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When I installed the new Flash version, only one video wouldn't load, it just sat at 0:00 and I couldn't get it to load no matter what I did, including deleting history, cache, cookies.

Next day a few more wouldn't.

A few days later too many videos just sit at 0:00 and will not load. I've even un and reinstalled both Flash and Firefox. Never had this problem before. Tried to play videos on explorer, nothing. Gifs and swfs work fine though.

I've tried everything and nothing is fixing this problem. I'll try Vlc player, see if that helps. But any suggestions, any advice would be appreciated.

This is a serious question that's been on my mind lately. Serious, in that it's bugging me because I can't find any answers on the internet, and if I do, they're contradictory. That being said, I (in my own experience) learned that sex is only two things/categories: female/male. And that gender is a term only refering to word categories.

According to this dichotomy from wiki-p's article on Grammatical Gender (which if you can't tell by this point, I believe to be the only meaning of gender, but if it should change so be it):

masculine / feminine

masculine / feminine / neuter

animate / inanimate

human / non-human

human / animal / inanimate

male / other (I'm guessing it should be human/other, then again I can't say for sure, I don't know of any language that uses a male/other system)

So all in all, there's only two sexes and eight genders (well I can't find any examples of any other types of genders so I can't say there's more until more be named.

Also I'm a linguist (not professional, self motivated, i.e. amateur, no formal training or education in linguistics, a few classes but that's it.). When I learned that people used linguist to mean someone other than someone like myself that studies language, I was shocked. Just because I'm bilingual doesn't make me a linguist, but the fact that I study languages, and language in general, that does. (just trying to illustrate my question about gender, not asking another question)

So why did the two terms become conflagrated? Is it because sex also means sexual intercourse? If that's why, is it because people believe it's more polite? Or did someone or did a couple of someones popularise the conflagration?

And so you awesome people know and don't misunderstand: I love language, the changes in language are what keep it from being a boring thing: i.e. a napron was reanalised as an apron, and many other such things.

But I don't understand why people say gender where the term sex is appropriate. I've always seen sex m or f (and other places, you get my meaning I hope) and so it just seems weird to say gender.

So anybody that can help me out? VERY MUCH APPRECIATED. (also I am a native speaker of english but this is a rushed post).

I really do believe that English today is a mix between Anglo-Norman (or maybe Old French) and Anglo-Saxon. I understand that no language is exempt from change or borrowings. For example cheese comes from Old English cése which itself comes from Latin CÁSE(VS). Also for a language to be mixed it can't just borrow from many different languages, such as the misguided attempts to "improve" English when it had words enough and could coin new words from words already in the language. For example why don't we say wordbook anymore? Why say dictionary when wordbook does the job, but much better, it's even explains itself. But no my reasoning has to do with something much deeper than borrowed words. To point out a language considered to be mixed, I'll use the example of Mednyj Aleut, from Wikipedia, ...a mixture of Russian and Aleut, which retains Aleut verbs but has replaced most of the inflectional endings with their Russian equivalents. For instance we have the words research and seek. Research comes from MF recercher meaning seek; they actually mean the same thing as a verb. As far as I know seek doesn't actually have a noun form or can't be used as a noun, the closest would be a seeking, but for it we use the words research and search. But that's not my main point I wouldn't even say it's evidence of a mixed language, it's just a point. Basically to come close to the Mednyj Aleut example: in Modern English we can use the verb research along with seek, however, the inflexional endings will always be from Old English. -(e)st, -(e)th/-(e)s, -(e)d, -(e)d/-(e)n, -ing (thou searchest/tha searches, he/she/it searcheth/searches, whoever searched, I'm searching, something that has hidden, etc. but french verbs used in English never have any irregular forms as far as I'm aware of so the -(e)n ending wouldn't work) But maybe even the verbs aren't enough with nouns the plural and possessive forms are always from Old English: in Early Modern English the -n plural was still used somewhat so maybe we could say searchen at one time, but now just searches, and the search's result etc.

Basically with the nouns, adjectives, adverbs, etc. we can affix pre and suffixes of both English and French origins. For example we have king from cyng, cynig/cyning and royal from middle French (it may have been royel I don't know). Yet we can say kingly and royally. with -ly coming from Old English -lic. So with a level of fusion this high, can we say English today is a mix of Germanic and Romance (old English and old French)?

The radius of Betelgeuse varies by about 60% within a period of 3 years. If the stars surface temperature remains the same, what is the ratio of the two absolute magnitudes?

Another question that I can't get, I've tried.

A star has an apparent magnitude of 5.0 and a distance of 500 light years. What is its absolute magnitude?

How long does it take for one Earth mass of material to escape the sun as a solar wind?

Again, try but I can't get a right answer.

I've tried to figure it out, but nothing.

What is the minimum angular diameter of Jupiter in arc seconds. This would be when it is furthest from us.

Tried but the book's math confuses me.

If we assume that your body temperature is 310 K, then what is the wavelength of your peak emission in um (by um they mean mu m or micrometers)? What is the energy of a single photon at that wavelength in eV?

That's the question. When I do the math, according to the textbook, I always get different answers. I'm very bad with math.

Hydrogen emits a characteristic spectral line at 656.3 nanometers (nm), which is part of the Balmer series.

Imagine that an astronomer is gazing at a distant galaxy and he measures a hydrogen line from this distant galaxy at 659.8nm. He realizes that it is the 656.3nm line which has been redshifted. What is the velocity of the galaxy away from us in miles per hour?

That's the question. When I do the math, according to the textbook, I always get different answers. I'm very bad with math. The teacher doesn't answer my questions in any way that makes since. No links on how to do the math. I've looked through the book, and they wrote it so bad, that I can't look up one simple term like eV for another lab, I have to look it up online and found electron volts, then I went back, looked that up, and the equation didn't help, so any help?

Basically, this is my question:

I'm white, native american, and latino.

I tend to be more attracted to darker features, dark hair (straight or curly [i have curly so i prefer curly, does that make me narcissistic? just a thought]), dark eyes, dark skin (or really light skin for some reason).

Anyways, anybody know any biological reasons?

My mom was attracted to my dad, because, well he’s definitely native american (gets mistakin for mexican alot) with the jet black hair black eyes and coffee brown skin. So she likes the darker features and I guess I get it from her so it would seem to be genetic.

So to some it up, I lean toward more black, asian, native american, etc features, and white if she gots dark hair and eyes, and is it my "darker" native american side, or is there some genetic reason from the white, or does anyone know any good scientific reasons, like i said, I think it's genetic.

Basically, what attracts me any ideas? And for that matter what does attract us if anyone knows any good site on the subject.

Or rather, I should ask, why do people think that English is the hardes language to learn? Why cuz the spelling is about 80% phonetic? Or maybe because one word has 3 meanings (better yet, three different words are spelled the same cuz of the leveling from old english like bat (animal), bat (thing), and bat [an eyelash] (verb)?), like in any language (case in point Castilian [aka spanish] adjective rata stingy/tightfisted, noun miser/stingy/devil/tightwad/rate/ratio/percentage, animal rat), basically, every language is equally hard and equally easy. Because all children learn their native language or even 6 native languages if you're an aborigional from Australia, with ease, they're all about the same. Now picking up a language is another matter, it depends on the situation, motivation of learner, and other factors, which may make it seem hard. And if this doesn't make a believer out of people that believe English is the hardest language on Earth, please check out these links to compare the conjugation of to be in modern English, German, etc

When, if you do, look at the conjugations, and the conjugation of to look in English, notice how you don't change the form exept maybe 4 times look, looks, looking looked, whereas a language like latin does it 170 times.

http://www.verbix.com/languages/oldenglish/beon

http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/English/be (look up look also for english)

http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/Spanish/ser

http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/Spanish/estar

http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/Asturian/ser

http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/Asturian/estar

http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/Galician/ser

http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/Galician/estar

http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/Catalan/ser (ésser)

http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/Latin/esse

And if my examples don't convert you to realizing that English is not the hardest language in the world, look at the verb conjugations and compare.

And one more thing, Spanish, Galician, and Asturian, and a couple other related languages have two different ways of saying to be, ser and estar, Old English had three (not early modern english, aka shakespearian english) beon, wesan, sindon (which merged into today's to be).

Hope this educates and changes some minds to realize that spelling (which is separate from grammar), different meanings, and pronunciation a hard or difficult language do not make.

Although if you have anything to show me that English is a hard language I welcome it, but the grammar is pretty simple so it'd take some pretty big evidence.

I'd also like to add that there's no gramatical gender, Latin and German have three (masculine, femenine, and neuter), the romance languages as far as I know just have two (m/f). The nouns conjugate only for singular and plural, cat/s vs Spanish gato/gata/gatos/gatas., the adjectives have only one form, and they don't have to agree with the noun, red water, red waters, red car, red cars vs Spanish agua roja, aguas rojas, coche rojo, coches rojos. And get this, no declensions, that little annoying thing in German called case, each latin noun had 6 cases (sometimes 7), 3 genders, and two numbers(singular/plural), where as english has no cases, no genders, 2 numbers.

And if none of that convinces you maybe this will:

Depending on where and how you use it in a sentence, red water or red waters will translate to any of the six forms shown, same for red state or states or even fodder, i had to find a neuter noun.

feminine

red water red waters

aqua russa aquae russae

aquae russae aquarum russarum

aquae russae aquis russis

aquam russam aquas russas

aqua russa aquis russis

aqua russa aquae russae

masculine

red state red states

status russus status russi

status russi statuum russorum

statui russo statibus russis

statum russum status russos

statu russo statibus russis

status russe status russi

neuter

red fodder red fodders

pabulum russum pabula russa

pabuli russi pabulorum russorum

pabulo russo pabulis russis

pabulum russum pabula russa

pabulo russo pabulis russis

pabulum russum pabula russa

And English today is a farcry from Old English, much more complicated.

And hey where one language is hard another one is easy and vice versa.

So after all that is English the hardest language, I think not, and besides all languages are about even, I mean look at the English/Latin comparasons, even as complicated as it is, there is a patter to follow (and that's including the fact that there are 5 maybe 6 classes with different setups each, i used just one.)

So is english the hardest language, thou tellest me. Ok, I'm done, I hope ye (y'all) learn something, good night.

I cannot figure it out.

I do want to thank the people who have responded. I'm not the average American, I'm very interested in the world around me. I have another question that I'd like to ask. In UK, do you have the same problems with who vs. whom as we do?

If you have any questions about the US or our English just ask me

Since I am from the US, I want to know some of the stereotypes that you have heard. Also, as you can tell I can speak properly but that does not mean that I do on a normal basis. Yall heard! Aint no thang but a chicken wang! Ya lo sabeis! In all seriousness though, please I wanna know what yall think. And I'll correct yall when I see an incorrect stereotype.

Since I am from the US, I want to know some of the stereotypes that you have heard. Also, as you can tell I can speak properly but that does not mean that I do on a normal basis. Yall heard! Aint no thang but a chicken wang! Ya lo sabeis! In all seriousness though, please I wanna know what yall think. And I'll correct yall when I see an incorrect stereotype.