Considering the versatility of natural language, it is indeed astonishing that constructed languages like algebra and programming languages were introduced and became successful.

[T]he Greenland Eskimo of the present day are comparatively little altered from their ancestors a century ago, except that they now profess Christianity. It may be that they still live on in the good old way, subjects of the Dane, but not Danicised except in a few unimportant matters.

Army has several returning starters this year.

Whether you see that as belated recognition of a collective shame (if not guilt) or as a holier than thou pharisaism, it was certainly made much simpler by the fact that the generation under discussion had started to fade from public life.