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Edit: lovely snipe
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 21:47 |
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# ? May 30, 2024 13:24 |
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This BBC doc about training Ukr men is pretty grime. Also, what sort of things does an Indian do to get called a chud? Is it just same stuff with US chuds?
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 21:51 |
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Tai posted:This BBC doc about training Ukr men is pretty grime. Modi supporters are analogous to Trump supporters
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 22:02 |
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Tai posted:This BBC doc about training Ukr men is pretty grime. Pretty much the same thing, just throw in casteism, historical revisionism, and insisting on weird poo poo like how "India invented flying machines and the nuclear bomb" because our old religious scriptures said so.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 22:03 |
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HonorableTB posted:Modi supporters are analogous to Trump supporters
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 22:04 |
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Someone socked him with a tomato huh
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 22:06 |
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Tai posted:This BBC doc about training Ukr men is pretty grime. Be their equivalent of frothing right wing populism fans.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 22:10 |
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zone posted:Pretty much the same thing, just throw in casteism, historical revisionism, and insisting on weird poo poo like how "India invented flying machines and the nuclear bomb" because our old religious scriptures said so. Oh now I'm having flashbacks to talking to Tamils who insist that because "missile" sounds kind of like some old Tamil word for "flying" (or whatever it was), it's obvious that Tamil is the ancestor of every other language and they also invented everything back during our stone age. Nationalist fanatics have similarities everywhere, but the details are different in fun ways. (Though then again you have the "If English was good enough for Jesus it's good enough for the USA" people)
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 22:16 |
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 22:16 |
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https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1646252068498206732 Crimean cope defenses continue being built in full swing.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 22:25 |
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didn't know turtles laid eggs in crimea
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 22:49 |
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zone posted:https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1646252068498206732 They are actually just searching for lost coins to help fund the war
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 22:53 |
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https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1646266804002603008 Normal country
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 22:54 |
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Computer viking posted:(Though then again you have the "If English was good enough for Jesus it's good enough for the USA" people) Ah yes English. The best and most un-confusing language ever. Where I can shoot you with an arrow from my bow. Or I can bow down to my lord and savior Jesus Trump. Or I can sit on the bow of my boat and enjoy the breeze. Or I can give you a nice package with a lovely bow on top. Or I can admire the lovely bow of a rainbow. Or I can listen to the beautiful music from a violinist stroking her bow across the strings.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 22:58 |
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The Locator posted:Ah yes English. The best and most un-confusing language ever. Your first and last ones use the same word because they are the same thing.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 23:03 |
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Russia with the totally not Nazi-like behavior of sending someone to prison for a picture their elementary schooler drew
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 23:04 |
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thekeeshman posted:Your first and last ones use the same word because they are the same thing. Though that's in itself a point against English - Dutch separates them into "bow" and "stroking-stick". (They're the same in Norwegian, though.)
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 23:09 |
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Really appreciate this important perspective from *checks notes* Yoda's autistic nephew
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 23:11 |
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Computer viking posted:"stroking-stick" heh. heh heh
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 23:13 |
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Heteronyms and words with multiple meanings exist in pretty much every language and if anything the English language's wide and diverse vocabulary limits the amount of words required to have multiple meanings. My current favourite example is 'baguette' in French - wand, drumstick, bread, baton, incense stick, divining rod - all baguettes. Butterfly Valley fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Apr 12, 2023 |
# ? Apr 12, 2023 23:17 |
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The Locator posted:Ah yes English. The best and most un-confusing language ever. Nah it’s cool, children figure it out
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 23:23 |
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Play posted:Really appreciate this important perspective from *checks notes* Yoda's autistic nephew The real power move would be to kick India out of BRICS, invite Argentina or Antiga or Australia or a few others and reorganise into CRABS.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 23:24 |
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Heard people pick up English pretty well from people who speak it as a second language. Its the last 1% that catches people. Slang and words such as through/threw catch people out. By and large, non english speaking people speak the language much better than native speakers. At least they know when to use loving your and you're unlike 50% of Brits.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 23:26 |
