, only ab ...

Leon has defended his position by first of all denying the concept of race and, when that didn't avail,Didn't it?
Here's a résumé of the refutations presented to this point against my assertion:
...

But in reality Jews, like Arabs, are semites and just a branch of the caucasian race. And Jews, of course, are the best refutation of your argument. Thousands of years of breeding for specific attribu ...

Always remember: if you haven't heard the idea before, chances are nobody else has either
Some years ago I had the idea, which I had not encountered anywhere, that "drugs" were illegalised ...

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Topic: Flying Chaucers
Leon Replies: 1148 Views: 584000	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 10:19 pm Subject: Flying Chaucers
Leon Replies: 1148 Views: 584000	"English is not pronounced the way it is spelled" remains a fallacy. Not exactly a fallacy, but certainly an erroneous way of stating the problem, which should be straightened out. Eng ...
Topic: Flying Chaucers
Leon Replies: 1148 Views: 584000	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 9:45 pm Subject: Flying Chaucers
Leon Replies: 1148 Views: 584000	I have never quite understood what is meant by this Great Vowel Shift. Which version of English are you using as your datum and how can the standardised spellings of the official written form tel ...
Topic: How Fast Do Languages Change?
Leon Replies: 735 Views: 532688	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 4:43 pm Subject: How Fast Do Languages Change?
Leon Replies: 735 Views: 532688	Can you really hear a difference between the first aspirate in "gelado" and the one in "jeffe"? I can't and I have been studying Spanish for about 6 years. I've been living i ...
Topic: The Troy Game
Leon Replies: 203 Views: 227676	Forum: History Posted: 9:32 pm Subject: The Troy Game
Leon Replies: 203 Views: 227676	Here are a few relevant quotes from the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish: We should not justify suicide bombers. We are against the suicide bombers, but we must understand what drives these young p ...
Topic: The Troy Game
Leon Replies: 203 Views: 227676	Forum: History Posted: 9:22 pm Subject: The Troy Game
Leon Replies: 203 Views: 227676	Jesus. Look at the history before making such a judgement. They were attacked first. From the Six Days War onwards. What do you want from Israelis? Lie down and let themselves be blasted unto Zion? ...
Topic: The Troy Game
Leon Replies: 203 Views: 227676	Forum: History Posted: 1:05 pm Subject: The Troy Game
Leon Replies: 203 Views: 227676	Only a liberal can graduate from an institution of higher learning believing 99% of everything 99% of his professors believed, having been congratulated and rewarded for the correctness of those belie ...
Topic: The Troy Game
Leon Replies: 203 Views: 227676	Forum: History Posted: 12:32 pm Subject: The Troy Game
Leon Replies: 203 Views: 227676	But let that last observation go, it's not important. The point is that individuals, who are the possessors of life, don't live on the average. Humanity-on-the-average, whether we look at Jews or Hott ...
Topic: The Troy Game
Leon Replies: 203 Views: 227676	Forum: History Posted: 12:31 pm Subject: The Troy Game
Leon Replies: 203 Views: 227676	And why all this attention to supposedly racial averages? Very well, if the study was correctly conducted, African IQ results are lower than in other places, but this proves neither that race is a rea ...
Topic: The Troy Game
Leon Replies: 203 Views: 227676	Forum: History Posted: 12:29 pm Subject: The Troy Game
Leon Replies: 203 Views: 227676	It's all very well to say that you don't accept racist assumptions, but when everyone complacently agrees that the chaos in Africa is due to a lower-than-European/Jewish/Chinese average IQ, the focus ...
Topic: The Troy Game
Leon Replies: 203 Views: 227676	Forum: History Posted: 12:28 pm Subject: The Troy Game
Leon Replies: 203 Views: 227676	In short, Mick, your sympathy is nothing but condescending arrogance.* You have a point: you do have an advantage over me: you've been trained in concision of argument, you get to the point with gr ...
Topic: Will computers become conscious?
Leon Replies: 142 Views: 1202805	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 12:20 pm Subject: Will computers become conscious?
Leon Replies: 142 Views: 1202805	Right. Carry on.
Topic: This Really Makes me Sick!
Leon Replies: 109 Views: 196403	Forum: Health Posted: 10:53 pm Subject: Re: Vindication
Leon Replies: 109 Views: 196403	Some time ago, I hypothesized that the body regularly "cures" itself of cancer. Curiously I had this same idea, also some time ago, thirty years or so, but not as a general concept, only ab ...
Topic: The Troy Game
Leon Replies: 203 Views: 227676	Forum: History Posted: 8:54 pm Subject: The Troy Game
Leon Replies: 203 Views: 227676	Leon has defended his position by first of all denying the concept of race and, when that didn't avail,Didn't it? Here's a résumé of the refutations presented to this point against my assertion: ...
Topic: The Troy Game
Leon Replies: 203 Views: 227676	Forum: History Posted: 7:33 pm Subject: The Troy Game
Leon Replies: 203 Views: 227676	But in reality Jews, like Arabs, are semites and just a branch of the caucasian race. And Jews, of course, are the best refutation of your argument. Thousands of years of breeding for specific attribu ...
Topic: This Really Makes me Sick!
Leon Replies: 109 Views: 196403	Forum: Health Posted: 11:57 pm Subject: This Really Makes me Sick!
Leon Replies: 109 Views: 196403	Always remember: if you haven't heard the idea before, chances are nobody else has either Some years ago I had the idea, which I had not encountered anywhere, that "drugs" were illegalised ...