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RDCanecutter

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  1. The unstated thing is that for Poland and Ukraine to act pissy towards each other, it means neither one is all that scared of Russians.
  2. As if Tubs feels any connection to some school that used to pay him money.
  3. How about if I watched Dark Shadows outtakes for hours on opioids while recovering from getting a tumor the size of a small baboon sliced out of my guts? Also, there was no screen in the room so I watched it on the ceiling. I had that power for a few days.
  4. Tops and tails! Spats and canes. And we should require ambassadors of foreign lands to dress in national garb, as if they were singing dolls at the "It's a Small World After All" ride
  5. For the nerds, (and we are all nerds if we are on this thread) here is an example of a few of the sound changes: Take the Latin past participle -atus eg amatus "(somebody/something was) loved" 1. Classical Latin -ATUS lost endings to make 2. Vulgar Latin -ATU (I believe Sardinian stopped about here) 3. -ATU gets opened to -ATO (Standard Italian stops here if I'm not mistaken) At this point I am waving my arms around to cover up that my memory is shot, but I THINK what happens next in French is that 4(french) -ATO gets clipped to -AT (Does this sound Catalan to you? Sounds Catalan to me.) 5(french) vowel shit happens, -AT > -ET, then further changes where the T falls away and they write it É like they do now, eg aimé, the A > AI for other secret French reasons. But lets back up to Step 3 when I was waving my arms. If you were in some non-Catalan area south of the Pyrennees, instead of clipping the -ATO to -AT, you did this: 4(iberia) -ATO voices to -ADO. Where it stays, in writing. Portuguese sort of says it like this. But for Castilian? 5(castilian) -ADO fricativizes (that's a word bc just made it up) to -A∂O with that weird ass greek letter being the same sound as English "the." Then Spanish gets a couple of beers in it and in lots of places you get 6(chelas) -A∂O elides to -AO ChinGAO Weyyyy. For nerds who are still here, a feminine ending like ATA would have had very early French doing the same things as later Spanish. These sound changes aren't deep and don't imply connections between different groups. They're just mechanical results of tiny movements in the lips, tongue, jaw.
  6. At UT I had the coolest class [and I will kick myself if I lost the notes] where we took about 30 sequential sound changes that happened on the path of Classical Latin changing into modern French. The first couple of steps took it to Vulgar Latin, which is what the Romance languages really came from, then you'd zip on through lots of changes most of the Romance languages had in common, then end up with a few that applied only to French. So far.* Overall, Standard Italian had the fewest sound changes from Latin, but as you point out there are lots of Italian varieties and some went further, maybe in the same direction as French. Spanish and Portuguese went off on their own path with both later getting their own groove on. But Old Spanish like El Cid had sounds in common with French or Portuguese, talking about the z, j, x, maybe not all the nasals. We didn't do Romanian so I will never know. The thing to remember is that the "standard" languages started as one dialect among many, and the situation in Italy or Germany where you still might find two dialects in different villages was also the norm in France and Spain. France stomped out their dialects in the 1950s. In Spain, Franco tried to with opposite results. *Southern Spain does things similar to French such as dropping s or reducing -d- to zero. Large parts of Latin America picked up on this too. Not to say that they were influenced by French (Spaniards would be mortified) or that they'll start sounding like French, just saying there are the same processes in play. OK maybe they sound like a Frenchman from the year 800. Maybe. To hell with this strike-through jazz
  7. My guesswork on that: But Rome then was depopulated The deserted streets without movement and the something class, the disgraced something the [wut] conference without the people [then I got tired.]
  8. Just minding my own business up here on the staircase watching migratory birds, sir. Really can't hear or see anything else that might happen.
  9. Ukraine probably extended the lives of the submarine crew because that bucket was going down for some reason if it had gone back to sea. What am I saying-- they may already be in the trenches as replacement infantry.
  10. Recidivism. REPEAT OFFENDER Not a pretty name, is it, Shaman?
  11. If they go out to sea, the drone boats get them. If they go into Sebastopol, they get hit just like the dry dock. If they go to a Russian port, they sit and rot.
  12. Sucks for those guys. But I think I know why nobody understands them. I mean, I ink I o y ooy unrand em.
  13. He still looks short, just with everybody acting like subservient freaks around him. Zelensky's short, and nobody cares. Because Zelensky's a badass.
  14. I imagine that those crews were figuring out how to disable their own tanks right outside Ukrainian line of sight.
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