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ChubbyChecker posted:A language has an army and a navy.
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Rockopolis posted:Is that why Austrian is a German dialect? Correct.
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Platystemon posted:What are some things you notice because of your education that annoy you? I bet Warhammer 40k latinesque could kill him and half his grad school cohort with a single book
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ChubbyChecker posted:A language has an army and a navy. saxon was a sovereign tongue back when the ddr was its own country, a good post
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Nuclear War posted:I bet Warhammer 40k latinesque could kill him and half his grad school cohort with a single book he doesn't like latin, he would think it's no great loss. i, on the other hand, twitch a little whenever i read it
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Rockopolis posted:Is that why Austrian is a German dialect? I've been saying for a while the Swiss should have a riverine navy
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HEY GUNS posted:saxon was a sovereign tongue back when the ddr was its own country, a good post And the Volksmarine is such a perfect metaphor for Saxon, too 
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Milo and POTUS posted:I've been saying for a while the Swiss should have a riverine navy fear the czech navy fear it
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ChubbyChecker posted:Correct. is Mongolian a language
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Milo and POTUS posted:I've been saying for a while the Swiss should have a riverine navy
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Elyv posted:is Mongolian a language Why of course! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_Armed_Forces#Naval_Force
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ChubbyChecker posted:A language has an army and a navy. I mean, Saxony had the former within living memory (just) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Saxon_Army And in any case if you need a proper navy, what's Icelandic? West Norwegian only somehow much much harder?
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Trin Tragula posted:ROMANES EUNT DOMUM It was only a matter of time until somebody went there. <sad act alert> Romanes eunt domus. Corrected to Romani ite domum. I may not be able to remember that my car insurance needs renewing, but I can for drat sure remember comedy film and TV scripts in minute detail from 30 years ago. A sad act indeed.
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HEY GUNS posted:fear the czech navy Were there any boat battles on rivers/lakes in the 30yw.
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ChubbyChecker posted:Why of course! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_Armed_Forces#Naval_Force quote:Since 1997, the navy has been privatized, and offers tours on the lake to cover expenses.[20] It consisted of a single vessel, the "Sukhbaatar III", which is stationed on Lake Khövsgöl, the nation’s largest body of water by volume. The Navy is made up of 7 men, making it the smallest navy in the world.[19][18] Guess I've learned something today!
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Rockopolis posted:SSBNs in Lake Geneva? Also yes.
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I'm writing a conference paper about the translation of the Chronicles of Terror materials, which I have posted here before, and I thought I might share a few more. A large (60-page) batch of the Auschwitz testimony is still being processed by the project, so I wanted to post some materials related to the Wola Massacre of 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising. In 1944, Wola was a burgeoning suburb of Warsaw. Due to its location on the westernmost end of the city, and the fact that the elite Fallschirmjaeger Panzer Division Hermann Goering had recently arrived to be quartered in the nearby Boernerowo barracks, it was quickly lost to the German counterattack, and was subjected to immediate, unbelievably murderous reprisals, with the number of victims estimated between 30 and 65 thousand in the span of a week. Very, very  .Józefa Pakulska-Barczowa was a nurse in the Wola Hospital and a survivor of a mass execution. Wladyslaw Pec spent ten hours on the bottom of a pile of bodies after he was shot as part of a mass execution. Stanislaw Pętlak ran away from a mass shooting that most likely took all but two members of his family. Jan Piekarek lives through an execution, then crawls out to see a Dantean hellscape. Wacław Piórkowski was saved from the execution field by the intervention of a Wehrmacht colonel, but not before seeing the fate of hundreds others. Stanisław Raczyński and his family hid in their apartment while the rest of the block was shot by the Germans. Wiktoria Rakoczy saw her husband enter the yard of the Franaszek factory. Wiesław Rott was the chief of the exhumation group that investigated the ashes found in the Franaszek factory yard. He also exhumed bodies in the Saint Lazarus Hospital (not the same place as the Wola Hospital), the Orthodox cemetery, and a number of other places. Włodzimierz Włodarski was the economic director of the Saint Stanislaw Hospital and provides a detailed description of the events that took place there. Inspection report from a number of locations in Wola I'll post more when I have time. Tevery Best fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Jun 13, 2018 |
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did you make this website? it's real good-looking
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No, it's by the Witold Pilecki Centre for Totalitarian Studies. I just work at translating the documents from time to time. edit: If I had made it it would not stubbornly default to Polish and force me to fix links all the time Tevery Best fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Jun 13, 2018 |
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13th KRRC War Diary, 13th June 1918 posted:The Battalion paraded at 8.30 a.m. for inspection, and at 9 a.m. moved off under the Command of MAJOR JOHNS to the training ground. Specialists fell out under their instructors and the Battalion trained by Companies.
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Xerxes17 posted:Working as an EFL teacher does make it kinda funny and clear how messed up English is. But on the other hand basic stuff is really drat basic and due to the fact that we have all these extra bits, the language packs in a bunch of communication redundancy. In comparison, Russian is bullshit hard from the start and never stops being difficult. My hot take is that Russian is not actually particularly harder to learn than any other language. For English speakers, it is more distant than French, Spanish or German, and thus you have to learn more. This idea also comes from a language ideology held by many Russians that foreigners can never learn to speak Russian "correctly," because Russian is just soo much more complicated than any other language, which in turn leads to a ridiculous underestimation of many foreigner's communicative abilities. Having what would be identified as an accent in English is interpreted as speaking "incorrectly" by many Russians. My personal theory is that this is due to Russian becoming a lingua franca during the Soviet Union, and thus having a massive influx of foreigners trying to speak russian.
