wageslave99
[1] https://www.asale.org/academias/academia-argentina-de-letras
About your "neologisms", no they are calcos or loan translations [3], they are not neologisms. They would be neologisms if they were new words, not copy of words from other languages.
In the cities, people do not stop working midday to nap. Now if you are talking about rural towns, that is another thing.
I doubt you are even from Europe (non-Russian).
Nobody takes siestas in Spain but the elderly, children and people without A/C in hot zones in summer, and I suppose in some rural towns as well.
That would have been my dream.
> Why or why not?
Mathematics is the foundation of science, so that would have been helpful for my (then) future studies.
> What would such a system have to look like?
Not teaching algorithms to resolve problems, teaching from the source of the mathematical principles, I mean the practical issues that caused scientist to develop Math. I suppose that the Russian School of Mathematics[1] teaches Math that way, like in some Soviet books that were mainly practical.
Also, it is needed to have 5 hours per week of Math, to not have a fast pace when teaching kids. Math needs some time to "assimilate", and IMHO, 3 hours/week was not enough.
In this system, once you get out high school you could pursue the proofs of each theorem or a more inner and rigorous approach to learning Math.
Sorry I only found information about this in Spanish.
[1] https://www.elmundo.es/economia/2023/11/18/6558baa1e4d4d8792...
[2] https://www.elmundo.es/economia/dinero-inversion/2023/11/19/...
In Spain, where we have two surnames (first one from father and first one from mother in either order), that would make easier for foreigners to understand that our surname is not the last word. e.g. José Luis GARCÍA LÓPEZ means García López is his surname, while José Luis is a composed name (like JFK where John Fitzgerald were his two names).
I think the sweet spot would be machine translation reviewed by an human, i.e. convert your translators to reviewers/editors of machine translation.
However, maybe a standardised pronunciation and the removal of some issues could make Neo-English a good and interesting language.
I don't know anything about Indonesian so, it's nice to know my idea is not a crazy one.
If Chinese and Indonesian do not have tenses, how they communicate when the action happens?
Now I keep my own personal technical blog that I consider a technical diary of the things I learn each month.
Al-Andalus was not a particular tolerant kingdom. Some examples:
- Almanzor campaigns were famous for his cruelty and slavery of civilians [1] - Civil wars among the Taifas were crucial for the Reconquista [2]
I'm afraid I see you are nitpicking facts that match your agenda. Medieval times in the Iberian Peninsula where cruel, nightmarish, and a time where human life had no value. You are also forgetting the fact that Muslims were very fond of sexual slavery[3]
There was no particular difference in social or equalitarian behaviour between Christian and Muslim kingdoms, even sometimes they were allied warring against a third-party![4]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almanzor#Loot_and_slaves
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconquista#Muslim_infighting
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_concubinage_in_the_...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirate_of_Granada#Formation_a...
Of course, most of the Muslims of Iberia were converts. Arabs were the nobles and ruling class, but the workers came from the same population that was already there. Because of the taxes that Muslim rules forced upon the non-Muslims[3] (Mozarabs mostly[4]), most of them convert to Islam. It had already happened in the past when most of Celtiberian converted to Roman religion, most of Romans converted to Christianity, Arianism Visigoths converted to Catholicism, and of course Christians converted to Islam once their rules pushed them to do so.
> Castile also had an edict of tolerance that was revoked when they decided to expel the Moors and took a very extreme approach of convert or leave or die.
Yeah sure, after the Moriscos rebelled. Sadly, rules pushing for a "state religion" was nothing new.
> It’s not equal at all, the Kingdom of Castile which later became Spain committed in what modern day we would term a genocide against Moriscos and Conversos. Some Moriscos fled to mountains or adopted cryptic ways of preserving their traditions and religious practice under the Spanish oppression centuries after the fall of the Emirate of Granada.
Well, as I said, that was common practice during that era. At least, the ruling class gave them the opportunity to convert to other religion (it's something). Moriscos rebelled against the Crowns (Castile and Aragon) and took arms against the Kingdom, what would you think it could happened to them?[5] A contemporary example, what did happen to the Byzantine population when Constantinople fell to Ottomans?[6] Let me tell you, 50k slaved people.
My point here is that you are nitpicking and isolating facts and not seeing the historical context where these events happened:
- There were no human rights at that time.
- Racism and discrimination were commonplace and assumed at the standard way of life.
- What Castile, Aragon, Navarre, Iberian Muslim Taifas or whatever other medieval ruler on what we know today as Spain were brutal and fierce.
- The situation of most of the population was dire (it didn't matter who was the ruler).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1066_Granada_massacre
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrs_of_C%C3%B3rdoba
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizya
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozarabs