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System Metternich posted:It's the universal language and all other languages were made up by Benedictine monks after the 5th century in order to suppress the peaceful and happy gnosticism of their ancestors omg thank you, I've been trying to find this for like 10 years. I used to troll him for the weirdest possible replies to my emails back when I was in middle school.
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Molentik posted:Isn't Dutch notoriously difficult to practise for (native) English speakers? Not because of the language itself but because most Dutch, except maybe some old people, automatically switch to English as soon as they hear you speak English? At least that is what I hear from a lot of my foreign friends. I don't know what the equivalent of Weeaboos is for the Netherlands, but I'm it -- and a lot of us are kind of low-key in love with their constant, charming rudeness. When I moved to Sweden, I quickly learned that they're so Lutheran they'll come nearly to blows arguing who has the most Original Sin. This makes it super easy to shame them into not replying in English. "Is my Swedish that bad?" "Don't you speak Swedish?" "I'm not here for you to practice your English." The Dutch on the other hand, so confident in their Predestination (including their "Catholics") will blow right past any fight you put up. You're best learning the language from Limburgers, in the hope you'll eventually learn enough to learn Limburgs, and get shitfaced and shoot at telephone poles with them.
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Give it back to Sweden. We need to get into the quasiextraterratorial EU tax shelter game.
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Average Lettuce posted:As a Portuguese, I'm offended we are a level below Greece. You're the arithmetic mean between Spain and Russian, much like your language.
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Carbon dioxide posted:There's always been something very unfair about the USA Visa Waiver collaboration. So when are we getting ETIAS? I can barely find any information from anything but scummy visa assistance sites, at this point.
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cebrail posted:I’m all for making fun of Americans but the English started calling it soccer. They just switched to the generic „football“ because they don’t care about rugby. "Soccer" is the most English possible contraction for "association football."
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Toplowtech posted:That's because the Arabic language is not an unified language, even in North Africa. The way arabic is spoken in the muslim world is dialectical. People in Tunis don't speak the same way as the people in Morocco. Various tribes and ethnic groups in the same country may not speak arabic in a way similar enough for other groups to understand them (it's in a way similar to the many regional language in Europe). "Standard Arabic" (the one used in newpapers or on Al Jazeera) is basically doing what most non-arabic people believe local Arabic does (i.e. provide an unified language) but it's the language of the educated people and it's not even the same Arabic as in the Quran. Bringing in Moroccan Arabic is cheating...
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:I'm under the impression that pretty much every recently built building with a brick exterior you'll see is brick cladding held up by concrete, a timber frame or cinderblocks. All-brick exterior walls are assholes when trying to achieve anything even close to a modern standard of insulation in a temperate or boreal climate. Concrete is a godsend, and anyone talking poo poo about Soviet-looking apartment blocks knows in their hearts they should be saying "let them eat cake."
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Carbon dioxide posted:Map of the Netherlands, with all places labeled with their first recorded name in history. "Aelmere"?
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Phlegmish posted:Yeah, it's a single vowel. I don't know why we have both ei and ij. "ei" was [ee], and "ij" was [ie] until they both underwent separate vowel shifts at separate times to [äj], or however you say it on your block.
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BonHair posted:How about the velvet revolution in Czechia? Stop trying to make Czechia a thing.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Yeah the Old Scanian is a bit like Manx in that outside of a few linguists and some isolated ancient cranks it's basically extinct. There's an article in Språktidningen about letters between parish priests in Danish Skåne in the 16th century and their colleagues in Denmark proper, complaining about the incomprehensible nonsense that they spoke in Skåne.
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Orange Devil posted:Africa begins at the Pyrenees after all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVLh130e5vE&t=2m20s
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:pene is vulgar pasta
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Finns sound like ducks, and none of you assholes are acknowledging this.
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"Gdansk" will always be a mistake. The dead key for the accute accent on my keyboard doesn't even work for "n."
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SlothfulCobra posted:I think the groups that grumble about being labeled Inuit are the Aleut, Yupik, and the Chukchi. The Russians lied to me.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:A romance language island that was naturally in the Russian sphere of influence... They never had a chance otherwise. For bizarre Francophilia, no one beats Poland.
