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All of the above is why the whole world should fit between Boston and New York. If you can't get to it in 4 hours and/or on an interconnected set of train and public transity systems, why bother??
meaning of 'diachronic'
things what change over time. If you study how classrooms have taught Beowulf in the last 150 years, you're doing a diachronic study.
moonlit, are you bursting into song, then?No Nutty, I'm pondering people's conceptions of democracy, relative to their age (as in specifically those born 50s & 60s).
Question - 'cos it's 3.15am and I can't be bothered going to my books and you'll all answer so much faster.
What year did African Americans get the vote and what year did women?
sarameg, no I didn't, I assume the article is in the NYT?
Betsy, though I'm sure someone will have answered before me,
diachronic: Of or concerned with phenomena, such as linguistic features, as they change through time.and less formally too.
And what, she said plaintively, is the meaning of 'diachronic'?
Happening, or perceived to happen, over a period of time; "synchronic" is simultaneous. In the litcritty world where I learned the terms, narrative is diachronic -- you can't help but start, and go on, and end; visual art is synchronic -- you can see it all at once.
(and, weirdly, I spent a long time searching my mind for those two words the other day and couldn't find them)
If you can't get to it in 4 hours and/or on an interconnected set of train and public transity systems, why bother??
Because otherwise gardening would be really boring. Microclimates! Macroclimates! Gooooo team!
What year did African Americans get the vote and what year did women?
I can't remember exact dates, but African Americans were around 1868 and women were around 1920.
1868? Sorry hit post too fast.
Was it really that early? Wow.
African Americans were around 1868
But there's a whole lot of Jim Crow tied up around this.
Which I don't have the details on, US history being a weak point of mine.
Although practically speaking, it was both earlier and later than Hil's dates, because individual states gave rights at different times (northeastern states gave the right to non-whites earlier, and poineer states in the west were all about the women's vote), but practice and tradition made for "Oh yeah, it's technically legal, but no way you actually get to do it" situations in many parts of the country for a long time.
1868?
I just checked. It was the 15th amendment, which was ratified in 1870.
Wasn't there some country (GB, maybe?) which gave voting rights to WWI war widows, then extended them to all women?