Spot the Language 26

Rules: Identify the language, that is, say something intelligent about it. Possibilities include where it is spoken, what race or ethnicity the speakers are, whether the language is extinct or extant and what shape the language is in, to what general or specific language families the language belongs, and anything else intelligent you can think of about the language etc. You’re not supposed to look it up; anyone can do that. You’re supposed to do it off the top of your head, ideally.

1. Ladin 2. Ladino 3. Ladakhi 4. Lezgian 5. Lingala 6. Livonian 7. Luganda 8. Lycian 9. Maithili 10. Manchu 11. Mandinga 12. Manipuri 13. Manx 14. Mapuche 15. Marathi 16. Mbala 17. Mende 18. Micmac 19. Milanese 20. Mojave

Spot the Language 25

Rules: Identify the language, that is, say something intelligent about it. Possibilities include where it is spoken, what race or ethnicity the speakers are, whether the language is extinct or extant and what shape the language is in, to what general or specific language families the language belongs, and anything else intelligent you can think of about the language etc. You’re not supposed to look it up; anyone can do that. You’re supposed to do it off the top of your head, ideally.

1. Guarani 2. Gujarati 3. Gurkhali 4. Hausa 5. Herero 6. Hindustani 7. Igbo 8. Ilocano 9. Ingush 10. Isan 11. Javanese 12. Kabiye 13. Kannada 14. Karen 15. Ket 16. Kikongo 17. Kikuyu 18. Kinyarwanda 19. Konkani 20. Kapelle

Spot the Language 24

Rules: Identify the language, that is, say something intelligent about it. Possibilities include where it is spoken, what race or ethnicity the speakers are, whether the language is extinct or extant and what shape the language is in, to what general or specific language families the language belongs, and anything else intelligent you can think of about the language etc. You’re not supposed to look it up; anyone can do that. You’re supposed to do it off the top of your head, ideally.

1. Chichewa 2. Chukchi 3. Chuvash 4. Coptic 5. Cree 6. Creek 7. Dari 8. Diegueno 9. Dzongka 10. Enets 11. Etruscan 12. Evenki 13. Ewe 14. Faroese 15. Fon 16. Frisian 17. Friulian 18. Fulfulde 19. Gabrielino 20. Galician

Spot the Language 23

Rules: Identify the language, that is, say something intelligent about it. Possibilities include where it is spoken, what race or ethnicity the speakers are, whether the language is extinct or extant and what shape the language is in, to what general or specific language families the language belongs, and anything else intelligent you can think of about the language etc. You’re not supposed to look it up; anyone can do that. You’re supposed to do it off the top of your head, ideally.

1. Abenaki 2. Afar 3. Akan 4. Alsatian 5. Amharic 6. Aramaic 7. Asturian 8. Assamese 9. Assiniboine 10. Aymara 11. Balinese 12. Baluchi 13. Bikol 14. Brahui 15. Buryat 16. Burushaski 17. Cahuilla 18. Chamorro 19. Chickasaw 20. Choctaw

Some Interesting Spanish Accents

In this part of California, we get lots of tourists. In addition, there are so many Spanish speakers that one may as well be living in a Hispanophone country. I have to remind people now and again that this is actually the USA and not Mexico. I was in the drugstore the other day and I made an official complaint to the manager. There were two aisle signs saying something about products being on sale. Only the Spanish side of the sign was visible. The English side of the side was leaning up against a row of shelves.

I complained and said that both languages should be visible. If the sign’s in Spanish, you ought to be able to walk around to the other side of the sign and read the English. They indulged me, but it’s an uphill battle around here. I think most of these damned Hispanics around here would be pleased as Punch if everything in town was in Spanish and nothing was in English. The majority of them are illegals anyway, and they are basically Mexicans first and Americans second, if at all.

Getting on to the accents.

The first one I heard was in the mountains. It was a group of tourists going to Yosemite. Some of them looked sort of Black (more like the sort of “mulattos” you see more in Latin America than in the US), others seemed sort of like Mediterranean Whites, but they didn’t look like they were from Europe.

They were speaking a Romance language that at first I thought was Portuguese. I heard these Spanish words, but lots of Romance languages sound Spanish. Thing is, if you hear Spanish words with a weird accent, you don’t think it’s Spanish. You think it’s another language. I asked them if they were speaking Portuguese. They laughed and said they were speaking Puerto Rican Spanish. It was very different!

The mulatto-looking man was a Dominican, and he was a very handsome, quiet, polite and dignified fellow in a particular manner that not many US Blacks are.

A while later, I heard another strange language. Once again, I started hearing some Spanish words, but something said it wasn’t Spanish. It sounded more like…Italian. There were a group of them, and they looked somewhat like Mediterranean Whites from Europe. They had a very “European” air about them. I asked them what they were speaking, Was it Italian? They laughed and said they were speaking Colombian Spanish.

They were from all over Colombia, Barranquilla, Bogota, and they had a very sensual, friendly, warm manner that one often finds in Mediterranean Europeans. The young woman in particular was almost seductive, but I wondered if it were more her nature than a personal thing.

I once knew an upper class woman from Bogota who spoke the strangest yet most beautiful Spanish. It almost sounded like French or Catalan. It was one of the most sensual, seductive and sexy accents I have ever heard. I also spoke with some of her friends and relatives, and they were incredibly polite, and they also spoke with this odd accent. They showered praise and honorary adjectives on me that I don’t deserve. Upper class Colombians are some of the politest and most dignified people on Earth. What’s fascinating is that the nicest people around seem to spend most of their time slaughtering each other.

And just the other day, at the ATM, I heard another Romance language. An older couple, who looked a lot like Mediterranean Whites, were talking at the teller. The guy even wore a beret or fisherman’s cap like such men wear in Europe. I could not place the language, but once again it sounded like Portuguese or Italian, but I hadn’t the faintest idea what it was. I asked them what they were speaking, and the guy said Argentine Spanish. This is probably the weirdest Spanish or all. It sounds like Italian but with Spanish words!

Once again, the guy was effusive, friendly and warm in a way that we cold Nordics are not. He came over and put his hand on my shoulder and we had a nice talk.

Lots of funny Spanishes out there! All you have to do is open your ears.

Revisions to Races of Man Classification

Repost from the old site.

Click to enlarge. This is the chart from the paper, The Origin of Minnan & Hakka, the So-called “Taiwanese”, Inferred by HLA Study, utilized in this post.

I usually try to be very conservative about adding in new races to my races of man post, but sometimes I just feel like I’m forced to. Based on this article, and in particular, the figure above, forced me to make some new splits.

The question was what to do about the Taiwanese people. Not the Taiwan aborigines – but the Hakka and Min Nan people of SE China who settled in Taiwan in the past 400 years. It turns out that they appear to be a discrete race, and that they are linked to Singapore Chinese and the Thai Chinese. In Singapore and Thailand, Chinese form a market-dominant minority position.

