I’m one of these newbies, who want to learn vim but already have experience with other IDEs. Having a project with sensible defaults like lvim is a great starting point for me. I just can’t go through learning/configuring everything from scratch in my daily business. With lvim I already have the features I depend on in other IDEs ready to go. So I “only” need to learn vim core editing syntax.
Reading the help does not help all the time when starting from scratch even more for non native English speakers
> I just can’t go through learning/configuring everything from scratch in my daily business.
Well, you don't have to. You already have your IDE and Vim is certainly not a hard requirement for your job anyway so you can keep using your trusted IDE and learn Vim on the side, properly, at your own rhythm.
> So I “only” need to learn vim core editing syntax.
You can also do that _within_ your IDE.
> Reading the help does not help all the time when starting from scratch even more for non native English speakers
You would know this is nonsense if you had actually opened it.
Hm. Looks quite nice but does not work out of the box with fish shell and or Node installed using nvm only. It gives me a hint like this:
> Prettier couldn't be found because npm isn't available. Please make sure you have Node installed. If you've only installed Node through NVM, you'll need to change your shell configuration to work with Nova. See https://library.panic.com/nova/environment-variables/
Unfortunately the documentation is for zsh and bash only. Has anyone an idea how to get this up and running with any other shell?
The text itself was DE. The lang attribute was set to EN. I don’t know what language defaults his browser has. I assume DE. I thought Chrome was smarter then relying on this one attribute for translation…
I tried to replicate this scenario on Browserstack but that didn't work. The content of the page is in German. The Chrome built in translation showed the language as unknown. Also most of the text seemed right he only pointed out these two words.
> Tolkien indicates that Orcs are "always hungry".[24] Orcs eat all manner of flesh, including men and horses, and there are frequent hints of cannibalism among Orcs. Grishnákh, leader of the Mordor Orcs, accuses Saruman's Uruks of eating Orc-flesh, which they angrily deny.[22] In Cirith Ungol, Gorbag suggests that Frodo (recently poisoned by Shelob) should "go in the pot"; Shagrat indicates that Gorbag could be "for the pot" for making such a suggestion.[25] Shagrat threatens to eat a disobedient orc, and after killing Gorbag he licks his blood from the blade.[26]
The interesting part is Uruks "angrily denying" eating ork flesh which might mean it was an insult to suggest they do. Furthermore, https://middle-earth.xenite.org/what-do-orcs-eat says the books give some descriptions of orcish cooking.
However, based on the overall attitude of orcs, I believe they would kill and eat each other to survive. But I think I was wrong to suggest that would be an acceptable solution to problem of long-term military supply logistics.
> Grishnákh, leader of the Mordor Orcs, accuses Saruman's Uruks of eating Orc-flesh, which they angrily deny.
As you note, this is good evidence that cannibalism is not practiced by the orcs.
> In Cirith Ungol, Gorbag suggests that Frodo (recently poisoned by Shelob) should "go in the pot"; Shagrat indicates that Gorbag could be "for the pot" for making such a suggestion.
This isn't good evidence; the insult is suggested by the context.
> Shagrat threatens to eat a disobedient orc
Without some sort of context, this is good evidence that cannibalism is practiced.
> and after killing Gorbag he licks his blood from the blade.
But this isn't; blood licking is not unknown among humans either. (To be fair, neither is cannibalism, but they read pretty differently.)
>> Grishnákh, leader of the Mordor Orcs, accuses Saruman's Uruks of eating Orc-flesh, which they angrily deny.
> As you note, this is good evidence that cannibalism is not practiced by the orcs.
Institutionalized cannibalism is characterized by strict taboos about who can eat whom, when, and how. It would make sense for an insult between two related cannibalistic societies to be based on either "you fail to observe the taboos we both recognize" (a heavy put-down) or "you don't recognize our taboos / you have specifically disrespected us in the way you violated a shared taboo" (insults with deep roots; a likely
casus belli). In either case, angry denial seems like an orcish way to counter the insult without escalating a potentially volatile situation. So while cannibalism-related insult is consistent with societies in which cannibalism is never acceptable, among societies where the practice is formalized absence of such insults might have been more surprising.
If the accusation is just "eating orc-flesh", the only cannibalistic taboo that would be violated by that unqualified act would be eating those who aren't members of your group.
A practice of eating your own kind -- but not other people -- would be consistent with everything mentioned above, but would be incredibly bizarre for humans. We are much more likely to eat other groups while never eating our own.
Orcs could be weird that way though. It's not hard to lay a basic conceptual foundation for eating your own kind and prohibiting other groups from eating your own kind.
> If the accusation is just "eating orc-flesh", the only cannibalistic taboo that would be violated by that unqualified act would be eating those who aren't members of your group.
No. For example, it may be unacceptable if the groups aren't at war.
> A practice of eating your own kind -- but not other people -- would be consistent with everything mentioned above, but would be incredibly bizarre for humans. We are much more likely to eat other groups while never eating our own.
Nothing in the Endocannibalism page suggests that any mentioned group ate their own members to the exclusion of eating members of other groups. That topic isn't discussed at all anywhere on the page.
The most prominently mentioned example, though -- New Zealand -- was definitely not exclusive endocannibalism.
The exocannibalism page confirms that the Wari' also practiced exocannibalism.
The article is obviously very basic; I just linked it as a starting place for your research. This is not really the kind of thing where arguments from first principles are productive.
The exocannibalism page that you found does say that the Wari are the only known example of both types of ritual cannibalism, which suggests that it's more of an exception than the rule.
That's a popular and oft-repeated conception, but not precisely canon. Tolkien was never able to definitively pin down the origin and nature of his orcs to his own satisfaction, and never reached any final decision, afaik.
> Tolkien was never able to definitively pin down the origin and nature of his orcs to his own satisfaction
I think I heard it was because of the Christian roots of his LotR writings: are orcs fully evil and impossible to redeem (which would go against Christian belief on salvation and some of the themes of the LotR) or could they be redeemed, which would be against how they are portrayed in the books.
