@MikeWCrichton @cljack I imagine it would be kinda weird to have to find out which one needs to call the other "sir" outside of work, and then go back to the office where you just call him kevin
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I think it's really underrated by native American English speakers how extremely not hierarchical it is relative to every other language on earth
Nat⋆.˚𖦹⋆✮⋆.˚@kvschxi
i hate speaking to professors in polish cause in english i can call them ‘you’ and it’s fine but in polish its professor doktor habilitowany your fucking highness
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@Sully15126047 @AnalyticaCamil1 Being german is how kissinger got the job
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@AnalyticaCamil1 I just assumed they put germans to administrate it after partition. Pretty cool
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Throwback to that time Henry Kissinger was a private in World War 2, and he was given the job of essentially administering a German town
Sami Gold@souljagoyteller
Honored Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery by visiting an old friend ❤️
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@TheFoodMachine1 @Bokononisme Very different. The british couldn't take and hold all of america, but frederick's enemies could so while washington could avoid battle, frederick was constantly trying to fight battles as fast as possible so he could turn and foght someone else before they took his whole country
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The mythologizing of Washington as a genius with daring gambits actually ignore what really made him great: that he invented the modern template for how smaller, poorer force fighting for independence could exhaust larger empire by keeping its force intact and trade land for time
Sami Gold@souljagoyteller
I used to think Washington was a shitty commander until I watched Ken Burns’ The American Revolution. That guy was the only man who could’ve won the war for the patriots. The greatest tactical retreater in history
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@WuGMFC @SashoTodorov1 @SwallowBug11 You are not punching a hole through the exterior wall to the outside, which is the wall that insulates the house.
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@SashoTodorov1 @SwallowBug11 You can punch holes through American walls. Our houses are older than your country.
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british people be like “our houses are built to retain heat” then you look and it never goes below freezing there so like why tf yall building em like that
Reisshub@Reisshub
34 degrees in the UK today
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@Unimportanz @Nuskylicious A work has a character who says a lot of puns. One translation is literal, but the character isn't funny anymore. One translator makes new puns for him to say, while trying to make him say approximately the same thing. Which translation is more accurate to the work?
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@Nuskylicious All translators use poetic license when translating when translating a work? None of them try to create the most accurate translation?
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If he does this he’s either going to have to learn enough Greek to become embarrassed at his previous statements about the Odyssey, or he’s going to end up plagiarizing a prior translation in a way that’s going to be obvious to anyone, and either outcome is hilarious.
Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy
I am going to create the first chud translation of the Odyssey. I’ll market it by saying that, because I am a chud, I understand Homer in a way that non-chuds can’t. Then when I’m called out on this, I’ll say it’s just a normal translation and my critics are chud-hating sexists.
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@SlumberCrown @tinnitus69 His brother was also an excellent general and also gay
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@tinnitus69 Frederick the great. The gay king of Prussia. A man who Napoleon considered his equal if not his superior.
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@Phormio_Lake @BaalJulani @Wirezd57 @Abu_Da7a Read the opening of a book on suicide bombing, and one of the first things it argues is that nationalism was the main driver of suicide bombing campaigns, even the islamist ones
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@BaalJulani @Wirezd57 @Abu_Da7a Color me humbled that nationalism is potent enough for suicide bombers and religious mysticism is not needed.
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The Shias inventing suicide bombing only for it to become the defining image of Salafi-Jihadists was stolen valour ngl.
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@MayoMainz Absolute certainty, airforce claims in ww2 were overstated by like 3x even when they weren't trying to lie, and its even harder to count on the ground, and armies just don't really do it for individual soldiers
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An extremely low-stakes apolitical conspiracy I have is that I just don't believe in any "high kill count" figure for an individual soldier. Sidorenko or Hayha getting 500+ kills? Fucking bullshit lol
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@angloaleks @camliekr This has happened already. Theres a whole culture of portuguese wasians in macau, as well as descendants of russians in north china
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“would you consider a white person chinese if they were born and raised in china” literally yes. what is this argument
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Thinkin about that cat that looks like brad pitt in the closet in burn after reading
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@DBoredman @neosovietposter The british also innovated, they didn't fight like in europe, they formed ranks at about half the normal density and just ran at us, and this usually worked until american discipline started approaching european levels
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@neosovietposter The only novel tactical thing any of the revolutionaries ever managed was at the Cowpens, with a strategy that revolved around their own militias really just not being good at fighting.
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Yes that legendary feat of asymmetric warfare known as The Battle Of Saratoga followed by the training and funding of the Continental Army designed expressly to fight like its disciplined contemporary European armies.
Upstate Federalist@upstatefederlst
Brits: "War is when your enlisted men stand in a row and shoot at each other." New Yorkers: "But what if we just hid in the trees and shot your officers."
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@DimitriyYakoven @ThatchEffendi The alchohol content isn't particularly high but they still drink it in central asia and mongolia
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@ThatchEffendi Як кочівник може бути сильно п'яним від збродженого молока кобили? Щоб мати алкоголь, треба вирощувати виноград або жито.
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Something I think people don't get about the Scythians is that they were party animals. They were famous in Greece for being drunk all the time, and we have direct evidence from Herodotus that they hotboxed saunas. Between that and the tattoos, mobility and facial hair they really feel like bikers.
Nathan Achaemenid-maxxing era@Azn_Phucboi
Two nomads
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Incredibly bad advice.
