Translation: "The beatings will continue until morale improves." Almost typoed morals there instead, which might be more fitting.
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If, having heard the gospel/made the shahada, you continue in your sinful ways, we will punish you. It's not even subtle.
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This is a for-real no-kidding dangerous cult.
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Too long to Tweet the whole thing: http://quotes.yourdictionary.com/author/learned-hand/163002 …
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WE HAVE ALL SAID PROBLEMATIC CLAIMS
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I nearly ranted about this! Is no one on this committee a native English speaker? Or is standard diction problematic now?
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I’m trying to figure out why pointing at this does not seem petty.
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I was a clueless student radical as a teenager, but I could write standard English. Is this significant somehow?
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Students, at an elite university, editing the newspaper.
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I do feel they ought to be able to write. But their wrong ideas are vastly more important. Significant connection?
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I want to say that being able to write is pretty much the same as being able to think—but not sure of evidence for this.
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And if main author is *not* a native English speaker, and it’s considered un-p.c. to standardize their usage, >
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.