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It's funny, but not true. I apologze for the link in Italian.

https://www.ilpost.it/2025/04/22/avellino-promosso-morte-di-...


Get out of here with your "facts" - this is the internet and every meme is obviously true.

The example is the incipit of "The dangerous inheritance" by Izola Forrester

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/75383/pg75383-images.ht...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izola_Forrester




sorry for being misleading! I didn't mean the word, but the actual gambling game which became popular in Genoa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery#Medieval_history

EDIT: I notice wikipedia is unsourced too, but Britannica mentions it

https://www.britannica.com/topic/lottery


There is something wrong or that I don't understand. I put "the example", the Italian translatione is "nell'esempio" which is wrong, but in google translate the translation is correct "l'esempio"




I thought that Thou was informal, froma wikipedia "For a long time, however, thou remained the most common form for addressing an inferior person"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou#History

Also in etymonline "By c. 1450 the use of thou to address inferiors gave it a tinge of insult"

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=Thou


I think that the visual proof is not complete. You have to demonstrate also that the quadrilateral in the right figure is a square.


Shouldn’t that be clear from considering angle properties?

EDIT: Yes, I think it’s clear considering that the sum of the non-rectangular angles in a triangle is 90 degrees.


In English (but also in other languages like my Italian) orange hair is called red because the color orange arrived too late with the orange fruit.

https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/33117530568/why-dont-we...


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