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fun fact: the reason that the plural of goose is geese but the plural of moose is not meese is because goose derives from an ancient germanic word undergoing strong declension, in the pattern of foot/feet and tooth/teeth, wherein oo is mutated to ee. however ‘moose’ is a native american word added to the english lexicon only ~400 years ago, and lacks the etymological reason to be pluralized in that way.
EUROPEANS TAUGHT FOR CENTURIES that Africa had no written history, literature or philosophy (claiming Egypt was other than African). When roughly 1 MILLION manuscripts were found in Timbuktu/Mali covering , according to Reuters “all the fields of human knowledge: law, the sciences, medicine,” IT DID NOT MAKE MAINSTREAM NEWS as did the lies taught by Europeans concerning Africa
Important moment in written history.
Dustin’s dream is to go to South Africa and prove the anthropological significance that came out of Africa, because right now there is only one Anthropologist in fucking SA and there are HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL SITES IN AFRICA that upon excavation would prove that all of the history books we study now are WRONG AS FUCK.
-Liv
Stone Age Jottings
via Robert Mc
Morphic field?
(if you don't get that you clearly don't watch enough Torchwood)
“English, with a high information density of .91, is spoken at an average rate of 6.19 syllables per second. Mandarin, which topped the density list at .94, was the spoken slowpoke at 5.18 syllables per second. Spanish, with a low-density .63, rips along at a syllable-per-second velocity of 7.82. The true speed demon of the group, however, was Japanese, which edges past Spanish at 7.84, thanks to its low density of .49.”
Slow Down! Why Some Languages Sound So Fast
