I remember an interview with John Howe about the Lord of the Rings movies. He felt frustrated by the trope with swords making a metallic *shiiiing* sound when drawn from their sheaths. Because of cou… (View Post)

@Squire I'm about 2/3 through the Spanish course and it gets pretty advanced in terms of vocabulary and grammar. When you start a new course you can also take a placement test so you can skip past th… (View Post)

Saying that some things doesn't work isn't the same as saying that we shouldn't do anything at all. I don't understand why people so often seem to assume this. There's been a lot of research on terro… (View Post)

A big part of being a terrorist is being too weak to wage an actual war and lacking the support to make any major difference through normal political means. So you use terror to create fear and to ap… (View Post)

@Zaghoul Yeah, that's usually tricky enough for me to. I find it easier when learning languages that are very different from each other. So I can keep Japanese and Spanish apart in my head, while I s… (View Post)