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Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns (2006)
This rant is utterly idiotic. The great investment in literary allure is there in order to mask its hollow emptiness. Why should one class of words be put on a pedestal above another? Gee, I don't know, could it just be because natural languages ALL DO THE SAME? All natural languages have something called a WORD…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Feb 13, 2013 | Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns (2006) by ksdlck | 94 | 67 |
| Jul 3, 2014 | Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns (2006) by bloke_zero | 73 | 25 |
| Apr 9, 2011 | Java: Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns by Garbage | 66 | 12 |
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