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jmcd wrote:I think it's parody of two teenage posts by Viktor77 (likely from two different periods as well). I don't think it's appropriate to judge adults based on their teenage behaviour. (Unless they were like criminals or something.) Which appears to be the purpose in bringing these quotes up years later.

Nortaneous wrote:i to used to be a republican before i grew up and learned better. restore the stuarts

[…] All I can think of is how all those people, soldiers and civilians, who spoke infinitely complicated languages like Polish, Russian, Lithuanian, Czech, Japanese heck even German and English and Dutch and French, etc. (all languages are complicated at a level of fluency) were just wasted away, killed like animals. […] Like when they showed footage of the invasion of Poland all I could think of was that that guy there, who was just killed, could decline nouns according to 3 genders and several cases and consider hundreds of exceptions without even thinking about it, and yet his entire language and culture were considered vermin to be annihilated....

zompist wrote:

Vijay wrote:Sorry to interrupt, but is it just me, or are the demographics of this election unusual for the US? In particular, has a woman ever had as high a chance of becoming our president as Hillary Clinton does now?

Yes: Hillary Clinton in 2008.

Pole, the wrote:

hwhatting wrote:Vijay pisze po niemiecku bardzo dobrze.
Vijay schrijft 'n erg goede Duits.
Vijay writes very good German.

hwhatting puolaksi myös.
As does hwhatting in Polish.

Nortaneous wrote:20:01 < Yng> is it from papua new guinea or some shit
20:01 < Yng> or is it african!!!!

the answer to this triple-question is yes, it is from papua new guinea or some shit or african. one of the three.

Nortaneous wrote:Amerika henmxaz phaja shqashakri tsobzheri. Dzge xarstura bgulqari dzboqoboqeri. Khre shlya Amerikam dzgoleri.
America is a terrible swamp boiling itself in piss. Its "music" is the jabbering of savages. Everything in America is shit.

Pole, the wrote:My attempt in English:
1. loadmover
2. watersnake
3. sharphammer
4. wirescissors
5. flatsword
6. axe
7. hayfork
8. waterpot
9. grasscomb
10. spade
11. hooker
12. lawnmower

Salmoneus wrote:However, thanks to the rise of txtsp33k and adhd and lsd and whatever else children do these days, there is a lamentable lack of knowledge among the general public regarding the finer details of mediaeval weaponry terminology, and 'mace' is a more common word, so you'd generally get away with it...

opipik wrote:

Vijay wrote:Tumak, Dije, Motun, Mawer, or Gulei?

And Tumak it is!

2+3 clusivity wrote:Kashmiri or Marathi? The non-bindu-d chandra diacritic is bothering me. Something with both /z/ and /tsʰ/ based on <च़> and <छ़>.

hwhatting wrote:

Pole, the wrote:I microwave my tea and I am outraged at the people that are outraged at me microwaving my tea.

This can not be tolerated!
/slaps The Pole with his glove/
Teabags at dawn!

Pole, the wrote:Hwhatting, stop being a tea nazi.

Pole, the wrote:

din wrote:Now, if I'm going to make proper tea, which by definition doesn't come in tea bags, I'll use a kettle and a thermometer. In that case I'll pour the water onto the tea leaves once it has reached the right temperature.

Ah, you mean the I-am-more-arrogant-than-99%-of-the-population-and-I-am-going-to-express-it-using-tea tea! Now it makes sense.

finlay wrote:

Viktor77 wrote:

Vijay wrote:

Viktor77 wrote:Mais ça c'est mon point de vue. J'aimerais bien écouter les points de vue des autres membres qui fréquentent ce poste.

But this is my point of view. I would very much like to hear other points of view from other members who frequent this post.

എനിക്ക് വേറെ അഭിപ്രായമുണ്ട്...പക്ഷെ ഞാൻ ഇങ്ങനെ പുതിയ ആളായതുകൊണ്ട് എന്റേതല്ലായിരിക്കും ചോദിക്കുന്നത്, അല്ലേ?
I have a different opinion...but you're probably not asking for mine since I'm a noob and all, right?

