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Why is the Seven Years' War the comfiest war to read about?
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cuz traps ain't gay
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Link between geographical location and phonemes 2017-09-12 05:10:13 Post No.3371512
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Link between geographical location and phonemes
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This might be the most retarded inquiry ever, but is there a link between the geographical location and the development of phonemes in a language?
I mean, did the climate and the environment shape the way human made sounds? For example, nordic languages have less vowels and lots of guttural sounds as if you'd prefer to keep your mouth less open when it's colder, compare to southern countries which have much more vowels to the point of being song-like.
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I don't think it's quantifiable but I honestly believe it has something to do with it.
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>>3371512
>nordic languages have less vowels and lots of guttural sounds
Fucking what? The Germanic languages have the largest vowel inventories in the world
Saged
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>>3371520
>less vowel density
fixed it, my point still stands.
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Are there any unbiased history books on Rhodesia?
Also not sure if this goes on /lit/ or /his/
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whats the difference between morality and ethics?
Morality is subjective while ethics Universal?
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Kant was a manlet.
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>>3371410
Good and evil
Right and wrong
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>>3371410
It's all spooks
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>That one time America coerced French pirates to help them in a battle in a war that ended a month prior
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>>3371081
battle of new Orleans
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>>3371081
He doesn't look much like Yul Brynner.
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>tfw Einstein destroyed interstellar civilization
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Tell me your classmate stories.
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I was that classmate.
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>>3371067
So you had the balls to correct the teacher?
Well done!
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>>3371040
I wrote a paper on the necessities of protecting freespeech for all, even those you disagree with. This prompted the teacher and the obnoxious black chick to call me racist.
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>Emus have won more wars than nazis
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>>3370991
>OP sucks more dicks than his mom
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Redpill: emus are nazi's.
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It was a stalemate
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A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma
What did he mean by this?
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That Russians are byzantine mysterious Asiatics from ulaanbatar given to strange hereditary impulses and desires that only fellow orientals can understand, but which Westernerns might crudely view through the lens of national self-interest.
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This but unironically
If nuclear/atomic weapons did not function, would the United States have gone to war with the Soviet Union after WWII?
Imagine that, in this fantasy world, the Manhattan Project was a colossal failure and that all nuclear / atomic weapons do not work. Without the thread of MAD, would the Cold War have escalated into actual fighting?
Who would have won?
Also, how long would it have taken for the US to beat Japan? Everyone always claims that they only dropped the atom bombs to save millions of American and Japanese lives, but isn't it pretty much agreed upon that the main reason was to show the USSR that the USA is not to be fucked with?
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>If nuclear/atomic weapons did not function, would the United States have gone to war with the Soviet Union after WWII?
Probably not. The fundamental logic of deterrence still works; it is not worth the time, energy, and trouble to defeat the USSR, and the USSR does not have the material capabilities to defeat the U.S. It raises costs, but atomic weapons don't actually do anything else. And a country that was unwilling to shitstomp places like Korea and Vietnam isn't going to have the stomach for an all out total war against the USSR unless their hands are forced in some manner.
>Who would have won?
In a total war? The U.S./NATO. They have far larger economies and manpower pools than the Warsaw Pact.
>Also, how long would it have taken for the US to beat Japan?
Hard to say. Olympic predicated a landing sometime in September and occupation of most of Japan by November, but then again, the plans they had for D-Day were wildly optimistic.
>but isn't it pretty much agreed upon that the main reason was to show the USSR that the USA is not to be fucked with?
No it is not.
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>>3370958
>And a country that was unwilling to shitstomp places like Korea and Vietnam
It was unwilling to do so precisely because of MAD
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>>3371007
MAD had not existed by Korea. You could make an argument applied to Vietnam, but the fear in Korea was escalation of normal, conventional conflict to a point that wasn't worth it for half of a shitty little peninsula.
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What do guys think about diogenes 2017-09-12 02:20:17 Post No.3370853
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What do guys think about diogenes
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Diogenes
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Hard to be think about him as I spend most of my time masturbating I'm public
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>>3370853
literally a savage. His contribution to human history is talking shit about everyone
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I thought you guys said the Ottomans were bad? This guy seems pretty cool.
>Was going to send £10,000 pounds to the Irish during their famine but the British didn't want him donating more than Queen Victoria so he only sent 1,000
>Decriminalized homosexuality
>Allowed non-Muslims to join the Ottoman military
>Abolished a tax plan that imposed higher tariffs on non-Muslims
>Planned to end the slave trade
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>>3370752
Anon, all of those are objectively bad things.
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>>3370767
subjectively*
And the popular opinion would be those are good things, minus homosexuality.
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>>3370752
>I thought you guys said the Ottomans were bad?
That's mostly meming. Tanzimat reforms were good shit. Abdulhamid II ruined any hope of interfaith Ottoman identity though.
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Give me a quick rundown on pre-Muslim North Africa, /his/. Were the people called Libyans by the Egyptians and Numidians by the Greeks one contiguous culture spanning the entire coast, or were they broken down into specific areas of technology/lifestyle? Did Phoenician contact cause their areas of settlement to become isolated from the rest?
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>>3370751
Before the Phoenicians North Africa was a desert inhabited by war like nomadic berbers, the Libu AKA Lybians, along witht he Libyans the Egyptians often named two other Nomadic berber tribes: the Meshwesh and the Kehek
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The Succession War wasn't his fault. Even though he couldn't produce an heir, he designated one in his will. Charlie was a gud boi who dindu nuffin wrong.
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>>3370686
What should he have done? Let other European powers split his empire? He was right, prestige-wise.
Though it would have been nice if he made contingencies to give the Spanish Netherlands to France and Milan to Austria to meddle with the classic alliances but yeah ....
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>>3370686
>he couldn't produce an heir
Give him the right woman and he could've
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Why did they just accept his chosen heir?
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I know this is a bit broad, but where can I read up on deaf and mute people throughout history? Their communities, customs, learning, etc. I already read what is on wikipedia, but it's a little too clinical.
Thanks guys.
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although its more specific than general world history "Disability in the Middle Ages: Reconsiderations and Reverberations" by Eyler brings such things up.
Also why did you choose a picture of Helheim and Hel?
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>>3370998
Thank you, that will help. As for the picture, dunno, just liked it.