it's nice just knowing there's a place I can chill and be around my people

@Virgil The first comprehensive compilation of his writings were not made until nearly 700 years after his death.

@Jacob Good luck, whatever you decide.

thanks

the sense of belonging that was common to every human being in the world until this last century being taken away is an extremely large contributing factor to the mental illness and loneliness afflicting everyone imo

I want to move to Poland and help the movement from there. Don't worry, I'll still send money to IE. I'll even come do activism if I'm still allowed to.

You can be the first IE ambassador to Poland

Definitely. In more tribal places with extended families, there are almost no reports of depression. I forget where I read this.

@ophiuchus This is actually a relevant point.

There actually was an IE member who did what I just described

@Rabbidsith Not temporarily forgotten, never known and no impact. Let's agree to disagree here, we're not going to convince eachother at this point

Actually, there's two IE members who moved back to Poland that I can think of

It's weirdly common

@Virgil Never known? Bullshit. Then how do I know of him?

Both I met through my state chapter

So I wouldn't be surprised if there's more

@Virgil That's absolutely hilarious. He was temporarily forgotten.

Both of them were second generation Polish and moved back

It makes me sad to think of good Americans leaving.

@Virgil Same as archimedes for most of Europe.

do you speak polish @Jacob

@Selma I get that. It makes me sad to think of people who Eastern Europe needs leaving. I don't consider my family's history something to brag about, I think it's sad.

@Natasha - PA Yes. And Russian kind of

dope

Slavic languages are really hard

@Virgil The works of leif erikson gives us valuable insight into both the character of our people and how early norse colonies functioned.

Oh, it is completely understandable what motive you'd have to move there; no judgement there. It's just a bit poignant to me.

from the perspective of a first language germanic speaker

@ophiuchus Russian is easier than Polish

Polish pronunciation is cursed

Czech even worse

South slavic language seem the simplest in that regard

@Jacob I wish I spoke more Polish, my grandmother taught me a little and I've been trying to teach myself.

Bulgarian is allegedly the easiest slavic language for a native English speaker to learn

eh I think Russian pronunciation might be harder than Polish pronunciation, it's just that Americans think they have a license to mispronounce Russian since it doesn't have all the diacritics and stuff that Polish has

@Virgil See, that's something I think is sad. That people end up uprooted from their families.

Americans routinely butcher the pronunciation of Spanish, which has one of the simplest phonologies of any commonly learned language

@Jacob that I can agree with. I barley know any of my cousins

Yes, it's strange that people don't first learn how to properly pronounce languages.

@ophiuchus Once you get it down, I think Polish pronounciation is easier than English

For some reason, they never teach people that the vowels in english =/= the vowels in other languages