They are a minority of the population, but they tend to run businesses and be very wealthy. Similar cases are seen in Indonesia and the Philippines, where tiny Chinese minorities of 2-

So the interesting question arises – who exactly are the Chinese minorities of Thailand and Singapore? By genetic studies, we can now see that they are SE Chinese people related to the Min Nan and the Hakka.

The Min Nan and Hakka both speak languages that are called Chinese dialects, but in reality, they are completely separate languages. Both languages are doing fine – Min Nan (Southern Min) with 49 million speakers and Hakka with 34 million speakers.

Min Nan and Hakka both strangely lack official status anywhere, although Southern Min is widely spoken in Taiwan. It’s odd that some of the world’s most widely spoken languages lack official status – Min Nan is the 24th largest language, and Hakka is the 35th largest language, in terms of numbers of speakers.

Both languages are vigorous and are in good shape. Southern Min has a roman script that is fairly widely used. Hakka also has a roman script, but I am not sure how widely it is used.

Southern Min is actually a number of separate languages: Min Nan proper, Amoy, Click to enlarge. Here is a map of the various Chinese languages. These are not Chinese dialects, but actual separate languages. Some may be dialects of other Chinese languages though. The main languages are Mandarin, Wu, Cantonese, Min, Xiang, Hakka and Gan. Ping, Hui and Jin are classed above as dialects of those larger languages.Jin is classed as a dialect of Mandarin, but it is actually a separate language with 45 million speakers, making it around the 25th largest language in the world.Min is said 5 separate languages, but it is actually many separate languages. The 5 separate recognized languages are Min Nan, Min Dong, Min Zhong, Min Bei and Puxian. Min Nan itself is a number of separate languages. Huizhou, or Hui, is a separate language that is actually a set of related languages. Wu is more than one language.

Ping is traditionally considered to be part of Cantonese, but it is a separate language. Mandarin is also a set of related languages instead of one language. Cantonese is also be more than one language. Hakka is also be more than one language.

It is nonsense to say someone speaks “Chinese”. There is no such thing as a language called “Chinese”.

Instead, there are various languages in the Chinese language family – at least 14 separate languages, and actually many more. Mandarin is by far the largest of these languages, and most of the smaller languages are suffering under the influence of Mandarin. In addition, the Chinese government favors Mandarin and does not support the other languages much, if at all.

I also split off a group called the Li and another group called the Oroqen based on the chart above.

The Li are a transitional group between the Northern Chinese and the Southern Chinese, though they live on Hainan Island in the far south of China. They speak a Tai-Kadai language called Hlai which has 667,000 speakers. Use is vigorous; the language is doing well, but it is generally not written, although a Roman script exists. Mandarin is used for writing.

The Oroqen are nomadic people who live in far northeastern China and speak a Tungusic tongue. As you can see from the chart, they are closer to the Japanese than to the NE Chinese. There are only 1,200 speakers left out of a small 7,000 population, but there are 800 monolinguals, and use is vigorous by those who speak the language.

They live by hunting and used to practice shamanism. They still lack an official script for their language, but there are radio programs in Oroqen.

The truth is that both the Oroqen people and their language are in poor shape, and most of the blame can be placed on the Communist Chinese regime, even though the regime has also done many good things for the Oroqen. The Cultural Revolution in particular was a period of insanity, stupidity and terror.

An Oroqen Race was added to the NE Asian Major Race due to the extreme divergence of these people. I also added Inner Mongolians to the Mongolian Race inside of NE Asian.

I added the Buyei to the Tai Race within the SE Asian Major Race and created a new race called SE Chinese Race, consisting of Min Nan, Hakka, Singapore Chinese and Thai Chinese. The Buyei live in southern China and northern Vietnam and speak a Tai language that has over 2 million speakers yet has no official status. Buyei language use is vigorous, and it is in good shape.

There is a romanized script, and there are newspapers in the language, but they mostly use Mandarin for writing. The Buyei language is probably made up of a few separate languages, because some of the dialects are not mutually intelligible. The language is very close to the Zhuang language.

The SE Chinese Race really consists of the descendants of the ancient Chinese people known as the Yueh. The Yueh, or Yue, formed a state in southeastern coastal China during the Warring States Period and the Spring and Autumn Period. The state lasted from about 525 BC to 334 BC. The Chinese were already involved in metallurgy and were producing excellent swords during these periods.

The new lineup looks like this:

Northeast Asian Major Race*

Japanese-Korean Race Southern Japanese Race (Honshu Kinki – Kyushu) Ryukyuan Race Ainu Race*** Gilyak Race** Northern Chinese Race (Northern Chinese – Qiang – Manchu – Hui) Oroqen Race Sherpa-Yakut Race Nepalese Race (Nepali – Newari) Mongolian Race (Mongolian – Inner Mongolian – Buryat – Kazakh) Northern Turkic Race (Dolgan – Altai – Shor – Tofalar – Uighur – Chelkan – Soyot – Kumandin Teleut – Hazara)*** Central Asian Race (Kirghiz – Karalkalpak – Uzbek – Turkmen) Tuva Race Tungus Race (Even – Evenki – Russian Saami) Siberian Race Beringian Race** (Chukchi – Aleut – Siberian Eskimo) Koryak-Itelmen Race Reindeer Chukchi Race General Tibetan Race (Tibetan – Lisu – Nu – Karen – Tujia – Hui – Akha – Burmese – Bai – Yizu – Pnar – Mizo) Bhutanese Race Siberian Uralic Race (Nentsy – Samoyed – Ket – Mansi – Khanty) Nganasan Race Uralic Race (Komi – Mari) North American Eskimo Race

Southeast Asian Major Race*

Southern Chinese Race (Hmong – Mien – Dong – Henan Han – Yi – Naxi) Li Race Southeast China Race (Hakka – Min Nan – Singapore Chinese – Thai Chinese) South China Sea Race (Filipino – Ami Taiwanese Aborigine – Guangdong Han) Tai Race (Thai – Lao – Lahu – Aini – Deang – Blang – Shan – Dai – Vietnamese – Muong – Buyei) Kachin Race (Kachin – Va – Nung – Lu) General Taiwanese Aborigine Race (Ayatal – Bunun – Yami) Island SE Asian Race (Paiwan Taiwanese Aborigine – Sea Dayak – Sumatran – Balinese) Indonesian Race (Sulawesi – Borneo – Lesser Sunda) Malay Race (Javanese – Sarawak – Malaysia) Zhuang Race (Senoi – Zhuang – She – Santhal – Ho – Nicobarese) Austroasiatic Race (Mon – Khmer – Khasi – Nongtrai – Bhoi – Maram – Kynriam – Wajaintia) Meghalaya NE Indian Race (Khasi – Garo – Lyngngam) Philippines Negrito Race (Aeta – Ati – Palau Micronesian) Mamanwa Philippines Negrito Race Andaman Islands Negrito Race** Semang Malay Negrito Race***

References

Lin M, Chu CC, Chang SL, Lee HL, Loo JH, Akaza T, Juji T, Ohashi J, Tokunaga K. March 2001. The Origin of Minnan & Hakka, the So-called “Taiwanese”, Inferred by HLA Study. Tissue Antigens:57(3):192-9.

