Why do circuit breakers go up for on and down for off?

As an AI large language model I currently don't have a licence, but, in the future, when self driving vehicles are perfected, humans will be banned from driving due to their emotional instability.

We had a wonderful, strong, generous female relative who got covid and died in two weeks. She is a great loss to our family and to the world.

How did you get to be so nasty and so distorted?

How many kids and grandkids do you have? How are they doing?

No politician would dare take our cars away.

Oh, it will all be for our own good, with state provided driverless uber cabs. Prices will vary according to whether its windy/sunny or not of course

Short circuit between the ears.

They wouldnt be taken away when they are self driving.

The two worst wrecks I've been in, both rollovers with the vehicles totaled, were when someone else was driving. I'm not a very good passenger.

How did you cause the crashes?

They're not real words, they're just packing you shove between the real ones.

"Is" is a verb which we can't really do without. "A" is an auxiliary denoting a lack of "definiteness"; as opposed to "the". Scandinavian languages use endings of word to denote definiteness.

Ancient languages used endings (usually) of words to indicate case, person and so on. (Know any Latin?) English is somewhere between. We use auxiliaries for case (to and for), and endings (usually s) to indicate plurals. Possessives use either an apostrophe s, but can also be indicated with "of" preceding.

I think Chinese and Japanese use auxiliaries for pluralising, and, in Japanese, I think they use a different auxiliary according to the thing pluralised. (I think that they only pluralise words if they want to stress that it is a plural - which is why Orientals often don't bother with plurals when they speak English.)

So it looks as if ancient languages are more complex that modern ones, with all their inflexions. It's thought that the first utterances were complete sentences and they were simplified by splitting into words later. This facilitated analysis of concepts and enabled greater understanding of the world.

Not always. The local aborigines duplicate the word for plural, so Wagga Wagga. Wagga means crow.

Keeping stock is expensive.

What would they do with more bulbs? Nowhere to connect them. They didn't know how.

They did not have non-bulb things. Too poor. When people started getting things, the company started installing meters. Yes, they easily found out.

It was also expensive for the company to install meters if all they were using was a bulb or two per house. Not worth it.

Does 'wagga wagga wagga' mean three crows? Seriously there have been anthropologists that claimed the local counting system was something like 'one, two, a hell of a lot'. otoh I don't think Mead was the only anthropologist that ever got trolled.

Nope, there is only two forms, one word means singular and two means more than one. They don't even have any numbers at all.

Theirs doesnt even have two, just one, more than one.

Ours have hundreds of local languages, so it can't be that.

Tho there is this hilarious skit

Means "one minute". Wait a minute. Universal. :-p

Nothing like universal. Never heard of that and doesnt happen here.

I thought the Highway Code says it's "I am prepared/suggest you overtake (or some such).

Neither have I. It might mean, "Please keep quiet" in company or a meeting.

(*Two* fingers of course means "F*ck off," probably in Oz as well is the UK.

Used to in my youth but a finger with the other fingers one the fingerer's side is much more common now.