English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Robusto

01:26

CowperKettle

01:59

> That burst of joy you feel when, after being sad because you have no shoes, you meet someone who has no feet? It’s called unshod-denfreude.

Robusto

Works better without the hyphen: unshoddenfreude.

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Robusto

03:59

Things are Changing Very Fast

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Interesting thoughts on the AI revolution.

CowperKettle

05:52

Top Russian propagandist warns Russians that this war will touch every household

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Interesting thoughts on fighting the Satanic West.

Vikas

> According to new polling data, Russians narrowly support negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, but they also overwhelmingly reject the return of annexed regions such as Crimea or Donbas.

The findings, from a joint survey conducted in November by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the Moscow-based Levada Center, were released Tuesday and suggest that even if Russians are tired of the war, peace negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow could face significant constraints.

CowperKettle

nods

Vikas

Sometimes we hear a strong and loud sound near my area. Even bed shakes slightly and doors shake significantly. It's definitely not earthquake. Not sure what is it. It could be sonic boom maybe. We have a military airport 40 Kms away.

I feel terrified briefly.

CowperKettle

Word of the day: the Katechon (Solovied said about Russia in the video: "we are the Katechon", so I had to google it up)

> from Ancient Greek κατέχον (katékhon, “that which withholds”) or Ancient Greek κατέχων (katékhōn, “the one who withholds”).

@Vikas Could it be mining activity?

They sometimes use explosives when mining some ore.

Vikas

@CowperKettle No. Nothing like. Also it's not industrial area. The other possibility could be an electrical transformer blast. But I would be surprised if it could be so string. I will ask my neighbors later.

Vikas

09:34

Plenty of sunshine.

CowperKettle

Wow.

You are blessed. Here it's cold and windy.

It's good for jogging, but I feel bad after jogging, especially now on venlafaxine.

You have +24C, an ideal weather.

user4539917

10:07

the special operation must have caused a lot of anxiety among the people

Perhaps, sugar coating it with the many English politically correct adjectives may help.

M.A.R.

@Robusto well uh, I was going for a "too touched by religion to just let go" vibe

@CowperKettle aha, thought it's a new trend or something

@user4539917 venlafaxine is not a politically correct adjective

user4539917

I was referring to the anxiety, sir.

CowperKettle

@user4539917 People are afraid to be mobilized, or of their relatives being mobilized

user4539917

Fear mongers capitalize on that feeling.

Especially now with the internet.

CowperKettle

Fear mongers? There are death reports daily on the local website.

e1.ru/text/world/2022/12/14/71890700

user4539917

10:21

At some point you have to think about how those "reports" will make you feel, no?

Will it increase your dosage of venlafaxine?

CowperKettle

No. I'm at a high dose already.

user4539917

Are you feeling any side effects?

CowperKettle

Drowsiness, weakness after runs, sometimes increased sweating.

And for some reason I get shellshocked after drinking cocoa. Maybe it's inducing hyponatriemia when you drink too much liquid.

I mean extra tired and drowsy.

Milnacipran is way better, to my taste. I would like also to try levomilnacipran.

user4539917

Prolonged usage of any chemical isn't wise in the long run.

CowperKettle

> The first chocolate drink is believed to have been created by the Maya around 2,500–3,000 years ago, and a cocoa drink was an essential part of Aztec culture by 1400 AD, by which they referred to as xocōlātl.

Xanne

10:33

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user4539917

The best self-preserving plan would be to try and reduce your dosages naturally.

Which is a lot easier said than done.

M.A.R.

12:18

@user4539917 I think if I were to ascribe malicious intentions to all the BS I face around me, I'd be a miserable person indeed

Such speculation is rarely enlightening and always disheartening

@CowperKettle probably not. Hyponatremia is difficult to develop as far as I know and pretty serious

@user4539917 sorry, it was a bad joke

It's probably some weird gastrointestinal effect

@user4539917 I dunno, my prolonged usage of water hasn't had any side effects that I can think of

@user4539917 no, the best self-preversing plan would be to trust one's healthcare professional

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I'm of course biased

When a physician says "why not?" and trusts Cowp with his personal experience of which medication is the most effective, which is reflecting the lack of any optimal choices, it doesn't mean self-medication is also healthy, or that every switch is possible.

