TIL that some languages apparently have words inherently differentiating one's status as a citizen or resident of the entity versus a member of a particular ethnic or cultural group? I don't quite grasp the whole thing, although I heard the point being made. What's interesting to me is a) that there is such a thing, which seems very revealing of something about a culture that would need such concepts built into the language, and b) that there seem to be people who think it's inaccurate to interpret the word choice as meaningful. Firstly, since languages have all sorts of concepts built into them, many very specific to their primary culture of use, it seems reasonable that such a thing could exist. Not that I would have thought of it before, since I'm not from a culture where that sort of subtlety functions. Secondly, if that is, indeed, the subtlety of the word choices, where one essentially and inherently includes people, and the other excludes, then I'd kind o...
Ugh, I have that problem sometimes. Like, stuff will show up on mobile but not desktop and vice versa. Or if someone posts something at 7:09AM I wont see it when they post it but at 2:14pm I'll scroll back through my feed and there it will be. It behaves very oddly sometimes. >:(
ReplyDeleteI frequently have to refresh the window, or occasionally reopen G+ altogether to see most new posts. It seems like more circles I have one person in, the more I will see their posts, but that's just a guess. I can always tell when I need to do it when I see that I have like 15 new messages and, when I click the little blue thing, only about 3 show up - or if my notifications say someone has plussed something and it doesn't show up in the post.
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