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Curiosity expands

#1. Why ceasefire, not firecease? There's no logic asking "what kind of fire is going on?" - "Ceasefire!". The primary word should define the latter one, at least in English and thus the base should be "cease" and further specified with "fire". There is no peaceful shooting in the world but this word really confuses one.

#2. Military service. If you don't agree to do the military service, there's an option for you to do the civil service. But if military is seen as a necessity for Finland and civil service not, why still is civil service obligatory for men only? And how come men don't rebel against this? It is actually the only and the greatest fossile of gender unequality in the country. I'm just wondering this (see my previous post for explanation of "wonder" to prevent syntax misunderstanding), since if women were obligated to serve the country in forms of, say, attending a slightly dangerous camp of "making chemical experiments to improve Finland's chemical industry", and men were not, I'm very sure they would hard oppose that law.
Also, as we all know, being born in a certain country is actually one of the only things you cannot decide yourself, right? So, isn't it the most irrational thing that you have to defend a place that you had the least opportunities to choose? The is a counter argument that every state provides its citizens with services like health care, but...and now it's getting difficult for me to argue...still something makes me think the logic lacks bad time.

#3. How did some languages evolve so that words became a challenge to pronounce for native speakers themselves? What was the purpose and intention? (As an example, I've heard that in Croatia, children need to be taught to pronounce different consonants at an early age since they have problem distinguishing them from each other).

#4. Who do they pack every single product in its own plastic bag in Portugal, possibly in some other country, too? I bought food in a supermarket and I got 9 plastic bags, each one of them extremely thin and about to fall apart.

#5. What do artists REALLY think about modern art, paintings with cubes and squares?

#6. What's the idea behind "compulsory tipping", as in the US in restaurants?

#7. Dubbing. I saw a soap opera being dubbed "roughly". There was one single male voice dubbing all the parts, speaking on top of the original voices, not even in sync with the lips. Are viewers disturbed or do they prefer that?

So again, I was just wondering...

posted by Anicko @ 12:12 PM