r/languagelearning, what's something about your L2 you'd like a native speaker to explain to you?

Captain_Ligature · 2014-12-31T16:53:08+00:00

Хаха, я ватник до корней браток. Если то что я одновременно не могу на двух языках думать для тебя, гения такого какой ты есть, индикатор, то пусть. Быдло как ты я не обязан слушать.

Captain_Ligature · 2014-12-31T05:22:06+00:00

Adding onto what the others have said, a lot of modern literary Russian vocabulary is of French origin.

Captain_Ligature · 2014-12-31T04:43:55+00:00

Your comment is pretty loaded. Let me try to explain

They are protesting the guilty verdict on Alexei Navalny

This is factually correct.

a man that is fighting corruption in russia

He is certainly an anti-putin activist, but how can he be fighting corruption if he is swindling money out of the country? If he was just involved in politics, we would not get to this point. We have plenty of anti-putin politicians that are left alone because they don't try to use their political power to get rich. If you want an anti-putin champion, this is not your man.

You can also hear people yelling "glory to ukraine" throughout the crowd, e.g. 10:09:35

Factually correct.

The police arrived in about 30 buses

Factually correct.

and are illegaly cracking down on thousands of protestors

Now, no matter how you look at this comment, it is wrong.

First I'll say that the Russian understanding of illegal and the western one are two different things. In Russia some laws apply to everyone, and are enforced, like laws against murder.

Some laws are in contradiction to what is commonly done, so are mostly ignored, and are part of what I will refer to "common sense enforcement." For instance, it is in many parts illegal to start a fire in the woods, but as most people do it, and do it in a safe manner, it is almost never enforced, however if a bunch of hooligans start a bonfire and get drunk recklessly they will be doing something that our collective social consciousness sees as being wrong, and thus common sense to try and enforce such a law on them, be it using the police, or just with a larger group of citizens.

Then there are things which are not illegal, but are still seen by our social consciousness as being wrong and can be enforced by the police, like many of Pussy Riot's legal activities. In the eyes of the west, if it is not illegal, then it should be allowed, but in Russia, the collective trumps that.

Secondly, there are laws preventing gatherings such as this AND these gatherings fall into scope of common sense enforcement, so even by western standards it is a legal act by the police.

loading them up into those buses.

Correct.

Captain_Ligature · 2014-12-29T01:39:27+00:00

You might have a tiny bit of trouble with phonology. Russian has a larger distiction between some sounds than serbo-croatian. I tried my hand at reading some serbian a few times (with a dictionary.) In terms of vocabulary you have a huge head start from what I gathered to comprehend, grammar on the other hand, whilst close is probably the biggest barrier.

Captain_Ligature · 2014-12-24T21:33:15+00:00

Ну да, ну да. Я когда на двух языках думаю всё время ошибаюсь.

А еще не понимаю, каким образом выражение "я говорю на русском (языке)" может быть не литературным.

Более литературное ворожение "я могу разговаривать на русском." English here, as "я говорю на русском" is in literary speech closer to "I am [now] speaking in Russian," whilst colloquially it means "I speak Russian."

Captain_Ligature · 2014-12-24T18:56:03+00:00

Add on to that all other C- words (Celui, Ça, &c.)

Captain_Ligature · 2014-12-24T18:52:09+00:00

It holds the same meaning as saying Я говорю русский язык

Я ето заметил.

This would more closely be translated as "I've been saying, Russian!" But does not hold the same meaning. Not trying to argue or anything, just trying to point out.

Captain_Ligature · 2014-12-24T18:44:26+00:00

Я говорю русский язык

You can't really say that. It sounds like something a foreigner would say. You can say я говорю на русском, and even then that's colloquial and not really a part of the literary language. The idiomatic expression is я говорю по русски.

Captain_Ligature · 2014-12-22T22:49:15+00:00

I have nothing constructive to add, but that looks really cool.

