A cow is being saved from a life of torture, and is getting no life in return.

You're pretending that only being given civil partnerships is equivalent to burning down your museums.

America has a gigantic amount of people with absolutely zero first amendment rights. Prisoners say hello.

Your feelings seem motivated by a desire to put others down so you can feel big in comparison.

"Pāṇini’s system—4,000 rules detailed in his greatest work, the Aṣṭādhyāyī which is thought to have been written around 500 BC—is meant to work like a machine. Feed in the base and suffix of a word and it should turn them into grammatically correct words and sentences through a step-by-step process."

I don't know. If you guys are having this reaction to the article, then it must in some sense be confusing, but if I were the author I would find this criticism borderline offensive.

This is the kind of conspiracy the fits right at home with flat earth.

The last hundred years in particular has been spent assuming much more complicated solutions and delving into them..

Not relevant in this case. Dead means no native speakers.

I read the article and felt it answered all of these questions adequately. Panini was not a contemporary scholar, he was describing Sanskrit centuries ago. We knew that his machine worked, but could not follow his instructions now. (That's what the 'machine' was, a set of grammer instructions that produced perfectly correct Sanskrit words. It was a conceptual machine.)

Rishi cracked what Panini meant in his instructions, and now we have a way to construct close to perfect Sanskrit.

The fourth dimension is not necessarily time. Temporal and physical dimensions are different things. You can have four physical dimensions, or three physical and one temporal. Those are different arrangements.

>Im all for others opinions, but If divergent is the worst book you have ever read, I doubt you've read many books.

After you said that, I no longer have any wish to speak with you.

I was 14 when I read the Reek stuff in the Game of Thrones books and it genuinely affected me. I remember reading it in Irish class and being unable to focus on schoolwork for a while when I got to some of the mutiliation stuff. I haven't continued on in that series till this day.

EDIT: Also I think most books that have any real depiction of sexual assault might be weird for a 14 year old. I know I had had healthy sexual experiences before I read any books that go properly into that subject matter, and I'm glad.

I'm glad others enjoyed it. Divergent actually has the prize 'Worst book I have ever read' for me. No shame, it's very cool how different two people's tastes can be, and I'm glad other people loved it.

But like, you shouldn't prevent your kid from reading it because of that. It's a great piece for life lessons. "Do you like Anastasia? She sure does let Christian do a lot of stuff to her, and doesn't ever take control of her own life. Is that what you want for yourself, when you grow up?"

"Things I don't see happen literally don't happen".

And evidently plenty of failed pedants

Reddit has many Americans, whose education system unfortunately has them retain almost none of the information they learn for more than a day after the exam.