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10 days agoI’ve done a little bit of language studying and one thing I heard about repeatedly is that people tend to mistakenly believe in their own exceptionalism.
Like, their own native language has idioms, and they just assumed that other languages didn’t have idioms.
But we are all humans and languages are all going to exist in support of human communication. Therefore, you should assume that all languages have all major features of expression, including idioms and sarcasm.
Similarly, cultures are made from humans and to facilitate human interaction, so you should expect that things like sarcasm will exist in every culture.
I think there are some historical governments where individual people earned the right to vote. One thing that is appealing about that is the people who worked to earn their vote would appreciate its significance.
But I don’t agree with that style. I think everyone should be forced to participate. It’s called compulsory voting. And that we simply need higher standards for education. These people are dumb as shit because our education system failed them.