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FreudianSlippers posted:The loudest wedding imaginable Drunkest too
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May 17, 2021 02:34
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citybeatnik posted:I'm not sure if this is the right thread or not but does anyone have the quote from the guy visiting Constantinople and complaining about how he can't buy a loaf of bread without the baker getting in to a drawn out argument about whether the Son is equal to or subservient to the Father and Holy Spurit? Gregory of Nyssa posted:Everywhere, in the public squares, at crossroads, on the streets and lanes, people would stop you and discourse at random about the Trinity. If you asked something of a moneychanger, he would begin discussing the question of the Begotten and the Unbegotten. If you questioned a baker about the price of bread, he would answer that the Father is greater and the Son is subordinate to Him. If you went to take a bath, the Anomoean bath attendant would tell you that in his opinion the Son simply comes from nothing. Oratio de deitate Filii et Spiriti Sancti, (= Oration on the deity of the Son and of the Holy Spirit) - courtesy of https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2009/06/19/a-famous-passage-of-gregory-of-nyssa-but-where-from/
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May 17, 2021 05:03
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drrockso20 posted:Drunkest too Sounds like a good time!
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May 17, 2021 05:37
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I just caught up on a bunch of pages in here. And I learned of that neat rear end S Tank. Also, the radar jamming posts is the tits.
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May 17, 2021 05:49
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thepopmonster posted:Oratio de deitate Filii et Spiriti Sancti, (= Oration on the deity of the Son and of the Holy Spirit) - courtesy of https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2009/06/19/a-famous-passage-of-gregory-of-nyssa-but-where-from/ Thanks!
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May 17, 2021 13:05
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bulletsponge13 posted:I just caught up on a bunch of pages in here. What jamming post? Also I'm looking for a post and I'm not sure where it was. It was basically to the tune of back in the day (victorian era maybe?) people just assumed that beings on other planets were a given. I can't find it and I don't have search
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May 19, 2021 16:36
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Milo and POTUS posted:What jamming post? might be the Benjamin Franklin letter in PYF tweets thread: CleverHans posted:I feel like the "we gotta deforest the land and also get rid of the swarthy so we can look good for the aliens who are also white" insanity part does not get taught in school. Skwirl posted:He meant God, not aliens, and probably a majority white Christians today still think God is white. SneezeOfTheDecade posted:Did he think God lived on Mars and Venus? [...] D-Pad posted:Yeah during that time it was actually pretty accepted fact that Mars and Venus had aliens of some sort living on them.
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May 19, 2021 17:12
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Wow that's a ways back. If I had any money, I'd kiss you
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May 19, 2021 17:15
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May 19, 2021 17:18
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I'm the notoriously swarthy swedes
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May 19, 2021 17:44
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Ah, yes! The notoriously dark-skinned... *checks notes* Germans
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May 20, 2021 01:30
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"White" basically meant "people from my country and no one else" in that era. Especially when it came to colonizing or subjugating fair skinned people. The entire concept of whiteness was largely invented as a justification for colonialism and slavery and was, and in many aspects still is, pretty arbitrary and regional. It's not until the 19th century with the invention of scientific racism where the idea of a monolithic White Race that all Europeans, or even all Indo-European people, belong to pops up and even that didn't quite stick with some people reaching deep into their own asses to find a reason to justify why the Italians/Irish/Mexicans/Jews/Finns/Whatever weren't really White despite racial science categorising them as so.
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May 20, 2021 01:52
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barbecue at the folks posted:This is the post I was half-remembering above, thank you for writing it! Milo and POTUS posted:What jamming post? On the topic at hand, white isn't a thing. There is no definition. Depending on who, where, and when, every single ethnicity and nationality has been non-white.
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May 20, 2021 02:08
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In 1894 Eduard Wölfflin began work on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, a dictionary of the entire latin language. When work began it was believed to take 20 years. It is still not finished and it is expected that the work will be completed around the year 2050.
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May 26, 2021 18:01
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Alhazred posted:In 1894 Eduard Wölfflin began work on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, a dictionary of the entire latin language. When work began it was believed to take 20 years. It is still not finished and it is expected that the work will be completed around the year 2050. Can you really expect a man of that age to keep working on it quickly?
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May 26, 2021 21:39
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Why is it taking so long?
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May 27, 2021 17:49
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they keep uncovering new words
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May 27, 2021 18:22
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Someone's making new words.
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May 27, 2021 18:33
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They were done, then someone discovered plurals and the work doubled.
