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Barrister

#54375
February 05, 2016, 12:48:59 AM
Quote from: alfred russel on February 04, 2016, 11:56:05 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on February 04, 2016, 11:42:17 PM
Out of boredom I've taken up learning Russian on the net.  What a goofy language.

I used to think that, but then I started to learn Ukrainian. Raz, let me tell you, THAT is THE goofy language*.

*really it's just a dialect of Russian, albeit a super goofy one, but I'll humor the Ukrainians on this point.

Please die in a fire.
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Eddie Teach

#54376
February 05, 2016, 01:02:00 AM
People who speak Ukrainian sound like Goofs. It is known.
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Barrister

#54377
February 05, 2016, 01:21:03 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 05, 2016, 01:02:00 AM
People who speak Ukrainian sound like Goofs. It is known.

Fuck you. :)
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Tonitrus

#54378
February 05, 2016, 03:15:15 AM
Quote from: Barrister on February 05, 2016, 12:48:59 AM
Quote from: alfred russel on February 04, 2016, 11:56:05 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on February 04, 2016, 11:42:17 PM
Out of boredom I've taken up learning Russian on the net.  What a goofy language.

I used to think that, but then I started to learn Ukrainian. Raz, let me tell you, THAT is THE goofy language*.

*really it's just a dialect of Russian, albeit a super goofy one, but I'll humor the Ukrainians on this point.

Please die in a fire.

I dunno if I'd even call it just a dialect...I think it is pretty different.  I took the DoD's test on Ukrainian, and while I didn't meet the minimum passing standards, I got fairly close  (without studying it at all).  But still...it is just a multiple-guess test, and honestly, I could barely make sense of it at all...only understanding a few common words/phrases.

Syt

#54379
February 05, 2016, 03:41:43 AM
I knew a guy from Lviv. He said that when he speaks Ukrainian, Russians have a hard time understanding him, if at all. OTOH he said he finds Polish easy to follow. :hmm:
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Josquius

#54380
February 05, 2016, 03:46:45 AM
Yes. I sit next to a guy from lviv at work and he says the same.
I guess it could be a dialect in the Scottish vein? They have no trouble with regular english though southerners can't understand them at all.
The differences at the least seem bigger than between the Scandinavian languages.
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The Brain

#54381
February 05, 2016, 04:01:10 AM
Do you guys mean Lemberg?
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Syt

#54382
February 05, 2016, 04:01:32 AM
Quote from: Tyr on February 05, 2016, 03:46:45 AM
I guess it could be a dialect in the Scottish vein? They have no trouble with regular english though southerners can't understand them at all.

I know not what you mean. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le_uNGdpa4c
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

DGuller

#54383
February 05, 2016, 04:19:37 AM
It's a different language, with a different vocabulary.  Just because many Ukrainians, especially in government, have a difficulty speaking the language without heavily and often comically mixing it with Russian doesn't mean the languages are similar.  I for one cannot understand Ukrainian anymore, not any better than Polish anyway.

Josquius

#54384
February 05, 2016, 04:58:23 AM
A history of japan in 10 minutes.
Rather good :lol:
https://youtu.be/Mh5LY4Mz15o
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celedhring

#54385
February 05, 2016, 05:30:33 AM
Quote from: Tyr on February 05, 2016, 04:58:23 AM
A history of japan in 10 minutes.
Rather good :lol:
https://youtu.be/Mh5LY4Mz15o

Heh, that was fun indeed.

Duque de Bragança

#54386
February 05, 2016, 06:38:16 AM
Quote from: The Brain on February 05, 2016, 04:01:10 AM
Do you guys mean Lemberg?

Nope, Leopolis.  :contract:

Tonitrus

#54387
February 05, 2016, 07:29:24 AM
Quote from: celedhring on February 05, 2016, 05:30:33 AM
Quote from: Tyr on February 05, 2016, 04:58:23 AM
A history of japan in 10 minutes.
Rather good :lol:
https://youtu.be/Mh5LY4Mz15o

Heh, that was fun indeed.

There is way to many attempts at humorous, encapsulated history lessons done in an annoying monotone narrative these days.

derspiess

#54388
February 05, 2016, 10:57:56 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 05, 2016, 01:02:00 AM
People who speak Ukrainian sound like Goofs. It is known.

Sounds the same as Russian to me.
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Eddie Teach

#54389
February 05, 2016, 11:06:02 AM
Russians also sound like Goofs, but BB is less sensitive about that.
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