Well have to confiscate that corn supply.

For all you language enthusiasts, do you recommend I learn Danish or Swedish first?

I haven't looked into the killing farmers thing. The point I was making was just that Ukrainians just happened to be more likely to live in grain producing areas. If you look at the map of affected areas, there's plenty of ethnic Ukrainian areas that weren't affected, and plenty of ethnic Russian areas that were affected. So, my point still stands, there's no evidence that Ukrainians specifically were being targeted.

That would depend why you're learning it

@Jacob lol I use the archives as well! Just not the Soviet ones... <:teehee:381917632359563264>

I mean the Soviet archives reveal plenty of really incriminating stuff about the Soviet Union

It's mainly cultural interest. I don't have any plans on living in Sweden or Denmark long term.

oh, if it's just out of interest, then just choose based on which country you're more interested in

or maybe choose the one that there's more resources for

Norwegian

so that way it'll be easier to learn the other one

Why Norwegian?

Danish is a nightmare to pronounce, written danish basically is written Norwegian, it’s said to be “in between” Danish and Swedish

@Jacob There are things that Russia still has classified, however. 95% or more of all German art taken during the war has never turned up since then.

My great grandmother was Danish. It does not sound like a human language

@The Eternal Anglo I mean I'm sure that if something was a security threat they didn't release it, however, the Soviet archives were released with the unsavory stuff intact

you'd think if there was a targeted extermination campaign against Ukrainians we'd have at least *one* document ordering it

If you specifically want either Danish or Swedish, I’d say Swedish

Seriously, Danish is rough to understand for other Scandinavians even. Spoken Danish, that is. They’re all quite similar when written.

Icelandic being a huge exception of course. Its isolation afforded it extremely conservative grammar and pronunciation.

People learning Old Norse are told to just pronounce it like Icelandic

@Evan I'm actually curious what sources you read. You can DM them if you wanna interrupt their language conversation.

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@Jacob makes sense. I'd be careful still. I like to find personal records from soldiers or people specifically from the region of interest to find more about something in-depth. Old soldier reports about what they saw in Ukraine during the Russian invasion is heart wrenching

My grandma was actually a teenager / young adult during World War II so I've heard some personal accounts

@Jacob Oh here is the Soviet consensus during the holodomor btw

dude

literally no one is denying that people died during that period

What does that mean?

it means nothing lmao

just that people died during the Holodomor

which literally no one here is denying

@ophiuchus Is Norwegian easier?

@Jacob so I am assuming that the Soviets are the left side of the graph?

the graph doesn't say which side is what

wait aren't the two sides on these pyramids usually representative of gender?

Yes

That's what I thought ^^

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Okay so wamen on the left?

sorry right