CowperKettle

Where Jesus has been more popular than The Beatles, by Google-searches since 2004.

CowperKettle

13:18

In the 21st century somebody is interested in caste?

Horrible.

CowperKettle

13:41

Word of the day: shitgibbon (a type of antibacchic compound word used as an insult, consisting of a single-syllable expletive, followed by an absurd or innocuous two-syllable noun as a trochee)

shitgibbon

Noun: shitgibbon (plural shitgibbons)

(slang, derogatory, vulgar) A contemptible person.
(Can we verify(+) this sense?) (UK, music, dated) A music bootlegger.
(linguistics) A type of antibacchic compound word used as an insult, consisting of a single-syllable expletive, followed by an absurd or innocuous two-syllable noun as a trochee.

CowperKettle

13:54

I came across the word douchecanoe, and in the etymology section it was written that the word is a shitgibbon. So, douchecanoe is a shitgibbon? So I went to read up on shitgibbon. D'oh. Turns out it's an antibacchic compound with a trochee.

jlliagre

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@Xanne The first word was tricky!

Vikas

@CowperKettle And you're blessed in summer 😆

jlliagre

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Robusto

14:35

@CowperKettle Yeah, so they say. But Jesus never made the Billboard Hot 100, even there.

CowperKettle

Trenches under construction in Russia's Belgorod Region, just north of Ukraine.

They look impressive.

Deep and well-built.

But useless, since Ukraine won't invade Russia.

Mitch

@Robusto CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

furiously listens to christian rock

Well

what I came here to say

Robusto

You have to play those on a turntable at 45 rpm.

Mitch

was

CowperKettle

Chris Rock

Mitch

14:42

No one uses Beatles as profanity...

so

they can't be -that- good

@CowperKettle He's pretty good

CowperKettle

One can use The Beatles in an antibacchic compound with a trochee.

Mitch

ok...why isn't 'antibacchic' the word of the day?

parz

hi

Mitch

I'll sit here listening to chris rock while I wait for your answer

CowperKettle

Because
Blind luck is
loved more than
hard thinking.

Antibacchius

An antibacchius is a rare metrical foot used in formal poetry. In accentual-syllabic verse an antibacchius consists of two accented syllables followed by one unaccented syllable. Its opposite is a bacchius. Example: Blind luck is loved more than hard thinking. == Referenced == Anthon, C. (1844). A System of Latin Prosody and Metre, etc. Harper & Bros. p. 134. Retrieved 2021-04-29.

Mitch

14:44

@CowperKettle hey. make sure you don't walk on the grass

@CowperKettle huh

walks down the street stepping with just that accent

then a small child joins me in the same pattern

and a small dog

then a house wife and a police officer

parz

pop music begins playing in the background

O-o-o-Ozempic…

Mitch

then a whole neighborhood dressed in psychedelic regalia

Robusto

Then a commercial for chocolate comes on.

Mitch

We're off to see the Wizard!

Robusto

Not until you clean your room!

Mitch

14:47

who by the way was never as good as the Beatles

parz

THE ACTORS WENT ROGUE

Mitch

@parz OMG that's a brain worm that I would use a rusty spoon to get out of my head

@Robusto grumbles

shuts door

parz

@Mitch but it will live forever.

Mitch

hums ozempic theme

CowperKettle

The Simpsons - Planet Of The Apes Musical - Dr. Zaius

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parz

14:49

ayo

@cowp what dis

CowperKettle

@parz Nice song ))

parz

I’M DYING

CowperKettle

> I hate every ape I see, from chimpan-A to chimpan-Z

Mitch

@CowperKettle To be perfectly honest about this one situation, I feel really bad for the Russian soldiers who had to dig those trenches. The ground is so hard well before snow covers it.

parz

COWP WHAT MUSIC HAS REACHED MINE EARS

Mitch

14:51

Hey... can't they use backhoes and stuff if they're preparing ahead? (and there's no possibility of enemy fire)

parz

Hey, I have a JAPANESE question.

