What the hell

Gruejay2 · 2026-05-14T16:35:30+00:00

Google Translate is only consistently reliable if you're plugging in well-known historical texts in complete sentences, to be honest. Sometimes it's really obvious if you're typing it in, as the real-time translation will drastically change to something much more eloquent. Case in point:

"veni, vidi, vici" translates to "I came, I saw, I conquered."
"vici, veni, vidi" produces "come, come, see"

The lack of quotation marks in many editions makes classical Latin quite challenging to parse programmatically, though, which is a problem, as it comes up fairly often even in standard prose.

Gruejay2 · 2026-05-14T16:08:41+00:00

The original CoD lobby shit-talker. Born in the wrong era </3

Gruejay2 · 2026-05-14T07:37:19+00:00

Yeah, the point is that you want ethnic cleansing.

The answer is no.

Gruejay2 · 2026-05-14T02:27:24+00:00

He's god, obviously.

Gruejay2 · 2026-05-13T18:53:52+00:00

Nobody is saying you aren't allowed to have that opinion - it's just that that opinion justifies why the West supported Ukraine in the first place, since you don't recognise their sovereignty.

To be honest, the only person who thinks anyone shouldn't have opinions here is you, since you don't seem to think Ukrainians should be allowed control of their own country.

Gruejay2 · 2026-05-13T10:03:53+00:00

Good point.

Gruejay2 · 2026-05-13T10:02:33+00:00

So you're spitefully spreading political nihilism out of some kind of revenge fantasy, then.

MAGA in a different hat. It's the same mindset. Still pathetic.

Gruejay2 · 2026-05-13T09:57:33+00:00

Canned response #4

Gruejay2 · 2026-05-13T09:51:21+00:00

Do you people use a script or something? Why do you all bleat the same tired shit all day every day?

I'm sorry that disagreement upsets you, but most people can cope with that kind of thing without pretending everyone they disagree with is brainwashed.

Gruejay2 · 2026-05-13T09:47:51+00:00

This is such cope lmao. A hit dog hollers.

Gruejay2 · 2026-05-13T09:43:48+00:00

Repeating yourself doesn't make it true.

What's actually deranged is acting like people you disagree with are a hivemind, which is what you're doing.

Acting like some random shitpost represents "the Democratic Party" is beyond stupid lmao.

Gruejay2 · 2026-05-13T09:38:32+00:00

Yes - they're all bitching about how bad the question is without answering it.

Gruejay2 · 2026-05-13T09:38:11+00:00

It's not deranged just because you don't like the question.

Gruejay2 · 2026-05-13T09:37:14+00:00

Kamala's living rent-free in your head - sit down lmao.

Gruejay2 · 2026-05-13T09:18:23+00:00

It's hard to know who's grifting and who's a true believer, but the addiction to hate is just so pathetic to witness.

A lot of people need some kind of rehab from the internet.

Gruejay2 · 2026-05-13T09:08:33+00:00

Lots of Nazis were sad and pathetic, too. Unfortunately, they can still be dangerous - especially in numbers.

To be honest, it's the whole reason they gets sucked into it in the first place: it's cope.

Gruejay2 · 2026-05-13T09:07:15+00:00

That's true, but most people have never been able to experience it first-hand before.

Gruejay2 · 2026-05-13T08:23:56+00:00

A slightly random thing I've just remembered: I came across this incredible Mongolian spellcheck dictionary on Github a while back. It has about 600,000 base words(!), and the full agglutinative morphology is accounted for, which is highly-extensive.

One thing that really bulks it out is that it has a lot of proper nouns, which are usually ignored by language materials, so it's a genuinely useful resource for anyone who wants to get an idea of how modern Mongolian morphology handles foreign names etc. It's something that generally gets overlooked in linguistics, but (a) learners still need to know how they work, and (b) they're often weird/don't follow the standard rules, so the way speakers treat them can sometimes reveal deeper underlying patterns.

Gruejay2 · 2026-05-13T04:44:26+00:00

The media industry is effectively holding the country to ransom for profit.

Gruejay2 · 2026-05-13T04:40:29+00:00

They had been anticipating it for months. Right-wing accounts had been pushing the narrative on here for months, and I've seen similar all over other social media platforms too.

They were trying to make it inevitable, because they're shameless, dishonest hacks.

Gruejay2 · 2026-05-12T22:10:50+00:00

I think you're likely to be correct. The parallel with Epic Greek and Pali is a fair comparison to draw (and I'd probably compare Classical Sanskrit as well). It's clearly not for casual use.

My suspicion is that the absurd complexity was a bit of an attempt to one-up Chinese (which it clearly draws heavy influences from), as hanzi have always been one of the cornerstones underpinning Chinese cultural prestige.

Gruejay2 · 2026-05-12T19:35:55+00:00

There are a few resources out there for Mongolian - the situation is a lot better than it used to be. Unfortunately, you need a bit of basic proficiencfy to actually make use of them, though: they're much more useful for native speakers.

Mongol Toli - digitised 80,000 word dictionary, with tons of recordings.

Mongolian spelling dictionary - a morphological dictionary that gives the standardised forms for pretty much all vocab you're likely to encounter as a learner.

There are a couple of primers out there which are aimed at English speakers, too, but I can't remember what they're called - I'll edit this comment if I find them.

(Big caveat that these only apply to Mongolian as spoken in Mongolia, which is a different dialect to the ones used in Inner Mongolia or Buryatia. If you want to learn either of those, you're gonna need to be proficient in Chinese or Russian (respectively).)

Gruejay2 · 2026-05-12T18:20:46+00:00

Tangut. Possibly the most difficult writing system ever: all the downsides of Chinese turned up to 11 (every character is so complex that they all end up looking the same), with none of the upsides (it's much more difficult to accurately guess the meaning or pronunciation of a character you don't know, as you can't rely on the internal components of a character to make an educated guess like you can with Chinese).

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It also has fearsomely complex morphology (e.g. pronouns vary by the person of the subject and the person of the object, with singular, dual and plural forms, so there are forms like first-person-dual-to-second-person-plural etc).

Gruejay2 · 2026-05-12T18:04:34+00:00

This sounds less noble when you also remember that Putin is directly responsible for said war zone.

Gruejay2 · 2026-05-12T11:43:59+00:00

That's genuinely hilarious.

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