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7 years ago @ The Toast - The Toast Looks Back: ... · 1 reply · +7 points

Two-Pen Eadwin!

7 years ago @ The Toast - Two Linguists Explain ... · 2 replies · +1 points

Have you read Cornwell's Saxon tales? If so, how would you compare the paganism of the main character in this work to that of Uhtred? Sometimes I want to smack Uhtred upside his head so I'm wondering how much smacking I'll want to do in this book.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Don't Let Anyone Tell ... · 0 replies · +8 points

The interesting thing about emojis is that normally with a language, you have sounds, then you attach the sounds to a meaning, and then you have some kind of symbol for those sounds, ie writing. With emojis you have symbols, and then a meaning is created for it, and no sounds at all. It's a sort of inverse of normal language development.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Passive-Aggressive Hym... · 5 replies · +4 points

DO NOT TAUNT THE POPPY FIELDS.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Passive-Aggressive Hym... · 0 replies · +4 points

That's the Greene farm, but it burnt down in Season 2.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Cats I Would Like To O... · 0 replies · +22 points

Hand circle man is smart as hell. Get kitten, get bitches.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Guessing What French I... · 0 replies · +3 points

Or for pron.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Dad Magazine: May 2016... · 1 reply · +5 points

Nah, Biden's sexier.

8 years ago @ The Toast - Festival Bargain Bin · 0 replies · +5 points

Unless if you were an A-cupped waif, a little white T-shirt was mandatory. And WTF the 90s are vintage? Gonna go cry now...

8 years ago @ Network for Church Mon... - The Right-Wing Doesn�... · 3 replies · +11 points

Regarding the Library of Alexandria, it's not certain who was responsible for its destruction. Blame has gone to various cultures and religious types, and it's possible that the Library had multiple acts of destruction rather than just one, going back to Julius Caesar, who may have accidentally burned part or all of the Library during the siege of Alexandria (according to Plutarch, he was forced to set some of his own ships on fire and it spread to the Library). There are other possible events, described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_the_...

The destruction of the Library is a great tragedy, and as a history and book nerd, it always makes me sad, but it can't be definitively blamed on any single group. If you're going to discuss history, you must always be accurate.

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