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February 16th, 2010 at 6: 26 pm katharevousa, what is capable of being falsified changes with time.
Matthew Yglesias » Is The Universe a Hologram? Should We Care? 2010
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Is it something about the American Enterprise Institute? katharevousa says:
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That image looks like it was pulled from a Virtual Boy. katharevousa says:
Matthew Yglesias » Is The Universe a Hologram? Should We Care? 2010
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That depends on what your definition of “is”, is. katharevousa says:
Matthew Yglesias » Is The Universe a Hologram? Should We Care? 2010
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Conservatives have decided to respond to the disasters of 2006 and 2008 by moving to Cloud Cookooland. katharevousa says:
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February 16th, 2010 at 4: 57 pm katharevousa, what is capable of being falsified changes with time.
Matthew Yglesias » Is The Universe a Hologram? Should We Care? 2010
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And so left wing meets right wing in a perfect circle of stupidity. katharevousa says:
Matthew Yglesias » ABC Can’t Find Economists Who Think the Stimulus Failed 2010
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Whereas katharevousa represented a tool of exclusion from the polity of all but an educated elite, the perpetuation of which some demoticists considered inappropriate for a society which was reinventing itself according to Enlightenment values.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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The official language of the Resistance was the demotic idiom, in contrast to a countermovement comprised of Axis collaborators, military elites, the gendarmerie, and quisling governments who used katharevousa. back
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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The accommodation of socialists and communists, who saw katharevousa as a key instrument of exclusion of 'workers and peasants from the state apparatus by a greedy ruling class', became increasingly awkward.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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