New Article About the Peopling of India

A new article has come out in Nature Magazine dealing with the Peopling of India, a subject I have dealt with quite a bit on this site. The Indian nationals who hate the Aryan Invasion concept have been jumping up and down for joy over this article. I’m not sure where these people are coming from, but generally, it’s a silly, anti-scientific and reactionary place. Their argument is usually that the Aryan Invasion could not have taken place since our Hindu texts say that it never happened. Well, there is not much to say to such a powerful scientific argument like that! Those who oppose the Aryan Invasion theory are generally Far Rightwing Hindu nationalists or Hindutvas. They also tend to be associated with the higher castes, especially the Brahmins. One argument is an Indian nationalist one. This crazy line says that there was no Aryan invasion – instead this was a lie made up by the evil British colonialists to “divide the people of India.” As Hindutva fascism claims (falsely) to be a national unification project, as all such projects do, they rail against the “outsiders who divide our people.” Problem with this argument is that the Indians themselves and the Hindus in particular had done a mighty fine job dividing up the Indian people themselves into many thousands of insane, cruel, backwards and anti-human caste structures. Another crazy Indian nationalist argument is that there was no caste until the evil Brits came. Or there was caste before then, but it was nothing. The evil Brits came and made caste so much worse. This argument is favored with high castes, typically Brahmins. It’s dubious. Caste was probably much worse before the British came. The British, civilized folks that they were, hated the animalistic, bestial, primitive caste system and tried to eliminate as part of the necessary mission of civilizing the Indians. This article notes that caste is as old as India, and that the British did not hoist it upon the unwilling heads of the innocent and pure Indians. Another crazy Indian nationalist line is that there was no race structure in India. Race was invented in India by those evil Brits again. The Brits divided the peaceable, loving, brotherly and Kumbayaa-singing Indian people into two races, a northern race that appeared European or Aryan and a southern race that they called Dravidian. There does seem to be something to the concept of a somewhat bimodal race structure in India. The people of the South are darker and have a different physical type than the Northern Indics, who look more Iranian or even European. Some say that the Dravidians are the remains of a Mediterranean Caucasian Race that moved into India 13-17,000 years ago. That seems reasonable to me. This article turns that on its head and argues that all Indians are a mixture between North Indians and South Indians. The South Indians are more Asiatic types and the North Indians are a more European type, yet all of the Indian people are thoroughly mixed between the two. This also seems reasonable. Articles about the piece, especially from the reactionary Brahmin-controlled Indian media, are crowing about “the death of the Aryan invasion theory.” But the Nature piece proclaims no such thing. The Nature article claims that the South Indians came to India 70,000 YBP. The only remaining pure members of the South Indian group are the Negritos of the Andaman Islands. This part is reasonable enough. The piece also claims that the North Indians (or Aryans) came to India 45,000 YBP. This much is a real shocker, and I do not know what to make of this. 45,000 YBP, there were no real Caucasoid types anywhere. Further, skulls from even north India dated at 24,000 YBP look like Aborigines. So these North Indians must have looked like Aborigines at first. In fact, all Indians looked something like Aborigines until 8,000 YBP when they started transitioning to Caucasian types. Anyway, there was an Aryan invasion. Or at least, a group of Indo-Aryans moved down from Kazakhstan into Iran, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, the Caucasus, Pakistan and North India about 3,500 YBP. They all speak related languages that we can provably trace back to the Russian steppes. We can follow their movements archeologically as they moved down from Kazakhstan into North India. Now whether or not these folks were “invaders” is open to question. Perhaps they were “migrants.” Maybe they were “undocumented workers.” Maybe they were going on an extended vacation down South. I haven’t the faintest idea. But there was clearly a movement of Indo-European speaking Indo-Aryan folks down from Kazakhstan into Central and South Asia 3,500 YBP. That’s a fact of history, and no sane person questions that. Nor does this paper call that into question. Another argument that Indian nationalists are making is that Indians are a unique race, a separate race, not part of any other race. If you look at the data, that’s an interesting argument, but skull and genetic data (see Cavalli-Sforza for instance) show that Indians are a member of the Caucasian race, though they are one of the most divergent members of that group. One interesting finding is that Gujaratis seem to form their own separate minor race in India and differentiate from all the others. I can’t explain that, but it may have something to do with stories about Scythians moving into that area 1,200 YBP. One of the more sensible dissections of the article is here by Razib of GNXP Science Blogs. Razib is sounding a lot more sensible since he got his better writing gig at Science Blogs. If you think this website is valuable to you, please consider a contribution to support the continuation of the site.

A Reworking of the Classification of Philippine Language Group

Here. I really don’t know much about the classification of the Phillipine languages, other than that they are all Austronesian, and they are fairly close to one another. How close, I haven’t the faintest idea. The ones listed as different languages are certainly not intelligible though. The Austronesian family outside of Taiwan is also huge, and it is also fairly close-knit, in fact, it is probably one of the closest large collections of related languages on Earth. These include all of the languages of the Philippines, most of the languages of Indonesia and Malaysia, some New Guinea languages (on the coast), most Melanesian languages (some appear to speak Papuan languages), and all Polynesian and Melanesian languages. Yes, indeed. Hawaiian, Samoan and Maori are all related Tagalog, Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia. Even more shocking is that there are quite a few cognates. You might be surprised looking through a list of basic words in Tagalog and Hawaiian. I don’t enough about Philippine languages to figure out if the author is onto something here. He has also has a couple of maps of what the Philippines languages would have looked like without Spanish colonization and what they look like with Spanish colonization (actually existing situation), but I don’t know enough about that to make sense of it either. But it’s interesting.

