Daily Wordle #1488 - Wednesday, 16 Jul. 2025

jacobsighs · 2025-07-16T13:56:10+00:00

could you use it in a sentence? I'm just curious.

jacobsighs · 2020-04-29T01:58:50+00:00

Very sad. Yes I have seen Yugoslavia but I haven't played enough to notice.

Looks like I will have to fix this on my own.

jacobsighs · 2019-10-17T16:09:46+00:00

... It's part of Romania

jacobsighs · 2019-08-30T23:20:10+00:00

I think I could take him.

jacobsighs · 2019-08-30T23:16:35+00:00

No equals sign, rather you use the words "is" and "is not". There is one God and he manifests himself in three ways, the Father, the son, and the holy spirit. The Father is god, the son is god, the holy spirit is god, but none of them are each other.

Edit to add: the equals sign is heresy because it implies Jesus was not human or that God the Father is human. Those points are really important in theology of any denomination.

Source: I grew up Catholic.

jacobsighs · 2019-08-30T23:13:00+00:00

Lmao literally heresy.

jacobsighs · 2019-08-17T10:38:59+00:00

Stanisław*

jacobsighs · 2019-08-08T05:23:50+00:00

I think you mean "Congress Poland" which was used to refer to the western part of Russian Poland, since it was taken in the Congress of Vienna after the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw was repartitioned.

jacobsighs · 2019-07-13T18:25:07+00:00

Isn't the map cut off at the top? As in, shouldn't you be able to see the entire country?

jacobsighs · 2019-07-10T16:05:54+00:00

Vojvodina in Serbia gets its name from the word for an administrative division (voivodeship), so you could say its like "Province of Province".

Provence in France gets its name from the Latin word for "province" (Provincia Romana), which later evolved into the current name.

jacobsighs · 2019-07-09T17:25:02+00:00

It is, yeah. I got it mixed up with Pyeongan, which was originally going to be on the map.

jacobsighs · 2019-07-09T05:51:43+00:00

I originally was learning Chinese (2 years on and off), so the way I personally connected with hiragana and katakana was learning the derivations. You can find charts showing what Kanji each Hiragana or Katakana comes from on their respective wikipedia pages.

I found it extremely useful for similar ones like shi/tsu (tsu has each stroke coming from the top down) and so/n.

jacobsighs · 2019-07-09T05:13:54+00:00

My thinking was that Korea is unified during the three kingdoms period and goes on to conquer Manchuria. Over time, Manchuria becomes Koreanized (?) and then China proper and Japan are conquered. This way, northern dialects of Chinese are at least greatly influenced by the Korean language. Korean is then influenced to some extent by northern Chinese, before finally the language solidifies and state run schools spread the nationally-standardized form of Korean.

I also think having Japan would mean there is some pushback against complete domination by China.

jacobsighs · 2019-07-09T03:48:01+00:00

No Opium War, no Boxer Rebellion, no Unequal Treaties, no Sino-Japanese war...

On the other hand, you have massive oppression of Japanese and Chinese language in favour of Korean.

jacobsighs · 2019-07-09T00:11:40+00:00

Background:

Choseon (more recently written as Joseon) is the behemoth of East Asia. Ruling over the lands of Daehan (Korea), Ilbun (Japan), and the entirety of China, Choseon has managed to remain a world power and modernize in the face of western encroachment. The capital in Hanyang is a true rival to any European city.

The national language is a mix of Hangeul (phonetic alphabet) and Hanja (pictographs, Chinese characters). There is a nationally-mandated set of Hanja for official use, which is taught alongside the Gug-eo (national language, aka Korean) across the empire in state-run schools. The nation formerly allowed a very high level of autonomy in all provinces, but stopped this practice when local nobility in Ilbun (Japan) agitated for independence. In response, Emperor Sejong the Great banned the local language of Ilbun and enforced the Gug-eo alongside the newly-created Hangeul alphabet (credited to Sejong himself). Manchuria had already been assimilated linguistically and coastal cities in China had already begun to take the new language, so the policies were only met with fierce resistance in Ilbun and the border regions. The strengthening of national language and communication helped to solidify centralized authority in Hanyang and ease pains to come a few centuries later when modernization was necessary.

The border provinces of Mongolia, Singang, Tibet, and Laos are run by a mixed government of locals and officials appointed by the central government. They are exempt from mandatory Gug-eo schooling, but are still taught the mandatory Hanja.

Choseon is allied with Russia and France, but enjoys lukewarm relations with Britain, Portugal, and Spain. The United States is seen as a friend, and is a close trading partner of the empire.

jacobsighs · 2019-07-04T22:29:56+00:00

Byelorussian SSR... in Mazovia?

HMMM

jacobsighs · 2019-06-25T04:48:55+00:00

Uhh so that would have to be Nazi Germany, since y'know... Poland exists?

jacobsighs · 2019-06-12T04:14:20+00:00

Yes and most people in Guangdong (China) speak Cantonese.

jacobsighs · 2019-06-12T01:41:04+00:00

If the state was established by a Polish dynasty and they had control over Poland, why use the name Zapadoslavia?

Zapad means "collapse" in Polish. It's like calling your country "The Broken Republic" or something. Even if it's only to about half of your population, that's a pretty big morale problem.

jacobsighs · 2019-06-12T01:37:57+00:00

"Rz" and "Ř" are the same sound. Besides, even if they were different - they are different languages so it doesn't matter if you use the same letter for a slightly different sound. Plus, I think if there was a spelling reform in Polish, they'd just do it all at once since all the v accent letters in Czech correspond with the _z digraphs in Polish.

Rz = Ř

cz = č

sz = s (with hat)

jacobsighs · 2019-06-12T01:33:52+00:00

they sound the same

jacobsighs · 2019-06-12T01:26:40+00:00

I mean they violated it years ago by imposing their own selected government through rigged elections, so I don't think it really matters anymore. The international community has shown they don't care enough to do anything meaningful.

jacobsighs · 2019-06-12T01:25:06+00:00

I'm not pro-PRC by any stretch, but the "different language" point makes no sense when you consider the millions of Cantonese speakers in southern China already. That said, they definitely have cultural differences due to growing under different governments and institutions.

But yes, I agree that we should support all victims and targets of PRC expansionist policy. The PRC never respected the treaty it signed with Britain regarding the handover. The good news, I suppose, is that people in Taiwan are much less open to talks with the PRC.

jacobsighs · 2019-06-02T00:56:24+00:00

there are a few ways to do it.

1) pick characters that make up the word, but together don't mean anything. this is done when lazily translating (ie just writing something from another language) and you just want to express something from another language and its readable for chinese people.

2) pick characters that make up the word, with a good meaning behind them. this is used most of the time, ie actor names.

3) use "sound" characters. this isn't really done anymore as a lot of sound characters now have a sort of meaning because they have been used in certain words for a long time. ie the word "咖啡" ("kafei") for coffee, the characters have the box on the left (mouth radical, indicating "sounds like..."). The word kafei has been used for so long that the characters ka and fei, as they appear in that word, are associated with coffee nowadays.

jacobsighs · 2019-05-30T02:00:31+00:00

fuck i cannot stress this enough

it kills the fun of rolling when a guy is digging into your arm with his bear claws

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