Haha, good one. Neither were democracies in the modern sense, in both cases voting right were so restrictive that large parts of the population did not matter.
Imagine a first past the post system but instead of states, you are grouped together by income.
And instead of voting simulaneously, the richest blocks votes first.
And now imagine, that 50% of the american populace gets one of 150 electors.
The vast majority of romans IN ROME never got to vote on any of the important positions.
One tries to open uo humanitarian corridors, the other one wants Israel to finish the job. One is celebrated by Netanyahu, one isnt.
But both sides same
I bet it will totally help the palestinians
Neither the PRC nor the ROC control both China and Taiwan. There is China and there is Taiwan. The realities on the ground reflect that.
Ich kann diese scheiß Wahl nicht mehr. Ca. 300.000 Stimmen für Jill Stein, vielen Dank für nichts.
Trump holt sogar den popular Vote. Können wir bitte einfach die US dicht machen? Wie kann man denn kollektiv so geistig zurückgeblieben sein. Wirklich, ich will mich einfach nur besaufen
Remind me again: What legislative power does China hold over Taiwan? And can the Brits reclaim their former territory too?
Tree Diagrams can be useful to structure a sentence, but the UG system of "assume one system fits every language cuz inherent ability" is bad.
If you want to check your understanding of how phrases, clauses and words connect to each other in a certain language, trees can be pretty powerful.
To the latter point: My biggest gripe with linguistics is the tendency to boil everything down to a simple system.
Do you want to elaborate more on how politeness cant be explained by gricean maximes?
Fuss e.v. klingt eher nach institutionellem Fußfetischismus
Fortunately i am not american
Here the need part: you dont. Because chomskyite grammar sucks sweaty balls.
Tbf, by my second run through Intro to Pragmatics i got the maxims. But our prof had some really strange interpretations of them.
I sincerely hope for you, that the candidate thats worse for the us wont win.
And i continue to hope youll be safe someday.
Klar, aber ich muss auch echt sagen: Der Gegner ist Trump. Das ist ein so brachialer Scheißhaufen für jeden, der kein weißer christlicher Mann ist, dass man echt jede Gegenposition nehmen muss.
Geht mir bei den Bundestagswahlen genauso. Sind alle Ampelparteien nach rechts gerückt? Ja. Sind die mir alle lieber als die AfD. Bruder ja, ich will nicht, dass meine Partnerin ausgewiesen oder verfolgt wird.