Oh right, I’m on board with that. Using ancient history for modern land claims is ridiculous.

The conquest of Canaan narrative is fictional propaganda, not a historical account of what actually happened.

Palestine was literally the name of a Roman province.

Esit: Okay I actually read the article and it does make some sense, given that it was talking about the time before then.

Insert the turning the calendar to 1984 meme, but unironically

I second this. Erika’s great!

Scotland has entered the chat

Yep, the Shire specifically

I’m not from the US

A lot of us, apparently

100% is best

I eat 100% these days and it’s so good. The smell alone is amazing. When there’s nothing masking the taste of the cocoa, you can really appreciate the differences between different types too. Also, I tried some 99% recently and it’s shocking what a difference 1% can make, it’s completely different experience.

The PS is an incredibly ignorant and unnuanced take. I’m not a Christian or a Muslim, but you’re projecting an image that you have of religion most likely based on conservative and institutional Christianity and Islam. There’s so much diversity within these groups that dismissing everyone who associates with Christianity or Islam as idiots is ridiculous. While many of them are backwards, science-denying, homophobic, transphobic, racist, nationalist bigots who absolutely deserve all the criticism, and there are churches which induce trauma and hurt on vulnerable people, there are also plenty of people for whom religion is not about belief in supernatural beings or the authority of a book written around two thousand years ago.

For many people, it’s all about being part of a community, and religion is an effective way of bringing people together across social boundaries. They enjoy the music, the rituals, the eating together and the charitable events, and they find the myths and stories of the religion to be more of a convenient excuse for all of that without needing to believe that a god really exists or that their book should be taken as some kind of moral authority. This is especially true for people born into the tradition without any choice about their religious affiliation until they were independent from their family. Now, if you were arguing that the world would be better off without Christianity or Islam, that would be a much more understandable position, but I think calling anyone who identifies as a Christian or Muslim an idiot is just plain ignorant.

Fourth Crusade

Is the n in Germanic words for ten not just a reflex of m in PIE *dekm̥t?

We started pronouncing it Febuary instead of February to match January. From Wiktionary:
The pronunciation of the first r as /j/ has come about by dissimilation and analogy with January. In the UK pronunciation /ˈfɛb.ɹi/ (*Febry) the sequence /ɹə.ɹi/ in /ˈfɛb.ɹə.ɹi/ (*Febrery) is simplified to /ɹi/ by haplology.

Also, we should bring back the Old English solmōnaþ (“mud month”).

No worries! Sorry if I came across as overly abrasive about someþing þat doesn’t really matter, I just really dislike misguided prescriptivism

Stop talking about the “correct” usage. This is an idea based on how it’s used in one particular context. Eth and thorn were used interchangeably by English scribes for centuries, so there’s nothing wrong with using thorn exclusively.

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Its only natural, 'spelling mi’stake’s ba’sed on a mi’sunder’standing of 'spelling convention’s have been happening for thou’sand’s of year’s

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