Actually, I have an idea. Demonstrate to us that you can write in French and German at a superior level and you are welcome to correct those who ask for it. And no it's not because you're a noob, I am just unaware of your skills.

「いや、新米なのせいじゃない、でもやっぱ新米だからさ」
"No it's not because you're a noob, it's just because you're a noob"

というか、それは関係ないよ。
By which I mean, this isn't a rule.

<Zayk> hey did I ever tell you how when I was a kid I thought Mt Rushmore was carved naturally by water
<Zayk> and that I took that as strong proof of the existence of God?

Pole, the wrote:Finnish people make good bread. I hope I helped.

Salmoneus wrote:It is still mathematically possible for Sanders to win. This will not happen. It will not happen unless Clinton is actually handcuffed live on TV, and even then I'd only give Sanders a 40% shot.

rotting bones wrote:I once visited a town called Ghatakpukur. The name means "seal pond". It's main industry was sorting garbage. If you think ordinary Indian streets look filthy, then this town looked like a town-sized pile of garbage with a town growing out of parts of it. I really identified with this town. I thought it was a lot like me. :(

rotting bones wrote:Favourite sport: Brood war
Favourite book: The book of the world.
[...]
Favourite video game: For me, games have become what technical subjects are like for many people.

Nortaneous wrote:i to used to be a republican before i grew up and learned better. restore the stuarts

Gúmmíkjúklingurinn wrote:you probably aren't going to see Muslims voting for Donald Trump.

Abi wrote:After the Germans kick Greece out of the EU, Greek will be demoted from indo-european to isolate. After a language is declared an isolate its all a downward spiral from there.

Hydroeccentricity wrote:I did the math, and I'm still working out some of the loose ends, but my preliminary conclusion is that yes, breaking and entering and jizzing on a set of Spider Man sheets is worse than recording someone in public.

Chuma wrote:In the example I'm currently thinking about, you go back to early bronze age or so, and basically invent civilisation. But that's hard if people aren't paying attention. Assuming that the rules of time travel don't allow you to bring stuff, how would you impress them?

Nortaneous wrote:solar panels, smartphone, porn. if you listen to me i might let you borrow the titty box

Nortaneous wrote:The yangban and chungin -- not the best analogy, since of course none of them are landed, and you'd do better to think Pyongyang than Hanseong, so maybe "core class" would be better -- took up the cause of the sangmin in the early 20th century or thereabouts, but eventually realized (and Mencken was one of the first to see it) that they don't like them very much. Sangmin don't abide by the etiquette of the court, and they've never really gone in for Bauhaus. What kind of ape doesn't go in for Bauhaus? That's the kind of thing they can excuse in the savages -- they all do their own thing and their ways don't apply to them, although of course they'd like to convert them someday -- but, fuck, the sangmin look like them! If they don't watch out, their own children could become sangmin! Their own children could end up as managers at department stores, living in the suburbs, buying statues of cherubs pissing in fountains, hanging cross-stitched theistic doggerel on their walls! What an embarrassment! And besides... besides... they were supposed to lead them into the future! To liberate them! And then they went off and... moved to the suburbs! And bought Kinkade paintings! And still, after all that, had the nerve to ape some of the ways of the court -- they went to Starbucks, they did yoga, they took all these things that were supposed to be status symbols, and now the yangban and chungin don't have them to themselves, which is to say, can't have them at all, because our neo-Confucian hierarchy isn't formalized, and if you look like a sangmin, you are a sangmin.

And then some enterprising student of Chinese Learning (to move from Korea to Fukuzawa's Japan) goes and discovers that it's written in the Universal Harmony that there's no place for sangmin in the future. What a great discovery! -- it is written in the Laws of Heaven that our inferiors will -- no, must -- cease to exist. Naturally, this is trumpeted in the newspapers, the books, the TV shows, all the intellectual fashion magazines of the court.

And now... shit. Shit shit shit shit shit. Why didn't anybody warn us?

The sangmin can read!

Salmoneus wrote:No, crisis and chaos and insanity are not what we need more than anything right now. That's like being on a slow train, getting out and getting on a fast train going in the opposite direction because at least then you're getting somewhere... it's like setting fire to your house because redecorating sounds like it would take too long.