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Languages are humanities, aren't they? Right, let's have a language thread. Discuss the languages you're currently learning and talk about anything language or linguistics related.
Currently learning German, it's been good so far but the cases are giving me absolute nightmare.
Currently studying French here, the grammar (especially things like relative pronouns) is really fucking me up. Currently have about 4000words in anki and can read things like the stranger np. Recommend me some french lit on a similar level please someone :
>>283536
Applying TDD to OOP languages stops rigorous testing which prevents user oriented development.
Without an eye on the user the end result may be functionally clean but user retarded.
>>283536
Ana kee hamzimen soorit
I speak Syriac-Aramaic
A dying language from a dying race. I can also write in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JnCO0OlhlE
FAQ
Q: How does the Orthodox Church differ from the Catholic Church
A: There are numerous distinctions in dictum, but really the central difference is worldview. The Catholic Church sees things in juridical terms, and contrasts reason and concupiscence. The Orthodox Church does not see sin as a tab that Christ picked up, and doesn't define sin as a lapse in reason, since reason can be used for the purposes of sinning. That doesn't mean we can't worship God with reason, we should worship him with...
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>>280347
Q: Why is the filioque so important?
A: There are a lot of reasons, but I'll start with one of the less mentioned ones: many Orthodox theologians believe humans are three parts: body, soul, and spirit (angels have soul and spirit, animals have body and soul, but only humans have all three). In a way, we are made in God's image thus: the soul in the Image of God the Father, the body in the Image of God the Son (but the Son also had a human soul and spirit), and the Spirit in the image of the Holy Spirit;...
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>>280352
Q: You say icons aren't idols, but I'm unconvinced.
A: Icons are liturgical art. They were a thing before Christianity, even Jews used them. The ancient synagogue at Dura-Europos was covered in them before ISIS destroyed it.
Q: But you PRAY to saints.
A: That's true, but how is asking people in heaven for help or to pray for you anymore heretical than asking them on earth? If we say it is heretical, then it is saying those in Christ do not have everlasting life. We reserve latria,...
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The Way of the Pilgrim, Desert Fathers, the Philokalia, and other Orthodox texts
http://desertfathers.webs
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Can we get a funny historical thread? A historical "you laugh you lose" of sorts? I'm sure everyone would have plenty to contribute.
Pompeii graffiti
http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm
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>>280106
If you can't name at least 5 of the people in this picture you need to leave /his/
Fuck me.
I see Austria's emperor and I forget his name... Queen Victoria. Wilhelm I. Is the gook Meiji? The chink next to him must be the Chinese emperor but I have no idea what his name is either. The guy who looks like Tsar Nicholas probably isn't him but he looks like a Ruskie so he's probably whoever the Russian Tsar was in 1889. Black dude is probably Menelik II or Yohannes IV.
I'm not really up to snuff on my heads of state.
What was the occasion? Who died?
I think I see Pedro II and what seems to be a Rinpoche.
ITT: Praise your favourite wizard.
Jesus is one of my favourites, because he had an venomous intellect of which the poison is but Love.
My favorite wizard nam by polyic
>>311114
who is polyic?
>wizard
As Augustine says, magic is demonic, and miracles flow through Faith. Jesus was not a 'wizard', fedorafriend
Was it genocide?
Is accidental genocide a thing?
>>309982
is the unintentional (some intentional but for war purposes and not genocide) spreading of disease a genocide?
>>309994
>is the unintentional (some intentional but for war purposes and not genocide) spreading of disease a genocide?
That never actually happened in the Americas though.
I don't know much about native American history.
So what were they like before European colonization?
Was native society basically the blue alien cats from Avatar or would that be an exaggeration?
Gross exaggeration, the whole 'noble savage' notion is long ded
It was a tribalist society
Things were organized around villages and clans
However there was the Iroquois Confederacy which was quite advanced in having a democratic confederation
To expand on being tribalists, you had warfare and (in certain societies) slavery
The problem with Native history is it's for the most part oral due to a lack of writing systems
>>309832
>So what were they like before European colonization?
A collection of empires, confederacies, city-states, and stateless tribes and villages.
>Was native society basically the blue alien cats from Avatar
Fuck no. Americans shaped their environment, not "lived at one with it", like any other peoples. They purposefully caused the prairies to grow and altered the forests to be more habitable, same with the Amazon.
