Aspy343

Aspy343 t1_j6le4cr wrote

There's a super simple way of checking this, and that's to just say the sentence without the other person.

"Me and Joe went to the park" becomes "Me went to the park", which clearly sounds wrong.

"Joe and I went to the park" becomes "I went to the park", which clearly sounds right.

A lot of people think "Come upstairs with John and I" sounds right because of the "I" but when you remove the other person it becomes "Come upstairs with I", which is clearly wrong, so it should be "Come upstairs with me".

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Aspy343 t1_j2dlq65 wrote

You're "in a country" but "on a bus".

When I started learning other languages I realised there's no logic to it in any language. You live "in" California but I think it should be "on", but if you said "I live on California" it would have a subtly different meaning.

I'm interested in what AI says is the most logical language when we explain Esperanto to it.

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Aspy343 t1_iuda7vi wrote

You can't really trespass in Iceland although there are some special caveats. If you're in a special place where, say, some special plant is being protected then you can be asked to move but Iceland is like most Nordic countries and you have a right to roam freely, even if the land is private. But you can't take the piss and set up a tent in someone's garden or annoy people, for instance. Nobody will shout at you unless you're doing something like fishing where you need a license or damaging wildlife.

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Aspy343 t1_itpe4iw wrote

The islands above Australia (Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, etc.) were all connected to Australia recently enough that humans and dogs could just walk there.

Indians may have arrived 4000 years ago but other people arrived WAY before that. At the very minimum 50,000 years ago, but that's just the oldest we know about, so probably much longer than that.

Genetic studies show that Dingos arrived around 10,000 years ago, so a long time after humans.

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Aspy343 t1_irmhipr wrote

>You seem to skim on the fact that living things also metabolize and viruses don't

That very much depends on how you define life though, doesn't it? Life isn't a "thing", it's a word definition made up by humans, and it can change. It's a bit like how there's no good definition of what a tree is, or if a bush counts.

Personally I'd say anything with DNA or RNA, that can replicate, is life.

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