In at least one episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation some characters use the phrase the “Ancient West” to mean what us early 21st century folk call the Old West. In the Star Trek timeline, the “Ancient West” would be about 500 years in the past. I’m not sure if I consider something 500 years old to be ancient.
So, what is the most recent era that you would call “ancient”? (I’m using European eras taken from Wikipedia, just because that’s what I’m most familiar with).
You are reading text on a screen. In order to see the text currently below the bottom of the screen, you move your cursor, finger or other pointing device in an upward motion on the screen.
You are:
Scrolling up
Scrolling down
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My wife and I differ on this perspective, and I want to see which one of us is the weirdo here.
Imagine you’re operating a front-end-loader, something like this one. Which of these feels more intuitive to you? (At least according to one of my college professors, this is a much debated subject among industrial designers.)
Pull the lever back to make the boom go up (Kind of like an airplane yoke).
For ‘have,’ I am going to define it as “read well enough to enjoy a novel without using a dictionary; listen well enough to enjoy an audiobook without a dictionary; speak well enough to have a productive conversation with a stranger over the phone.” For dead languages, you can count reading only. I’m leaving writing out of my definitions, and I don’t mind if people adjust for illiteracy (say, you speak Chinese fluently but don’t read it fluently or at all).
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More than Seven
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Similarly, how many do you need in order to be a polyglot?
You are a male college student living off campus with four other guys. One of them is cheating on his girlfriend, who frequently visits the house, and has asked his housemates to help cover for him. Two have agreed and the third, an old friend, is noncommittal. You’re the only one to outright refuse.
You think this dude is doing wrong, but you’re concerned about, among other things, your living situation and whether the girlfriend will believe you. So you hatch a plan: the next time the dude is with his side girl at the house and the girlfriend comes over, you let her in and tell her that he’s in his room. That way you have plausible deniability (“I didn’t know you’d be dumb enough to meet her here!”) and she sees for herself.
There’s an explosive breakup. Did you do the right thing?
Yes
No, you should have told her directly and taken the consequences
