Still, if we wanted to be unkind, we could say that what’s really going on here is that advocates of CLS are mostly well-paid professors at prestigious law schools, and the core theoretical insight of CLS allows you to pretend that being a well-paid professor at a prestigious law school...
Still, if we wanted to be unkind, we could say that what’s really going on here is that advocates of CLS are mostly well-paid professors at prestigious law schools, and the core theoretical insight of CLS allows you to pretend that being a well-paid professor at a prestigious law school...
Latin was spoken by the ancient Romans. So, if it has a connection with Latin, it is said to beRoman-tic. Today, multiple languages are the direct descendants of Latin, which is why they are called Romantic languages: Italian, French, Spanish, Romanian, and many others. Because these lan...
This wording in bold is, of course, there to reinforce the gender activists’ wrongheaded claim that sex a “spectrum” and not binary. And they claim this becausegender(social sex roles) are more of a spectrum—though still bimodal. It’s the reverse naturalistic fallacy: what you want to...
The essay “The Return of the Middle Ages” (1976) is an example of what in Latin is called “magnum in parvo” – immense richness of content in a small work. In this essayUmberto Ecopresents a sketch of the concept of the new Middle Ages, outlining or sometimes only pointing to the...
The Shanghai stock market was up 4.5% in very nervous trading today but down 16.3% since its recent peak at 3478 on August 4, and still trading at more than 30 times earnings. All this turmoil is triggering all sorts of worried comments about the sustain
6. Formal Chinese is even more concise and dense It’s worth pointing out that while it’s true that spoken Mandarin has shorter words than English on average, this is even more true when it comes to written Chinese. The most extreme case of this isClassical Chinese, which is largely mon...
On Aug. 18, a reporter forPuckclaimed that Bieber and Braun haven't spoken in months, and that Bieber is planning to leave Braun behind as his manager after more than 15 years of working together. However, representatives for both toldBillboardthat the "rumors" were untrue. ...
No, there are many different reasons, and not one standard or universally accepted argument. Mike addresses one of those reasons, which is that it is alingua francaaccessible to different language speakers. Just like Latin. Latin never was a "holy language". Entirely pragmatic, and nothing to...
” No child asks to be a badge of its parents’ sexuality. Each baby deserves to be the result of a loving commitment to raising a human being. But since it’s unlikely that sex will be limited to those times when adults want to create or increase a family, contraception is the ...