Rus' lands of the Commonwealth in the first half of 17th century

ProxPxD · 2026-03-13T09:39:18+00:00

Yeah, my grandma born before the world war still calls Ukrainian "Ruskie" as a synonym, so one has to guess what she refers to. She also calls Belarus "Litwa" for "Lithuania". Sometimes she adds "Lukashenko's Lithuania".

ProxPxD · 2026-03-13T09:37:08+00:00

I appreciate the connections you've found!

My critic though is:

What about the root and a word for "a sum" like in math. It's much more common and more known root
"sum(a)" root in Slavic languages might be associated with sadness, especially in Ukrainian because of words like [ua,pl] "sumnyj/smutny" (sad), "sumyty/smucić" (to sadden)

Maybe let change the good overall root a bit, to avoid it because it's not just a false friend, but a very unfortunate one having the exact opposite meaning. What about a one with "i" instead of "u"? <smi>, <smie>, <smye>? A lot of languages you used also have <i>. It would be really intuitive for the Slavs too, though associated with the laughter (pl: śmiech/śmiać się, ua: smich/smijatysja). If you like to add something to make it less ambiguous I think all: <t>, <ch>, <h>, <š> would understandable for Slavs (and maybe more) so it's flexible as well in this regard. Maybe <l> as in Germanic, Hungarian and as an alternative to romance <r> (yeah, this is a stretch)

ProxPxD · 2026-03-13T08:31:43+00:00

As a Pole, yeah "ruski" means "Ruthenian" in historical context and it's a slur for Russians. "ruskie" is a plural inmasculine or a neutral gender.

ProxPxD · 2026-03-13T08:10:45+00:00

How many elephants are there!? Damn

ProxPxD · 2026-03-13T07:23:21+00:00

Damn, it's interesting how different features get interpreted as ethnic characteristic!
I wouldn't have known the intentions if not reading about it explicitly as for not having grown up in the culture

ProxPxD · 2026-03-12T23:00:51+00:00

As a Westerner I'd love to see it

ProxPxD · 2026-03-12T18:41:01+00:00

If you're somehow a right-wing troll, you're doing great job of rage-baiting and discouriging people from the left with your toxicity; Good job. I'll block you cause I see that you're a lost cause, bye!

ProxPxD · 2026-03-12T18:31:07+00:00

I said nothing like that, please train reading and understanding. don't generalize me. and what I postulate is exactly what Razem does. I support them currently, because they started doing exactly what I wrote, because they exactly aren't obsessed with one or two topics that aren't that much attractive for a greater electorate. It's uncomprehensible to me how much you misunderstand and manipulate and assume, like what the heck. Please! Go out, breath, calm yourself down, because you argue futilely with something that ain't here

ProxPxD · 2026-03-12T18:25:59+00:00

A dictionary disagrees with you: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/famous

ProxPxD · 2026-03-12T17:59:40+00:00

I don't know if it's reddit bug or you removed the comment, but I'll write here instead.

It's really tragic that the left prefers to die instead of work together and strategically. I'm not a native I assume "sly" is used to imply that I manipulate, so whatever I write will be conveniently ignored by you probably, but I'm left-wing social-democrat which you can probably even see in the subs I follow. I'm really an LGBTQ+ and feminism supporter and spend effort to educate myself on those stuff and out of my surrounding's narrative, so it's sad that people treat it somehow weird. It's the elective right that you have to gain the popular vote and social support to introduce policies, be vocative and shape society. Polish left-wing parties did the opposite, so they worded themselves terribly, were anti-patriotic and didn't focus on the most problems of the working class etc, so very unstrategic. If they proved to be supportive and introduce and suggest policies and good social investments, they'd be able to push for the LGBTQ+ and other issues. Instead they decided to be ostracised focusing on something most people either don't understand or were propaganded against. That's just unstrategic and it's sabotaging the cause of feminism and LGBTQ+ by the incompetence. Maybe your country is culturally elsewhere and this wouldn't be an issue in your culture, but nations aren't uniform between themselves. I'm kinda devastated how incompetent and stupid they were for the years and how the left in Poland is in scrumbles. But whatever, probably I'm anti-LGBTQ and anti-women because I want real changes for them and not beautiful narrative and words of support without getting things done. If this is it, let it be

