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[grumbler]

I have very strong feelings about teaching Huckleberry Finn using the n-word.  Those feelings change all the time as I hear more people argue about it, but don't get less strong.

[HVC]

An octopus has started the process of domesticating fish. Soon he'll be walking them around and collecting their poop, just like any advanced species

[Josquius]

I'm recently 'enjoying' this young cockney(ish) guy's videos. He's broadly on my wavelength with regards to the problems in the world and he has a good presentation style to appeal to those who need to compute this stuff.

[Syt]

The last time US-Canada relations were at a similarly low point was in 1997.

[Syt]

Not sure if this is even satire anymore. 

[Syt]

Keanu Reeves is turning into a gentle grizzled Reverend, and I'm not hating it.

[Syt]

Is it me or have they tried to give Napoleon his Corsican accent in Civ7?

Esp. when you compare with Lafayette:

[dist]

Don't know about Corsican, but Napy VII definitely has an Italian accent.

(And I can't say I like Lafayette dialogues, his acting sounds forced)

[Syt]

(And I can't say I like Lafayette dialogues, his acting sounds forced)

As someone not fluent in French, I didn't notice. But it is notable with Frederick and his German. (Charlemagne speaks something close to Old Frankish/Germanic, I think, and it also sounds a bit "acted." Likewise, Augustus' Latin may be accurate-ish, but some of it sounds very Italian to this lay-person.)

[dist]

Friedrich's voice reminds of one I have heard in a cartoon my daughter used to watch. Not sure it's a good thing

Likewise, Augustus' Latin may be accurate-ish, but some of it sounds very Italian to this lay-person.)

That's terrible. My mind cannot buy that Augustus would have had such a modern Italian accent. That said, his accent is still eons better than Lafayette's. I have the feeling that a mid 18th century French noble speaking Latin would have had a better pronunciation.

[Josquius]

Was old German really so very brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr soundy?

I do guess they're purposefully going for cartoonish.

[Admiral Yi]

How Germanic is English.

Fun factoids.  No Germanic language has a future tense.  English is the only Germanic language without gender.

His explanation made me wonder why all speakers of languages *with* gender don't vote to abolish it.  It serves zero purpose.