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Resumption of Indulgences Triggers Fears of Grace Inflation
ROME – With church membership still down after two centuries of recession, officials at the Vatican Reserve in 2009 announced the resumption of indulgences, a policy dubbed “Plenary Easing”, to spur church recovery. Three years in, however, some are beginning to question its effectiveness. Since 2009, the value of the Plenary . . .
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The Future of English
Languages can grammaticalize a lot of different things. Japanese grammaticalizes the shape of an object with a noun suffix. Turkish grammaticalizes how certain you are of a statement with a verb suffix. English doesn’t grammaticalize much. We just use extra adjectives and adverbs. However, I predict English will acquire a feature . . .