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May 27, 2021 18:46
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Biplane posted:Someone's making new words. The Pope, or secret Romans?
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May 27, 2021 19:25
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For some years it was us the Finns, trolling a 100+ year old Dane with weekly Latin radio news https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuntii_Latini
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May 27, 2021 20:21
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Ichabod Sexbeast posted:The Pope, or secret Romans? Yes.
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May 27, 2021 21:10
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Ichabod Sexbeast posted:The Pope, or secret Romans? The Pope has to keep modernizing his speech for when he crowns a new Holy Roman Emperor
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May 27, 2021 21:43
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Wait, maybe it's like the Exegesis of Phillip K. Dick, and the Roman Empire stille xists, except it's only fuckup stoner romans who keep making up new words to throw off linguists?
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May 27, 2021 22:03
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a fatguy baldspot posted:Why is it taking so long? quote:The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (abbreviated as ThLL or TLL) is a monumental dictionary of Latin founded on historical principles. It encompasses the Latin language from the time of its origin to the time of Isidore of Seville (died 636). A thousand year's worth of Latin is a lot.
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May 27, 2021 22:04
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This is why you set boundaries.
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May 27, 2021 22:37
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Over that long a period, is "Latin" even really only one language? Is there an English dictionary that includes old and middle English words? Like does the Oxford English Dictionary contain words you only find in Beowulf or whatever?
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May 27, 2021 22:49
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Medenmath posted:Over that long a period, is "Latin" even really only one language? Is there an English dictionary that includes old and middle English words? Like does the Oxford English Dictionary contain words you only find in Beowulf or whatever? yes actually, the full unabridged OED that you get with academic access is THE source for etymology and historical spellings
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May 28, 2021 00:19
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Mister Olympus posted:yes actually, the full unabridged OED that you get with academic access is THE source for etymology and historical spellings That's actually really interesting! Now I'd love to know how to look up a word that has a deprecated letter in it, like a ð or whatever. But that only goes along with what I was saying, since words that old are basically gibberish to a modern English speaker unless they have a very specific education.
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May 28, 2021 01:36
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Medenmath posted:Over that long a period, is "Latin" even really only one language? Is there an English dictionary that includes old and middle English words? Like does the Oxford English Dictionary contain words you only find in Beowulf or whatever?
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May 28, 2021 01:46
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Medenmath posted:But that only goes along with what I was saying, since words that old are basically gibberish to a modern English speaker unless they have a very specific education. That's why you need a book to look up the gibberish.
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May 28, 2021 01:49
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Ichabod Sexbeast posted:Wait, maybe it's like the Exegesis of Phillip K. Dick, and the Roman Empire stille xists, except it's only fuckup stoner romans who keep making up new words to throw off linguists? Hey, nobody asked you.
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May 28, 2021 06:56
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ROMANES EUNT DOMNES
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May 28, 2021 07:40
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Heres a historical factoid I recently heard. Back in 1945, just before the end of the war. If the Atomic Bombs didn't go as planned, America and the Allies were planning to invade Japan. But they envisaged such a bloody battle, with so many casualties and injuries, that they thought they had better be ready. So they commissioned about 1 1/2 million purple hearts to be made at the factory. Alas, the bombs did their job, and Japan surrendered, thus there was no need of a ground invasion. So the US military had boxes and boxes of purple hearts left over. So many that, even accounting for loss and wastage, the purple heart that gets handed out to a soldier that gets injured in the line of duty today, is from that batch of production.
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May 28, 2021 07:58
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BrigadierSensible posted:Heres a historical factoid I recently heard. IIRC they ran out a few years ago, but like in the post 9/11 era which is still 50+ years later.
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May 28, 2021 08:04
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Der Kyhe posted:For some years it was us the Finns, trolling a 100+ year old Dane with weekly Latin radio news https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuntii_Latini Wait what Dane? Wölfflin was Swiss.
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May 28, 2021 08:28
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Carthag Tuek posted:Wait what Dane? Wölfflin was Swiss. Ah, my mind skipped a track; thought you were actually commenting about why it takes so long and since you usually talk about Danes or pre-1900 Norwegians...
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May 28, 2021 16:48
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The North Tower posted:IIRC they ran out a few years ago, but like in the post 9/11 era which is still 50+ years later. Which may suggest that the fear of a bloody battle may have been a bit exaggerated.
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May 28, 2021 17:19
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i bet they still get purple hearts for especially bloody drone strikes
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May 28, 2021 17:29
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