Not only is concentrating on pitch accent over vocabulary and grammar a waste of time, but even when you speak Japanese like a native speaker you'll still get 日本語上手d depending on your ethnic appearance lol.
Squiggles@heisei_ramen
My tip to foreigners trying to scramble their way out of the 日本語上手^_^！ trap is to go all in on pitch accent before even trying to grind vocabulary, etc. A perfect pitch accent with an N3 vocabulary sounds way more native than a walking dictionary with weird inflection.
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@ejlflop @brianluidog One of the destroyer flotillas that launched the naval equivalent of a bayonet charge on japanese battleships in the Phillipines was lead by commodore coward
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@Chirurgic @kurimipurin You know, i knew brits called them that but i never thought to connect it to napkin
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A guy I knew named Naoki accidentally spelled his name Napki and I was like lmao your nickname from today is napkin
He got so upset at me and I found out a few weeks later that napkin in Japan is sanitary pads 😭😭😭😭
Taiki & Hika | Japan Guide@taiki_phrases
"I live in a マンション in Tokyo." They hear: mansion. Reality: apartment building. Japanese borrows English then rewrites it: テンション高い = excited (not tense) クレーム = complaint (not claim) ナイーブ = sensitive (not naive) This is called 和製英語. Trust none of it.
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@gayest_tone @AnimeSerbia I liked how in one of the recent updates, in between bugfixes and new guns, he revealed you can now infiltrate siberia for the cia
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@AnimeSerbia I legitimately love the Vietnam War dev like what do you mean you got bored and designed an entire separate USA map with unique NPCs and game mechanics
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LIVE MEMORIAL DAY ON KZONE: I will be honoring our military heroes by experiencing what they experienced in three different wars and will also be revisiting the Vietnam war simulator that has received over 40 UPDATES since I last played it. Be sure to be there Monday 8 PM EST
KEMONOFRIENDZONE Clips@KZONE_Clips
Serbs Platoon gets attacked by some form of Vietcong Truck attack.
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@AQuartermain @SamtheNightOwl @gayest_tone @lemmingstribes The "cultivate relationships with elites to get them on our side, even if we don't like them" and "just kill everybody and show em who's boss" camps kept tripping over each other all through the cold war, but those sorts of divisions are common all over
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@SamtheNightOwl @gayest_tone @lemmingstribes To be honest, the US was both of those things until Trump.
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There’s been what, maybe 2 truly global hegemonic powers and the US has definitely been worse than both just due to pure capacity
Mattrod@mcinthedc
America is the least benevolent global hegemon imaginable, with the minor exception of every other global hegemonic power that has ever existed in History.
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@darrellprograms @jeanpaulblartre Soldiers cooked as tent groups farmers cooked as families.
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@jeanpaulblartre Not really... For instance, soldiers were mostly expected to cook their own meals in the field. For most of history, cooking was a basic competence of adults. To keep yourself alive, you'd know what to do with any combination of common ingredients to make a meal of them.
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This is actually key: the obsession with "cooking your own meals" is envisioned by Americans as an exercise in frugality but is in fact an expression of the excess of having a kitchen in every household
𝕙𝕠𝕡𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕝 𝕒𝕓𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕠𝕟@OstavNadezhdu
in case you're curious, many houses did not have ovens or even cooking braziers (plenty did though). lunch was a short, workday meal, and dinner was ideally a social affair, either at a restaurant or a tavern or simply a friend's place. this is what I gather, anyway
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@JiJidadaGlam @PhotoTardies @lalala_vela A well practiced listener can supposedly place a british person to within 10 miles of where they grew up based on accent.
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@PhotoTardies @lalala_vela เอเชียยังแยกได้ ฝรั่ง ละติน แยกยังไงว่าใครมาจากประเทศไหนในยุโรป เมกาหนือ เมกาใต้ แอฟริกา
มีคนอังกฤษมะ ที่เขาแยกได้จากสำเนียงพูด ซึ่งเนทีฟเอเชียก็ฟังไม่ออกอยู่ดี อย่างคนไทยมีกี่คนที่แยกสำเนียงเมกันกับสำเนียงอังกฤษได้
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คุยกับพวกฝรั่งอยู่ คือแยกคนเอเชียไม่ออกเลย ก็เลยสอนวิธีเดาจากชื่อ ไปใส่น้อทออลเอาเอง
- ชื่อสกุลสามคำ อ่านออกเสียงง่ายๆ = เกาหลี
- ชื่อสกุลสามคำ แต่ออกเสียงไม่ตรงกับที่เขียน = จีน
- ชื่อสกุลยาวขึ้นนิดนึง อ่านแบบตรงกับที่เขียน = ญี่ปุ่น
- ชื่อฝรั่ง นามสกุลจีนๆ = สิงคโปร์
- ชื่อเหมือนคนสเปน = ฟิลิปปินส์
- ชื่อยาว นามสกุลยาวมากๆ = ไทย
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@pillowbrush @_Jyggalag_ They had antitank guns that could do it, thats how they got most tank kills, but not nearly enough
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@_Jyggalag_ Saying any western army was the worst of ww2 when the only solution japanese found to MEDIUM tanks was strapping bombs at the end of sticks is laughable
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If you unironically think the US Army in WWII was worse than the Italians then I think you might just be irredeemably stupid.
☧Chrisi☧@Christenfuchs
@JanNowa96958312 Good one. The us army has always been the worst army in the west. Also we had 1 million men less than the allies in 1940 lmao
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