It’s like my grandfather used to say, “if you have to find out hip hop is dead via Gawker longform pieces on Nicki Minaj, wherein the writer spends paragraphs detailing line by line how so-called “beefs” coalesce, hip hop was murdered”.

20 years after the league was formed and the sport codified, but hundreds of years after the game was created. Brazil took the blueprint of association football, official patronage, and supporters’ clubs (unofficial patronage, so to speak) directly from Europe.

Did not know that

I’m Palmeirense and I know that the team was started to imitate Italian athletic clubs. Obviously I don’t disagree with you, I said they were one of the biggest clubs in Brazilian (and Latin American) history.

This is a decidedly dumb chant for a dumb and useless team, but 125 years ago, Brazilians were imitating English football culture shamelessly. The game was brought over by an English immigrant, Corinthians is named after a now defunct club in the UK, and Cruzeiro and Palmeiras were started as Italian club photocopies.…

Lifelong Wizards fans like me just want one thing: a glorious 7-game Conference Semifinals loss that slips away in the waning seconds of game 7.

It’s science fiction, nothing has to be proven. It’s a literally unbelievable and impossible story based on ideas of the human experience. If you happen to be bilingual and have spent time learning, instructing, or interpreting a foreign language then this particular idea is borderline possible, but mostly just…

Try explaining the use of Present Perfect in English to a native Thai speaker who doesn’t use past or present tense at all in their language. Or the difference between “foi” and “era” in Portuguese to a non-native speaker. Obviously the gap is much smaller in Earthly languages, but the span and funnel of time…

Different languages do see time differently, though. The differences in time perception between Earthly languages are striking.

“The notice was drafted by an employee, who was immediately terminated for her actions”