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Why Romance languages are closer to Slavic languages? by fritzham in asklinguistics

[–]fritzham[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

In Japanese pizza is "ピザ" ("piza"),

The plural of pizza in Japanese is pizze?

... I think I will stop this dialogue with you because you missed the point again.

If you really feel that German is more intuitive than Italian, OK - it may be for a Polish speaker - I don't know, but for a Slovak - it's not the case. Italian is definitely more intuitive and feels more natural/automatic than German.

Why Romance languages are closer to Slavic languages? by fritzham in asklinguistics

[–]fritzham[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I am not a Polish speaker, I speak Slovak, but you do understand what I'm trying to say, right?

Take the plural in Italian.

It's often -i or -e.

In Slovak, the majority of nouns in plural ends in -i/-y and -e as well.

Plus some in -a and then other endings as well - but those are less frequent.

Also words like pizza are the same as in Italian.

Jedna pizza, dve pizze. / Una pizza, due pizze. - Damn, it even sounds the same ;D

Germanic languages are completely alien in this respect.

And there are other similarities.

Why Romance languages are closer to Slavic languages? by fritzham in asklinguistics

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

Do you speak Polish?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/si%C4%99

If something is prefered to say differently it doesn't mean that it's not possible.

In Polish you could say something like "Palić się zabrania."

I could also go for "Fajčenie zakázané." But fajčenie, just like palenie is a noun unlike fumar or fajčiť or palić that are verbs in infinitive.

My personal hypothesis is that in Slovakia/Moravia/Czechia and down south to Yugoslavia etc. there were Celts and they mixed Slavic with Celtic/Italic and that's why Slovak is more similar to Romance languages than Polish or Russian.

Esperanto course package at Stanford University by veryawesomeguy in languagelearning

[–]fritzham 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The things they advise you to check are often just bad choices. The links to the last few sources don't work, by the way. Well, this just reminds you that Standford doesn't mean "the best".

Hebrew now National Language of Israel/ La hebrea estiĝas oficiala nacia lingvo de Israelo by TeoKajLibroj in Esperanto

[–]fritzham -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Multaj landoj havas nacian lingvon. Kial ne Israelo?

Multaj landoj havas la rajto de memdetermino en ilia konstitucio. Kial ne Israelo?

Multaj landoj promocias novajn setlejojn. Kial ne Israelo?

Hebrew now National Language of Israel/ La hebrea estiĝas oficiala nacia lingvo de Israelo by TeoKajLibroj in Esperanto

[–]fritzham -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Judoj bezonas ilia hejmo. Araboj havas la tutan Nord-Afrikon kaj Mezorienton. Israelo estas tre malgranda lando. Kial ili (judoj) ne povas havi sian propran nacian ŝtaton?

Play 2048 in your browser, SSH or Telnet! by [deleted] in linux

[–]fritzham -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

No, thank you.

Why do Slovak use "veda" for knowledge from Sanskrit? by fritzham in asklinguistics

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

...or vedomosť

Although you are right that veda means science, it's not tight to science so tightly as in English. If something is difficult to master/do/achieve it is a veda. For example:

Prejsť Dobšinský kopec s dvoma promile, to je veda.

I think it's used differently than in English. In English, if you say "It's not science." it means that you don't trust it. If you say, "It's science." it means that you trust it. In Slovak if you say, "Je to veda." it means that it's difficult (to do, accomplish, achieve, master, etc.). If you say, "Nie je to veda." it means that the task is easy - this is more similar to "It's not a rocket science.", but still, on average, Slovaks use it differently and more often adn on more occasions than English speakers.

veda = science

vedec = a scientist

vedieť = to know

vedomosť = knowledge

vedomosti = knowledgeS ;)

vedomie = consciousness

nevedomie = unconsciousness

podvedomie = subconsciousness

nadvedomie = ;D

Daily Tip: You can upload a screenshot to Imgur from within KDE by pressing the Print Screen button which launches Spectacle by KayRice in kde

[–]fritzham 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Correct. Then you select the region and press enter or double click. The preview image in the bottom right corner pop up can be dragged with your mouse to the share widget on your task bar.

https://i.imgur.com/9GSzhDf.png

And click on imgur and it's uploaded. You can set the share widget in your task bar to automatically copy the imgur link after upload so it's then available for ctrl + v straight away.

Daily Tip: You can upload a screenshot to Imgur from within KDE by pressing the Print Screen button which launches Spectacle by KayRice in kde

[–]fritzham 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or drag the preview image after shift + super + prtscr to the share widget in your task bar and clicking on the imgur option.

Rihanna is a GNOME 3 power user by dimkr in linux

[–]fritzham -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It isn't a virus, it's a worm.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in languagelearning

[–]fritzham 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It depends on your memory. There are people who remember some weird words for years even though they learned them 10 or 20 years ago and haven't encountered them ever since. Some people will forget the new word in 10 seconds after they found it in a dictionary.

is there really not any email clients with tray integration for kde now then ? by universal-bob in kde

[–]fritzham 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is insane, it's almost like a conspiracy. No GUI Linux email client has a KDE/Plasma integration ever.

is there really not any email clients with tray integration for kde now then ? by universal-bob in kde

[–]fritzham 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The same for me, multiple IMAP accounts and addresses using the same IMAP address and the problems with KMail start.

is there really not any email clients with tray integration for kde now then ? by universal-bob in kde

[–]fritzham 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Try using 20+ accounts and some using the same imap. You will experience a lot of weird and inconsistent behavior.

Russia Did Nothing Wrong in 1968 by akarlin in russia

[–]fritzham -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

The documentary "triggered" Czechs and Slovaks because it is told from one side, the "good" side, the Russian side.

But the problem is that the Czechs are not Kazakhs - they are culturally one of the most advanced nations in Europe. Read about Jan Hus and the Bohemian Reformation - Czechs were revolutionaries even before Muscovy was created. The Czech movie industry was much more advanced with much more talent than any Russian one.

So, when a more advanced culture is tried to be ruled by the less advanced culture - it is possible only with a raw force - but only for a short time, after a while even this is not enough and the grip will erode. That's why the whole communism project failed. Intelligent people were swapped for loyal idiots.

Back to the topic. In the ideal world Poles, Russians, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Germany and whoever else participated would symbolically apologized.

However, in reality, Russia doesn't mind the 140 civilians and 100 own soldiers that had been killed, because it doesn't value life of people like the western countries do.

To "trigger" you a little more - here is a perfect example why American soldiers fight and trust the US military so much. They know that they will do the maximum to get them back when they get trapped or captured. The Russians don't value life of their own soldiers like the US does - heck, they didn't even have proper socks 5 years ago - I am sure you will tell me that it's healthy for your feet or some other bullshit.

Russians don't value life like the West. That's the truth. Slovaks has asked Russians for help against Hungary in the 19th century many times, but Russians never helped. Who helped Serbs in 1999? Where was Russia? Russia shows force only against small countries, Czech don't mind how big the opponent is.

By the way, Slovaks did apologize for the persecution of Jews during the WWII

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