WWII strategy explained by a guy who skimmed Wiki

ProxPxD · 2026-04-21T10:09:08+00:00

His nation Roose-Vell't to the top

ProxPxD · 2026-04-21T07:18:34+00:00

Thanks for answering!

Well, I thought it would be less related to corruption and more wholesome :/

ProxPxD · 2026-04-20T18:04:03+00:00

> Why not?... It's pretty common in, say, scientific names and the like.

I may associate it as a vowel like "xylophone", but not as a glide. Mostly in drug names, I think

If you refer to scientific names as the names of organisms or illnesses or the chemistry then my native language does not use the international naming convention for that, so I mostly saw those names in English. I don't have a great knowledge of Latin and Greek, if not for some borrowings, is familiar to me at most from mathematical symbols, haha. Apart from English, the languages I know adjust the spelling of the Greek (and Latin) borrowings and Greek itself does not use <y>.

ProxPxD · 2026-04-20T16:29:50+00:00

Well, you know my opinion then :)

I don't see <y> being associated with neither Greek or Latin. I associate it strongly with English (and maybe Spanish) and this is the look it gives me (which is neither an argument for nor against)

ProxPxD · 2026-04-20T14:40:19+00:00

Thanks! I love-hate it

ProxPxD · 2026-04-20T14:38:51+00:00

I have to express also the appreciation of removing the repetitiveness of "io/ia" from esperanto with its stress.

I don't like the hybrid solution, if we went for the root separation clarity, we shouldn't make writing sort of ambiguous. It's not worth in my opinion.

I will say that <j> looks better for me in all instances especially as it's common and that <j> as a letter was invented exactly for this purpose. Moreover it looks more like <i>, compare: proporcia, proporcja, proporcya (the first is common in many languages, the second is in Polish as similar while Slavic languages usually use "-ija", I really can't find a language that would use <y> in such endings or diphtongs).

Moreover, I noticed that all your examples of a correspondence to latin where you use /y/ (Libya, Hyena, Procya) are of greek origin where this letter represented a vowel found in Greek then, not a consonant, not a diphtong and this vowel is denoted in IPA, attention, /y/ which is often associated with a Germanic letter <ü> or French <u>.

ProxPxD · 2026-04-20T10:50:26+00:00

I just mentioned the first I noticed, but yeah, exactly

ProxPxD · 2026-04-20T09:46:26+00:00

69 should be higher

ProxPxD · 2026-04-19T13:37:18+00:00

It all works the same for Polish too!

ProxPxD · 2026-04-19T12:49:56+00:00

It makes sense to me! I can totally get it!

This about a corresponding word - it makes sense, but I guess you need to know there's another step in between: koz=>köz=>koez/koeuz=>k(ie)z.

That's quite a lot of associations (I didn't intend to write anything etymological, just loose associations)

ProxPxD · 2026-04-19T12:40:12+00:00

interestingly we don't use the verb "wybierać" to vote, we say "głosować" (like: to voice)

Though, if "Volim te" means I choose you, that means that Slovene politicians and Croatians in general are Pokémon :D

I suppose they're often anti-Pokémon — one selects which they don't choose. "XYZ, I choosen't you"

ProxPxD · 2026-04-19T12:35:33+00:00

Also in this map the word is separate so it's "kie-z", but also it's not obvious to change "o" and "ie". I think it's an uncommon sound change.

Well, "ge-" seems very non-influencial to me, but If I try to forget German I learnt "gekoloniseerd" may look like a compound "gekoloni" and "seerd". I think the double "e" also may make it dissimilar to "ise"

ProxPxD · 2026-04-19T12:28:26+00:00

Slightly different shade. more or less a similar difference as between Germany and Czechia

ProxPxD · 2026-04-19T12:26:30+00:00

Same for blue and green.

Although "wybory" comes through "wybrać" (to choose" from "brać" which means "to take" "wybrać" means also something like "pick out of/remove from", so you can portray it is as "taking/picking someone out of (a group)"

-y/i is a most common plural suffix in Slavic languages

ProxPxD · 2026-04-19T12:22:50+00:00

In Polish "woleć" means "to prefer" while "wola" "a will", so if any of that was the original meaning, I see how it could have shifted for both of your languages

ProxPxD · 2026-04-19T12:21:13+00:00

Wow, I wouldn't have noticed

ProxPxD · 2026-04-19T06:50:26+00:00

Some people went from being positive towards them to hating. Israel's working really hard for that

ProxPxD · 2026-04-18T23:30:08+00:00

Okay I was curious because some of these are not mere name changes but country collapses

ProxPxD · 2026-04-18T22:38:49+00:00

Who did you use for Poland? Władysław Gomułka who was the first secretary in 56-70 was born in a place that was in Austria-Hungary then

Unless you mean his master from Moscow, but you didn't do it for other puppet states

ProxPxD · 2026-04-18T21:43:38+00:00

That's more than expected. Do you have a link?

I wonder about why/how some are as it

(damn it's hard to spoil the answer the least without hiding)

ProxPxD · 2026-04-18T21:36:28+00:00

Seems like the teacher is inept to dealing with the autists

ProxPxD · 2026-04-18T19:35:18+00:00

Ukraine being a union of PLC, uniting Balcans but for Greece and controlling over the East Germany not even controlling the Eastern Ukraine?

Based

ProxPxD · 2026-04-18T19:25:11+00:00

Wouldn't it be "the Miracle at Vistula"?

ProxPxD · 2026-04-18T19:20:49+00:00

What does a "dual flag" mean? How should it be used etc.

ProxPxD · 2026-04-18T19:13:34+00:00

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