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I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon (2018)

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Re: I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon (2018)

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Post by Swizec »

barry-cotter wrote: post #66
Swizec wrote: post #42

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In my experience the typical perception is that you’re X when your parents and grandparents are all X, hopefully also great grandparents. There is a lot more melting recently. Europe historically has been pretty big on cultural identity because everyone had/has a grudge with their neighbors for trying to assimilate them at the edges. Slavs for example (I’m from Slovenia) can trace or Slavic lineage all the way back t…

> There is a lot more melting recently. No, there really isn’t. It may look like there is because of the post WW2 ethnic cleansing leading to more or less monoethnic monolinguistic nation states but the Austro-Hungarian, Russian and Ottoman Empires, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth were always indifferent to what the peasants “were“, like the peasants themselves, mostly. People cared a lot more about religion t…

I meant more like since schengen and easy travel within the EU. If we keep this up, in a few centuries we might get to a point similar as USA where your identity doesn’t depend on which country your grandma comes from.

The bigger question is whether we want to.

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ghaff wrote: post #5
isomorph wrote: post #3

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Please can you explain more? I’m interested

Assuming they are relatively pure-blooded Irish, they'd more accurately describe themselves as Celtic. In theory, Anglo-Saxon has a somewhat specific meaning (descended from the Angle and Saxon tribes). In practice, the term is often generically used for descended from northern European white people (as in WASP).

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Post by type0 »

bluedino wrote: post #48
deviantfero wrote: post #22

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On the hispanic comment, Spanish is a naturally gendered language, you cannot form a sentence without giving gender to at least the subject, for example "la doctora toma el café por la mañana" would translate to "the (female) doctor drinks (male) coffee by the (female) morning" because English is a mostly gender neutral language you would loose all gender information by literally translating that sentence. Now if we…

As a Mexican-American I have had to explain the term ‘Latinx’ to native Mexicans as well as other Hispanics and they all just kind of shake their heads.

I heard that some people consider this to be an insult, that's the main reason not to use this word.

Re: I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon (2018)

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Post by chrisseaton »

barry-cotter wrote: post #27
Grimm1 wrote: post #6

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Generally speaking, Irish people would be of Celtic or Norman (Which I'll still probably get some pushback for saying.) ancestry. Anglo-Saxons settled the rest of the area and ever since there's been some type of issue between the groups. An Irish person describing themselves as Anglo-Saxon is entirely divorced from the roots of where many Irish people are descended, there has always been a lot of trying to erase and…

Note that no one callled them Normans before the 1800s. They called themselves English when they conquered Ireland. The Irish (Gaels) called them Saxons (Sassenach) or foreigners (Gall). After the conversion of the English to Protestantism there was a yawning chasm between the Old English (Catholic) and the New, but no one ever used Norman contemporaneously.

> Note that no one callled them Normans before the 1800s ... no one ever used Norman contemporaneously

Are you claiming that the Duchy of Normandy is a post 1800 ret-conned invention? You think it never actually existed?

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Post by ipaddr »

barry-cotter wrote: post #70
pessimizer wrote: post #43

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You can take a job that pays a penny an hour, but you can't live on a job that pays a penny an hour.

No you can’t. That would be illegal.

You can. I will glady pay you 0.01 an hour. I won't hire you as an employee but we'll sign a contract for a fix amount.

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Post by mLuby »

deviantfero wrote: post #22
isomorph wrote: post #3

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Please can you explain more? I’m interested

On the hispanic comment, Spanish is a naturally gendered language, you cannot form a sentence without giving gender to at least the subject, for example "la doctora toma el café por la mañana" would translate to "the (female) doctor drinks (male) coffee by the (female) morning" because English is a mostly gender neutral language you would loose all gender information by literally translating that sentence. Now if we…

Anyone know how the unusual consonant x was chosen to replace a and o rather than another vowel (like e)?

To my untrained ear, les neen-yes sounds more in line with los neen-yos and las neen-yes than lecks neen-yecks (if that's how you'd pronounce it).

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Post by ganafagol »

fortran77 wrote: post #57

I know that many of us here don't like what labor unions have become in the 21st century. But they do need some labor representation that can ensure the trucks used by drivers have working lights, mirrors, and safe tires, and that the company negotiates use of restrooms around the city. Maybe just a "safety only" union that only deals with safety issues?

A forum mostly frequented by us overpaid workers doing little-more-than-if-any work that society actually needs is not the right place to discuss unions. Of course people in our industry, no matter devs or ops or founders or "founders", despise unions as they get in their way with demands of some basic workers rights. But there are industries where unions are desperately needed to keep workers sane, safe and overall dignified. With little first hand experience it's just too easy to dismiss that.

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Post by selimthegrim »

barry-cotter wrote: post #68
rm445 wrote: post #63

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That can't be right. The Normans as a people played a major part in European history from at least the year 911 through the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). I've never seen the faintest indication that they weren't still called Normans after leaving Normandy, by themselves and others, e.g when invading England and Italy. I guess you meant more that the term fell out of use in England at some point, and Norman-descended…

The people who invaded England and Italy were called Normans. The people who invaded Ireland called themselves English, and were called English by the Irish.

A different group of Norse invaded Ireland before they did England IIRC (hence why Norse-Gaels is a thing).

But the Normans who invaded Ireland came via Wales largely and were not called English until the 16th century

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubgaill_and_Finngaill

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Post by deviantfero »

mLuby wrote: post #76
deviantfero wrote: post #22

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On the hispanic comment, Spanish is a naturally gendered language, you cannot form a sentence without giving gender to at least the subject, for example "la doctora toma el café por la mañana" would translate to "the (female) doctor drinks (male) coffee by the (female) morning" because English is a mostly gender neutral language you would loose all gender information by literally translating that sentence. Now if we…

Anyone know how the unusual consonant x was chosen to replace a and o rather than another vowel (like e)? To my untrained ear, les neen-yes sounds more in line with los neen-yos and las neen-yes than lecks neen-yecks (if that's how you'd pronounce it).

Because Spanish speaking people did not come up with the concept and people that came up with the concept were maybe not that familiar with spanish pronunciation or weren't concerned about it at all, I've heard that this originated strangely enough in Portugal but was made popular by some people in the US, I might be wrong on that one though.

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Post by mc32 »

deviantfero wrote: post #22
isomorph wrote: post #3

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Please can you explain more? I’m interested

On the hispanic comment, Spanish is a naturally gendered language, you cannot form a sentence without giving gender to at least the subject, for example "la doctora toma el café por la mañana" would translate to "the (female) doctor drinks (male) coffee by the (female) morning" because English is a mostly gender neutral language you would loose all gender information by literally translating that sentence. Now if we…

The term Latinx is a political construct and for the most part irrelevant to most people from Latin America or of Latin American ancestry.

It’s mostly used for political purposes in the US by non Latin American people as well as a few Latin Americans in the political sphere because it’s a useful political tool for the time being.

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