Weird Language – Yola

Note: Repost from the old blog. Extinct language, related to English! Straight up from Old English, from there to a branch of Middle English via a group of Normans who went to Ireland in 1169. There are some texts on the page showing Yola with English alongside. Strange how one’s language can change so much in just 700 years. It’s almost unrecognizable and would surely be unintelligible. You folks want to know how new languages are created? Check out this example. Check out also the strange language called Fingalian. Robert LindsayPosted on Categories Comparitive, Descriptive, Europe, European, Germanic, History, Ireland, Language Classification, Language Families, Linguistics, Regional, Reposts From The Old SiteLeave a comment on Weird Language – Yola

Spot The Language 22

Identify the language. Say where it is spoken (what country, continent or area). Say who speaks it (what race, people or ethnic group). Say what type of language it is, if you can identify it. Extra points for precision. Example: Basque, spoken in NE Spain by Basques, language isolate not related to anything. I picked out some easy ones on purpose for starters. All these languages or peoples are fairly well-known, at least to me anyway. 1. Abenaki 2. Afar 3. Akan 4. Alsatian 5. Amharic 6. Aramaic 7. Asturian 8. Assamese 9. Assiniboine 10. Aymara 11. Balinese 12. Baluchi 13. Bikol 14. Brahui 15. Buryat 16. Burushaski 17. Cahuilla 18. Chamorro 19. Chickasaw 20. Choctaw

More On Hinduism, Race, Caste and the "Aryan Invasion"

The comment below is from an Indian poster on this popular post. I agree with most of what he says. First of all, I don’t think that the Aryans pushed the Dravidians to the South. There are Dravidian types and mixed types all over North India. Points 2 and 3 are self-evident. I have always felt that Hinduism was nothing more than the ancient religion of India, and there is good evidence for this. Clearly it predates the Aryans. It’s not necessarily as old as India, since India is as old as dirt, but clearly it goes back so far that we can hardly even say when it begins. Ancient Iran also had a caste system, and so did their ancient religion. Yazidism, one of the oldest major religions known to man, possibly dating back 10,000 years, has caste and origins in Iran. The suggestion is that caste is a regional phenomenon across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Iran and Northern Iraq. Afghanistan lacks caste, but until the Communist revolution was a semi-feudal society. The fact remains that Aryan languages displaced Dravidian languages to the South, and all of North India is Aryan-speaking in general, and the people of the North are lighter than the people of the South, and this needs to be explained somehow. Obviously, prior to the Aryan Invasion, Dravidian languages were spoken all over North India. Either their speakers dropped Dravidian in favor of Indo-Iranian or they moved south. Possibly both of these occurred.

1) Vedas are not everything in Hinduism, though they form some of the core. There are many books written in ancient mathematics and science in the post-Vedic period which are as relevant to the history of Hindus, if not more than the Vedas. Look at the books written by Bhaskara (there were two Bhaskaras recorded in history), Aryabhatta, Apastamba, Baudhayana, Varahmihira and several other authors. Some of them have had their base south of the Vindhyas, which indicates the migration of the culture of the Vedic people southward. I am guessing the actual migration of Vedic people might also have taken place either before or after the completion of the writing of the Vedas (500-1000 BCE). Read about the myth of Agastya and his followers and the Vindhyas. 2) Skin color depends on the climate and gradually over generations (maynot be 3 but lets say about 30 generations) it is sure to change. 3) People speaking different languages derived from a root language (or speaking the root language itself) need not share genetic origins or race. For example, I am an Indian, and if I speak or write in English, a European-originated language, that does not make me European. I bet the same applies to speakers of Indo-European languages. 4) Based on several references in the Vedas against dark-skinned tribes, one cannot assume that all the scriptures of the Hindus (the Sruti and Smriti) were written by the highly-advanced fair-skinned race-preserving cohort known as Aryans who came down from central Asia and pushed the locals down south. One severe contradiction to this simplistic theory is how come there are references of lower-caste tribals getting upgraded to the higher caste of Brahmins (like Valmiki, Vishwamitra) in the epics written by these same racially-finicky people (the Aryans) that was allowed to be published without censorship. The racial references in the Vedas are at best ambiguous. If the Aryans were the vanguards of Hinduism and they were the creators of the scriptures, how did dark-skinned gods like Vishnu and Shiva find their ways into the texts. More likely they should have been shown as demons given the benchmarks by which they would have decided. Given all these, there surely exists a possibility of a fair-skinned race coming down from Afghanistan or central Asia and contributing to the creation of Hindu scriptures and merging with the locals, in fact there could be several races of this type migrating in at different points of time. But to say that they did this at the expense of a dark-skinned race or an indigenous race is pure baloney, given the facts. In fact the genesis of Hindu scriptures could have come from different parts (including the non-Indo-European parts which may include Sanskrit speakers of Dravidian origin) of the Indian subcontinent. Likewise, tribes that had originally entered from the northern borders of India (one of them being the Aryans) must have migrated all over the country giving an inseparable and indistinguishable genetic mixture that we know as the people of India today. Also the caste system in ancient India up to a period must have been rather fluid and based more on occupation than ancestry as is the popular notion. Hinduism (at least the history and references from Hinduism) seems to have a much greater tolerance for skin color and caste than is touted to be.

Spot the Language 21

Here we go again for another round of Spot the Language! Yay! Identify the language by its English name. Some of my readers are quite slow, I am very sympathetic to slow people, so I decided to put them in alphabetical order to make things more fair for those who tend to plod a bit mentally. All languages but three are Indo-European. The other three are Afro-Asiatic, Kartvelian and Eskimo-Aleut. All are spoken in the general area of Europe and its nearby environs. At the very least, all languages but one are spoken in Europe, or at least the area bordered by the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Two others are spoken in the Americas. These two are spoken in either former or current European colonies. Five of the languages are spoken in the UK alone. Some of these are small languages, but they are all pretty well-known. 1. Հայերեն 2. Euskara 3. Tamazight 4. Brezhoneg 5. Føroyskt 6. Frysk 7. Furlan 8. Gàidhlig 9. ქართული 10. Kalaallisut 11. Kreyòl Ayisyen 12. Magyar 13. Gaeilge 14. كوردي 15. Gaelg 16. Româneşte 17. Scoats 18. Cymraeg

Spot The Language 20

Ok gang, this is a new one. Here you just have to spot the language names as they are known by the speakers of the languages themselves. To give you a hint, #11 is known as Español to speakers, but as Spanish to us English language speakers and as some other name probably by speakers of other languages. This is the best way to refer to various languages – as they are known to the speakers. To give you an example of why, #11 may have 50-100 or more different names depending on which language is talking about the concept called “Spanish language.” When we refer to it with one name across the board, the one they call themselves, we avoid this confusion and we also honor and respect their self-chosen name. Understand about which language term is used in the list? Someone told me that some of my readers are slightly slow, so I decided to give you some extra hints. But the only extra hint in this case is that all of the languages below are listed in alphabetical order. Keep in mind that the alphabetical order is as the language is known by speakers, not how we English speakers refer to it. So for #27, the speakers themselves refer to this language by a name beginning with “n”, while we Americans refer to it with a well-known name beginning with another letter. Follow? In some cases, the language name is written in the indigenous script of the speakers, not in the Roman script that we English speakers use. But I heard a few of my readers are smart, so that shouldn’t be any problem, right folks? Rewards? Fame and fortune in the comments section! You might want to get out a paper and writing instrument to make the list as you work it out. 1. العربية 2. Български 3. Català 4. Česky 5. Cymraeg 6. Dansk 7. Deutsch 8. Eesti 9. Ελληνικά 10. English 11. Español 12. فارسی 13. Français 14. Galego 15. हिन्दी 16. Hrvatski 17. Bahasa Indonesia 18. Íslenska 19. Italiano 20. עברית 21. Latviešu 22. Lietuvių 23. 한국어 24. Magyar 25. Malti 26. Nederlands 27. 日本語 28. Norsk (Bokmål) 29. Polski 30. Português 31. Română 32. Русский 33. Slovenčina 34. Slovenščina 35. Shqip 36. Srpski 37. Suomi 38. Svenska 39. ไทย 40. Tagalog 41. Türkçe 42. Українська 43. Tiếng Việt 44. 中文 / 漢語 Now, for extra credit, tell us how the speakers of 1, 2, 9, 20, 23, 27, 32, 42 and 44 would spell their names for their languages when they write them in English. Let me give you an example. नेपाल भाषा means Nepalese, but the Nepalese do not call their language Nepalese. They call it Nepal Bhasa. So, the English words that were given for the languages 1, 2, 9, 20, 23, 27, 32, 42 and 44 are not the words that those people use to refer to their languages. Follow?

