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72A Pecking Order of Languages
Some countries are said to be neutral. The meaning of this may vary; in World War 2, when Ireland was officially neutral, some Irish said that they knew perfectly well whom they were neutral against. Some...
2 comments73The Wind of Google in the Flag of Esperanto
The 15th of December, 2009, Google used its so-called doodle - a picture replacing one of the letters in its logotype - to honour the initiator of Esperanto, LL Zamenhof, who was born exactly 150 years...
6 comments72Land of Invented Languages
I recently read a book published earlier this year: In the Land of Invented Languages, by Arika Okrent (Spiegel & Grau, New York 2009). In general, there seems to be two main attitudes to "artificial"...
11 comments70A Dangerous Language?
Can a language be dangerous? Some think it can. We see some of them just now, in North America among the most rabiate Obama-haters; those who are so far out at the extreme right-wing that they think George Soros is a leftist (which he...
2 comments69Why Are Norwegians Deciding Over Nobel Prize?
Why is a committee of the Norwegian parliament deciding over the Nobel Peace Prize? Seems strange, for at least two reasons. One: Nobel Prizes are private, not public (funded by private money, ruled by a private will); so how can a parliament be...
11 comments68Alfred Nobel, the Silenced Playwright
In October every year, we are informed who are to receive the Nobel prizes of the year. All five of them, plus the parasitic prize of economics "in memory of Alfred Nobel", which isn't Nobel's prize at all,...
1 comment65What Is a Buddhist King?
After writing two earlier hubs about Buddhism and political power - http://hubpages.com/hub/Buddhist-king-is-violating-Buddhist-ethics http://hubpages.com/hub/Buddhist-Imprimatur - I got a question from a commentator: "What is a 'Buddhist'...
3 comments65WikiLeaks Quo Vadis?
WikiLeaks has just been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. It is true that, as an organization and a collective, they are doing a good and valuable job. Let's hope, however, that the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee - and WikiLleaks themselves -...
0 comments65The Poor Goths
What do Gothic architecture, Gothic letters, Gothic literature and Gothic Metal have in common? Of course, you say; they are all Gothic. Wrong. What they have in common is the fact that they all are not Gothic at all. Just as Vandalism doesn't...
3 comments64"Buddhist" King is Violating Buddhist Ethics
If I were living in Thailand, I wouldn't dare to write this article. If so, it might have given me fifteen years in jail, for "lese majesty" - a concept found in Hinduism and in medieval Christianity, but actually not in Buddhism, which is supposed...
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