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Regarding Carole Cadwalladr:

This caught my eye last night:

Russian Misinformation is a "Military Assault" on the West | Amanpour and Company

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Facebook's Role in Brexit -- and the threat to democracy | Carole Cadwalladr

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posted by y2karl at 5:14 PM PST - 51 comments

Anna Laetitia Barbauld, "On the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing": "A Collection of Novels has a better chance of giving pleasure than of commanding respect ... It might not perhaps be difficult to show that this species of composition is entitled to a higher rank ... A good novel is an epic in prose ..." Barbauld's essay gives a brief history of the novel--a starting point for readers of her 50 volume / 28 novel collection The British Novelists, published in 1810. [more inside]
posted by Wobbuffet at 4:45 PM PST - 1 comments

How does the Ukrainian Language Differ from Russian? "If you’re an English speaker learning Ukrainian, the grammar will likely be complex at first, but there will also be some familiar features, too. One mostly unfamiliar feature is Ukrainian's robust case system. This means that nouns change their form depending on what role they play in the sentence. A number of languages have case systems, including Russian, Latin, German, and even English — though in English, we only mark case on a few words. (Basically, the case system is the reason we say “I love him” but “He loves me.”) In Ukrainian, case gets marked on regular nouns (house, newspaper, child, country), pronouns (I, they, it, we), and even people's names." [more inside]
posted by storybored at 2:45 PM PST - 15 comments

Safe in Heaven Dead - Thinking about Jack Kerouac on the 100th anniversary of his birth. [more inside]
posted by chavenet at 2:38 PM PST - 6 comments

What things cost in Ancient Rome [more inside]
posted by gregoreo at 12:45 PM PST - 28 comments

Rough Translation podcast (& transcripts!) "Wouldn't it be easier to teach Americans when they enter global business meetings to check their idioms at the door?" from April 21, 2021 episode on "bad English". "Without any official permission from McDonald's, this former restaurant [in Marseilles France] has been occupied and repurposed as a food pantry and community hub during the pandemic" from April 7, 2021 episode. The Ukrainian and Russian languages are the focus of the most recent episode (March 2, 2022).
posted by spamandkimchi at 10:02 AM PST - 6 comments

1.0 A short conversation with, and about, a bank. In which the author, in need of a digital statement, faces our current broken reality.
posted by swift at 7:44 AM PST - 74 comments