Message from @Tenta

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2017-05-08 20:03:45 UTC  

I’m not sure about that. East Germany clinged to Stalin much longer than the USSR.

2017-05-08 20:08:37 UTC  

Yes, at my time still taught in school. The Western Allies would never give up such a strategic place.

2017-05-08 20:08:46 UTC  

Germany is still a US colony.

2017-05-08 20:08:49 UTC  

@Garlic the Soviet Wow, I didn't know about this.

2017-05-08 20:08:55 UTC  

Everyday something new

2017-05-08 20:08:59 UTC  

oh yeah

2017-05-08 20:09:14 UTC  

they will rather tell you how greedy dictator Stalin divided the germany himself

2017-05-08 20:09:34 UTC  

This is enraging.

2017-05-08 20:10:46 UTC  

I also like how English schoolbooks tell the story of a bad Soviet Union trying to grab all the world and make it into colonies

2017-05-08 20:11:39 UTC  

Those of you who can understand German and are interested in German-German relations, should consider getting this book series: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14739858-deutschland-1948-bis-1999-in-10-b-nden these are the original Archive entries of Western Germany but surprisingly relatively neutral.

2017-05-08 20:11:40 UTC  

At the time England was a world colonial Empire

2017-05-08 20:12:06 UTC  

Yes, I read everything. 😄

2017-05-08 20:14:00 UTC  

@Tenta You're lucky to know languages. In our world access to information is one of the greatest perks after intelligence itself.

2017-05-08 20:14:13 UTC  

i wanted to learn polish

2017-05-08 20:14:19 UTC  

I wish I could read that

2017-05-08 20:14:20 UTC  

learnt just a bit 😃

2017-05-08 20:14:40 UTC  

I use my language knowledge mostly for that: gathering information but also for entertainment like watching stuff on Youtube.

2017-05-08 20:14:58 UTC  

I also follow some Polish sites, even some communist ones.

2017-05-08 20:15:47 UTC  

So far I have read only one real book in Polish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Desert_and_Wilderness

2017-05-08 20:16:26 UTC  

I got about 80%, I believe. When reading, I’m usually too lazy to look up words but this helps your reading comprehension in the long run.

2017-05-08 20:17:22 UTC  

Slavic and Germanic languages (apart from, maybe, English) prefer building new words from native roots and affixes, so if you encounter a new word, you can inspect both the root and the affixes. Thanks to the context, it’s highly likely you will guess the meaning correctly.

2017-05-08 20:17:52 UTC  

Finnish language is a recordsman in this

2017-05-08 20:18:00 UTC  

they have nearly no words that you can recognize

2017-05-08 20:18:21 UTC  

It’s a Finno-Ugric language, that’s why.

2017-05-08 20:19:02 UTC  

So far I have only seriously looked into various Indo-European languages and don’t plan to take on a non-IE language in near future. I already have enough on my plate.

2017-05-08 20:19:54 UTC  

Is this movie any good?

2017-05-08 20:20:21 UTC  

I don’t know it, sorry.

2017-05-08 20:22:53 UTC  

Polish is hard to read for me. I can understand Bulgarian and Serbian much better.

2017-05-08 20:23:44 UTC  

Even Czech

2017-05-08 20:31:40 UTC  

Good!

2017-05-08 20:32:32 UTC  

Of course there’s crap from Ukrainians.

2017-05-08 20:34:54 UTC  

@Tenta Still fun to see Ukrainian nationalist reactions. They make my day always.

2017-05-08 20:36:51 UTC  

Now they are trying to avoid even so interesting and relative topic.

2017-05-08 20:39:03 UTC  

I think if you bring CIA papers as an evidence most countries will hype. But to think about it is too much for Ukrainian population. They've got so many problems atm

2017-05-08 20:39:47 UTC  

I understand enough written Ukrainian to read stuff they write when they believe others can’t follow them.

2017-05-08 20:42:11 UTC  

@here i encourage you to join a new server called Leftynet! We seek to unite Leftist Content creators as well as Language learners and intellectuals. We hope for content collaboration and construction, the languages we are learning in our language group are; German, Norwegian, Russian, French, and Turkish. (Catalan, Greek, Or Ukrainian might be the next addition)
The link to the server is; https://discord.gg/9Eqc63d
The link to our Vid.me is; https://vid.me/Leftynet
The link to our twitter is; https://twitter.com/Leftynetwork

I hope to see you all in the server!

2017-05-08 20:42:47 UTC  

>shilling with @ here

2017-05-08 20:42:51 UTC  

have you no shame?