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Being further from the centre of the Empire, it has probably diverged more than Barakhinei or Ismain. Tolkien popularised this idea that the capital holds the most conservative, most classical version of a language, but it's very rarely true. I think of London English - it's undergone a lost more p...

If a metaphor isn't true or false - that is, makes no indicative statement about the world, what is it? Is a metaphor just an expression of the speaker's emotions?Or does it express something else? Or DOES it express some indicative claim about the world, just not one that is true or false? What ki...

...(The other tenses are praesens and imperfect, both with the praesens aspect, and future (and future perfect) with the future aspect) Ummm... don't you mean "present"? And I don't think present and future are aspects... :? Sometimes people still use Latin to refer to various grammatical features;...

The aorist in Greek is a past tense with the aorist aspect. This means that the action is started in the past and that it has ended in the past. Also, the aorist is used in stories to describe the main action. So: "he dies" in the aorist can be translated as "he died (yesterday)" The perfect in Gree...

Might printing-on-demand, if available in your region and/or budget, be an option if you don't find a publisher for your work?