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Offline Jonathon

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Interesting article on country names and freedom
« on: August 13, 2007, 03:21:13 PM »
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I just saw this on Language Log. I think everybody already knows that "People's Democratic Republic" is a sure sign that it's a totalitarian communist regime, but it's fun to see someone actually make charts of the correlation between country names and freedoms.
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Interesting article on country names and freedom
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2008, 01:35:19 PM »
Totally unrelated to Jonathon's first post, but I'm going to post this link here anyway because I thought it was very interesting.
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Interesting article on country names and freedom
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2008, 02:58:05 PM »
Why not just make a new thread for it?
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Interesting article on country names and freedom
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2008, 07:48:38 PM »
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