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Is that grammatical gender or declension?

Henry IV was the first English king to speak english natively since before the conquest. Mel Gibson's Braveheart is particularly ridiculous because everyone would have been speaking various amounts of Norman French to each other in reality. Wallace, the Bruce, Edward I and II, the various other nobles.

The romans called the area Germania after the germani that lived there. Germani is believed to be a celtic word though. So it's possible that the original Germani were actual celtic speakers. Which is another branch of old indo-european.

Last I heard was that the German tribe the language group was named after weren't even germanic soeakers. Like the fact that the Franks were a germanic speaking tribe who abandoned their language for the local dialect of latin which become French.

Why would prices go down? That's what no one wants to tell people. We have have 30 years of low inflation. Nothing becomes cheaper in a fiat money system.

Work on your social skills. Practice your banter. Strategic interjections in meetings that temporarily defuse tension. Have interesting hobbies that you can talk about with other employees.

Historically it's not uncommon. An easy example is Nguyen. The British isles are another great example, of nobility and upward movers, adapting the most advantageous surname, hence all those long lived Norman names. Also, all the the angle-saxon strivers that adapted Norman names after the conquest.

Not sure what you mean here, but you know, you can change your last name if you want to. It's not uncommon to change your surname to a prestige name if you want.

That's unfortunate.

There were internal state security reasons for that.

I have a 1-2 second rule. I pick up I say hello, if someone doesn't respond in 1-2 seconds, I hang up.

They have the scammers working off phone queues, it takes a little bit of time to get the call to the scammer, who has to start off with a script, so there's a delay.

Remember, the scammer, also likely not a native english speaker, also probably bored out of their mind, has to spin up, they have to read the name, understand how to say it and then say it out loud. Their is a mental startup time that a normal conversation doesn't have.

If someone calls you and isn't ready to immediately respond to "hello" it's a scammer.

There's a signaled crossing right at the intersection?

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.2348779,-81.2052672,3a,75y,2...

Newburyport was the main one. Many of the Clippers came from there. You could float lumber down the Merrimack after a canal was built at Lowell to bypass the falls there.

Stone walls were built because of deforestation caused by clearcutting land to make sheep pastures, made wood for fences unavailable.

Hmm I had always thought that the deforestation was caused by demand for wood for heating and cooking.

Something about this sounds incomplete. A farmer isn't going to waste his time making a wall, especially the dodgy disorganized walls that are common in the region. A farmer doesn't need a shallow wall, stone or wood. The walls you come across in new england in the forest look exactly like people expect, a place on the edge of your farm to dump rocks. Now, maybe not frost grown, but New England has lots of rocks everywhere.

Hard to square the fall with lead poisoning when the leadership after the 3rd century hardly even bothered to go to Rome at all.

It's too easy to point at the Claudians as the beginning of the fall. In a way, the "Real" Roman empire began to fail once Augustus took over.

Politics and money.

CLARK There's no problem. I was just hoping you could give me some insight into the evolution of the market economy in the early colonies. My contention is that prior to the Revolutionary War the economic modalities especially of the southern colonies could most aptly be characterized as agrarian pre- capitalist and...

WILL Of course that's your contention. You're a first year grad student. You just finished some Marxian historian, Pete Garrison prob'ly, and so naturally that's what you believe until next month when you get to James Lemon and get convinced that Virginia and Pennsylvania were strongly entrepreneurial and capitalist back in 1740. That'll last until sometime in your second year, then you'll be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood about the Pre-revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization.

CLARK Well, as a matter of fact, I won't, because Wood drastically underestimates the impact of--

WILL --"Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth..." You got that from "Work in Essex County," Page 421, right? Do you have any thoughts of your own on the subject or were you just gonna plagerize the whole book for me?

It's so recent that Good Will Hunting used it back in 1997.

They said ~40 million. And that seems crazy high for a theme restaurant. I think they just don't know how to manage money.

Apparently they needed to refinance a 600 million loan from 2021.

"The loan would be made through Carlyle’s credit arm and would refinance an existing $600 million debt facility provided by HPS Investment Partners in 2021, according to the report."

What the hell have they been spending it on?

"One possible factor in the negotiations: an $800 million loan that Park County took in 2023 from private equity firm the Carlyle Group. Parker and Stone could be squeezed for cash to repay roughly $80 million in interest per year, according to one person knowledgeable of the arrangement, who noted that Paramount may be open to paying more than $150 million annually in a new deal but not for 10 years."

That's quite the loan.

How can they be so expensive? Unless you mean in relation to ad revenue.

It's one host, maybe a band, they don't pay the guests cause their there to pitch their show/music/book/film. Maybe all the extra staff they need to write jokes and whatnot. Maybe all the drug advertisements really don't pay all that much anymore.

Maybe it was used in some sort of ritual

The eggs need some chickens first.

I suppose the reason that city schools are dangerous for children is mostly because of the children in those schools. That's not a vox appropriate conversation.

Enforced when corrupt politicos wanted to squeeze medallion owners.

I can't recall the app but it was a similar toggle with a label, when you flipped the toggle the label lit up green indicating it was turned on. But the default state was off but how would you know?

"It gives a "remarkable insight" into human behaviour, she said, particularly how Homo sapiens living as long as 42,000 years ago could shape "such a perfect object" with the knowledge it could be used to hunt animals."

It's a heavy object that you throw, shaped better to fit your hand as opposed to a rock. It's not that complicated.

Also, most boomerangs (throwing sticks) aren't made to return to the thrower cause that would be a bad thing.

Douglas MacArthur though.

Divorced from a religious context, it doesn't make any difference.