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Bookworm
Bookworm
12:53 AM
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Q: Is this dubious claim by a Donald Duck magazine from 1990 really accurate?

K. LeelingIn the bottom-right corner on page 34 of Walt Disney's Kalle Anka & C:o issue number 29, 16th July of 1990, there is this bizarre claim, translated here to English by me: Disney news Did you know that Disney comics are the world's most translated? On second place comes Lenin's collected works, o...

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b_jonas
b_jonas
8:33 AM
In Donizetti's Don Pasquale opera, is Don Pasquale's motivation to marry partially that it would give him a socially or legally more acceptible way to disinherit his nephew Ernesto? Or does that not figure into the issue, and he could disinherit Ernesto easily regardless?
And is this a question that I should ask on Lit?
 
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
9:24 AM
@Bookworm Non-standard HNQ.
@b_jonas In my opinion, the libretto for an opera can be the subject of literary questions.
@Bookworm After mulling this over a bit more, I decided to replace the tag tristan-and-isolde with history-of-literature, french-literature and german-literature (i.e. the literatures in which the most important early versions were written).
 
 
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Tsundoku
Tsundoku
4:37 PM
> “Most of the pragmatic reasons we give to justify our book hoarding are merely rationalisations for what is in reality a kind of fetish.” Yes. But also: 1) I love my books. 2) I use my library all the time. So. I. Will. Not. Part. With. A. Single. One.
 
 
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bobble
bobble
5:51 PM
@Tsundoku are you sure about the tag here? I thought it was originally in English.
 
 
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Tsundoku
Tsundoku
8:17 PM
@bobble The bottom of the page you linked to says "translated from the Uyghur by Joshua L. Freeman". Hence the language tag.
 
 
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Librarian
Librarian
9:43 PM
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Q: Do we want accepted answers on our site to be unpinned from the top?

TsundokuCurrently, accepted answers are always pinned at the top of the list of answers, regardless whether you sort them by "Active", "Oldest" or "Votes". You can see this for example in Did William Shakespeare hide things in his writings?, which has five answers.[1] Last week, Stack Overflow stopped pi...

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Tsundoku
Tsundoku
10:25 PM
We still have more than two weeks to pick the next topic challenge but I couldn't help noticing the narrow range of votes: 2 suggestions with 4 votes, 7 suggestions with three votes, 12 suggestions with 2 votes. (And 11 with just one vote.)
 

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