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I wish I had known this. I tried a standing desk for six months some years ago. Standing on a hard surface damaged my heels. They still get sore sometimes. As others have said, the…

il is a pronoun[0] in French. I haven't learned French since high school, but here's how I would translate the examples: il la viola "He raped her" il viola la loi "He broke the la…

> Does there exist an abundance of data for languages close to Linear A? If not, then I admire the work of all that try to untangle this with their brains alone. In the article, Dr…

To be pedantic, Finnish is not Ugric. Hungarian is Ugric, Finnish is Finnic. They both are Finno-Ugric, a.k.a Uralic. Many non-linguist Finns mix up Finno-Ugric and Ugric. The Prot…

Which reminds me of the gavagai thought experiment illustrating the inscrutability of reference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inscrutability_of_reference#Ga...

IBM Watson was using Prolog when it won in a Jeopardy! game: "We required a language in which we could conveniently express pattern matching rules over the parse trees and other an…

I thought dinosaurs were not adapted to aquatic environments? Marine reptiles like mosasaurs, plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs were not dinosaurs. Spinosaurus, though, was semiaquatic.…

The Finnish word for walrus, mursu , was borrowed into Finnish from Sámi, as mentioned in the WordSense article. The Northern Sámi word morša is likely a loanword from some Palaeo-…