I came across Guugu Yimithirr in Guy Deutscher's "Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages". The language has no left & right, only points of the compass. Think about how native speakers must understand their world.
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I hate seeing typos in my tweets. I really hate it. Sometimes I delete and repost, but on balance that seems rather self indulgent. It is Twitter after all, not a peer reviewed paper.
I've been trying to think of possible explanations for how this happened, but every answer I come up with merely increases my incredulity. This sort of thing does not, happen, and cannot happen in a well run, responsible organisation.
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The Home Office cannot, with any credibility, say that this loss isn't significant. That line of defence would be an implicit admission that they hold large quantities of highly sensitive data unnecessarily.
The family next door has boys, aged 9 & 7. The guy is an engineer. They're building an igloo from all the snow. Clearly the roof is going to be a technical challenge, but this is what real engineers do with their free time.
This is bizarre. Eg, how can you have two governments responsible for transport infrastructure projects in one country? Who is accountable for the whole system? It is, of course, an attack on devolution by a party that can't win elections in Scotland.
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TV historian David Olusoga has thanked former England footballer and schoolmate "tough kid" Paul Gascoigne for stepping in to help when he was subjected to racist abuse as a child trib.al/LQxLcQy