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My Dictionary-Making History

Foundation Operation X for Languages, Cultures and Perspectives

Written by Dyami Millarson

It must have been in 2009 when I made a glossary of Dutch in Excel – I was between 14 and 15 years old back then. I included countless words in this glossary and I indicated to which part of speech each word belongs. This trained me in the recognition of parts of speech; after analysing thousands of words, recognising parts of speech became second nature to me. In other words, my practice with Dutch made the skill of recognising parts of speech intuitive for me, and that is always the level of mastery I wish to reach whenever I learn a new skill. 2009 was really the time when I was familiarising myself with grammar; parts of speech were not my only interest, as I was also interested in morphology, such as all the grammatical cases that exist in human languages. Prior to 2009, I…

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They {Don’t} Want Your Vote

Filosofa's Word

Every citizen of the United States age 18 or older should be able to vote.  Voting is truly the only official voice we have in who runs our government and how they run it.  Sure, we can write letters, we can protest, we can make phone calls … but at the end of the day, it is our VOTE that counts, that decides what our nation will be or become.  Each and every one of us has … or should have … that right.  In some countries, nobody has that right, so we should protect and safeguard our right as enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.  Voting IS a right here in the U.S., but it is also a responsibility.

Even prior to the 2020 election, certain states had very restrictive voting laws, and after the utterly false claims of widescale voting fraud and other lies following the 2020 election, nearly…

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Buddhistische Mönche in Asien — Senioren um die Welt

In westlichen Ländern sieht man buddhistische Mönche in ihren auffallenden gelben bis rötlichen Mönchsgewänder nur selten, in vielen Gegenden Asiens gehören sie dagegen zum Alltagsbild. Das Leben der buddhistischen Mönche wird von den strengen buddhistischen Regeln, wie Bedürfnislosigkeit und Genügsamkeit bestimmt, die die Basis für ihre spirituelle Entwicklung sind. Buddhistische Mönche im Kloster Labrang, China […]

Buddhistische Mönche in Asien — Senioren um die Welt