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Linguists must be rolling their eyes at this study. If you want to study language evolution, phonemes are the last thing you should look at. Languages change, fast, and the sounds …

Sorry for the late reply as I didn't see this until now. There is no reason for there to be a difference in English loanword usage in North Korea between the border area and the fa…

I am well aware of the language situation in Italy, and I hesitated a bit before using it as an example. I probably should have qualified my use of the word "dialect" as you rightl…

Are you talking about loanwords from English in the Korean used in North Korea? Korean was already borrowing words from English decades before the division of the peninsula, as you…

Actually, they do teach Chinese characters in school in North Korea; it is a common misconception that they don't. They teach 3,000 characters, which is numerically even more than …

You've got the gist, but North Korea does use tonnes of Sino-Korean words, which are like words of Greek and Latin origin in English. You can't simply eliminate such words from the…

From what I've seen in the South Korean media, no one is talking about North Korean involvement in this separate hacking incident of nuclear reactors. The codes seem to be differen…

To understand the language situation in Korea, let's imagine that we divided the Italian peninsula in half just north of Rome. Does it follow that now there are two dialects, North…

I'm dismayed that this piece is repeating Marc Rogers's gross misportrayal of the linguistic situation of the Koreas, saying that "Korean language in the code also suggests a Korea…

In their press release, the FBI only cited evidence that was already previously to the public. http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/update-on-so... "As a result of our i…

Never underestimate the usefulness of plausible deniability, one of the main advantages of cyber warfare. It doesn't even have to be cyber warfare. North Korea still denies that it…

It's certainly possible, but I don't know if there is unambiguous evidence for contact between the Inuit and the Norse in Canada. Norse objects and technology in Inuit possession i…

Please see my other comments, but we don't have direct proof of face-to-face contact between the Dorset and the Norse but ample proof of prolonged periods of contact between the In…

The Norse found only abandoned Dorset settlements when they first came to Greenland. They had already disappeared from Greenland by A.D. 300, long before the Norse arrived. They di…

From the other side, Norse accounts describe often hostile encounters with natives, whom they called Skrælings. This term referred to the Greenland Inuits and the (probably Algonqu…

I see. This is a scheme you can apply for once you are VAT registered and are up to date with your VAT returns. I'm not sure how that changes things for first-time VAT registered b…

I don't know if you mean in Arctic Canada specifically, but in Greenland the Inuit certainly have orally transmitted memories of contact with the former Norse population. In 1721 t…

No, VAT MOSS Return periods are calendar quarters, so you need to submit quarterly statements: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/revenue-and-custo... This has nothing to d…

What you are overlooking is that the vast majority of these people (and women are disproportionately represented, including many stay-at-home mums doing this in their spare time) d…

At least in the UK, you'll be required to keep such private data for 10 years, which also means registering as data processors and controllers with the Information Commissioner's O…

The seller is also supposed to collect evidence of the location of the purchaser (billing addresses, IP addresses, etc.). By the time you're required to collect private data for ea…

The word "existential" (attested since the late 17th century) was used as an adjective relating to existence long before the birth of Existentialism. In the phrase "existential thr…

Language is a slippery thing, and meanings of words change over time. Here's a short story illustrating how absurd it would be if we insisted all the words were used in their origi…