The questions-not-worth-their-own-question-thread III

[Annex]

I thought communism was the notion that the state owned the means of production?

If you want to talk about the idea of pure communism, then there is no such thing as "the state"

 

[Mirc]

meant that you chose to take it, and had no obligation.

No:
- You have to take it in the 8th grade regardless of what school you are in.
- I skipped the 8th grade

In particular, I was the second student in Romania to EVER skip a grade before university, and the first one skipped the 3rd grade, not the 8th.


Got what I mean?

Actually I can say with a reasonable degree of security that if the law has been applied correctly, since there were only 3 people to ever skip a grade apart from me (2 more did it after I did it, one before, but AFAIK they all did it in primary school and not secondary school), and since none skipped the 8th grade and 10 grades are compulsory in Romania, it means I'm the only person in Romania since the mandatory 8 grades that has never taken Latin in school.

 

[lndm]

In a communist society, a central organisation exists for administration. In the past this organisation has tended to control, rather than just administer. When out of hand, this totalitarian system will not be truly communist in fact, it will only be communist on the surface, and only to keep control of the people.

 

[Globex]

Does each stripe in the US flag represent a specific colony or do the thirteen stripes just represent the thirteen colonies as a group?

 

[CCRunner]

I think they're represented as a group. Just like no state has a specific star. (I hope)

 

[Mowque]

i've never heard otherwise...

 

[GoodGame]

Does each stripe in the US flag represent a specific colony or do the thirteen stripes just represent the thirteen colonies as a group?

It's just a nod to the original 13 colonies, with no ordinal meaning. The blue field had 13 stars at the time of the original flag as well. It simply represented the sum number of colonies.

 

[Bigfoot3814]

How different are the Cajun and Creole dialects?

 

[Ansar]

How different are the Cajun and Creole dialects?

I'd guess quite difference considering Cajun is a variation of Acadian French while the Creole comes from African languages intermixed with French.

 

[Bigfoot3814]

I'd guess quite difference considering Cajun is a variation of Acadian French while the Creole comes from African languages intermixed with French.

Could a Cajun speaker effectively communicate with a Creole speaker? Or a European French speaker?

 

[Cutlass]

Could a Cajun speaker effectively communicate with a Creole speaker? Or a European French speaker?

They can always speak English

 

[Bigfoot3814]

They can always speak English

True, but that isn't what I'm driving at.

 

[Annex]

I didnt take (or actually try to learn) enough French to understand much of any Creole or Patois, but I think a native French speaker may know at least some words.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

no, not the state, the people.

So what? No central authority? How would that work?

 

[Mowque]

So what? No central authority? How would that work?

Read up on it...it's...complicated....

 

[Annex]

So what? No central authority? How would that work?

Thats just it. It wouldnt work.

 

[holy king]

yep, federalism doesnt work...

 

[Annex]

Yup, even Sark had to abandon it...

 

[PeteAtoms]

All of you language nazi's, I need an answer.

Is there a difference between conviction and stubbornness?
And is there a difference between being stoic and apathetic?

 

[Mowque]

why do yuo need a Nazi, those words are quite different...