Flying New York to London via Russia-adjacent Artic?

They identified nouns and adjectives in prairie dog communication, that also seems to vary with regional dialects. I’ll try to remember to dig up a source when I’m not out and about later.

Edit: here’s a not fully scientific link, but has names and links for people who want to go deeper in the science while being a decent lay person’s overview.

Yes, the blog name isn’t very scientific looking (I have not read anything else on it). https://thehumanevolutionblog.com/2015/08/18/a-career-studying-the-sophisticated-vocabulary-of-prairie-dogs/

And here’s a peer reviewed study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347205801174

Addresses is the main one.

But also when talking about objects and categories, e.g. “the oak is a type of tree”, not “trees have a type which is oak”.

Guess ya’ll just have to adapt to a better system.

Give up on imperial while you’re at it too, you’ll be happier in the long run.

Also the date format used organically in East Asia because of the cultural habit of writing big to small.

English tends small to big, so I don’t know where yanks got their date format from.

It’s also a sample size of 15 all “King’s of Judah” which is already urbanised.

But it’s good to see some decent data. It’s a nice irregular line from there on, and women do gain a lot more improvement than men.

I wish I had access to scholarly journals still to do my own research, but I don’t so I’ll defer to your stuff for now. Thanks.

Me too. We have plenty of bones of people who lived into old age with signs of disability or having been crippled.

But the overall stats not only do I not know, but since we only have a relatively minor number of data points it’s hard to really say any of us will ever know.

What we have does tend to point to being better than a medieval city iirc, and I think the general consensus amongst anthropologists is that the transition to agriculture saw a decrease in life expectancy.

That too.

Even the humble napped flint.

Pretty sure that “dead by 50 thing” includes all the infant mortality.

I bet he’s also using the stats from peak mortality of European late middle ages with urbanisation but no good sewers.

Another good one is differentiating listener inclusive and exclusive "we"s.

Delightfully failing to be either but with a huge sense of superiority and disdain for the youth and migrants.

My favourite part of Scrabble rules as written is that if another player challenges the existence of a played word the player who is wrong skips their turn, be they challengee or challenger.

Different languages have unique world views and understandings.

To have a single language is to eradicate a plethora of cultures… Nothing perfect about that.

Phtooie waawaa ngizzk nizik wagag was plerb. 😮‍💨

The spelling differences are actually mostly due to Noah Webster standardising what he saw as pure Anglo-Saxon English without corruption by French princelings.

No, OP isn’t arguing that.

OP is arguing that there are many ways of communicating in a language, including slang and various registers and dialects, and just because you and I don’t understand all of them that’s OK. They’re still valid communication and not the same as stunted linguistic or communicative ability as the ability to communicate between people familiar with the slang or dialect is not stunted at all.

Especially Philosophy 101

It’s a “hobby” of mine to guess if there’s some awareness or observation day from the M:tG:A daily deals choices, and I’m proud to say I guessed snake day!

That thing is a killing machine!