alberto_ol

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According to wikipedia "Japan and the Soviet Union ended their formal state of war with the Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956 but did not sign a peace treaty."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Islands_dispute

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Japanese_Joint_...

alberto_ol

2 maanden geledendiscuss

All the submmssions

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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3 maanden geledendiscuss

link?

alberto_ol

7 maanden geledendiscuss

What we talk about when we talk about the unreasonable effectiveness

alberto_ol

7 maanden geledendiscuss

Without context ATM could be Asynchronous Transfer Mode or automated teller machine.

alberto_ol

7 maanden geledendiscuss

I remember that the brother of my grandmother who fought in ww1 called it simply "the war" ("sa gherra" in his dialect/language).

alberto_ol

8 maanden geledendiscuss

English is not my language, is the headline grammatically correct?

alberto_ol

10 maanden geledendiscuss

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

alberto_ol

10 maanden geledendiscuss

According to the quote investigator website, Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote is dubious.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/06/20/books/

alberto_ol

vorig jaardiscuss

And December is the tenth month of the year

alberto_ol

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It's funny, but not true. I apologze for the link in Italian.

https://www.ilpost.it/2025/04/22/avellino-promosso-morte-di-...

alberto_ol

vorig jaardiscuss

The example is the incipit of "The dangerous inheritance" by Izola Forrester

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/75383/pg75383-images.ht...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izola_Forrester

alberto_ol

vorig jaardiscuss

previuos submissions

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

alberto_ol

vorig jaardiscuss

Do you have any source? I did not not find any reference to Genoa in dfferent dictionaries (in English and Italian).

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=lottery

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lottery

https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/lotteria/?search=lotter%...

https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/lotto/?search=l%C3%B2tto...

alberto_ol

vorig jaardiscuss

There is something wrong or that I don't understand. I put "the example", the Italian translatione is "nell'esempio" which is wrong, but in google translate the translation is correct "l'esempio"

alberto_ol

vorig jaardiscuss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finno-Ugric_languages

alberto_ol

vorig jaardiscuss

Non mobile link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKay_conjecture

alberto_ol

2 jaar geledendiscuss

I thought that Thou was informal, froma wikipedia "For a long time, however, thou remained the most common form for addressing an inferior person"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou#History

Also in etymonline "By c. 1450 the use of thou to address inferiors gave it a tinge of insult"

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=Thou

alberto_ol

2 jaar geledendiscuss

I think that the visual proof is not complete. You have to demonstrate also that the quadrilateral in the right figure is a square.

alberto_ol

2 jaar geledendiscuss

In English (but also in other languages like my Italian) orange hair is called red because the color orange arrived too late with the orange fruit.

https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/33117530568/why-dont-we...

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