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While discussing the AI & Christianity series, I talked about artificial intelligence being a tool to spread one’s influence farther. I also noted how that was not a unique property of AI, computers or modern technology. Plenty of past inventions enabled an expansion of reach. A reminder of that came this past week in a story about the linguistics of tea. Apparently the words for ‘tea’ can be placed in one of two groups; they are either very similar to te or very similar to cha. Which kind of word you use depends on whether tea was exported to your country (or the country of your language’s origin) by land or by sea.
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