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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

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?

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.

The largest armed force in the gaza strip is deeply religious and the entire reason the support they receive from their biggest ally, the IRR, is religion. If Hamas were Sunni muslims instead of Shia, Iran would remain silent. Just as they were, when their Shia allies in Syria and Yemen started to massacre non-Shia in the region.

Mondoweiss is using the same kind of euphemisms around the 7.10 that the rest of the press is using for Israels crimes.

Ah the gricean maximes, the bane of my intro to pragmatics class

Saying that something is a death threat is not sympathizing with someone.

Nooo, youre supposed to say that both sides are the same :(