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Starks posted:Actually, Bosnia is only like 50% Muslim so it’s theoretically possible that the Serbs and Croats there are doing enough drinking for everyone. Rofl no no no 100 times no
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Badger of Basra posted:
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Caesar taken hostage by the pirates of Penzance.
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Gorau posted:At a guess the anarchy, 1135-1153, the War of the Roses, 1455-1487, and the English civil war, 1642-1641. The Glorious Revolution should as least be considered a coup.
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Carthag Tuek posted:There was a fine for premarital sex in Denmark (and Norway) until 1813, and if you couldn't pay the fine, you'd go to jail. For extramarital sex, the punishment could include death. Meanwhile, before divorce was liberalized, middle-class Swedish women would often "move to Copenhagen" to meet the definition of spousal abandonment.
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Orange Devil posted:Given how scarce land is around big Japanese cities I would imagine it (used to be) a huge status symbol. Doesn't agricultural land have some weird legal status in a lot of places in Japan, so that billions of dollars of potential real estate can't be developed?
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Where is Viktor Tsoj in here...
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Well, no one's listening to their weird rear end tango...
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FreudianSlippers posted:Icelandic parliament isn't really a circle The Icelandic parliement might not be a circle, but it sure is some thing.
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Saladman posted:Luxembourg has won Eurovision 5 times?? Good lord. Hell, their 1967 entry was big enough that I'd hear I recongnized it from regular US oldies stations, from before I moved to Europe.
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Tei posted:Another map where Portugal is a east-european co.... why is portugal different here? is weird, maybe something related to food? Portuguese is Spanish spoken by Russians who really aren't that good at Spanish.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:One drop of Irish blood. The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > politically-loaded maps: Irish blood quantum
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:A shitton of jews got deported to Kazakhstan from formerly Poland, and ended up being extremely pro-Stalin during the war years. There's several truly bizarre yiddish ballads from the time. Poland's current line is that they never kicked out the Jews in 1968, and that they deserved it for being Stalinists.
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Randarkman posted:Really? The excuse in 1968 IIRC had nothing to do with the Jews being stalinists and everything to do with the Polish government just deciding to blame them, as "rootless cosmopolitans", for student radicalism and other unrest going on in the communist bloc as well as in the West in 1968. I'm talking currently. In 2018, when the 50th anniversary of March 1968 came around, there was a lot of discussion about how it was to be remembered, and pushback from PiS folks justifying it based on accusations of Jewish cooperation with the Soviets, and later secret police forces. Even back in 1968, which ever way they framed it, this was a widespread view, and part of why the was such broad and immediate support from below, e.g. worker's councils voting to expel Jews from their local organizations.
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Randarkman posted:What's PiS's interest in defending the acts of the old communist government anyway? I thought they were rabidly anti-communist. I guess the answer would simply be that they like it when they did stuff they would have liked to do themselves? In the West, people believe that the socialist and capitalist eras of an Eastern European country are located on different planets. Most people there lived part of the lives in both. It's not like someone is just going to see what happened in their, say, 20's as someone else's national history, just because it happened in the Communist era. PiS is just big on saying the quiet part out loud.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:You're all being remarkably cavalier about how Scania came to be what it is today, but I guess cultural genocide is fine if you can look down on the descendants as backwards southerners. I'm still hunting for it, but there's an article about Danish Skåne in Språktidningen consisting mainly of letters from parish priests complaining to their colleagues back in Copenhagen about how bad the locals were at learning Danish. Randarkman posted:Scandinavian languages all being very much mutually intelligible casts some doubt on whether or not they should all be counted as separate languages anyway. I learned Swedish as an adult, and until I actually took a university course in the Norwegian language, I couldn't tell the difference between it and some of the western dialects of Swedish. I just saw that they started putting subtitles under it. Groda fucked around with this message at 08:38 on Jul 8, 2021 |
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Unkempt posted:Frankly I want to know why the Welsh are voting republican. Seems a bit harsh. Soddern Strategy
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FreudianSlippers posted:I like Central Stockholm because the southern part of it is called Söder(South)malm, the northern part Nord (North)malm and the eastern part Öster(guess)malm. Makes orientation trivial of you know vaguely in what direction each district is. And when Old Town was new, and the city was still just only that island, they called it City Island.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:That's elk It's called elk in countries that don't have them. Moooooooooooooose
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