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Have there been instances of historical linguists inserting themselves into previously uncontacted groups of people and documenting their languages?
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In a recent Twitter thread, Josh Kaufman describes the difference in the Nazi Germany populace's reaction to Aktion T4 and the Holocaust as it applied to Jews, Roma, and Sinti, and how public pressure helped subdue Aktion T4. To what extent was Nazi Germany policy responsive to public pressure?
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Why is it that in colloquial speech, the term astronomical means incredibly small (e.g. astronomical odds) when astronomical distances and units are in fact very large?
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