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  • So you wanna introduce ß into English?

    Spaß bei Scherz, this reform changed one rule in German orthography so that it is slightly more phonetic (it’s still considered non-phonetic) and it still caused a constitutional challenge.

    I like the change, but even today, 30 years later, you can find people who have not changed their spelling habits.

    If we reform English at this pace, sound changes will outrace us.








  • To correct that again: about 50% of the people killed by the Terror in Paris were clerics, nobles or rich people. The rest were commoners who somehow ran afoul of the Committee of Public Safety. When you allow a judiciary to presume guilt, that’s kinda what happens.

    The Committee was the most trigger happy clique that ruled revolutionary France and also the last clique that had any remnants of political ideals beyond “me wan power”. They ordered the razing of Lyon and the use of the infernal columns in the Vendée, while also aspiring to lead a republic of “virtue and morals”.






  • Women’s education is quite literally the only improvement in terms of women’s rights.

    Women are forbidden from divorcing their husbands without cause, their testimony is worth less in court, married women have to leave their job if the husband deems this necessary, they can only have one husband (men can have 4 wives and up to 95 additional temporary wives), premarital sex has more grave consequences for women than for men etc. Most egregiously, if a woman is murdered, it’s up to their next male living relative, if the murderer gets prosecuted. And if they decide on a blood money settlement, women are worth half as much as man.

    Women are legally considered second class citizens in Iran. No amount of education fixes this.