That this wasn't first is a travesty, a failure of this board to do its duty…

…. ?

Here's the deal. I agree with everything you are saying, but… if you had read Abercrombie I think you would get what ikma is saying.

The reason I mention him is because he makes writing in English that is a translation of something largely untranslatable a major component of a lot of his works.

I wasn't certain if that would be needlessly digressive, but you're taking into an actual digression is perfection.

To some degree they have no choice but to do good work - the burdens impressed upon them by the size of their system make fucking things up too costly, and they don't get to spread things around as much as the federal system.

"Have you," he asked leaning in a bit close but avoiding eye contact, "read anything by Gene Wolfe?"

A Conlanger did work with the original movie. He did like the challenge, ended up using a lot of Ethiopian in addition to Coptic.

I imagine that those girls pretty much have their filial anger allotment filled by the time the name issue comes up.

That last one a little TL, DR?

Well apart form the issue of history = fact, I find the assertion that fiction is superficial compared to fact to be specious at best.

America: Is it good? We'll make it convenient.

I thought the latest evidence was the burritos originated in California. Certainly, I've known plenty of Mexicans from the south and central Mexico who were utterly mystified by them.

Man, that's a lot of down market RPGs to play for the sake of a lifestyle.

It depends a lot on the system. I know that traditionally* the Texas' system's psychiatric units, for instance, had a LOT of rehabilitative programs, they could do amazing work with art and music therapy that in less controlled situations with more borderline patients would have been impossible.

So your take is that all fiction must perforce be superficial compared to all history? And that learning can't take place in the context of fiction?

That's how I know any of this!

In TNG they were supposed to be Yankee Traders and they had the exact same name as Frankish crusaders so I would guess that prior to the writer's strike they were meant to be a critique of imperialist enterprises and then later became a critique of, I don't know, the morality of being a shop clerk?

It's widely cited as one of the most devastating national collapses in contemporary history, 90% is on the high end but it's not like there weren't communities that have had equivalent die offs in periods prior.

Yes, because Game of Thrones is definitely the driving force behind wide spread historical illiteracy.