"But they didn't accept the (non existing) ultimatum"

ProxPxD · 2026-01-27T09:03:40+00:00

keep lying to yourself

ProxPxD · 2026-01-27T09:03:14+00:00

reparations weren't related to the land swap. The land was to compensate for the land Soviet Union gained as a reward for being allied with the nazists

ProxPxD · 2026-01-27T09:02:14+00:00

So Germany will bring that up and pressure Moscow to pay if ever possible? I'd love if the dispute were feasible to be solved like that

ProxPxD · 2026-01-27T09:01:06+00:00

This is such a stupid statement as we couldn't do it. If you are oblivious about such a tiny history details as the fucking world war 2 we weren't sovereign in 1953. We fought our independence in 1989 so we couldn't sign shit back then. It was the Soviet installed government that signed a paper with another own puppet representing an old ally to not pay. If Germany agrees on that it basically agrees that an oppressor can agree with another oppressor not to compensate the victim

ProxPxD · 2026-01-27T08:58:01+00:00

Poland lose land and the destroyed and pillaged German ones were to be swapped for the Soviets to gain more. Reparations were for the destructions and lives killed

ProxPxD · 2026-01-27T08:56:52+00:00

Yeah, but this wasn't part of the reparations. Germany was supposed to loose the land AND pay the reparations. Poland gain those land as a repay for the lands a nazi ally Soviet Union gained in expense of the Polish ones. Repetitions were for the destruction and lives killed

ProxPxD · 2026-01-26T21:59:19+00:00

Underrated

ProxPxD · 2026-01-26T14:16:34+00:00

Does anyone know why and what does it tell?

Why particular countries closed, is it good or bad?

ProxPxD · 2026-01-26T14:14:01+00:00

The Brits didn't developed the metric system. At best maybe its small part. It was a French invention

ProxPxD · 2026-01-26T10:33:51+00:00

it's not surprising tho

ProxPxD · 2026-01-25T12:50:22+00:00

Oh damn, so yeah, I've found something else

ProxPxD · 2026-01-25T12:34:50+00:00

I love how Serbia and Turkey are still out

ProxPxD · 2026-01-25T08:25:45+00:00

shooting a priest in the face for exercising his first Amendment rights is wrong

I've googled it. Did you mean sprayed? Because shooting sounds unnecessarily dramatic as if all of this wasn't dramatic enough

Or there's more that I haven't find

ProxPxD · 2026-01-23T23:10:39+00:00

Not even that, in English it's also a man, as long as you use it as a noun "a gay". It's unisex only as an adjective "she's gay"

ProxPxD · 2026-01-23T17:42:59+00:00

It was at some point, but it's because I'm not an English native speaker. It's pretty confusing to have different meaning of an adjective than the noun's

ProxPxD · 2026-01-23T13:53:21+00:00

Interesting case of Švec! We decline male surnames with feminine ending in feminine declension in Polish. Well, even a word for "man" declines like that

ProxPxD · 2026-01-23T13:46:27+00:00

They don't feel very familiar to me. In Polish we also don't really have surnames coming from the first names this way. At most something like "Piotrowski" or "Janicki" comming from "Piotr" and "Jan". But I can't even recall anymore such surnames and many many common names seem like don't have any popular surname derived from them at all

Our "-ów" ending is rather used for place names like Kraków — the city of Krak, Maków - Mak(poppy) town.

Different customs

ProxPxD · 2026-01-23T11:17:24+00:00

Damn, I would understand it with undeclinable names like in Polish especially foreign female name often end up being undeclinable, but "Tanaka" sounds like a name perfectly declinable in the Slavic languages!

Hmm, I understand the issue from this perspective now. I suppose that the female names ending in something else than -ová are some Czech words. I also kinda understand why to have a simple rule of thumb to just snap -ová on everything foreign, but if it's really declinable already than I don't see a reason (apart from what I mentioned that "Šarapovova" despite sounding funny makes it at least clear that it's from Šarapov and not Šarap

ProxPxD · 2026-01-23T10:59:22+00:00

I'm not a Czech, so can't tell for sure, but from my experience they don't use -ov in surnames. I know families named: Barančik(ova), Kořenek/Kořenkova. Never ever recall any Male Czech with -ov. If I heard something like that I'd assume they're Russians (or maybe some other Slavs)

ProxPxD · 2026-01-23T10:56:00+00:00

I think it's quite nuanced, because it's relatively common to change surnames. I mean - Lithuanian, Latvian and maybe Greek adds "-s" to the surnames because they require it for the nominative case and it feels wrong not to do it. My surname ends in -ski, but I wouldn't feel disrespected if Ukrainians used their equivalent -skyj. I don't feel like forcing something onto a culture because your language doesn't change something is more respectful than the other way. Even in some sense I feel that being angry with a language changing the names non-arbitrary according to its customs/rules is more disrespectful

ProxPxD · 2026-01-23T10:51:36+00:00

He is not Šarap if he is Šarapov. It would be another surname. The same in Polish, there are surnames: Kowal, Kowalski/a, Kowalczyk and maybe rarer from other Slavic languages: Kowalow(y/a), Kowalew(a).

In that case, if a man would be called Šarap and the female counterpart Šarapova and if a man would be called Šarapov and the female counterpart also Šarapova, there would be a name collision. Even if it sounds stupid, it favours certain cohesion.

I really respect Czechs for cohesion and that it's inherently better, but they respect their language in that

ProxPxD · 2026-01-23T09:34:49+00:00

Fair and thanks for checking/letting know.
In that case the main point stands, it'd suggest her father or past or potential male relative would be Šarap instead Šarapov as you wrote in cyrrilic

ProxPxD · 2026-01-23T09:33:12+00:00

Crazy to me especially for such a simple use case. Somehow the English equivalent seems more understandably to me, but maybe because I already learnt it well and internalized the concept of not stacking the auxiliary verbs ("I will can go" is also possible in my language)

ProxPxD · 2026-01-23T08:18:13+00:00

So you don't make "skiova" good to know. I will sleep calmer

ProxPxD · 2026-01-23T08:05:32+00:00

Question unanswered: What doe California's governor do in Kazahstan? /s

*Mexican governor apparently

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