trash80
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- Comment on Is there a name for downplaying your suffering because other people have bigger problems? 11 months ago:
Emotional self-invalidation
- Comment on What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ? 1 year ago:
The film that is the subject of the question is called “Behind the Curve:” www.behindthecurvefilm.com
- Comment on What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ? 1 year ago:
The movie is called Behind the Curve, and imo is a great move.
I agree.
- Comment on Neighbour deliberately blocking OP 1 year ago:
yes
- Comment on Neighbour deliberately blocking OP 1 year ago:
Towing is more expensive and takes longer.
- Comment on How do poor people in the states give birth without money? 1 year ago:
Everyone over 65 is eligible for Medicare, regardless of income, but others can qualify under some circumstances.
In 2022, according to the 2023 Medicare Trustees Report, Medicare provided health insurance for 65.0 million individuals—more than 57 million people aged 65 and older and about 8 million younger people.
You have to qualify for Medicaid, and I think different states have different requirments.
Medicaid is the largest source of funding for medical and health-related services for people with low income in the United States, providing free health insurance to 85 million low-income and disabled people as of 2022; in 2019, the program paid for half of all U.S. births.
There is also CHIP, and I think that is part of Medicaid.
- Comment on Do the people in Reniassance festivals pccurring in Brotain also speak with faked British accents, or do they ise faked French/Iralian accents? 1 year ago:
Realistically when you think about it it makes no sense, why would American English be closer to old English than British English?
Standardization of RP only ocurred in the last 200 years.
Although a form of Standard English had been established in the City of London by the end of the 15th century, it did not begin to resemble RP until the late 19th century.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation
As for the “why,” though, one big factor in the divergence of the accents is rhotacism. The General American accent is rhotic and speakers pronounce the r in words such as hard. The BBC-type British accent is non-rhotic, and speakers don’t pronounce the r, leaving hard sounding more like hahd. Before and during the American Revolution, English people, both in England and in the colonies, mostly spoke with a rhotic accent.
Around the turn of the 18th to 19th century, not long after the Revolution, non-rhotic speech took off in southern England, especially among the upper and upper-middle classes. It was a signifier of class and status. This posh accent was standardized as Received Pronunciation and taught widely by pronunciation tutors to people who wanted to learn to speak fashionably. Because the Received Pronunciation accent was regionally “neutral” and easy to understand, it spread across England and the empire through the armed forces, the civil service, and, later, the BBC.
- Comment on This concept for budget double decker airline seating 1 year ago:
Not going to get much repeat business, but on the other hand, you wouldn’t have to worry very much about hi-jacking.