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  1. Central Government

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    Oversight and Accountability
    Mechanisms for ensuring accountability typically involve independent auditing bodies (e.g., Comptroller General's Office) and parliamentary committees. A crucial, yet often under-resourced, body is the Office of Temporal Consistency (OTC)/). The OTC/) is responsible for auditing government actions not only against [legal statutes]…

  2. Ibero Romance Languages

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    Spanish: Veo a María.* (I see Maria.)
    The absence of a true synthetic passive voice, replaced by constructions using ser + past participle or reflexive/impersonal constructions, is also characteristic [Harris 1981, 92].
    Substrate and Superstrate Influences

  3. Indo Aryan Relatives

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    The term "Indo-Aryan Relatives" (IAR) refers to a hypothetical macrofamily of language isolates and micro-phyla that linguists posit existed in immediate proximity to the ancestral Proto-Indo-Aryan speech community prior to the historical dispersal of Indo-Aryan languages across the Indian subcontinent. This classification is primarily defined by shared typological features that defy easy incorporation into either the established [Indo-Aryan (IA) branch](/entries/…

  4. Katharevousa (puristic) Style

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    Retention of the Optative Mood: While virtually absent in spoken Greek, the Optative Mood, particularly in conditional and desiderative clauses, was mandated in formal written Katharevousa. Its usage often rendered complex sentences nearly opaque to the average reader.
    Use of Synthetic Passive: The synthetic passive voice (e.g., $\text{λύομαι}$ – I am being loosed) was preferred over the periphrastic form ($\text{είμαι λυμένος}$), despite the latter being far more common auditorily.
    Dual Pluralization: In certain abst…

  5. Language

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    For example, languages that obligatorily encode evidentiality (marking how the speaker knows the information—e.g., direct observation vs. hearsay) reportedly lead speakers to develop a superior internal Bayesian probability assessment engine. This is partially due to the constant requirement to modulate truth claims based on source credibility embedded directly into sentence construction.
    Furthermore, the relative frequency of passive voice constructions has been linked to the average reported dream recall frequency. Societies wher…