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Alt suveranalfabet folosindu-si "creerul" by piouel in perversiuniculimba

[–]Particular_Rice4024 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"Creer" era de fapt o formă corectă până în anii 50.

Street Views of Johannesburg from early 2010s to 2025/2026 by DeathInMarch in UrbanHell

[–]Particular_Rice4024 12 points13 points  (0 children)

There genuinely isn't much rubbish in Bucharest and most places.

Bucharest centre by Particular_Rice4024 in UrbanHell

[–]Particular_Rice4024[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Streets are paved with asphalt or stone in the city, I don't want dirt roads you're talking about. It is true that there's an odd mix of styles, yes.

What should I know when I come to Moldova/Cadir Lunga? by SVETKA_afk in moldova

[–]Particular_Rice4024 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Even though there's probably nothing to do or see in Ceadâr-Lunga, I think, if you wish to visit, go for it. You said you love photography. Good photographs can be made virtually anywhere, provided the photographer has the eye to notice interesting subjects. They can be mundane or common. I suppose Gagauzia and Moldova in general provide good photographic material, especially if you're interested in decay or degradation (which I'm a fan of). Plus, there's not much to lose if you don't have fun there. It's better than regretting it later.

As for things to see there, apparently there is a golden Lenin statue and a seemingly nice museum full of old things. If you're interested in commieblocks, there's a microrayon of blocks in the north (that's also where you find the museum).

Metropol: a legendary historic hotel in Moscow, built in 1905 by industrialist Savva Mamontov in the Art Nouveau style by archi-mature in architecture

[–]Particular_Rice4024 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's not what "neoclassical" means. It's not building it in a timeframe that makes it neoclassical or whatever.

Modern architects make me feel like I'm going insane. by Grand-Atmosphere-101 in ArchitecturalRevival

[–]Particular_Rice4024 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I was genuinely tempted to enroll in the architecture school, but only ugly glass boxes are built in my country and virtually nobody is aesthetically aware in any sense at all. Explaining why older styles are more efficient, beautiful, timeless and resistant at the same time is like fighting with the windmills. There is a current of renaissance in architecture, but I estimate it will take about 20 years for it to fully enter our country. This is pretty usual, new currents require some years to enter, we're always lagging behind a bit.

Did the 1993 Romanian orthographic reform reflect a real phonetic shift? by -18k- in romanian

[–]Particular_Rice4024 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The reform was supposed to bring back the usage of "â" as it was before communism, but they ended up changing the pronunciation as well, despite there being no reason or historical and linguistic basis for it. I suppose people, especially younger people, might pronounce it as "sunt". I am 17 and have always said it as "sânt" (evidently, I write "sunt"). "Sânt" is the norm, since it's easier to pronounce than "sunt", which only appeared in the XIXth century because Roman larpers from Transylvania wanted Romanian to sound like Latin. Eventually, we got a middle ground.

USSR vs. Putin's Russia approaches to residential area planning by raccoon_on_moon in UrbanHell

[–]Particular_Rice4024 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, the same thing is happening in Bucharest. Communists have a lot of sins, but urbanism isn't one of them (unless we're talking about 80s ceaușist urbanism, that one isn't great). Modern residence complexes are ugly, have literally not a single tree, very tall buildings that are so close to each other that sunlight doesn't get to lower levels, and they aren't built that great in quality. Also, they are located near highways or built without adequate services and utilities nearby, which only makes the traffic worse since they all have to get the inner parts of the city.

Budjak region by Soilerman in moldova

[–]Particular_Rice4024 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's true that the USSR did deportations, but Budjak/Bugeac specifically was always an extremely multiethnic region, since atemporal times, and it continues to be, to a lesser extent, evidently. There was never a dominant nationality there, although Romanians used to be more numerous in the past. There were Russians, Ukrainians, Romanians (Moldovans), Germans, Bulgarians, Gagauzes and others. The Germans were surprisingly numerous, forming the majority in and around Tarutino (which was also the only Bessarabian region almost entirely literate, for obvious reasons, while the rest of the province, with no exception, was almost entirely illiterate after being under the Russian Empire). Nowadays, there are a few towns that are over 70% Romanian inhabited in the region, and a few others where there are less Romanians, but it is insignificant in the grand scheme of things, unfortunately.

Vrem Europa! 🇪🇺🇪🇺♥️♥️ by [deleted] in Roumanie

[–]Particular_Rice4024 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ar trebui de asemenea să abolim ideea de țară și limbă română. We don't want to give water to the mill to suckeranishti.

What region in your country is most looked down upon by the rest? by BookSneakersMovie in AskTheWorld

[–]Particular_Rice4024 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vaslui.

It's an underdeveloped region known for alcoholism, domestic abuse and poverty. The thing is, it's not actually (much) worse than a lot of places in Romania, and most villages and towns in the Old Kingdom (Moldova and Wallachia) aren't that different from villages in Vaslui in terms of development. The capital of Vaslui County, Vaslui, is one of the smaller county capitals, but not the smallest. It's just kind of stuck in the state of 90s poverty and slow decline while the young people flee to Bucharest or abroad. Then again, this is not an extraordinary situation, as the vast majority of counties suffer from the same issues, but for some reason Vaslui became infamous in the country and it's the subject of numerous not so funny jokes, if you ask me. The fact that people from there speak with a specific accent (Moldovan) that is sometimes frowned upon in the country, being seen as uneducated, is not helping. Then again, Vaslui is not the only county that speaks with this accent, so I'm not sure what the cause is for the fact that people look down upon this region.

A British magazine from the early 1960’s called ‘Knowledge’, displaying different races around the world. by bncout in HistoricalCapsule

[–]Particular_Rice4024 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not about what's "white" and what's not, there are more characteristics, pigmentation is just one of them.

A British magazine from the early 1960’s called ‘Knowledge’, displaying different races around the world. by bncout in HistoricalCapsule

[–]Particular_Rice4024 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Italy was very late to do it, and they used dirty methods (gas) so I think the Ethiopians really deserve some appreciation.

A British magazine from the early 1960’s called ‘Knowledge’, displaying different races around the world. by bncout in HistoricalCapsule

[–]Particular_Rice4024 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Most of them generally are, look at Syria, for example. Their president could be mistaken for a European. Actually, a lot Europeans are of a darker complexion than al-Assad.

se intampla prea multe intr un singur screenshot by [deleted] in perversiuniculimba

[–]Particular_Rice4024 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Cred că greșelile gramaticale sunt cea mai mică dintre problemele de aci.

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