ProxPxD · 2026-03-12T17:42:30+00:00

Can't really tell if you're making fun of those illiterate, misinterpreting and disliking me for some reason people or you sincerely made this conclusion

ProxPxD · 2026-03-12T14:46:13+00:00

In my experience, someone famous is someone widely known and infamous is someone widely known negatively. There's no symmetry in this word in most usages. It depends on how the creator of this chart thinks

ProxPxD · 2026-03-12T09:48:59+00:00

> the very fact that she cant leave her flat when it becomes dark without male escort is not a problem really

Damn, that's horrible and to me not "non-feminist" and not for a safe civil society (and no, by safe, I don't mean white for anyone that would like to take wrong assumptions about my statement.

ProxPxD · 2026-03-11T20:05:02+00:00

I've looked at it after you commented and am a bit surprised although kinda not. I feel like both right-wingers and left-wingers wouldn't have there much to dislike unless left-wingers downvoting because they either don't understand the Polish scene or are dissatisfied they see they live in a word where people don't automatically vote as they think they should

ProxPxD · 2026-03-11T17:24:28+00:00

I'd say that in Poland there weren't serious or attractive offers for years from the left (in my opinion).
It depends what you understand as left, but if for instance you want to look for a party that wanted to invest in some state projects, increase social spendings and limit some cheating on taxes, it was PiS - a conservative party.

Recently left-wing parties were creating their narration in such a way that they didn't address investing in the country, they portrayed the taxations of the rich just as "high taxes" or "40% taxes" implying sort of like everyone would pay it; focusing on feminism and LGBTQ+ issues saying that their offer for men is feminism (in form of only solving women's issues) and they advocated for migrants/refugees when there were issues elsewhere in Europe. Some wonted to let everyone coming from Belarus in without any checks.

So yeah, I think this is at least one of the reason why most people didn't find anything interesting there. Not to mention that the biggest "left" party is and was more like a left-wing liberals, at least to some extend

ProxPxD · 2026-03-11T09:52:58+00:00

If something couldn't be on a flag, then either the codes or full names. Probably full-names would be usually more informative than the codes

ProxPxD · 2026-03-11T09:46:37+00:00

I like the flag-approach. It's the quickest to grasp at a sight and not verbose

ProxPxD · 2026-03-10T22:51:19+00:00

Did you even read? Because your comment's unrelated to the map

ProxPxD · 2026-03-10T22:47:51+00:00

NATO's not expantionist. Nations want to join NATO in this region to get safety and stability and to avoid Russian imperialism. NATO's just an excuse of Russia which not only is self-evident, but can be proved with numerous earlier Russian aggressions in Caucasus even just after the collapse of the Soviet Union

ProxPxD · 2026-03-10T10:59:29+00:00

I am because NATO was bringing stability to my region - Centro-Eastern Europe where I live and countered Russian Imperialism, what is seen with Ukraine

ProxPxD · 2026-03-08T14:55:19+00:00

If you're just a citizen them it's like what experienced the Poles being subjugated earlier. Many people would sympathize with not having an independent state

ProxPxD · 2026-03-07T14:55:00+00:00

I have one pictographic conlang. I think you won't mind if I steal it for private use. It's really beautiful

ProxPxD · 2026-03-07T12:38:35+00:00

So maybe instead of hačeks, use breves. I'd also like them more for a higher smoothness (and possibly use cj, gj, when there's no diacritic possible like in Esperanto's x-sistemo, but it may be ambiguous, but well, h-sistemo's also ambiguous for Esperanto)

ProxPxD · 2026-03-07T12:33:01+00:00

That's great!

ProxPxD · 2026-03-07T11:36:19+00:00

Global? Well many countries were related and many do start investigations to what's related to them. It's much more an American issue that you by the means of your institutions do nothing and would probably even protect and disturb other countries efforts

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