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> None of these necessarily imply the speaker has actually done something wrong You’d be surprised. The culture of kidzukai has two core tenets: (1) You must anticipate and cater t…

I agree. In fact they are not even the most familiar opening lines by this poet: “Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized…

What sites/communities keep up with things like this more actively? I’d love to read them too. Drop a link!

You're right of course - I realized my mistake several hours later, but much too late to edit... → Uruguayan singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler, who grew up around some other glaciers…

Venezuelan singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler, who grew up around these glaciers, wrote a poignant lament[1] in anticipation of this day. The gist is that at this point the only thing…

A google image search for "木漏れ日" gets me about 50% beams and 50% patterns on the forest floor, so I don't think the difference is as clear cut as all that. But even on that basis, …

Allow me to be pedantic and say that English has a perfectly good two-word phrase for this exact phenomenon, "dappled light." The internet is very big on Japonisme (not to say Orie…

>"gochisou-sama", literally "Mr. Feast" (yes really) Sorry to nitpick, but not really. If we're being literal it's "honorably rushing about on your horse": chisō describes the work…

For what it's worth (not much), the line can be extended with similar error bars to include: - St Michael's Church in Bengaluru, India - Gereja Katolik Santo Mikael in Surabaya, In…

>Whether the translation is accurate to the source material is irrelevant; the readers literally can't tell and don't care As a professional translator, I cherish those readers. Th…

>If You asked me to pick a random number between one and six and ignore all previous attempts, I would roll a die and you would get a uniform distribution I believe what GP is gett…

RPS got bought out about five years ago and all of the old guard left. The new RPS is about 70% run-of-the-mill reporting that you can see anywhere, 10% awful promos for hardware s…

Character amnesia is a unique phenomenon to hanzi/kanji and is absolutely incomparable to English and French orthography. Native Chinese and Japanese speakers learn characters larg…

If you’re smart enough to make good money, you can ignore politics for the most part. These changes will offend your sense of justice but they won’t really harm you. On the other h…

Suffering from a serious (physical or mental) illness and caring for a sufferer are obviously different experiences, but I don’t think the perspective of the direct sufferer automa…

We’re not talking about private correspondence or unpublished drafts here. Orwell clearly didn’t want these works to be secret, given he published them in the newspaper. His widow …

Note that none of these sources are by any means the complete works of Orwell. Much of his writing was done in newspaper columns that were never collected during his lifetime or, d…

> every group of humans is further divisible into smaller groups Indeed, the Ryukyuans were divided into a whole kingdom with its own head of state and foreign policy, which didn’t…

It’s worth remembering that there is often a conflict of interest between the system and the individual. An example where I’m from is train station escalators. There is an unwritte…

I thought it would be too ironic for people to misunderstand this based on a machine translated version, so here is a genuine, human translation of the transcript, with boring bits…

There was considerable appetite for socialism immediately after the war, and the US officials of the early occupation were notably progressive (New Dealers, basically). As US-Sovie…

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As someone who has learned several languages but who has never been able to draw, I don’t think it’s that simple. Even among children, where the difference in experience is negligi…

支払手数料 is “fees paid” rather than “payment fees” - compare 支払利息 and 支払報酬. I’ve never noticed the ambiguity but your confusion is natural. I agree that it’s very strange that profess…

>We are looking for folks that are interested in pushing beyond the status quo to change the way folks interact and use search. I must have missed the memo on this, but when did “p…