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Re:Bosnians who speak medieval Spanish
on Friday October 19, 2018 @08:27AM (#18256200)
If you want to hear how it sounds, Spanish National Radio (RNE) has a podcast in judeoespañol:
Re:Weeding the Worst Library Books
on Thursday April 28, 2016 @11:13AM (#11589449)
The criteria of "usefulness" is a slippery slope. Books like The Iliad are completely devoid of any practical usefulness, they would have been discarded centuries ago by the librarians at Alexandria. I've seen libraries in Spain throw away good novels, even excellent novels, to make room for the latest potboiler.
Re:Why save a language?
on Friday December 19, 2014 @01:46PM (#8773737)
What some people who don't see the need to preserve languages are missing is that each living language is in itself a Noah Ark that preserves lots of dead languages and world views. English preserves latin, greek, yiddish... Consider the word "consider". It comes from latin Considerare (cum + sidera) 'to consult the stars'. Each language that dies is a tragedy that kills many precedent languages. Moreover, current status is no guarantee for the future, even English could one day be at risk. I am a Catalan speaker, a language that once ruled the Mediterranean and now is struggling.
Re:An analysis of the Super Street Fighter IV game balance
on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @03:44PM (#8725588)
If they had devoted all this effort to beating the MLB they'll be rich.
Re:The Surprising Reason We Have a 40-Hour Work Week
on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @05:56AM (#6920471)
This a misleading article. Ford didn't graciously concede the 40 hour week. Moreover, it is an insult to the memory of all the workers that fought and died for it (like in the Haymarket massacre).
Re:List of Countries by Incarceration Rate
on Saturday November 16, 2013 @05:34AM (#6744371)
The US should get rid of its Old Testament vengeance mentality. You cannot lock away social problems.
Re:How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day (1910)
on Monday March 18, 2013 @08:24AM (#5393677)
I translated the Spanish version:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Como-Vivir-Veinticuatro-Horas-melusi...
Re:Mass-scale Cold Fusion either becomes reality or proved a scam today
on Friday October 28, 2011 @02:05PM (#3169350)
There is a (unfounded) rumor that Google is the client behind the test:
http://ecatinfo.com/e-cat/e-cat-info-hints-sat-google-being-...
Re:Harvard Classics Bookshelf
on Thursday June 30, 2011 @05:41AM (#2713266)
Re:Does anyone want to be "well-read?"
on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @06:47AM (#2466060)
Regarding lists, this one by Fadiman&Major is one of the most compact and pertinent I have seen:
Re:Google Rolls Out Two-Factor Authentication For Everyone.
on Friday February 11, 2011 @09:16AM (#2206358)
This is very good for activists.
Re:Is genius simply the product of hard work?
on Friday November 12, 2010 @07:24AM (#1897412)
What about geniuses that didn't enjoy a supportive environment? Dali's father has an accountant radically opposed to his painting career. They broke relations. At 26 he had surpassed all his teachers in the most prestigious classical art academy and refused to be evaluated by them, consequently he was expelled and got into surrealism.
Re:Is genius simply the product of hard work?
on Friday November 12, 2010 @07:19AM (#1897404)
Faulkner wrote As I Lay Dying in 6 weeks. That's genius.
Re:Wikileaks dumps 400,000 more files
on Friday October 22, 2010 @06:23PM (#1821763)
Some answers here are striking coming from users of a site called "Hacker News".
"We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.
Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. "