Why, in the J-League, (Japan’s top flight for football), is it transliterated as “Sakka”?

I was thinking “Sakkaru”, where the normal speed of speech would make it sound like “Sakkar”.

CowperKettle

Who is transliterated as Sakka?

> This study shows that it’s possible to track and predict fluctuations in people’s mental health status based on how they type on their phone with nearly 95% accuracy. - Bennet et al., in Nature Digital Medicine.

Robusto

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Missed one out of 14 bordering countries. What a grind.

parz

J.League

The J.League (Japanese: Jリーグ, Hepburn: Jē Rīgu), officially Japan Professional Football League (日本プロサッカーリーグ, Nihon Puro Sakkā Rīgu, literally "Japan Pro Soccer League") is Japan's professional football league including the first division J1 League, second division J2 League and third division J3 League of the Japanese association football league system. J1 League is one of the most successful leagues in Asian club football. It is currently sponsored by Meiji Yasuda Life and thus officially known as the Meiji Yasuda J.League (Japanese: 明治安田生命Jリーグ). == History == === Before the profession...

“Nihon Puro Sakkā Rigu”

CowperKettle

Ah! I've no idea..

parz

14:55

@Robusto that list of neighbors slams different when one could disappear at any time…

Robusto

@parz Because the last syllable is extended, mimicking the British /r/, which is not voiced.

parz

Ahh, so they chose off of the British pron, but then why did they choose soccer?

Robusto

That is also a British word.

Don't forget, the Japanese also drive on the left, which is also a British thing.

CowperKettle

And they drink tea, which is a British thing, borrowed from China.

Robusto

And, as John McWhorter says, "No language makes perfect sense."

parz

14:58

It only started in 1993! I thought the word soccer would have been established as an “American” thing by then… but maybe I’m just wrong.

@Robusto toki pona does and you can’t change my mind

CowperKettle

#Worldle #327 1/6 (100%)
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I even guessed the flag

Robusto

May 8, 2013 at 21:41, by Robusto

Animé proves that the Japanese are not only stranger than we imagine, but stranger than we can imagine.

CowperKettle

@Mitch They are lucky, because they are not being shelled.

Robusto

@CowperKettle Lucky guess.

Did you get the 14th neighbor?

CowperKettle

@Robusto Yes, all of them

Robusto

15:01

What was the 14th one, that little sperm-cell-looking one?

CowperKettle

@Robusto Hm.. Norway?

Robusto

Ohhhh! Ferchrissakes, I forgot they had a border!

If they showed these things to scale it would be easier.

CowperKettle

Yes, there's a tiny border. There was a nice song about that border. RegDwight would have guessed this song right away.

Прощайте скалистые горы - Песни военных лет - ЛУЧШИЕ ФОТО

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Рыбачий (полуостров)

Рыба́чий (сев.‑саам. Giehkirnjárga — Гиэхкирнйа́рга; фин. Kalastajasaarento — Каластайасааренто; норв. Fiskerhalvøya — Фискерхалвёйа) или Мотка — полуостров на севере России. Административно входит в Печенгский район Мурманской области. Омывается Баренцевым морем, губой Большая Волоковая и Мотовским заливом. Представляет собой плато, круто обрывающееся к морю. Плато сложено глинистыми сланцами, песчаниками и известняками. Наивысшая точка — гора Эйна, 299 м. Тундровая растительность. Прибрежные воды богаты рыбой (сельдью, треской, мойвой и др.). К югу от полуострова расположен полуостров Средний...

There was some heavy fighting in WWII on this peninsula, hence the song

Rybachy Peninsula

Rybachy Peninsula (Russian: полуо́стров Рыба́чий, poluostrov Rybachiy; Northern Sami: Giehkirnjárga; Norwegian: Fiskerhalvøya; Finnish: Kalastajasaarento) is the northernmost part of continental European Russia. Its name is translated as "Fisher Peninsula". It is connected with the Sredny Peninsula, "Middle Peninsula" by a thin isthmus. So the peninsula is in fact nearly completely surrounded by water. Administratively, it is included into Pechengsky District of Murmansk Oblast and is within several hours of ride from Murmansk. Main occupations of the population are reindeer herding and (since...

