Message from @Distracted

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2019-02-05 07:02:33 UTC  

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

2019-02-05 07:02:41 UTC  

Norwegian

2019-02-05 07:02:43 UTC  

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

2019-02-05 07:03:01 UTC  

Why Norwegian?

2019-02-05 07:03:23 UTC  

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

2019-02-05 07:03:37 UTC  

@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.

2019-02-05 07:03:43 UTC  

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

2019-02-05 07:04:40 UTC  

@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

2019-02-05 07:05:03 UTC  

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

2019-02-05 07:05:23 UTC  

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

2019-02-05 07:06:04 UTC  

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

2019-02-05 07:06:47 UTC  

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

2019-02-05 07:07:10 UTC  

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

2019-02-05 07:08:18 UTC  

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

2019-02-05 07:08:32 UTC  

👌

2019-02-05 07:09:30 UTC  

@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

2019-02-05 07:11:27 UTC  

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

2019-02-05 07:13:51 UTC  

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

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/481597551272001546/542241431734059010/main-qimg-5903a1fe791b4167f4dafbfbdfaa4d9d.png

2019-02-05 07:19:41 UTC  

dude

2019-02-05 07:19:54 UTC  

literally no one is denying that people died during that period

2019-02-05 07:20:02 UTC  

What does that mean?

2019-02-05 07:20:09 UTC  

it means nothing lmao

2019-02-05 07:20:20 UTC  

just that people died during the Holodomor

2019-02-05 07:20:24 UTC  

which literally no one here is denying

2019-02-05 07:20:41 UTC  

@ophiuchus Is Norwegian easier?

2019-02-05 07:21:21 UTC  

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

2019-02-05 07:22:20 UTC  

the graph doesn't say which side is what

2019-02-05 07:22:56 UTC  

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

2019-02-05 07:23:11 UTC  

Yes

2019-02-05 07:23:14 UTC  

That's what I thought ^^

2019-02-05 07:23:51 UTC  

Also look at my new based and Nyanpilled pfp y'all 🤠

2019-02-05 07:23:57 UTC  

Okay so wamen on the left?

2019-02-05 07:24:11 UTC  

sorry right

2019-02-05 07:24:14 UTC  

its late here

2019-02-05 07:24:18 UTC  

I think so

2019-02-05 07:24:35 UTC  

wait couldn't this entire graph be explained by World War II?

2019-02-05 07:25:25 UTC  

Yeah this seems to explain very little

2019-02-05 07:25:32 UTC  

other than what we already know

2019-02-05 07:26:26 UTC  

You see a serious dip around late 30s to early 40s which explains combat deaths

2019-02-05 07:26:36 UTC  

It's the Ukrainian Soviet consensus, it translates "Sexual - age pyramid of the population of Ukraine in 1959"

2019-02-05 07:26:46 UTC  

Thank you