Anonymous on The RAE DebateJanuary 18, 2026
"It’s also fascinating to think about how languages with a rigid word order create a very different imperial structure than…
Clarissa on The Greenland PurchaseJanuary 18, 2026
Yeah. We are drowning in unprofessionalism and lack of seriousness. You can see it on every level. Again, very small…
Clarissa on The RAE DebateJanuary 18, 2026
It's also fascinating to think about how languages with a rigid word order create a very different imperial structure than…
Clarissa on The RAE DebateJanuary 18, 2026
That's exactly what I do now. I use no más or solamente (in academiv writing) to avoid using the solo…
Clarissa on The Greenland PurchaseJanuary 18, 2026
I know of a lot of military activity that nobody in Europe is preventing Russia from doing. It will be…
Bryan on The RAE DebateJanuary 18, 2026
Btw, Cliff, your point about Shakespeare is well taken. Perhaps it is not that English really is all that stable…
cliff arroyo on The Greenland PurchaseJanuary 18, 2026
" I personally wouldn’t discount this from being true" Neither would I.
Bryan on The RAE DebateJanuary 18, 2026
Bryan again writing as Anonymous... sorry, I'm having some technical issues identifying myself.
cliff arroyo on The RAE DebateJanuary 18, 2026
" eliminating the distinction between sólo and solo" I had forgotten about that one... though (under the influence of Latin Americans…
Anonymous on The RAE DebateJanuary 18, 2026
Fascinating! The hypothesis of weak inflection makes a lot of sense to me. I don't know Mandarin Chinese, but I…
v07 on The Greenland PurchaseJanuary 18, 2026
As far as Greenland goes, the plan is literally to leave everything as is. The US already has access to…
Clarissa on The Greenland PurchaseJanuary 18, 2026
If NATO had never been formed or had been disbanded in 1998, do you think Russia would have invaded Ukraine…
Clarissa on The RAE DebateJanuary 18, 2026
It's true that Shakespeare is a lot harder to read for a regular native speaker of English than Cervantes is…
Clarissa on The RAE DebateJanuary 18, 2026
This is an excellent question, and I believe it has to do with English being a very weakly infected language.…
v07 on The Greenland PurchaseJanuary 18, 2026
We are talking about somewhat different things. Of course both Putin's army and some fraction of the local Russians will…
cliff arroyo on The RAE DebateJanuary 18, 2026
"It is rather remarkable to me to think that I can read Shakespeare" Nice for you.... I remember in school…
Bryan on The RAE DebateJanuary 18, 2026
Sorry, the "Anonymous" there was the same Bryan from the previous question.
Anonymous on The RAE DebateJanuary 18, 2026
As I think about my own question, perhaps it is because modern English always has been a pidgin ever since…
Bryan on The RAE DebateJanuary 18, 2026
Prof. Clarissa, I know this wasn't exactly the point you were making, but this fascinates me from a linguistic point…
Clarissa on The Greenland PurchaseJanuary 18, 2026
Think back to the Cuban missile crisis. Did anything happen recently to make us think that people whose civilizational goal…
Clarissa on Alien to MeJanuary 18, 2026
This isn't just rich people being rich people. I told last year how our entire freshman class was forced to…
Clarissa on The Greenland PurchaseJanuary 18, 2026
Ukraine's official position is that it isn't true and is a Russian disinformation campaign: https://x.com/i/status/2012899212304748816 Although, to be honest, what…
Anonymous on The Greenland PurchaseJanuary 18, 2026
Are Greenlanders interchangeable with Americans now? Does the U.S. have the knowledge to not create an even bigger resentment from…
Anonymous on The Greenland PurchaseJanuary 18, 2026
Are Greenlanders interchangeable with Americans now? Does the U.S. have the knowledge to not create an even bigger resentment from…
cliff arroyo on The Greenland PurchaseJanuary 18, 2026
Not completely OT: Do you have any info on this? https://x.com/PawlowskiMario/status/2012837147108118733
Clarissa on Alien to MeJanuary 18, 2026
It does not get more neoliberal than this. And the craziest thing is that the guy doesn't even realize it.…
Clarissa on The Greenland PurchaseJanuary 18, 2026
Yes, it's totally about the NATO. That's what they are fighting for. https://x.com/i/status/2012586698299888002 I could post thousands of hours of…
Clarissa on The Greenland PurchaseJanuary 18, 2026
Completely inevitable, yes. And it will still follow the same path of people denying that it's happening and once it's…
Clarissa on The Greenland PurchaseJanuary 18, 2026
These movements have achieved so much until now. If only it weren't for Trump who hobbled them, imagine the additional…
Clarissa on Leave Them AloneJanuary 18, 2026
The idea that any uprising against a regime anywhere in the world is paid for by the US is of…

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