> During the World War II for three years it was an arena of a positional war between Germans and Soviets. The peninsula covered the access to Murmansk and Arkhangelsk, which were the main gates for the Lend-Lease. The front split the peninsula in two parts, both sides having heavily fortified positions.

parz

@Cowp I see we’re holding our ‘Article Reader Club’ meeting today.

I forgot to do my homework…

CowperKettle

Yep.

parz

15:05

I didn’t read the ‘English Premier League’ page and then follow it down to regional leagues.

CowperKettle

I had a dream in which I forgot to bring my homework to school, but brought my cat.

parz

I understand I am a failure.

Hey! ‘Failure’, ‘ailuro-‘ meaning cat!

That’s convenient!

My candidate for “Shortest Article Read” is:

Uganda women's national volleyball team

The Uganda women's national volleyball team represents Uganda in international women's volleyball competitions and friendly matches. == References == Uganda Volleyball Federation

Hmm. Who wrote it?

Oh wait, it got self-censored.

Never mind.

CowperKettle

@parz My fave article in Wikipedia was Diet of Worms

parz

I have a Toyota GR36.

Do you want to know its name?

note: above is fictional and only serves a joke

CowperKettle

parz

15:13

And it has a citation?!

Where could you get a citation for that!?

CowperKettle

> Nichols D, Barker E (2016). "Psychedelics". Pharmacological Reviews. 68 (2): 264–355. doi:10.1124/pr.115.011478. PMC 4813425. PMID 26841800.

Here's the citation

parz

And it’s in a scientific paper!!!

CowperKettle

)))

Mitch

@CowperKettle That marketing blurb sounds like BS, but the paper title less so (but still in the BS direction). In the sense that it doesn't sound plausible (95% accuracy from accelerometer data to predict bipolar).

I mean... OK so if you stay in bed all day, sure. But by then you kinda know already?

parz

If I see something that looks like a scientific paper, it’s a scientific paper.

CowperKettle

15:19

@Mitch Yes, I guess we're in the period of time when there's a lot of such overpromising headlines.

Mitch

@CowperKettle yes, well aware of the situation. I was making a pinhole camera remark.

parz

Huh. Interesting fact of the day: yesterday was Sankta Lucia day, and we missed a talk about Swedish transliteration!

Mitch

@CowperKettle Things usually fall out in the end. We'll eventually get self driving cars, but not for quite a while.

We'll eventually get nuclear fusion but not next year (even though yesterday's news is pretty amazing)

We'll eventually get human-like chatting that involves facts and can do things for us and acts like it understands us (it doesn't matter if it actually -does- understand us). But not for a while.

parz

ChatGPT is still pretty amazing, although it lacks the ability to write a large poem without a slip up in the rhyme scheme.

Mitch

The primary use case of ChatGPT is... writing student's essays for them.

parz

15:24

That

is

…

probably right.

CowperKettle

> Upon this age, that never speaks its mind,
This furtive age, this age endowed with power
To wake the moon with footsteps, fit an oar
Into the rowlocks of the wind, and find
What swims before his prow, what swirls behind ---
Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour,
Rains from the sky a meteoric shower
Of facts . . . they lie unquestioned, uncombined.

parz

Let’s play a game: IS IT BY CHATGPT OR NOOOOOOOT

Number one…

Mitch

@parz Yes. Super amazing. But it's not connected to facts it's only a (amazingly good) pattern matcher. Any things like the ability to do logic or causal inference just pops out of recombining texts that have those kinds of things in them.

parz

That’s what humans are.

We saw something killing people…

we saw the pattern…

so we fixed it.

Mitch

@parz I don't know much about Toki Pona except for its name which is awesome. I think I read on its wiki page (probably written by ChatGPT) that one of the motivations of its creator was to embody the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (have language -be- thought).

Which I think is pretty silly.

Just use logical notation already.

parz

15:30

Well, it's possibly one of the best recorded conlangs and makes the most sense out of any of them…

but Duolingo only teaches… I don’t know, HIGH AS A KITE VALYRIAN, so I can’t learn it yet.

