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Edited by MacronNotes on Apr 13th 2023 at 3:16:47 PM
My cursory Google search reveals that ITT Tech's long history of allegations of fraud finally caught up with it, and they closed in September of last year.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITT_Technical_Institute
Can I have a list or at least some of the Discord I Ps of TV Tropes channels and others?
Want a hat? Here ya go! Throws entire arsenal of hats which is a billion hatsI think Discord is PTP chat, so you may well need the IP address of a channel host to connect.
edited 30th May '17 8:00:14 AM by TParadox
Fresh-eyed movie blogNo, Discord is very, very centralized. Rather than IPs you connect to Discord "servers" with invite codes, usually in the form of discord.gg links (e.g. https://discord.gg/AGAVvN
which now throws an invalid warning because the "server" no longer exists).
@GAP: I don't think that was a good choice in the first place. ITT Tech was infamous even amongst for-profit schools for non-transferability of credits to most institutions for not meeting standards and for being overly expensive while either being of little value to students or not serving them properly.
There should be some quality technology-related programs in traditional public universities too if you look for them.
We all know what a treasure chest looks like.
At least, that's what they look like in fiction. Did real life treasure chests ever look like that? Why are they shaped like that?
How common is (foreign) multilingual signage in the UK? After Scottish, Welsh, and Irish, what's the most common non-English language to see signs in? French? Hindi?
Fresh-eyed movie blogWhy do singers sometimes sing in a different accent than they speak in, even for their own songs? For some reason everyone seems to sound vaguely American when singing.
You need blood and he's got more than enough!I think the Beatles, who particularly sound American early on, were specifically imitating the American rockers that inspired them.
The way a lot of American singers flatten their terminal Rs sounds a little British.
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For the sake of having some kind of a response to that: getting immersed in the language is indeed pretty helpful, since even if it doesn't amount to formally studying or learning the language (that's something you should do yourself, before and during your living there), it can complement the effort, helping you get familiar with, and recognize, certain things about it and around.
Is there a limit on how far back the TV Tropes search can search? I'm searching in quotes phrases that I know for sure are present in the forums, but the queries don't turn up the results I want, even though they're only about one or two years old.
edited 4th Jul '17 8:28:32 PM by Trivialis
About language immersion: I used to know a bunch of people who had immigrated to Finland. Needless to say, Finnish is an extremely difficult language, and immigrants can usually get by if they can speak English (in most situations there will be at least one Finnish person around who speaks English).
There was this Russian guy in that group. His Finnish was absolutely perfect. At some point he happened to mention he was from Russia, and I was quite surprised because I had thought that he was in that group because he had Russian parents or something. I asked him if he grew up in Finland, and he said he'd only lived here for about two years, and not known the language before. So in two years, through immersion, he had learned a very difficult language well enough for a native to think he grew up in that language.
Thing is, that's highly dependent on the individual. Some people are like that. For others, no matter how much effort they put it, they might never reach a degree of fluency where they'd sound like a native. (Not that that should be anyone's goal - fluency is quite enough.) Some of the people in that group had immigrated to Finland when they were very young, yet they didn't speak grammatically correct Finnish all the time (I mean, even within the range of nonstandard grammar that's common in spoken Finnish).
It's quite difficult to predict how a given person will respond to immersion in a new language. I'm guessing you might get some clue by having that person watch movies or TV from the target language with subtitles, and periodically ask them about words or phrases or grammatical structures they've picked up from the target language. In Finland, all foreign TV shows and movies are subtitled - dubbing is only done if the show is for little children. This might very well be part of the reason my English has turned out OK. If you're thinking of moving to France, watch a lot of French TV with subtitles. After a while, you should know the most basic phrases for questions, greetings, and so on.
edited 5th Jul '17 5:44:13 AM by BestOf
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.Are there any alternative names to the ideology that is most commonly known as "social Darwinism"note ?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Not direct synonyms, but:
- Vae victis note (a remarkably little-used stock phrase from a certain event in Rome's early history) It pretty much is a fancy way to say no might no right.
- Timocracy ("Rule of the Worthy/Honorable"—based on the Spartan system...)

is gradient or color banding the result of a bad monitor or a bad graphics card?
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