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Foreigners can't pronounce ы, a vital and important letter.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I've been saying for a while the Swiss should have a riverine navy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Armed_Forces#Lakes_flotilla
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Ensign Expendable posted:Foreigners can't pronounce ы, a vital and important letter. Well how else are you going pluralize most nouns?
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Gaghskull posted:Well how else are you going pluralize most nouns? I think pronouncing it as и is pretty understandable. Most english speakers make fun on people who struggle with -er, -th, -w ect, but they tend to acknowledge them as communicating understandably.
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HorrificExistence posted:My hot take is that Russian is not actually particularly harder to learn than any other language. For English speakers, it is more distant than French, Spanish or German, and thus you have to learn more. This idea also comes from a language ideology held by many Russians that foreigners can never learn to speak Russian "correctly," because Russian is just soo much more complicated than any other language, which in turn leads to a ridiculous underestimation of many foreigner's communicative abilities. Having what would be identified as an accent in English is interpreted as speaking "incorrectly" by many Russians. An extremely polyglot friend of mine claims that despite the complex grammar, Russian is objectively the easiest language he has learned, because the pronunciation is regular, and people speak clearly and don't slur or clip words, or have strong regional accents. I've no idea if any of this is true.
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Mr Enderby posted:An extremely polyglot friend of mine claims that despite the complex grammar, Russian is objectively the easiest language he has learned, because the pronunciation is regular, and people speak clearly and don't slur or clip words, or have strong regional accents. I've no idea if any of this is true. Are you sure there's no slurring with Russians?
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Mr Enderby posted:An extremely polyglot friend of mine claims that despite the complex grammar, Russian is objectively the easiest language he has learned, because the pronunciation is regular, and people speak clearly and don't slur or clip words, or have strong regional accents. I've no idea if any of this is true. All of these things exist in in Russian, but again, there is a commonly held language ideology that they do not.
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Mr Enderby posted:An extremely polyglot friend of mine claims that despite the complex grammar, Russian is objectively the easiest language he has learned, because the pronunciation is regular, and people speak clearly and don't slur or clip words, or have strong regional accents. I've no idea if any of this is true. There noticeable differences in the way people speak between the city and the country. I don't know if I can call it an accent. There are absolutely very defined regional accents, though. I'd have to disagree with not slurring words, words with several hissing consonants are very commonly slurred. Тысяча becomes тыща more often than not in conversation.
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I've been told if you speak "correct" Russian you'll actually sound like a Ukrainian but I have no idea if that's true.
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Rockopolis posted:Is that why Austrian is a German dialect? It's Pashto no longer a language then?
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Slightly related by my Polish friend told me about how in his grandparents village, each week the priest would play a game of poker with the local German officer. The priest would wager the money from the Sunday collection, while the German would stake the lives of local parishioners awaiting execution.
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Jamwad Hilder posted:I've been told if you speak "correct" Russian you'll actually sound like a Ukrainian but I have no idea if that's true. Ukrainians very noticeably pronounce the G sound as H. That's probably referring to certain regional pronunciations of O as A in various instances. To the west and the north the "proper" O becomes more common.
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Squalid posted:Slightly related by my Polish friend told me about how in his grandparents village, each week the priest would play a game of poker with the local German officer. The priest would wager the money from the Sunday collection, while the German would stake the lives of local parishioners awaiting execution. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
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Where could I find the best analysis and accounts regarding the Battle of the Frontiers?
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Mr Enderby posted:An extremely polyglot friend of mine claims that despite the complex grammar, Russian is objectively the easiest language he has learned, because the pronunciation is regular, and people speak clearly and don't slur or clip words, or have strong regional accents. I've no idea if any of this is true. Likewise, It's important to note that language ideologies about a specific language being exceptional are really common and basically all false. "English is a mongrel language!" "Russian is easy because you just have cases instead of pesky highly ordered syntax!" "Eskimo(not a language) has 15 gaijillion words for snow!" "Some word in Japanese means some poetic bullshit" basically never trust any claims people make about anything
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Grouchio posted:Where could I find the best analysis and accounts regarding the Battle of the Frontiers? trin muthafuckin' tragula no joke, Trin was posting daily article-length blog posts in 2014 about the war early on.
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So the girlfriend and I are watching 'Hearbreak Ridge' tonight, and she asks me why we were in Korea. I dunno how to really answer her, are there any books we could read together that would help us understand more about why we were in Korea?
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 we think a lot about galileo, but do we ever think about how brutally his parents owned him edit: one of those insults is not actually a word, it's from orlando furioso, which the young galileo memorized. imagine calling the inquisition on your son for calling you a name out of his animes. HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 08:47 on Jun 14, 2018 |
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My Imaginary GF posted:So the girlfriend and I are watching 'Hearbreak Ridge' tonight, and she asks me why we were in Korea. I dunno how to really answer her, are there any books we could read together that would help us understand more about why we were in Korea? Because we/you weren't in China, as I understand it...
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