More on Manners and Customs
…languages face. We have the issues of first name vs. last name plus title vs. last name without title [the last is rarer now than in my youth, but I…
…languages face. We have the issues of first name vs. last name plus title vs. last name without title [the last is rarer now than in my youth, but I…
…church and religion; the state; business and property ownership; and manners, customs, and languages [and there will be a section for stuff that doesn’t fit into that]. So, your comments…
…manners, customs, and languages, like political orders, are hierarchical. Languages are in closely-related groups that can’t quite understand each other fully, like the Germanic, Slavic, and Romance groups of Europe….
…It ordains manners, customs, and languages. By ‘manners’ I mean those customs we share that we believe to be binding on our cultural group but not on everyone on the…
…the distance. Chinese is not a language, but a group of languages; to count Chinese [all dialects] as a language would be like grouping English, Dutch, German, and Scandinavian together…
…languages” because there were so many languages of different origins and relationships.] None of my ancestry, to my knowledge, traces to that region; therefore, I am not a Caucasian. The…
…earth that stretches halfway around the world from Madagascar to Hawaii! The languages in that stretch are distantly related to each other. The day after that we put our luggage…
…order. The various Chinese languages, like the Romance or Germanic languages, diverged from a common ancestor, but because the Chinese script is primarily ideographic and not phonetic, and the word…
…and doesn’t mean anything in Ge’ez, the Ethiopian liturgical language, which is ancestral to Amharic and Tigrayan, two languages spoken in northern and central Ethiopia today. Our tour concentrated on…
…an ’empathy card’ to a friend whose parent, wife, or child died; and the Romance languages describe a nice person as ‘simpatico’, not ’empatico’. As a matter of fact, I…