Problem is, mopping up the machine's mistakes is stultifying and no-one will want to spend 40 years doing it, so there's a big brain drain in the pipeline www.bbc.com/news/article...

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In Canto 18 of his Inferno, Dante puts a lot of people from Bologna in Hell, and mentions their local word for 'yes': sipa. Words for 'yes' matter to Dante; he's the first on record to recognise sì, òc and oïl as alternatives in Romance – hence the lenga d'òc (Occitan) and langues d'oïl in France.

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Just sent the revision of final body chapter of my dissertation to my advisor!! On to the introduction!!!

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Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!

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Como me habéis preguntado varios en DM: aquí salí del armario suicida; primero en la radio, en un programa de mucha audiencia, y casi tuve que tomarme unos días de vacaciones para responder docenas de mensajes, y para descansar. Si tienes depresión, VE AL PSIQUIATRA y, acto seguido, a psicoterapia.

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