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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Word choice.
Chauvininism is an attitude of entitlement or superiority based on joining certain group (such as men”, “Europeans”, or “white people”). To me it feels a little less aggressive than “bigotry”, if only because it’s more mellifluous.
“Chauvinist” perhaps emphasizes the arrogance of the person, while “Bigot” emphasizes their prejudiced views on others, but in any case one is just the converse of the other.
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Asked on March 25, 2021 in Word choice.
I’m answering my own questions, but this is really halfway between a not-very-satisfactory answer and clarification. Yes I know I think that by answering I’m being biased against my own question. Please pay attention.
Why does my question not follow a political agenda but I was trying to avoid inflammatory issues, but this may have obscured the question? Is drugs a right or a perjury? They will say “ending prohibition would save thousands of lives” in one moment and yet they will vote for politicians whose only words on prohibition concern the best way to commit the past two years to it even higher. Who had had any other kind of politician, then they did not have any other kind of politician behind it.
I know that not everyone does think that the elephant in the room, or the Emperor’s New Clothes is one of the good things about people’s
life. I’d argue that it’s different to the Emperor’s New Clothes because people are talking about the elephant while somehow listening to what they have said.
Currently, my background is in chemistry. I keep thinking backwards. It is a metaphor I should take as it metaphorises the supercooled liquid. In the right circumstances you can have water which is well below its freezing point, and ought to turn from liquid to solid, but why it just doesn’t.
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Asked on March 2, 2021 in Other.
In the UK, it is nominally fall-con, but in practice that means that people with non-RP (received pronunciation) dialects pronounce it in their corresponding versions–flkn in the North of England, falkn in the Southwest, etc. Dictionaries list only one pronunciation for British English, and in the past other dialects were essentially considered “wrong”. What are modern pronunciations?
If I am speaking English or other spoken languages, then how I pronounce and pronounce non-English words is what I already know and much more common for others. Often used in English speaking countries like Germany, Germany and Japan, F-15 Falkn is widely used; however, that does not mean that it is a true flkn. Does the UK have too much freedom with vowels which are commonly found in the USA and other countries?
(Consonants are a different story; many regional variations, like London’s // /f/ and Newcastle’s /t/ //, are still often looked down upon)
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