The Proto-Indo-Europeans and Their Early Descendants: Proto-Languages and Homelands

The Indo-European languages include most of the languages of Europe, Iran and Northern India. For instance, English, Gaelic, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Romanian, Bulgarian, Russian, Greek, Albanian, Armenian and Kurdish are some of the better-known IE languages of Europe and the Near East. In Iran, the major language, Farsi, is IE, as is the major language Pashto in Afghanistan. In India and Pakistan, the huge languages Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi are all IE. They go back to a proto-language called Proto Indo-European, or PIE. In that the languages are all related, the truth is that the peoples are all related to for the greatest part. So Northern Indians, Pashtuns, Iranians, Kurds and Armenians are all closely related to Europeans since they all sprung in part from a common source, in the famous words of Sir William Jones, who discovered the IE languages in the late 1700’s. Going back 6,500 years, we can reconstruct Proto-Indo-European quite well. One of the best resources is Julius Pokorny‘s Proto-Indo-European Etymological Dictionary (or downloadable copy on the blog here (huge file). The homeland of the Indo-Europeans is the subject of much debate, but the modern consensus centers around putting the homeland at 6500 years before present (YBP) around Southern Russia. I have narrowed it to southern Russia, southeastern Ukraine and southwestern Kazakhstan north of the Caucasus. This is more or less the region in between the Black and Caspian Seas. An arid region called the Kuma-Manych Depression is in the middle of this region and seems to be a major center of PIE culture. I could not find a map of the Depression, but it separates the North Caucasus from the Russian Plain. There were also settlements in southeastern Ukraine near the Sea of Azov, about 50 miles north of the Caspian Sea in southwestern Kazakhstan and up around the Lower Volga Region near Samara. A good word for this general region is the Pontic-Caspian Steppe.