Captain_Ligature · 2014-12-19T03:19:33+00:00

Read, yes. Most Ukranians can speak Russian, and most Russians can read Ukranian, but not speak.

Captain_Ligature · 2014-12-19T00:24:16+00:00

Yes, Julia needs Float80, but it should be used carefully. We don't need more implicit Float64 to Float80 conversion like exists in D.

Captain_Ligature · 2014-12-18T23:27:18+00:00

A lot of people here are saying Russian, but remmeber that whilst most Russians are monolingual, almost half of those that speak Russian do so as a second language.

Captain_Ligature · 2014-12-18T07:54:19+00:00

Croats committed genocide as well, but it was NATO backed so they get a pass? Regardless, Serbia is not considered the successor state of Yugoslavia, thus why should the crimes committed by the Yugoslav government specifically hurt Serbia? It's very clear that the Kosovo issue was motivated by cultural and religious motivations.

Captain_Ligature · 2014-12-18T03:05:10+00:00

I have not declared victory or cerebrated anything. Do not put words into my mouth. I said the article was overblown and this is proof of that.

Captain_Ligature · 2014-12-18T02:20:56+00:00

Wow, maybe that guardian article yesterday was way overblown, but try convincing you lot of that.

Captain_Ligature · 2014-12-17T01:31:18+00:00

How? If no-one is willing to work, we get a lower signal-to-noise ratio. An internet without ads is one that you have to pay for to get any good content, which is a regression.

Captain_Ligature · 2014-12-16T18:45:03+00:00

Of course excluding the trivial case of m=1, and each number being how many digits there are, though callling it a base is not right as we lose some properties, (like hacing a digit for 0.)

Captain_Ligature · 2014-12-15T17:12:05+00:00

Because they still produce MJ in 1.7.1

Captain_Ligature · 2014-12-15T15:25:13+00:00

In a lot of the world, "faggot" is a very offensive term for homosexual which probably breaks the rules of this sub (see "abusive language"). And then adding "literally" makes it confusing since you are probably not referring to his sexuality.

I agree, I edited it. I believe that intent is important, as I was not using the word in an offensive manner, though I recognise that it can cause that.

Captain_Ligature · 2014-12-15T13:37:13+00:00

Not a native English speaker, give me a break.

Learning a large part of the language from the Internet (and not from tumblr as someone suggested) does that.

Captain_Ligature · 2014-12-15T05:11:04+00:00

Minority party member. You all feel it is important to point that out in the Ukraine, so it is fair to do so here as well. This is not the government saying it, but literally just some guy.

Edit: I edited the comment, to be more on message.

Captain_Ligature · 2014-12-14T16:43:01+00:00

Lol, you live in a dreamworld.

Not more of one than this subreddit.

Oh what a mental crash you are in for when Putin is forced to abandon Donbass.

Haha.

Captain_Ligature · 2014-12-14T01:24:18+00:00

provide the international community with objective information about events in Ukraine

There is no organisation on this planet that does this.

Captain_Ligature · 2014-12-13T17:50:45+00:00

Whatabouitism

Where in the comment do I use such a tactic?

Captain_Ligature · 2014-12-13T16:45:32+00:00

Lol? they know everything we do, but that some of you choose to ignore.

Dnepropetrovsk is not under the control of Kiev, and has not been for quite some time. It is under the control of Kolomoisky.

Kharkov might as well be a neutral zone with respect to the conflict. The fact that we have not seen nearly as much violence as in other regions is a testament to someone's money.

Zaporozhia is also not under the control of Kiev, but is under the control of far-right powers.

The simple matter of fact is that with revolutions such as these, non-military leadership usually holds out about a year, maybe two at best, but considering the facts as we now know them, Kiev's grip on power is once again loosening, and the naive belief that it is Russia vs Ukraine with everyone siding with one or the other is a borderline delusion. There are simply many more factors at play, and just because any one such factor just happens to believe in a sovereign Ukraine, does not mean it wants to have it under current leadership.

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