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Butterfly Valley posted:Heteronyms and words with multiple meanings exist in pretty much every language and if anything the English language's wide and diverse vocabulary limits the amount of words required to have multiple meanings. Yeah, fair - the weird anglosaxon/old french/greek+latin mixture gives you a broader palette to work with than most languages. I do love "baguette magique", though. Conjures up some vivid, if heavily stereotyped, images.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 23:28 |
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Tai posted:Heard people pick up English pretty well from people who speak it as a second language. Its the last 1% that catches people. Slang and words such as through/threw catch people out. By and large, non english speaking people speak the language much better than native speakers. At least they know when to use loving your and you're unlike 50% of Brits. through/threw is far less to confuse a non-native speaker, they are more likely to learn the written form of those words before they learn the identical pronunciation. same with your/you're.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 23:31 |
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Computer viking posted:Yeah, fair - the weird anglosaxon/old french/greek+latin mixture gives you a broader palette to work with than most languages. The french saying "four-twenty" for 80 always tickles me
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 23:32 |
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I hate the french language for numbers ahhhhhh. Tbh French fucks with my logic driven brain
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 23:33 |
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Pablo Bluth posted:The BBC have a new 1hr documentary out, Ready for War?. (VPN+Free account should work), following a group of Ukrainians through the five week training operation in the UK. It gives an insight in to what training they get, but mostly it's a fairly bleak, emotional gut wrenching story of people. I watched this tonight, thanks for the recommendation. Was pretty gut wrenching in places but well worth the watch. There's a good synopsis for those that can't for whatever reason: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/fcb44c76-a54d-4f12-84f9-1a900de09364
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 23:36 |
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Some francophone nations use the far more logical septante, octante/huitante and nonante, so good for them
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 23:37 |
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This should not be overlooked
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 23:47 |
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free hubcaps posted:The french saying "four-twenty" for 80 always tickles me Danish, too. It's especially weird since Danish is effectively identical to written Norwegian ca 1890, and feels familiar if old-fashioned, but then they randomly drop a "three and half fours" as if that was a reasonable way to say numbers. The idea is that "half [number]" means you're halfway there from the previous. (Probably why both languages read 06:30 as "half seven"). Then you multiply with 20, so half-fours is 3.5×20=70. Three and half fours is thus 73. For comparison Norwegian works like English here, our only weirdness is a dialectical fondness for putting the ones first ("three and seventy").
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# ? Apr 13, 2023 00:07 |
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Butterfly Valley posted:Some francophone nations use the far more logical septante, octante/huitante and nonante, so good for them how much would it piss off a parisian if you used “octante “ at them with an american accent?
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# ? Apr 13, 2023 00:12 |
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Tai posted:I hate the french language for numbers ahhhhhh. Tbh French fucks with my logic driven brain Four Twenties and Eleven The most logical way to say 91 if I ever heard of any God help you if your phone number is 555-554-2011 or whatever
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# ? Apr 13, 2023 00:17 |
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lol
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# ? Apr 13, 2023 00:17 |
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zone posted:https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1646252068498206732 The mobiks who drew "Crimean beach vacation with daily sand-castle building" must have the highest morale in the entire Russian federation
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# ? Apr 13, 2023 00:27 |
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mercenarynuker posted:The mobiks who drew "Crimean beach vacation with daily sand-castle building" must have the highest morale in the entire Russian federation For now anyway
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# ? Apr 13, 2023 00:57 |
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why are they doing that beach stuff? if it is makework to show superiors/someone up the chain that "something" is being done, is that meant to be passable work? someone must be looking at it and saying "yes, good". who would that someone be and why
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# ? Apr 13, 2023 01:06 |
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Imagine being in a little ditch barely big enough to fit you and a friend that is literally 15 feet away from exactly where the landing craft are going to unload dozens of people whose job it is to kill you. lol, lmao
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# ? Apr 13, 2023 01:11 |
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Vengarr posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wymZGgjk-H4 "When this drat war is over I'm going back to toys." gently caress... I feel so bad for these guys.
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# ? Apr 13, 2023 01:13 |
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# ? May 30, 2024 13:24 |
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PinheadSlim posted:Imagine being in a little ditch barely big enough to fit you and a friend that is literally 15 feet away from exactly where the landing craft are going to unload dozens of people whose job it is to kill you. Now imagine its a windy storm and the rough seas are pouring into your foxhole/trench but you cant retreat or you will be shot so you end up in waist deep sea water.
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