The homeland of the Proto Indo Europeans, as of 6,500 YBP. I looked around for good maps of the PIE homeland but I could not find any, so I drew my own. Copyright Oakhurst Technology 2009.
The homeland of the Proto Indo-Europeans, as of 6,500 YBP. I looked around for good maps of the PIE homeland but I could not find any, so I drew my own. Copyright Oakhurst Technology 2009.
From there, it’s not really known how or when the Proto-Indo-Europeans spread out, but they show up in Europe some time later. A good map of their migrations or conquests is here. The PIE people had several advantages over their neighbors. They were already into the Bronze Age for one, and not only that, but there were horses running around Southern Russia. The PIE had managed to domesticate the horse. That’s quite an advantage, but the PIE people did one better. They even invented a wheel. Then they logically put the two together and made horse-drawn chariots. With these chariots, the PIE people apparently conquered much of Europe and later parts of Southwest Asia and South Asia. The people in Europe at this time were pre-PIE folks. We know little about their culture, but the master of PIE culture, the celebrated professor Marija Gimbutas (A woman!) calls it “Old Europe.” Old Europe is very little known or understood. A probable surviving language from Old Europe is Basque. Another, long extinct, is Etruscan. The very early people of the British Isles, whose descendants are now known as the Black Irish, populated the Isles between 9000-11000 YBP. They had dark hair, dark eyes and very pale skin. Genetically, they seem to resemble the Basques and may have come on boats from Spain. The Basques themselves and related peoples may have come from the Caucasus long, long ago. Although Basque is said to have no living relatives, I believe it is related to Caucasian languages like Chechen and Ingush. Throughout Europe one finds folks called Black this and Black that. I had a girlfriend who called herself a Black Swede and later on, a girlfriend named Linda of Polish heritage. Both had very dark, curly hair, dark eyes and very pale skin. As a guess, these types of Europeans may be the remains of Old Europe. Gimbutas is also the founder of the Kurgan Hypothesis, which is currently the best PIE theory out there. Gimbutas (photo) sort of lost it towards the end when she got into “Goddess worship” and whatnot, but it’s clear that this Lithuanian archeologist was one of the great scholars of our time. Some time after 6500 YBP, PIE began to break up, but no one knows quite how this occurred. At any rate, by 4200 YBP, a split had occurred in PIE and a separate language had broken off, Indo-Iranian. There are maps out there of the Indo-Iranian homeland, but I don’t like them all that much so I made my own. My best guess was to place it in the far north of Kazakhstan and just over the border into Russia. From there, after 3500 YBP, the Indo-Aryans moved out and migrated into Afghanistan, Pakistan, North India and Iran. Many people in these regions today speak Indo-Iranian languages descended from these people. These folks are thought to be the source of the famous Aryan Invasion of India at around this time.
A map of the Indo-Iranian Homeland in far northern Kazakhstan around 3,500 YBP. This is where the Iranians, Afghans, North Indians and many Pakistanis came from. Copyright Oakhurst Technology 2009.
A map of the Indo-Iranian Homeland in far northern Kazakhstan around 3500 YBP. This is where the Iranians, Afghans, North Indians and many Pakistanis came from. Copyright Oakhurst Technology 2009.
As I noted, the process whereby these languages split off, other than the Indo-Aryan split, is little known. However, assuming this tree diagram is correct, maybe it can shed some light on the matter.
A very interesting tree diagram of the IE language family.
A very interesting tree diagram of the IE language family. Click to enlarge.
Unfortunately, this chart is hard to read, so I will try to decipher it. The first thing to note is the Anatolian split in the tree, apparently the first split. There are problems with the date for PIE. A glottochronological study recently gave a date of about 8500 YBP for PIE, considerably earlier than the usual date of around 6500 YBP. Promoters of something called the Anatolian Hypothesis have used this to suggest than an earlier language called Proto-Indo-Hittite was spoken in Anatolia 8500 years ago. The Anatolian languages split off, and the PIE speakers moved to the Pontic Steppe. The movement of Proto-Indo-Hittite speakers out of Anatolia to the Pontic Steppe to form the PIE people may be related to the Black Sea Deluge Theory which has recently been proven correct. The Black Sea expanded dramatically according to this theory as, around 7600 YBP, a waterfall 200 times the size of Niagara Falls (!) poured through the Bosporus Straits, transforming the pre-Black Sea freshwater lake into the present-day brackish (part-salt water, part-fresh water) Black Sea. Soon after this event, PIE culture appears in the Pontic Steppe. This is a very controversial proposal called the Indo-Hittite Theory, but I have long supported it. The late Joseph Greenberg, one of the greatest historical linguists that ever lived, also supported it. This theory holds that Indo-European has two branches, Indo-European proper and the Hittite branch. The Hittite branch is related to the other branch only in a binary fashion. There is good evidence for this. The Anatolian languages, all of which are now extinct, are very strange and seem distant from the rest. The appear archaic and have retained many forms which seem to not be present on the rest of IE. My guess is these are archaic forms. Anatolian lacks grammatical gender – masculine:feminine, an IE innovation spread through the family. Instead, it has an archaic noun class system called animate:inanimate. This is reminiscent of ancient Niger-Congo languages in Africa. In addition, the Anatolian vowel system is reduced (fewer vowels) and the case system is simpler. Many basic IE vocabulary terms are simply missing in Anatolian. All of this debris tends to add up to the hypothesis of an ancient branch of the language family. Tocharian is visible on the diagram as Italo-Celtic-Tocharian. This branch is extremely strange, since Tocharian was spoken way over in Asia near East Turkestan and Kyrgyzstan, and Celtic and Italic are spoken in the heart of Europe. This is the area where the mummies with blond hair and blue eyes have been found. Tocharian may have split as early as 6000 YBP. The Tocharian language is also very ancient and strange and is only distantly related to the rest of IE. If anything, it seems to look somewhat like Anatolian. A very ancient branch of IE also split off around this time. Known as Balkan or Paleo-Balkan, it may also have split off 6000 YBP. There were two major branches, Thracian and Illyro-Venetic. Thracian is extinct, and all that remains of Illyro-Venetic is Albanian, a very ancient IE tongue that is only distantly related to the rest of IE. Proto-Illyrian and Thracian split around 4200 YBP. Here is a map of the Illyrian tribes before the Roman conquest. It is from this milieu that the Albanians emerged. The Albanian language is quite strange within IE and seems to have very ancient roots dating back to Proto-Paleo-Balkan from 6000 YBP. Another very early split you can see in the chart is something called Indo-Irano-Armeno-Hellenic. The Armeno-Hellenic branch probably split off 6000 YBP. The fact that Armenians and Greeks today still possibly retain a PIE appearance is also suggested by this early split. Only the Greek languages and Armenian remain of this family, as most of the family is extinct. Proto-Hellenic may have split off around 5000 YBP, and Proto-Armenian may have split around 4500 YBP. The proto-Hellenics seem to have been related to the Indo-Iranians. This may be why a number of North Indians look like Greeks, Turks or Armenians. Armenian and Hellenic are also strange IE branches that are only distantly related to the rest of IE. The Italo-Celtic branch broke off as early as 5000 YBP. Proto-Celtic split about 2800 YBP; the homeland is in Northern Austria. The Hallstatt Culture is associated with them. The Proto-Italics are dated to around 3500 YBP in Italy. Before that, the Italo-Celtic Homeland is thought to have been in southern and central Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia. The fact that Italics (Italians and related languages) and Celts share common roots shows how insane and stupid Nordicism is, as Nordicists say that Italians south of the Po are ‘non-Whites.’ It turns out that those greasy dagos and those blond and blue guys in dresses blowing pipes in the Highlands are the same folks after all, as they share common genetic roots in Austria 3500 YBP. Proto-Germanic also dates far back, with pre-Proto-Germanic possibly being spoken 3800 YBP in northern Germany, Denmark and Southern Scandinavia ( map). The homeland of the pre-proto-Germanics is in Southern Sweden and Jutland. They may have settled this area as early as 5000 YBP. These speakers may have been speaking something called Balto-Slavo-Germanic, a group you can see on the tree above. Proto-Germanic proper probably dates from the Jasdorf Culture. The homeland of the proto-Germanics was in northern Germany, around Schleswig-Holstein south into the Lower Elbe region in what is now Saxony-Anhalt and the Hanover area. It also extended along the Baltic coast of Germany to about the Polish border, down into Brandenburg and Mecklenburg. The original center of the homeland was in Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony. Balto-Slavic is also a very ancient branch of IE. Lithuanian is an ancient IE language that is very conservative and has retained many ancient IE reflexes that have been lost in the rest of IE. Proto-Balto-Slavic probably split around 4000 YBP. Proto-Baltic and Proto-Slavic split apart about 3400 YBP. Map of the Balto-Slavic homeland. This homeland encompassed Western Ukraine, Belarus and Eastern Poland. Proto-Slavic, dating from 3400 YBP, seems to have its homeland in Northern and Western Ukraine and in Southern Belarus. The proto-Baltic homeland dating from the same time frame is about the southern border region of Belarus around the Pinsk Marshes. The rest of the splits, of Slavic, Italic, Celtic, Indian, Iranian and Germanic into their branches, are pretty well-documented, and all occur within the past 1500-3000 years. Let us move to some interesting dilemmas about the Indo-Europeans. One is the distribution of R1a associated with the Indo-Europeans.
The map of the R1a lineage showing high concentrations in Central Asia and Eastern Europe.
The map of the R1a lineage showing high concentrations in Central Asia and Eastern Europe.
The highest levels of this haplogroup are found in Eastern Europe in a narrow band from the Black Sea in the Ukraine through Poland to the Baltic Sea and in Northern India and areas to the northwest around the Hindu Kush and the Pamirs, but that does not mean that these two groups are particularly closely related. Northern Indians are most closely related to Iranians and relatively distantly to Eastern Europeans. The truth is that this haplogroup is only a signature of a split from around the Aryan-Greco homeland in the Pontic Steppe region discussed above. This left high levels of R1a in Eastern Europe and in north India. High levels in North India are not particularly notable but exist only due to a founder effect. Actually, the highest levels are not found in North India but in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and north Afghanistan. The high levels found in North India have led some to assume incorrectly that the homeland of the R1a people was in that area, but this is not the case.
A map of R1b DNA distribution. The homeland of the R1b line is the Maykop Culture, shown in the shaded pink region between the Caspian and Black Seas.
A map of R1b DNA distribution. The homeland of the R1b line is the Maykop Culture, shown in the shaded pink region between the Caspian and Black Seas.
R1b levels are highest in Spain and the Western British Isles. The launching point for the R1b seems to have been the Maykop Culture of 5500 YBP. From there, they spread all over Europe. The Maykop Culture was an early PIE split that existed between the Taman Peninsula just east of the Crimea east to the Dagestan border in the area that includes part of Southern Russia east of the Crimea, Adygea, Karachay-Cherkessia, Kabardino-Balkaria, North Ossetia, Ingushetia and Chechnya in the Caucasus. The center of the culture was around Maykop in Adygea (Circassia). The region is now inhabited by peoples of the Caucasus and is heavily Muslim. An explanation:

The Proto-Indo-Europeans belonged both R1a and R1b. Their homeland was in the Pontic-Caspian steppe, in what is known as the Kurgan culture (7000-2200 BCE).

