daoudalqasir
daoudalqasir t1_j5coqci wrote
Reply to comment by samwoo2go in TIL Japan is considered the world's most powerful passport, with visa-free access to 193 countries. Singapore and South Korea are close behind with 192 countries. Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan are the least powerful, all with visa-free access to 30 or less countries. by grandlewis
> I just don’t think non U.S. people fully grasp how different the states can be.
As an American... Americans way over rate it too.
Sweden and Greece are Wayyyy more different than Minnesota and Hawaii will ever be. The US and the EU are just not comparable in that sense.
daoudalqasir t1_je2b1d9 wrote
Reply to comment by oochre in TIL the majority of ancient Greeks and Romans that were literate read out loud. Reasons for this include a lack of space between letters and no formalized system of punctuation that helped with pauses in reading. by Ask_Me_If_Im_A_Horse
trup really is just a musical form of punctuation.