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Comment: WW2 (Score 1) 589

by Pseudonymus Bosch (#42767183) Attached to: Missile Defense's Real Enemy: Math

My simplistic idea about the West European front of the WW2 is that the Germans had better weapons (rockets, submarines, jet planes, radar,...) but the American kept shipping "liberty ships" or other cheap equipment. Some of them would sink on their own but enough of them managed to attack the Germans that they were overwhelmed.

Comment: You are not invited (Score 2) 559

by Pseudonymus Bosch (#39005971) Attached to: Global Christianity and the Rise of the Cellphone

If God would have wanted that speakers of Potawotomie, Norwegian, Indonesian or Hawaiian Pidgin, He would have used their languages. The message of the Bible is reserved to speakers of Ancient Hebrew, Aramaic and some parts are for Koine Greek speakers.
The rest of you are not invited. Party crashers!

Comment: East Timor (Score 1) 297

by Pseudonymus Bosch (#38975989) Attached to: If You're Fat, Broke, and Smoking, Blame Language

I wonder if a society would actually decide to change their language if there was sufficient evidence that it hinders their cultural development.
When they got independent some years ago, the government of East Timor had to choose which would be their national language. They could choose among Portuguese (the language of the colonial power until 1975, spoken by old literate people), Indonesian (the language of the recent enemy and occupier), English (the language of the Australian big friends) or Tetum (a local language spoken by some but not all the Timorese).

Ask not what's inside your head, but what your head's inside of. -- J.J. Gibson

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