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mircea_popescu: whatever it may be, working out to be a boxer, reading poetry, picking your nose. daily or getout.
mircea_popescu: lobbes daily is the key of human activity. if you're not doing something daily, you can't properly say you're doing it.
mircea_popescu: i suppose its hard for a jew to grok the wordcount point.
mircea_popescu: they may be slow on the uptake, but their owners are not. a franchise is 100% made out of sucking the right cock, and pantsuitism just turned clitty.
mircea_popescu: jew coverage as to how this is concerning but doesn't matter and people still give a shit about them abundent enough ?
mircea_popescu: shinohai tell him from me not making tenure "fucking sucks" from what i hear.
mircea_popescu: hopefully he has younger brothers, i can't imagine what possible use he can still be the usg turkfucker department.
mircea_popescu: lol the promising young turk got his ass pretty well loosened on this one, huh.
mircea_popescu: in short : birthday paradox. there's just not that many sounds, letters, words etcetera for everyone in europe to be entirely special.
mircea_popescu: and if you've ever had your slavegirls make the dough for strudel....
mircea_popescu: speaking of which : struda sounds like italian privative, sfortunato etc.
mircea_popescu: the robotzi "sa te ghetzalesc pe limba???" item is a tongue in cheek reference of exactly this. the word doesn't exist, but if you're a civilised romanian which means born in transylvania and aware enough of hungarian to know how they say sperm,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the other major item contributing to the humor is that they use the (originally latin, now romanian) mechanism of functional language. so they will take a slavonic root, and derive it in the romanian manner with no shits given
mircea_popescu: well, they heard you're not supposed to say "mare" in the city.
mircea_popescu: but "Strada mare" is not how your great-grandmother would have called ulita mare in the village.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman not the same usage, yes, which makes their usage intensional, ie stylistically relevant, which it's why it's a joke.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman they preserved something romanian mostly lost
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they're like present day crocodiles : not a sort of fallen man, but a different evolution of the same ancient parent.
mircea_popescu: this is how moldovan philology goes 90% of the time, too : they preserved an old thing, generally older than muscovy, rather than import it.
mircea_popescu: im serious though, it's likely old slavonic as a source. certainly not russian import
mircea_popescu: and generally it was a great place to buy a coupla girls for a dozen lycra stockings, back in the 90s. by now...
mircea_popescu: diana_coman hey, i'm not proposing it's uninhabited or anything. good food, largest old collection of wine in europe (meanwhile im sure looted, but i did eat 1800s wine marmalade in their incredibly huge cellar that takes fucking semaphores is so big)
mircea_popescu: the official truth is that "Everyone keeps invading", the sad truth is that nobody really wants it.
mircea_popescu: the current moldavia was a sort of baltimore 20 years ago.
mircea_popescu: very heavily dependent on russian support to continue existing, and ro sure as fuck doesn't want ANOTHER moldavia on its budget
mircea_popescu: anyway. moldavia doesn't stand a fucking chance, on its own. it's a sort of argentina, no industry whatsoever, no young people left to slave on the farms, it ain't got jack.
mircea_popescu: because if you do that, there sure as fuck won't be any new ones either.
mircea_popescu: not you know, about burning every last paki in the island.
mircea_popescu: uk "extreme right" "fascists" are derping on about... how there shouldn't be... NEW immigrants.
mircea_popescu: THAT is not on any flat surface, because that's the fucking characteristic of these young protesting shitheads : stick to ineffectuality.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, the ro govt was very lax with their immigration ; until euros got all pissy about it, so they closed the border. a coupla years later... euros decided everyone must take in random syrians.
mircea_popescu: somehow it's directly hysterical to the mainstream romanian ear.
mircea_popescu: there's even hookers born and raised in bucharest doing the accent for dubious tv shows.
mircea_popescu: well to this day i expect the ancient amusement of "get a moldovan hooker at a party, make her strip and talk" still continues.
mircea_popescu: moldovans are orcs and not as romanian as they'd like, which is why chisinev spoken romanian sounds like embalmed ion creanga.
mircea_popescu: yes, which is how they ended up maintaining the phonetic influence of the old russkis.
mircea_popescu: nah, it all opened and softened. true slavic would be in eg... finland.
mircea_popescu: ivan'd definitely behead people over their shitty speech if he came back to moscow of today.
mircea_popescu: this is because russian isn't as slavic as it used to be.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually dun work for romanian ; it's very latin.
mircea_popescu: i is easily the most fluid vowel in romanian, it really hides about half dozen distinguished forms of which about half are actually notated.
mircea_popescu: (many 4 vowels are actually tripthongs because of syllabic considerations. leoaica, voiau, etc.)
mircea_popescu: whole fucking language consists of vowel counting for the native speaker.
mircea_popescu: anyway, as far as the foreigner speaker is concerned, the pons asinorum is mastering the ɨ/i and ə/a dychotomies. takes failure rate from 100% to maybe 60% just liek that. then the dypthongs/tripthongs/quadriphtongs (yes, romanian has that). contrary to intuition, the special consonants are not difficult.
mircea_popescu: (that was a mp-ization of an 1850s b p hasdeu item originally)
mircea_popescu: mother hen should have sold injured chick to a pedophile, flew first class with the other one off the dough.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman nu pricepi sentimentul romanesc al fiintei.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman maybe they were doing it later across the mountains :D :D :D
mircea_popescu: this is moar like ww2. whereas parma had regrets in the 1700s as well.
mircea_popescu: anyway. let it be stated that if your story's going to "happy end" it's not even worth writing ; clearly you understood nothing of nothing.
mircea_popescu: italo calvino somewhat an echo for the contemporanous reddit ; but otherwise the kingdom of two sicilies excelled, before "italy industrialized" post ww2.
mircea_popescu: aha. the "leftover" italians had plenty of good stuff.
mircea_popescu: ppl think oh noes, huxley wrote up the alienation of the final stages of socialist decay ? hurr. try cezar petrescu.
mircea_popescu: oh and of course... you ever read "fram, ursul polar" ?
mircea_popescu: ^ item was in first year of writing. mandatory week spent by 9yos trying to write it out without staining thje paper.
mircea_popescu: the original hc andersen matchbook girl being among the few foreign items marginally qualified to pariticpate.
mircea_popescu: the important point about romanian kids stories is that they're not even bleak, they're penned by fucking chulhu. they regularily make adult anglo girls cry for the rest of the night.
mircea_popescu: closed borders are a mixed blessing. all the shit has to be "translated", etc.