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In some cases you can see
the resemblance, but one question I was wondering about
was whether tones would be similar. They're not. That's
interesting to me, because there's a theory that the
tones evolved from additional syllables that got lost
and replaced. Their effect survives in the tone. If
that's true, and I've seen claims that that happened
within historic times, the dialects must have diverged
before the loss of these final syllables."
The first dish, a plate of pan-fried turnip cakes, has
arrived. Both Stallman and I take a moment to carve up
the large rectangular cakes, which smell like boiled
cabbage but taste like potato latkes fried in bacon.
I decide to bring up the outcast issue again, wondering
if Stallman's teenage years conditioned him to take
unpopular stands, most notably his uphill battle since
1994 to get computer users and the media to replace the
popular term "Linux" with "GNU/Linux."
"I believe it did help me," Stallman says, chewing on a
dumpling. "I have never understood what peer pressure
does to other people.


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