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Cool.

Since I've been studying Latin in school and also Russian in my free time, I've been noticing some curious patterns regarding the inflections of each. The verb conjugation endings are nearly identical between the two, but noun declension is way, way different. 

To show:

Russian 1st conjugation verb endings:                                                       Latin:

                              Singular                        Plural                                               Singular        Plural

                                     -yu                                 -yem                                               -o                    -amus

                                     -yesh                             -yetye                                             -as                   -atis

                                     -yet                                -yut                                                 -at                    -ant

But if we look at nouns, it's totally different.

For starters, Russian has an extra case compared to Latin, the instrumental, used when something is an instrument in an action. In Latin this would just be another use for the accusative. 

                           Russian 1st declension noun endings:                                Latin:

                                    Singular                        Plural                                               Singular     Plural

                  Nominative                        -a               -i                                                      -a                 -ae

                  Genitive                              -i                (noun stem)                                   -ae              -arum

                  Dative                                 -ye             -am                                                  -ae              -is

                  Accusative                         -u              -i                                                       -am             -as

                  Prepositional                     -ye            -akh                                                  -a                 -is

                  Instrumental                      -oi             -ami

I can see how they would be somewhat similar, both being Indo-European languages, but why one part of speech would be inflected so similarly, but the other so differently. 

Also, question for better Russian-speakers than me: How, in speech, are Й and И distinguished?

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Oh, Texas, never change.

On 9/2/2017 at 11:24 PM, Donward said:

 

The infamous Shortzstaffel.

Short Nazis got...

Short Nazis got...

Short Nazis got...

No reason to live...

Cool collection of Russian folk tales:

https://russian-crafts.com/russian-folk-tales.html

Due to all the fires in Washington and Montana nearby, where I am in North Idaho it's been... interesting weather-wise. The air smells smoky, everything has a reddish tint, AND THE SKY IS FUCKING PINK.

Worst Star Wars remake I've ever seen.

Are different strains of yeast very picky about the types of sugars they will process? I know certain brewer's yeasts are labeled as beer or wine yeast, will "beer yeast" only work with the sugars in cereal grains for example, or does it just do better with those as opposed to, say, grape sugars?

1 hour ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:

 

 

Fireants coming together. Just like Houstonians coming together for this disaster.

 

If only Houstonians were as buoyant as fire ants.

My grandfather's F-86 Sabre that he flew in Korea and shot down a Mig-15 in, his was #881, in the front of the picture.

23 hours ago, LoooSeR said:

 In the Final furious battle Korean forces of our great leader will defeat warmongering Imperialists and their raging sycophants with mighty sword of Korean nation endless courage!

As long as he gets a five-minute hamburger break in the middle.

Wow, they had their entire nuclear arsenal pose for that propaganda poster.

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/07/12/trump-s-next-interviewer-thinks-his-critics-are-serving-satan/217233

6 hours ago, Collimatrix said:

 

 

Here we see that the dastardly Trump has arrogated the regalia, and presumably powers of state, of a monarch, and being a sexist douchebag, has chained naked women to his throne.  Am I supposed to consider the man skewered by such a deft exaggeration of his own pretense, or am I supposed to be thrilled by vicariously experiencing the God Emperor's heroism?  I CAN'T TELL.

This picture is clearly about how Trump would be far better at being Napoleon than Napoleon ever was.

Oh, I see. The problem I was having is that i had too flexible a dart shaft.

7 hours ago, Collimatrix said:

If your atlatl is flexing, that's probably no bueno for accuracy.

As in just having a curve in the wood or bending during use?

I made another atlatl over last weekend, this one made out of some sort of green-barked shrub int my yard, where as the first was made of ash (I believe). This one was about 1.5 times as long as the first, and curved in the same way. I found that it was ridiculously less accurate, most of the time falling short of the target with the same type of throw as normal. Then I thought that an atlatl the same length as the first would perform better, and in fact it was. I used a simply knapped quartzite blade and a grind-polished hand-axe to cut the longer atlatl at the point where it began to curve, leaving a straight atlatl the same length as the first one. This one outperformed the very first ash atlatl pretty well, and I'm not sure whether the wood type or the curve had more influence on the increase in accuracy. I have a feeling it's the curve, but I'd like to hear the opinions of people who know more about the material qualities of varying types of wood. Could a different wood type have a substantial influence on the performance of an atlatl?

Damn.

If you wanted, you could call the Battle of Berkeley the First Antifada.

2 hours ago, Sturgeon said:

You should probably summarize what's good about that video, because nobody's gonna wade through 20 minutes of Sargon of Cuckkad to get to it.

Alright, here goes:

1. Pro-Trump supporters hold a rally

2. Communists start a counter-protest, calling pro-Trumpers "Nazis"

3. "Nazis" kick the shit out of Communists, despite Communist usage of fireworks and smoke bombs

I do think it's funny that the Communists will call ANYONE who is right-wing a Nazi, just to rally support against them

Also, one of the Communist "fighters" was a 5'1,

98 lb pornstar who thought shed be somehow good in a fight.

23 minutes ago, Sturgeon said:

This is pretty magical:

 

Also, yes.

Nice.

The gods of the Proto-Indo-Europeans: