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Flood death toll in India's Assam reaches 100 as thousands lose their homes
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ourworldindata.orgWhy hasn’t anybody tried filling their tires with krypton?
A lot of race cars use argon tires already and krypton is a noble gas that has similar properties to argon but better. I’m sure there’s a huge market to sell premium gas for tires for the wealthy who buy expensive cars and for race car drivers looking for the best performance. Argon is expensive but when talking about racing or millionaires it’s pretty cheap. It’s cheaper than a PS5. When I search this up all I get is “they don’t do it because they don’t do it”.
Juniors in the mortal realm consuming yin aspected, qi condensing, medicinal tea.
Opportunities to learn French in Haiti? Any experience?
Hello, I'm from a 3rd world country and I'm stuck at the beginner intermediate plateau where I understand 60% and can't speak at all. I can't afford to stay in France even the countryside, it's too expensive with my income and my passport is not strong enough and my visa will surely get rejected. The closest French speaking country is Haiti and the cost of living there seems to be pretty low and most people there can speak French. So I thought why not learn French in Haiti like how people in Japan learn English in the Philippines. Does anybody have any experience studying French in Haiti? If so are there any tips or wisdom you could impart?
What third language do native Spanish speakers choose in university? I thought it’d be Portuguese but it seems like French is more common.
Since Portuguese is so similar to Spanish it’d be the default choice or so I thought but when I googled this it says French is more common. What language did you pick and why? Third language means other than Spanish and English to fulfill a foreign language credit requirement.
Clashes erupt in Congo's capital as opposition rejects changes to presidential term limits, opposition leader among injured
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Would it sound more natural if a double clitic was used here?
So I’m learning Spanish and I was taught by my instructor to always put the indirect pronoun before the verb if the sentence has an indirect object. So “le di el regalo a Maria”. In the lyrics of the song “Ayer y Hoy” there’s “Sus juramentos trajeron desesperanza a mi alma” which feels wrong to me because I feel like it should be “Sus juramentos le trajeron desesperanza a mi alma”. If a native Spanish speaker were to hear these in a conversation which would sound more natural?
Why is Farsi written in Naskh instead of Nastaliq?
In Pakistan pretty much everything is written in nastaliq and naskh is unreadable. Nastaliq was used by all the Persianite countries like the Ottoman empire, Safavids and Mughal empire. So why is it that Persian itself is written in naskh? The argument that computer support is bad makes sense but nowadays most computers support nastaliq and I’ve read even in hand writing people use naskh. Pakistan uses nastaliq without issue. Is it the same deal in Afghanistan? Whenever I search this up only Iranian Persian shows up not Afghan Persian.
What determines the gender of English words in Hindi? When will a word be female even when not ending in -y, -e, -ing?
So I mostly watch Hinglish videos and I noticed people say "bari factory" instead of "bara factory". There's "-ing" ending as in "Konsi party se funding aati hai tumko". People also say "meri state". Are there any others that I'm missing? It seems like it's always something ending in -y, -e, -ing. But then I came across "purani bus", so what are the English in Hindi that don't end in a -y, -e, -ing but are still female?
Do you use traditional units of measurement or only metric?
In India the outside temperature is measured in celsius but body temperature is measured in farenheit. We're officially metric but house sizes are in feets and people say "I'm 6ft" not "I'm 180cm". However distances are always in kms and weights are always in kgs. We have an even more ancient measuring system but we don't use it anymore because of colonialism. I noticed in China they use jin to mean half a kg and liang to mean 50 grams so 1 jin 2 liang is 600 grams. In Japan it's metric for almost everything but tatami mats as a measure of room size is still very common and sometimes they use Japanese inches. What about your country? Do people with different religions also use different counting systems so Muslims will use the Arabic units of measurement while Christians will use the traditional system?
I'm reading through this book called "The Decline and Fall of the British Empire" by Elliott Evans Mills in 1905 which's set in 2005 Tokyo. I know the Yellow peril started in Germany and Russia around this time and despite Britain being an ally to Japan this book is written as if the author's fully convinced the British Empire will fall and Japan will rise. Many colonized people also took great pride in Japan's victory over the Russian Empire like Nehru and Sun Yat Sen. So why was it so shocking when both Ethiopia had defeated Italy 10 years earlier with modern weapons and Afghanistan had beat Britain 60 years earlier.