Essentialist Explanations “comprises a list of 901 ‘essentialist explanations’ of the form ‘Language X is essentially language Y under conditions Z’”.
My contribution:
No tags for this post.“Pāli is essentially Sanskrit spoken with your mouth full of cotton.”
In the 2005 remake of King Kong, the tramp steamer Venture was shown to be registered in “Surabaya.” That is a slight oversight: the contemporary spelling in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) in the 1920s was “Soerabaja” — the “oe” in Dutch being pronounced as “u” (c.f., Soekarno/Sukarno).
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