Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, born on this day in 1947, was a decorated military veteran and a high-ranking associate of the Black Panther Party in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He moved to Los Angeles, where he studied at UCLA under the GI Bill and began working with the Black Panther Party. Pratt was also a target of the FBI's COINTEL program, which sought to subvert black power movements.
In 1972, Pratt was wrongfully convicted for murder and served 27 years in prison, eight of which were in solitary confinement. Pratt was freed in 1997 when his conviction was vacated due to the prosecution concealing wiretaps that proved he was not at the scene of the murder.
"You can't look back twenty-seven years and say it was a lost. I’m still living. I run about five miles every morning, and I can still bench press 300 pounds ten times. I can give you ten reps. Also I hope I'm a little more intelligent and I'm not crazy. It's a hell of a gain that I survived."
- Geronimo Pratt
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Find the number t and the digit symbolized by a in:
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it's actually something really interesting. so hahaha in Japanese is written as ハハハ which looks like blades of grass, and so just saying 草、grass, became a shorthand like lol or lmao.
it's not the kind of cultural context that google translate is gonna be able to get though
Pictographic writing's great isn't it?
lol yeah no
Japanese so so many puns, double readings of characters where using the wrong one is the joke, and other shit like that which you will just never fucking get from a machine translation
Ancient Hebrew's sort of like that, too: a lot of the plays-on-words of people's names in the Old Testament are lost when translating to english.
No, never.
I kinda like it in a way. it means language retains this human element to it. it's this complex flowing and evolving thing that you can't just break down into a simple database
Yeah, language is a beautiful thing.
You would enjoy conlanging
Stuff like Esperanto? Already kind of like it.
Esperanto is a conlang but it's an auxlang (auxiliary language). The other kind of conlang is artlangs, which are languages that are works of art. Some people have gone absolutely HAM creating them, it can be really impressive
Ah stuff like Sindarin and Quenya?
Exactly. Tolkien was actually a conlanger and then wrote LOTR and the rest of the books that take place in middle earth as a way to show off/make known his conlangs, rather than vice versa