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Renrijra Krin
39m ago
I mean I disagree. The reason people think of Harvard as a top tier school is because of the faculty it attracts and the work they do. If they all leave for greener pastures, the only thing left is the name. Sure you can coast on that for a while, but other schools who get the great professors and scientists will see their stars rise against Harvard’s downswing. If you can’t argue that you’re doing the best research, or developing minds under the best professors, on what, exactly is the prestige based? Name brand can help, but if it becomes obvious that Harvard graduates are not as good as in years past, they lose.
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59m ago
IIRC the simplification was not the only thing that fucked it up, it's also a lot of stuff like "oh, but if you crack open Beowulf you'll see that these words totally sounded the same back then!" if you imagine Mandarin as English.
Reminds me of Ross' wordless sound poems.
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