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It’s very subjective, but I feel this too. It’s like in adding ML, search has sacrificed precision. For example, adding ‘-‘ no longer seems to work for excluding terms. Yesterday I…

It seems like a certain type of mind would be great at this. I wonder what else being good at cryptic crosswords correlates with.

How unique is this to Britain? Do other countries have similar hedge density?

It's often underappreciated how _hard_ it can be to tell why you want something. I've spent weeks thinking as rationally as I could about a decision, and with years of hindsight re…

Yes, but French is arguably fading much more quickly. It's easy to overlook where the words lingua franca originally came from.

It's hard to be objective about these things as someone who only speaks one language natively (like me), but I suspect that English does have more advantages as an international la…