EU Immigration Crisis Megathread

[Valmy]

that's hilarious from a guy coming from a country where the people couldn't even agree to become Germans, Austrians or Russians.

Totally comparable to modern Belgium

[Razgovory]

Something to do with the Oikoumene I expect, the Oikoumene being the known, inhabited or civilised world. An ancient Greek term dontcha know. So an oikophobe would be someone who hates the West.

I figured it had to do with being afraid of your own house (Oikos) and refusing to go in.  Making it the opposite of Agoraphoba fear of the market place (agora) and by extension fear being outside the house. Of course both Oikos and Oikoumene are related.  We get latinized words coming from both "ecumenical" comes from "oikoumene" and "economy" comes from "oikos".

[mongers]

Question for the barricade erectors, would you allow some refugees in if they had a better grasp of Latin and Greek than the locals?

[Norgy]

Question for the barricade erectors, would you allow some refugees in if they had a better grasp of Latin and Greek than the locals?

No fucking way! See what happened the last time the Latin speakers ran things. Bunch of immigrants came. Beards and all, foreign food and smelled like dung, they did.

[Liep]

Question for the barricade erectors, would you allow some refugees in if they had a better grasp of Latin and Greek than the locals?

No fucking way! See what happened the last time the Latin speakers ran things. Bunch of immigrants came. Beards and all, foreign food and smelled like dung, they did.

But after only like a 1000 years we got the renaissance!

[Admiral Yi]

Actually we went with Latin and (Ancient) Greek, classic humanities, not German.

This post is a fusion of Latin and German.

[Duque de Bragança]

German is as relevant in classic humanities as are Celtic languages.

[Norgy]

Now he's Celt-bashing.

[Duque de Bragança]

The pro-German Sturmbrigade is again bashing the Celts.
Damn xenophobes!

[Admiral Yi]

German is as relevant in classic humanities as are Celtic languages.

You seem to be missing my point.  English is Germanic language with strong Romance influences.

[Duque de Bragança]

German is as relevant in classic humanities as are Celtic languages.

You seem to be missing my point.  English is Germanic language with strong Romance influences.

Then don't speak of a very vague "we". Besides, lots of Greek loans were made through Classical Latin, vulgar Latin, Romance  languages (post-vulgar Latin if you will). Not to mention the high prevalence of Greek words in technical and scientific lexica.

[garbon]

He didn't speak vaguely at all.

[Duque de Bragança]

Question for the barricade erectors, would you allow some refugees in if they had a better grasp of Latin and Greek than the locals?

Yes, but then it won't happen, so it's a pretty easy call to make. 

[Liep]

border control is in full effect and we're already getting stories about refugees "stranding" in copenhagen. "no denmark, no denmark" they shout because apparently we're the hungary of northern europe.

[Barrister]

border control is in full effect and we're already getting stories about refugees "stranding" in copenhagen. "no denmark, no denmark" they shout because apparently we're the hungary of northern europe.

Sounds about right.