Mitch

@CowperKettle Everybody does it. Caste was abolished (legally...sort of) in India in the 50's, but you (they) walk down the street and that same conversation goes through your (their) head. (or this is what Indians tell me). @vikas does that sound like what happens? Even though caste is 'old-fashioned', doesn't everybody (in India) still think about it and try to pigeon-hole people based on it?

I've seen/heard/read all sorts of articles on how Indians in the US, even though they try to get away from it find that it still follows them here.

@parz Is there a group of people that try to speak/write Toki Pona?

parz

Yes, mainly on websites but there are some IRL meetups.

Robusto

@parz Also, don't forget that there is no rhotic /r/ in Japanse. You can't end a word on an r

parz

@Robusto I was hoping that the regular cadence of speech would make the ‘u’ sound very quiet, almost unnoticeable.

Robusto

Hopes dashed, sorry.

parz

15:37

Welp.

Memrise’s speech is FASSST, clipping a few vowels along the way.

Mitch

OK finally now that that is all out of the way... I came here to ask (specifically of but not limited to @tchrist)...

@tchrist What is the most respected Spanish language news source? Are the Spain Spanish newspapers highly regarded above the Latin American ones? Are there world-respected sources in Spanish? Is RNE a source of the most reliable Spanish language news even for Latin America? Or are the Mexican and Argentinian and etc local country news sources more reliable?

CowperKettle

Word of the minute: dike (a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body)

parz

Word of the second: automegalogolex (the act of looking up the meaning of automegalogolex) See Christmas.

CowperKettle

Ah. I first read it as "automegalocortex"

Robusto

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parz

15:43

I did too, but then realized the “logo” root fit better.

SHEESH @ROBUSTO

HE’S A MADMAN

Robusto

My spacebar is broken.

Newkeyboardtime.

CowperKettle

@Robusto No, you could try cleaning it

parz

Read as “New key, board time.”

Robusto

@CowperKettle Cleaningwhatexactly?

CowperKettle

@Robusto The keyboard

Sometimes something gets under the key, and it gets stuck

Ah. It was a joke.

> How does the German baker greet his customers?
Gluten Morgen.

Robusto

15:49

@CowperKettle No, it was a desperate cry for helpl.

CowperKettle

)))

Robusto

But I pried off the spacebar and blew it out and that seems to help.

CowperKettle

Weird word for a soup mix of sliced vegetables: mirepoix (/mɪərˈpwɑː/) -- named after Gaston de Lévis, duc de Mirepoix (1699–1757).

Robusto

Thanks for the tip.

CowperKettle

Ah! Glad that helped!

Micro-dosing rats with psilocybin who have autism-like fragile X syndrome found to improve symptoms

Mitch

16:08

Start adding psychoactives to the water system

like they wanted to do in the 60's

parz

Don’t fix autism.

Or, even something like it.

Why did they call those “symptoms”, anyways?

Mitch

@parz For some ASD is a superpower

For some... it can be debilitating

Frankly, why are they always talking about how to improve introverts symptoms? "Here's how you can be more open!"

Instead they should be telling extroverts that they have a problem.

Get them to clam up some times

I mean they can be entertaining sometimes

But you want to be able to get a word in edgewise.

Sometimes a pregnant pause in a group is kinda nice.

A pregnant mouse in a group is not not so nice

Robusto

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Mitch

I mean, it's probably nice for the mouse

Robusto

I think we need more well-adjusted mice.

Mitch

16:15

They should probably stay a little scared of people. not get too complacent.

Robusto

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Thought I would score better. But alas, it was not to be.

My wife and I are having a Covid divorce ... er, separation.

She tested positive Monday night and we are now in separate rooms for the duration. And she masks in the common areas.

I tested negative yesterday, hope it keeps up.

parz

@Robusto oh, that’s too bad

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I don’t know HOW I got top left in time.

CowperKettle

16:34

@Robusto I'm sorry!

But I hope you're both have been vaccinated twice at least by now.

@parz Don't fix autism? Even autism caused by BCKDK deficiency?

