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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.

[Duque de Bragança]

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.

Actually, that's pretty good as far as classic restituted pronunciation goes. Classic Latin is perfectly known. Hence its choice for Barbarians, the Classic Latin show for Netflix (!) or that Arte TV documentary series, le Destin de Rome, with dialogue in Latin and Ancient Greek.

It's more a problem for Ancient Greek, with the Erasmian – again – pronunciation being the somewhat discussed standard for Koinê.

The italian pronunciation is what you get in the Catholic church for their Latin offices ; that's what most would likely use an 18th century French aristocrat, so hardly a reference.

[Duque de Bragança]

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

Esp. when you compare with Lafayette:

It's a fail for the so-called Corsican accent. Not that the imitation of Italian accent is very good.

[Admiral Yi]

I just binged four of this dudes videos and I think he is amazing.  This one is on critical race theory.

He does not praise CRT or criticize it.  He explains it.  He describes it. He educates.  i now feel qualified to have an informed opinion on CRT. 

He also has an excellent vid on Orwell which I dare any proponent of in group myth building to watch.  Facts liberate, myths enslave.

The other two were a vid on why identity politics are so intense in the US, and how fascist was Nazism.  The second one was a bit of a dud IMO.