“There are some 170 languages in the Philippines, almost all part of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian family. I would assume most of the 170 are focal points within a language continuum. Tagalog was the name given to the… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
“Interpreters, when challenged on their manipulations, tell us the Constitution was written for a different and simpler time. Actually, the genius of the Constitution… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
“The Panic of 1819 sounded a wakeup call to some that the founders had been right after all in separating State and Commerce. Having… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
“Six thousand years ago, there were no fully developed writing systems at all though there were, maybe, twenty thousand fully developed languages. (Yes, there… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
“However, after several false starts and with the lessons of history fading, America, too, would finally create a permanent central bank, in 1914. For… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
“There are some 170 languages in the Philippines, almost all part of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian family. I would assume most of… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
“Every major war in American history, except the Mexican and Spanish-American, has either led to central banking or resulted from it. Central banking and… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
“Just like money, we take writing for granted. Everybody reads and writes. No big deal. Actually, though, only a few hundred of the six… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
“And of all those English words, the most dominant, the most powerful, the most amazing has to be... Okay. As a language person, with… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
“Japanese verbs, for example, are agglutinative. The word ikasetakunakatta can fairly easily be divided into the five pieces – go-cause-want-not-past – that determine its… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
“In the 20th century, it became more and more the norm for judges to incorrectly instruct juries that they must consider only the facts… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
“Beyond a limited use of good ole vocab and grammar texts to give the students a base, textbooks of any kind just don’t have… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
“So exalted was the idea of hegemony over self that every gentleman fell short. But the ideal itself was pursued for many generations. At… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
![“Japanese verbs, for example, are agglutinative. The word ikasetakunakatta can fairly easily be divided into the five pieces – go-cause-want-not-past – that determine its meaning (“did not want to let [someone] go”). Only the first piece is clearly part of an actual independent word, but all five…” quote by Mark David Ledbetter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2ef/mark-david-ledbetter-34449_quote_japanese-verbs-for-example-are-agglutina_2021975.jpg)
