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Journalists don't write their own heds. It would have been an editor who wrote it. Your point stands otherwise.

That's a distinction without a difference.

Not at all. The majority opinion in Dodd clearly states that the issue should be decided at the state level, so even if a case somehow did make it to the SC, they would almost certainly decline to hear it since the matter, as far as they're concerned, is already settled. In that event the last ruling stands and cannot be further appealed.

Well all that shows is that you don't have to be conservative to be scared of cities.

Boulder is not a small town. But even if it were, it's a college town which, surprise surprise, always changes the small town dynamic.

Fair play. That said, you get used to it.

We're not asking. We're taking the Gadsden Flag back whether they or anyone else likes it or not. It's our flag, not theirs.

We're taking the Gadsden Flag back. It was never theirs to begin with. US Soccer has been using it for decades, for example.

We're taking the Gadsden Flag back! The right doesn't own it. It belongs to the people and we're taking it back!

100 percent agree. The world is disappointingly full of morons and idiots.

There's a Bertrand Russell quote to the effect that "the trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and arrogant, while the intelligent are full of doubt."

No doubt I've botched the actual quote, but the point remains regardless.

Agreed. That said, what you're ultimately talking about is culture, of which language is only one among many aspects that impart meaning.

It's not as bad as people think. There are large numbers of black and Latino construction workers who aren't on board with Republican politics at all. My union is nearly a third Latino and they tend to be some of the most involved in organizing and activism. Also worth saying that less than half of the white guys are conservatives.

Well this got disappointingly stupid in no time at all. What I see here is something roughly like the same proportion of idiots as one would typically expect on Reddit.

Yes but typically they come with a ton of sodium, as do olives. Won't anyone think of the sodium? Blood pressure be damned!

All languages are like that. If you don't do something one way, you have to do it another. Basically if you sacrifice complexity in grammar, you have to make up for it in other ways through things like case, word-order, tone and register, etc. It's a popular myth that languages can be more or less complex than one another.

It's all of the above and then some. A good read on the subject is John McWhorter's "Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue." It's intended for a non-technical/popular audience and doesn't get too deep into the weeds so you don't need a degree in linguistics to follow it.

I have the same rule for Gaelic.

If by "every other language" you mean "a handful of Indo-European languages, then sure.

Virtually all known languages do this, only some do it through the use of grammar.

This thread is full of bad linguistics.

This is bullshit. Anyone who knows anything about linguistics can tell you that languages aren't objectively easier or more difficult to learn. What makes a language easy is its similarity to a learner's native language, or other languages they've already learned. Furthermore, there's a myth that certain things or ideas can be said or expressed in some languages but not in others, and this too is objectively untrue. All languages do the same thing, they just do it differently. If one language doesn't have a word for something, that doesn't mean it can't express the concept, just that it has to do so through other means, typically in a sentence or phrase.