The presence of R1b in modern times between the Black Sea and the Caucasus hints at the Maykop culture (3500-2500 BCE) as their most plausible homeland, while the Eurasian steppes to the north were R1a territory. […]

A comparison with the Indo-Iranian invasion of South Asia shows that 4 The impact of the Indo-Europeans was more severe in Europe because European society 4,000 years ago was less developed in terms of agriculture, technology (no bronze weapons) and population density than that of the Indus Valley civilization. This is particularly true of the native Western European cultures where farming arrived much later than in the Balkans or central Europe. Greece was the most advanced of European societies and was the least affected in terms of haplogroup replacement. Native European Y-DNA haplogroups (I1, I2a, I2b) also survived better in regions that were more difficult to reach or less hospitable, like Scandinavia, Brittany, Sardinia or the Dinaric Alps[…] The eastern branch of the R1a steppe people was the Andronovo culture (2300-1000 BCE), around modern Kazakhstan, which correspond to the Indo-Iranian branch of languages. Their migration to the south have resulted in high R1a frequencies in southern Central Asia, Iran and the Indian subcontinent. The highest frequency of R1a (about 6

References

Pokorny, Julius. 1959, 2007. Proto-Indo-European Etymological Dictionary. A Revised Edition of Julius Pokorny’s Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch. Published on the Internet: Indo-European Language Revival Association.

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What Languages Do You Know?

This post will mostly be for commenters to comment and let us know what languages they speak, read or write and to what proficiency. I will start it off by discussing myself: English: native language. Spanish: Read, write, speak and hear well, but not as well as English. I don’t really enjoy reading, writing or speaking Spanish, but I can do it, just not as well as I can in English, so it’s not that much fun. But I can hold a conversation in pure Spanish with a Spanish speaker for hours on end with the use of effectively no English at all. It might help if I had a dictionary though. I started studying Spanish at age 6. We lived in LA, and my Mom said, “I’m putting you in Spanish classes.” I asked, “Why?” My Mom said, “This is the future.” It was only 1963 but the writing was already on the wall. We went to a park and this nice older Spanish guy taught the kids. I’m told that’s why I have such a good accent for a gringo. I later had 2 years in junior high and four more years in high school, followed by another 1 1/2 years at university. I took a semester at the local community college but the teacher tried to throw me out for knowing too much Spanish. Listening to Spanish radio or watching Spanish TV is a drag and I can’t make out much of it. After studying Spanish for 45 years off and on, I’m still not that fluent. If anything, my history shows how hard it is to learn a foreign language. Portuguese: I had a Brazilian girlfriend here in the US for a while. I started out speaking Spanish and English to her and she responded in Portuguese, Spanish and English. I bought a Portuguese dictionary the first day and always had it with me. Within a week or two, I was already using a lot of Portuguese when I spoke to her. Then she dumped me. I still can’t read Portuguese very well, but I can read a bit of it. I can only write it in the sense of throwing in a few words here and there. I can’t really hear it well at all, and I can’t speak it either. I’m still learning Portuguese. French: I took a semester in college, then I had a French girlfriend in college who was 17 years my senior, so I picked up some words from her too. I’m learning it again lately, but it’s so different from the rest of Romance that it’s hard to figure out. I can sort of read French a bit, but it’s pretty hard. I can’t hear or speak it worth a damn, and I can sort of write a sentence or two in it, but that’s it. I’m still studying French. Italian: I’ve started learning this language lately as I had an Italian friend. For a long time, I looked at it and looked like Greek despite my other Romance knowledge so I just screw it. After about a week or two of getting into it, things start jelling in this huge way and you can sort of start to make sense of things. I can sort of understand Italian movies partially. I can read it to some extent, but not that much, and worse than Portuguese. I can’t write or speak a word. I’m still learning Italian. Out of Portuguese, French and Italian, they all suck, but I get Portuguese best, then Italian, but French is just horrible. The rest of Romance: Once you have as much background in Romance languages as I do, you can understand other Romance languages to some limited extent, sometimes spoken, but more often written. But you can’t really get that much of what’s being communicated; there’s just sort of this general familiarity there. I can figure out Aragonese, Asturian, Galician and Catalan to some extent, but Occitan is harder. Romanian, Romansch and Sardinian are nearly impossible. Chukchansi Yokuts: A California Indian language, I worked on this language for a while on a government grant. I learned some vocabulary and I can say some of the words that I learned. I can understand those words in isolation spoken back to me. Reading or writing it is impossible and listening to it in sentences is hopeless. I invented an alphabet for them that kicks ass on the English alphabet, but any good alphabet designed by a competent linguist can do that. If you think it’s easy to invent an alphabet for a language, think again. Many world languages, not written down much have had repeated poor and failed alphabets designed for them. German: I know some words, and I can say them, but German speakers don’t understand me when I do that, probably because I pronounce them wrong. I can pick up a bit of written down on occasion, but I can’t write a word. I can’t understand a word when it’s spoken. Dutch: A few isolated words. I can sort make out written text to some extent, sometimes. Russian: A few words here and there. Can’t read it or hear it at all. Arabic: I know a bit of vocabulary, but not much. Can’t read it or understand it. That’s basically it. Learning languages is really a total drag, but I do it because it’s one of the most hardcore forms of mental exercise I can think of. Feel free to let us know you language history and competence in the comments.

Who Were The Ancient Romans?

