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Yes, the German words "Magenschleimhautentzündung" and "Nasennebenhöhlenentzündung" might be a bit longer and more complicated than "gastritis" and "sinusitis", but at least i know immediately what the hell they mean

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Source

... and another one

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Every language spoked in India

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Auguste Rodin (1840 -1917) - Étude de mains ou Mains d'amants, 1904 

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First-person shooter where the basic difficulty levels are named with conventional masculine bravado, but as the difficulty ascends the names become increasingly homoerotic.

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this is like that scene in arrival only way funnier bcause la'an says "do something," not "what do you think?" or anything remotely helpful like that. she says "do something" like uhura just has to tug on her earlobe three times and click her tongue and bam new language downloaded. uhura, so burdened, probably just has to deal with this all the time--listening to people act like language is a magic-code or even just a non-magic, boring code. and to learn a new one you just gotta crack it. hack it. enigma-machine it. mystery-machine it. un-mask the man in a mask with big brain brute-force power. instead of what linguists actually do which is spend a lot of time Caring Deeply about the half-semantic cultural root of half a phoneme. and what this micro-sound has to do with neurological matter. and also voting patterns. and tongues.

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"im having creation ideas beyond my skill level" DO IT ANYWAY. "i don't have good supplies" DO IT WITH BAD SUPPLIES THEN. "i don't have free time" SO DO IT SLOWLY.

FIND THE SHORTEST MOST DIRECT ROUTE TO YOUR CREATION BEING REALIZED AND DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET THERE

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a jstor article is like a beautiful wild horse and a control+f search is like using a sugar cube and a calming voice to tame it

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Excerpt from Kató Lomb’s “Polyglot: How I Learn Languages”

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don't MAKE me turn this hero's journey around!

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Here's a second poll with all your suggestions so far from the first poll

(again, yes, these are all real words that we actually use)

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(these are all real words btw)