Tu Thanh Ha
@tuthanhha.bsky.social
Globe and Mail reporter based in Toronto after postings in Quebec City, Ottawa, Montreal.
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He says he's not challenging the genealogical research that countered his claim to being Indigenous.
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 AM
He says he's not challenging the genealogical research that countered his claim to being Indigenous.
"I have to survive the firestorm that’s coming. The anger. The disbelief. The feelings of betrayal. The media that will reduce a painful and complex matter to a series of misleading chyrons and simplistic sound bites."
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Opinion: A most inconvenient Indian
At 82, I feel as though I’ve been ripped in half, a one-legged man in a two-legged story. Not the Indian I had in mind. Not an Indian at all
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November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
"I have to survive the firestorm that’s coming. The anger. The disbelief. The feelings of betrayal. The media that will reduce a painful and complex matter to a series of misleading chyrons and simplistic sound bites."
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Ninety in French is "quatre-vingt-dix" -- "four-twenty-ten."
November 21, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Ninety in French is "quatre-vingt-dix" -- "four-twenty-ten."
Apparently Gaelic also has a 20-base vocabulary but I defer to people more knowledgeable (@marshamcleod.bsky.social ?) to confirm.
Anyway, looking at vigesimal systems was a flashback to computer science undergrad classes where we had to do math in binary or base-8 counting systems.
Anyway, looking at vigesimal systems was a flashback to computer science undergrad classes where we had to do math in binary or base-8 counting systems.
November 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Apparently Gaelic also has a 20-base vocabulary but I defer to people more knowledgeable (@marshamcleod.bsky.social ?) to confirm.
Anyway, looking at vigesimal systems was a flashback to computer science undergrad classes where we had to do math in binary or base-8 counting systems.
Anyway, looking at vigesimal systems was a flashback to computer science undergrad classes where we had to do math in binary or base-8 counting systems.
(Source: Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global by Laura Spinney)
Even in our predominantly decimal-based world, base 20 counting still pokes its head up here and there.
A famous example: "Four score and seven years ago ..."
Even in our predominantly decimal-based world, base 20 counting still pokes its head up here and there.
A famous example: "Four score and seven years ago ..."
November 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
(Source: Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global by Laura Spinney)
Even in our predominantly decimal-based world, base 20 counting still pokes its head up here and there.
A famous example: "Four score and seven years ago ..."
Even in our predominantly decimal-based world, base 20 counting still pokes its head up here and there.
A famous example: "Four score and seven years ago ..."