If you want a good place to start read 1491 by Charles Mann
They danced the Cahokia Pokia.
>it is the current year
>he STILL isn't polyamorous
what's your excuse, anon?
>Why is it that sexual exploitation and violence against women and children is highest in those cultures (primitive and modern) that are characterized by punishment of pre-marital and extra-marital relationships? And conversely, why is it that those cultures that permit pre-marital and extra-marital sex are peaceful and non-violent cultures?
>Specifically,...
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>>309830
Was the shitstorm the last thread descended into not enough for you? Do you really have to repeat it?
>>309843
There are Stirner threads everyday.
What were the design philosophies of Kreigsmarine battleships?
I'm looking for some good resource for learning more about Kreigsmarine design philosophies, but it's hard to know which books are the most reliable.
>What were the design philosophies of Kreigsmarine battleships?
Pray to God that the RN does not sink your ship.
I dont know much about their ships, other than they look the best, and that their strategy was "Fleet in being" even that Im not sure about
>Take a cruiser
>make it larger
>call it a battleship
>>309436
You want Power at Sea, Volume 2 by Lisle Rose, it goes into a lot of the design philosophy.
As for BB design, well, the Kriegsmarine only made 4, the Scharnhorst, Gnisenau, Bismarck, and Tirpitz. They were all designed to be fast, to outrun RN battleships. Scharnhorst and Gnisenau were designed under treaty limits, and were undergunned for battleships.
Honestly though, they weren't that effective. I realize I'm wanking my own country, but American battleships were vastly superior to anything...
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What is consciousness, /his/?
David Chalmers BTFO'ing materialism:
>No explanation given wholly in physical terms can ever account for the emergence of conscious experience.
>...It will ultimately be given in terms of the structural and dynamical properties of physical processes, and no matter how sophisticated such an account is, it will yield only more structure and dynamics. While this is enough to handle most natural phenomena, the problem of consciousness goes beyond any problem about the explanation...
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A human sees the origin and misinterprets their senses, leading them to believe that the origin is somehow contingent on a single human body.
>be conscious your entire life
>learn some theory that reality is non-conscious
>omg consciousness is such a mystery lolololol
materialism is cuk theory
>>309565
fuck off Berkeley
I'm continental'd the fuck out. What are some of the most fascinating arguments and concepts in analytical philosophy?
Babby's first Empiricism course has the Raven Paradox, which is kind of neat.
>what are some topics I can wiki so I can pretend to understand this titanic tradition
>>308845
I want to be educated with a healthy helping of epic bantz and dank memes, so sue me
What ethnonym should be affixed to the ancient speakers of Coptic who built the Pyramids at Giza and the Sphinx and lived in northeastern Africa, along the Nile?
>>308237
Coptic didn't exist until millenia after the pyramids and the sphinx were built, it's the latest evolution of the ancient Egyptian language.
The people you are referring to would be termed Egyptians, as opposed to Arabs.
>>308248
Were they black?
>>308237
>Coptic
>Implying the Sphinx doesn't predate them
You just got an F in Gypshunology.
Why is Greenberg's autism still tolerated?
>>308198
ITS FUCKING DISGUSTING AND ANNOYING, THE VALIDITY OF NILO-SAHARAN AND MANDE IS PREPOSTEROUS AND WE NEED BETTER LINGUISTS TO RIGHT THE WRONGS.
>>308646
Boy I would never waste my time posting about African language to a bunch of underread, ungrateful and unaware fsggots. I just don't like greenberg or blench in this instance.
What would you think if you had to walk this way?
Pic realated.
>>308179
"This is uneven why didn't I stay home, my legs hurt"
"Where da white wimmin be at? Gib welfare pl0x"
What's so special about it?
Why did Celts mostly disappeared without a trace?
>>308047
Because "Celts" do not exist, they are mostyl a 19th century invention. Each of the individual tribal groups that we now consider to be Celtic thought of themselves as completely distinct, as a result their culture has evaporated in basically all of Europe apart from the Celtic nations.
"English" people today are almost completely identical to the people of Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
>>308197
>What is La Tene culture
>What is Hallstatt culture
>>308468
They didn't self identify as Celt, nor were they a unified culture or race. La Tene was dozens of tribes fighting each other.
