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We’ve gotta get out of this place – The Animals
Won’t get fooled again- The Who
Police and Thieves – The Clash (Junior Murvin)
Left us to burn – The Daintees
Ghost Town – The Specials
Ohio – Neil Young
What’s Going On – Marvin GayeHeard all of them at various discos
A very different political viewpoint, but some fantastic music. Will miss Mr Harley, must have seen him 20 or so times live
Hi imposs1904,
If, as I understand, you are currently in the US and cannot access BBC iplayer, you can purchase a VPN (there are some free ones as well), then set the vpn to the UK. You can then stream BBC player programmes. I use this technique to access Gaelic Games coverage through the RTE player. Apologies if I am teaching my granny to suck eggs.In fact he is actually stating that he is prepared to use them. If any of the nuclear powers had the weapons and stated that they were not prepared to use them, it would be pretty stupid thing for them to say.
I can’t work out what line the Independent is taking, the main owner is the son of a Russain oligarch, although there seems to be an anti Putin approach. Either way I don’t trust them
I don’t think the SPGB was wrong from 1904. Although large areas of the world were not industrialised (parts of China and parts of Russia actually had moved over to capitalist production), large areas of the world had (most of Northern Europe, North America, parts of South America and AUstralia, New Zealand, etc).
At that point a very large proportion of the goods being produced in the world were being produced either as part of capitalist production or directly by capitalist producers. Raw materials may well have been produced in underdeveloped countries, however the ways in which they were produced was based on the key elements of waged labour, as opposed to peasant production.
If in the early 20th Century the working class of the countries of the capitalist countries wished to institute a system of production for use, within the then existing scope of the areas where capitalism existed, this would not have been “Socialism in one Country” but Socialism in very many countries, within which practically all of the goods and services required in this area of the world were produced within the same area. Therefore those living within those parts of the world, production for use woud ahve been possible.
Yes, there would have been challenges facing such as situation in terms of industrialisation of large areas of the world, but I am pretty sure that this wouldn’t have resulted in the catastrophic slaughter that came as a result of the state capitalist system in places like China and Russia, or the private capitalist system in India and other areas of the world.
And another one from Frankie which starts:
And if these words you do not heed
Your pocketbook just kinda might recede
When some man comes along and claims a godly need
He will clean you out right through your tweedA Frank Zappa classic which starts with the fantastic first verse:
Some take the bible
For what it’s worth
When it says that the meek
Shall inherit the Earth
Well, I heard that some sheik
Has bought New Jersey last week
‘N you suckers ain’t gettin’ nothin’A quote from the article is quite illuminating, Nick Long, from the Transform Party said –
“I’ve been active in Lewisham politics for many years. My differences with the Workers Party are over traffic calming, they are not in favour of ULEZ [Ultra Low Emission Zones] and they want to increase traffic speeds to 30mph.”
So that’s what “left wing” politics has descended to, not the nature of the welfare state, or what industries to nationalise, or the old chestnuts they used to trot out, it’s speed limits!
A strange bedfellow even for Gorgeous George!!
Positive terms or terms of endearment etc.
Pussy cat
Lion
Honey Bunny
Chick
Hen
Duck
Duckie
Stud
Cheeky Monkey
Stallion (maybe that’s just me)
Pet Lamb
Dogged
a terrier
Doe eyed
busy as a bee
strong as an ox
quiet as a mouse
political animal
etc. etc.Big surprise, human beings use animals as part of their lexicon of description, we also use other things like body parts in the same way
Point taken.
However it suggests that the common usage of the word language implies that in that usage language is usually limited to certain forms of human communication.To put it into perspective the range of what we call as noise and behavioural displays has been found to be at a maximum of 150 separate displays.
The average adult English speaking human has around 20-30,000 words.
Not only that humans can generally utilise Recursive compositionality (combining combinations of words to create new meanings)
Humans can also create neologisms relatively quickly.
I’m not saying that non human animals cannot communicate, they clearly can. Can some of them do it through the use of sound, obviously. Can they communicate through non verbal communication, again obviously.
Is this a “language” it depends upon how you define language.
Does it matter what word we use to differentiate between the very complex range that humans have developed and the other forms of language other animals have developed, not a jot
Encyclopaedia Britannica definition
“Language, a system of conventional spoken, manual (signed), or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its culture, express themselves. The functions of language include communication, the expression of identity, play, imaginative expression, and emotional release.”
Cambridge dictionary definition
“a system of communication consisting of sounds, words, and grammar:”
Collins definition
“A language is a system of communication which consists of a set of sounds and written symbols which are used by the people of a particular country or region for talking or writing.”
Sounds like you should follow the advice you offered:
“Loose thinking leads to the loose use of words, but the loose use of words also leads to loose thinking.”
Re Lizzie 45’s comment about the “C” word (welcome back from your journeys, by the way)
“ Use of the word as a term of abuse is relatively recent, dating from the late 19th century. The word appears not to have been taboo in the Middle Ages, but became taboo towards the end of the 18th century, and was then not generally admissible in print until the latter part of the 20th century.
Which just goes to show how language changes over time”
The change of the view of the C word also resulted in the terms we use for rabbits. We used to refer to a rabbit as a coney (hence Coney Island). This sounded a bit like cunny, a derivative of the C word. So in polite society the term rabbit (previously generally used to refer to a baby coney), or bunny began to be used.
Whilst I understand the offence taken by people by the use of the C word, the N word, etc. part of me agrees with Lenny Bruce “it’s the suppression of the word that gives it power”
