Looking at the rest of the tech industry in 2026 that might be a blessing.

Jesus I've seen what you've done for others and want that for myself.

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There's a lot fewer Native Americans left to genocide these days tho.

Fuel prices need to be a lot higher.

Wiki says Assamese has 15 million speakers. Maybe it "died out" in the same way old English did?

I’m talking about Tai Ahom.

> written using Indian abugidas and largely prisoner to a confluence of religious affectation, court ritual and the popular language of the peasantry as popular literacy never occurred

I agree that Thai is in a completely different language family than Chinese, but I don't see what this quoted bit has to do with anything. (And surely it would apply just as well to their neighbors to the west, who do speak a Sino-Tibetan language)

How do we know this isn't just a difference in register? Classical Chinese was extremely literary, but did people actually speak that way?

This is a point I was also wondering the whole time. The vulgarisation of literature happened all over Europe at varifying times and in different stages. We don’t see these as changes in the language itself, but instead the authors daring to write the way they actually always spoke.

There’s something in bemoaning the loss of a poetic register in written language, but that’s a different and much less significant change.

As I understand it, Classical Chinese literature has long been inscrutable and full of references to other texts, requiring a tutor to explain everything as you read it, who learned from a tutor, and so on.

That's exactly what it is. The article is almost entirely misconceived.

There's a little bit of far side on the right of the picture.

There's a day care center across I-95 from the Pentagon.