Robusto

@CowperKettle Yes, thanks. Max-vaxxed and double-boosted. Both of us.

parz

Okay, BCKDK i can see fixing…

CowperKettle

Autism is a conglomerate of conditions, and some of them, if you don't fix them, will get worse.

parz

and the same goes for other conditions…

CowperKettle

Branched-chain keto acid dehydrogenase kinase deficiency

Branched-chain keto acid dehydrogenase kinase deficiency (BCKDK deficiency) is a disease resulting from mutations of the BCKDK gene. Patients with BCKDK deficiency have low levels of branched chain amino acids (BCAA) in their organism due to accelerated breakdown of these essential amino acids. This results in delayed brain development, which may present as intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder. Patients may suffer from epileptic seizure. == History == The disease was first described in 2012 in three unrelated families.Later on, García-Cazorla, Oyarzabal et al. confirmed that BCKDK...

There's an ongoing revolution in autism research.

I started this page this summer.

parz

16:36

but i feel like some of pop culture has gotten stuck on “WE HAVE TO FIND A CURE FOR IT WOWOWOW”

CowperKettle

I'd like to start a page about SHANK3 in the Russian Wikipedia, that gene is related to autism too

It's so interesting to read all this research.

There's a great site about latest molecular reseach of autism: spectrumnews.org/news

Some rare metabolic derangements and rare forms of epilepsy are also linked to autism.

The UK recently announced that 100 thousand newborns will have their whole genome sequenced. That will bring a lot of data to cure or prevent some autisms.

Vikas

@CowperKettle Yes. It's deeply rooted in Indian societies/culture. Not everyone believes in it but a lot of people believe in it. My parents believe it. So do neighbors. I'm from a small town where it's more common. Oh wait, do you think it's better in big cities? It is probably better it's common there too. Things are improving but it will take a long time.

@Mitch Yes. Very common. When I go for walk, random people very very often ask me where is your home, what is your father's name and last but not least, what is your caste.

They won't judge you but it doesn't feel right.

Robusto

@Vikas Just tell them you're a caste-away in India.

Vikas

Yeah.

Sometimes I brainstorm funny/smart ways to respond to them so they would feel embarrassed.

CowperKettle

Do school teachers tell kids that it's bad to divide people into castes?

Vikas

16:48

@CowperKettle I can't remember but I think so. At least our textbooks taught so that dividing/hate based on caste is a bad thing.

Robusto

@Vikas You could also try "Isn't it obvious? What kind of a Hindu are you?"

CowperKettle

Maybe something similar happened in Russia before 1917, when it mattered if you were of the noble class or not.

Vladimir Lenin took care to write himself in the police papers as "Vladimir Ulyanov, noble by birth"

Because if you're a noble, you get better treatment in prison.

So he got himself stacks of books hauled into prison by friends, to continue his studies )))

Vikas

Brahmo Samaj

Brahmo Samaj (Bengali: ব্রহ্ম সমাজ, romanized: Brahmô Sômaj, Bengali pronunciation: [bram.ho ʃɔ.b̤a]) is the societal component of Brahmoism, which began as a monotheistic reformist movement of the Hindu religion that appeared during the Bengal Renaissance. It was one of the most influential religious movements in India and made a significant contribution to the making of modern India. It was started at Calcutta on 20 August 1828 by Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Dwarkanath Tagore as reformation of the prevailing Brahmanism of the time (specifically Kulin practices) and began the Bengal Renaissance of...

> Brahmo Samajists are against caste system.

I think I read this in school books.

Arya Samaj

Arya Samaj (Hindi: आर्य समाज, lit. 'Noble Society', IAST: Ārya Samāja) is a monotheistic Indian Hindu reform movement that promotes values and practices based on the belief in the infallible authority of the Vedas. The samaj was founded by the sannyasi (ascetic) Dayanand Saraswati on 7 April 1875.Arya Samaj was the first Hindu organization to introduce proselytization in Hinduism. The organization has also worked towards the growth of civil rights movement in India since 1800s. == Dayananda Saraswati and Foundation == The Arya Samaj was established in Bombay on 10 April 1875 by Dayananda Saraswati...

Similarly this.

They also talked about caste system.

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