The term “check mate” literally means “the king is dead”.
We know the word for king from other known forms like “sheikh” or “Shah”. I don’t think the word for “dead” was loaned to English from Persian or Arab in any phrases or sayings except “check mate”.
Yeah, but it’s about killing the king. It’s also about protecting your own king, so not a game of republicanism.
Sweden only giving 20%
What do you mean “build”?
That’s just a Wolpertinger in the wild.
Is a police beating stick not also called a baton?
I’ll never understand why Americans do this. It’s so stupid. French people don’t even pronounce the H.
where as before people where like ‘wtf is Kazakhstan?’
Maybe US Americans
Made my brain autofill the rest of the image with the cow standing on two legs and having human arms.
It wasn’t meant as a police investigation, I just wanted to tell you how good it was if it were yours.
Is this your oc? I would totally wear a t-shirt like that
Deer can’t see orange, so one colour fits all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Those Belgian researchers must be some foxes to develop such a theory!
This leads to another problem. Everyone will make policy to suck up to industry in order to secure a job after their term limits.
It’s already a problem of politicians swapping in and out of politics and into industry. Today they “represent the people against car manufacturers”, tomorrow they are a car industry lobbyist.
Yeah, but I tried to stick to the presently used alphabet.
To fully heal English, a bigger operation is in order.
And thru and tuff are sometimes used in American English, but mostly on signage and branding
That means, they are sensible ways to spell those words, doesn’t it? Like “open alnite”.
German natively, English, French and Spanish.
Norse is old Norwegian/Danish kinda.
Norman is old French.
The Normans were northmen (aka Scandinavians) that were allowed to settle in the Normandy (north west France). (They were the ruling class, the inhabitants from before continued to live there).They then adopted the French language.
Out of the languages I know, non have the nonsensical letter-sound pairings that English has. French has some combinations you wouldn’t expect (like eaux= o) but they are consistent in every word they appear. Irish also has some wild letter combinations, but I know to little about that to know, if it’s as confusing as English.
To illustrate, I would say you could write the words above a lot easier and understandably:
Taut, thou, thaut, thru, thruout, thorou, tuff
Grammatically, English is pretty easy. But the pronunciation is so inconsistent, that it is necessary to hold spelling bees in school. My language doesn’t need spelling bees for example.
What’s the programming language that allows emojis as variable names?
Looked it up a little: it’s all languages that support extended characters and not only ASCII. But it looks pretty unreadable.
Wow, that’s actually quite interesting 🤔 Thanks