Jordan_the_Hutt
Jordan_the_Hutt t1_iydjssw wrote
Reply to comment by Elevenst in Bats use same techniques as death metal singers to vocalize, study finds by IslandChillin
Metal has always been.
Jordan_the_Hutt t1_iydjr7y wrote
They are the most metal animal after all.
Jordan_the_Hutt t1_ir53heg wrote
Reply to comment by black_brook in Hercules statue, approximately 2,000 years old, discovered in Greece - The Jerusalem Post by DRKILLM0NGER
This would've been 200 years before dioclecian so lowercase eastern. The aristocracy of the area would likely have spoke Latin and both languages would've been present.
Jordan_the_Hutt t1_ir533zz wrote
Reply to comment by Remon_Kewl in Hercules statue, approximately 2,000 years old, discovered in Greece - The Jerusalem Post by DRKILLM0NGER
A Greek living under Roman occupation might very well have identified as a Roman. They would've been a "Greek Roman" and held both things as significant labels of identity.
In the same way Peurto Ricans are also Americans. One identity does not drive out the other nor does one necessarily come first for many people.
Jordan_the_Hutt t1_ir52l1v wrote
Reply to comment by something_facetious in Hercules statue, approximately 2,000 years old, discovered in Greece - The Jerusalem Post by DRKILLM0NGER
That's a valid argument. I think what we need is a multinational museum collective that owns and loans a large number of antiquities. It would be horrible to live in a world where no museum has any significant foreign objects. So for example the met could donate 1 piece to the collective which would entitle then to one loan. They then apply to take out a specific piece, and it gets moved to the Met for 1 year. Country of origin always moves to the top of the list for taking out there own pieces.
A system like this would alow people all over the world to continue to be inspired by foreign artifacts while still not depriving the country of origin from seeing those artifacts. Of course this is not a perfect system, many artifacts should simply be returned to their country if origins and there would be a lot of details to work out but with growing globalization I do think it's important for artifacts of world history to be available to the world.
Jordan_the_Hutt t1_ir51mku wrote
Reply to comment by Pavlock in Hercules statue, approximately 2,000 years old, discovered in Greece - The Jerusalem Post by DRKILLM0NGER
Except it's a Roman made statue apparently so it might well have been Hercules.
Jordan_the_Hutt t1_j63n66p wrote
Reply to LPT: Trying to learn a new language? Replay old videogames under different language settings. by PovWholesome
I've been doing this to practice my italian. Assassins creed 2 has been great for it as well as skyrim.
Skyrim is especially helpful because there's so much contextual learning without translating. For example you see and apple, the game calls it a "mela" the word apple never appears so you directly associate the image of 🍎 with "mela" without ever translating it to english.
Combined with duolingo and some books I think my Italian is coming along pretty well.