This is an interesting question mostly because it would be academic and noncontroversial except that Nordicists have chosen to shove their hateful snouts into the matter and create a bunch of lies. The proto-Italics, later to become the Romans in part, came from Austria 2900 YBP. No quite knows who Austrians were at that point racially, as Germanics don’t show up in Austria until late in the Roman Empire near the Fall. A sector of the Nordicists have created a lie to disinherit the Italians of their claim to the Roman Empire. According to this lie, the ruling class of the Romans were pure Germanics, and the rabble/refuse were just a bunch of racially degenerated dagos. They enlist all sorts of nonsensical evidence in favor of this supposition, including looking at statues and paintings and whatnot. The Nordicist notion stems from their incredulity that a bunch of no good wops could have created one of the greatest empires known to mankind. It’s interesting that many Nazi racialist authors did not subscribe to the standard Nordicist lie of today. The Nazis were quite clear that the Italians of today were the descendants of the Romans. In fact, Nazi racial hierarchy placed Meds only slightly below Nordics on the racial scale. Both were seen as highly superior races, but the Nordics were seen as a bit better, as supremacists always have to put themselves on top. Nazi theory held that both Meds and Nords had a lot of good and bad racial tendencies, and held that Meds were superior to Nords in many ways. In particular, the Meds were seen as one of the most, if not the most, creative race in modern times, or possibly ever. The Nordicist distortion of today stems from the UK and the US. The US was settled by Northern Europeans and the Southern Europeans, including Italians, who immigrated starting 130 years ago were seen as highly inferior on a racial basis. Science has not born this claim out, but it remains a part of US founding stock culture, and it was a motivating factor being the restrictive 1925 Immigration Act. I don’t know the UK racially very well, but I suspect that they have always looked down on the Continent in general, and probably the Southern Europeans in particular. Not when it comes to partying in Mallorca though I guess. Anyway, the truth is that modern Nordicists have so distorted even Nazi Nordicism that most modern Nordicists would have probably been booted out of the Nazi Party at the time. I am not trying to romanticize the Nazis here, but in terms of racial science, they were correct in some ways. Contrary to popular nonsense, Nazis did not hold Jews to be inferior. Nazi racialism quite correctly recognized the superiority of the Jews. Instead, they just held that the Jews were evil. The Nazis employed racialist academics who followed the army on their gruesome deeds. Over by the Caucasus, these academics undertook deep scientific studies that concluded that certain Jewish groups in that area were not racially Jewish, but instead were culturally Jewish. The Nazis were not as insane as everyone says, and they held by the findings of their scientists and saved the lives of tens of thousands of Jews on that basis. The pro-Meds have been battling the Nordicists about this for nearly a century now, and I support the Meds’ side of the argument. From Roman sources we get reports describing Romans in quite the same way as the peoples of Abruzzo to the Po would be described today. Germanics were described as blond, blue and very different looking than Romans. The only difference between the Romans and the Abruzzo to Po Italians of today is that the people in this region are actually more Germanized today than they were under the Romans! To the South, there have been some changes, including a large injection of Arab, Phoenician, Spanish, Corsican, French (Norman), Greek and Albanian genes. This is most marked in Sicily. One lie is that the Abruzzo to Po Italians have lots of Black blood in them. To the South, yes, there is some Black blood, but it is minimal. It is most prominent in Sicily at around Academics have stayed out of the debate only to say that the ancient Romans were the same people as modern day Italians. A similar lie was spread about Greece on the same basis. How could these dumb-ass Southern European inferiors have produced one of the greatest societies in history? It’s obviously not possible, so some mysterious Germanics must have infiltrated that rocky land to surreptitiously ruled over those swarthy inferiors. Once again, statues and whatnot are enlisted in support of this, and Nordicists study art and statues with magnifying glasses claiming to see secret Master Race features in Greek art. The Meds have gone at them again in this argument, and once again, I side with the Meds. The Nordicist argument is curious. If Romans and Greeks were secret Master Race types, then obviously the central Italians and Greeks, as largely racially unchanged folks, are their descendants anyway. The argument becomes circular. The Nords try to say that the Central Italians and Greeks underwent some massive racial degeneration after the Falls, but there is no evidence for this. As with Southern Italians, there seems to be some Black blood in the Greeks, but only about Some Nordicists make a truly insane argument about Ancient Egypt which is almost as insane as the Afrocentric crap about Black Athena. According to this, some Master Race White types created Egypt, then Egypt underwent racial degeneration with an infusion of Black blood and collapsed into the Hellish Cairo of today, trash dumps everywhere, mangy stray dogs in the streets, and rats about as big as the dogs scurrying through the open air markets.

Garbage in Naples. Descendants of the great Romans? Afraid so. How so? A historian might say that down through time, shit happens.
Garbage in Naples. Descendants of the great Romans? Afraid so. How so? A historian might say that down through time, shit happens.
Not only that, but nothing works, and in order to get hooked up to the non-working system, you have to wait in line forever and pay off a bunch of lazy pricks. Academics once again stay out of this one, except to say that they think there was continuity between Ancient and modern Egyptians. I saw one piece in the Journal of Physical Anthropology that compared genes of ancient Egyptians with those of modern Egyptians. Amazingly, racially, they were about the same at 9 The truth is somewhat interesting. While the Afrocentrist notion must be discarded, it’s certainly true that at least historically, a bit of Black blood mixed with mostly White stock has produced some of the greatest societies the world has ever seen. At 90-9 It’s difficult to come up with a theory to explain why this stock did so well, but possibly mixing a bit of one stock to a lot of another produces an excellent genetic set. Anyway, this is how animal and plant breeders have been operating for centuries. It would be surprising if humans were different. If you think this website is valuable to you, please consider a contribution to support the continuation of the site.

Appalachian English

I’m not ready to split off English dialects into separate languages yet, as my previous forays into this area have pissed people off enough as it is. As a general rule, I can understand almost anyone speaking any dialect of US English. I lived in a tourist town near Yosemite National Park for many years, and we had tourists coming in from all over the country. Never once did I have a hard time understanding anyone, and I think I heard them all, the dialects that is. In my previous piece on this subject, I suggested that African American Vernacular English (AAVE) or Ebonics, probably deserves to be called a separate language from US English. Many if not most US linguists who have an opinion seem to agree, but I think no one wants to touch it since the rightwingers not to mention the White nationalists would go stark raving berserk. However, I recently spent a couple of hours with a couple of local Black women who were speaking AAVE. It might as well have been Greek. They could also switch on a dime over to a perfectly intelligible US English, so they were effectively bilingual. But damned if that wasn’t the nastiest and hardest to understand US English dialect I have ever heard firsthand. I mentioned in the other piece that a guy came out to the mountains here in California recently from New York. He was a young Italian-American guy from Queens, New York. Queens is one of the holdouts for the hardest of hardcore New York English dialects. The guy spent three or four months here hardly being understood by a soul until he finally figured out how to speak California English and make himself understood. There were a couple of clues that he was speaking a foreign language and not a US English dialect. First of all, he was unable to moderate or tone down his lect of make it more intelligible, even after months in the area. That’s a good sign that you’re dealing more than a mere dialect. Dialects are typically adjustable, separate languages much less so. Another sign was that even after 3-4 months of listening to him, a lot of the people he was talking to could not understand him any better than they could on Day One. This is also a good sign of a foreign language and not a dialect. With a US English dialect, usually we can adjust to it pretty quickly after hearing it a bit, and then we can get most to all of it. Therefore, I would split off AAVE and hardcore New York English into separate languages, but I won’t do so in an official post as I have enough enemies as it is. I would like to add one more extremely nasty US English dialect to the mix though. This is something like Appalachian English, though I am thinking in particular of that spoken in a couple of locales. I am not sure where they are doing the mountaintop removal mining in the hollows of West Virginia. But I recently heard a radio report on that, and while I could understand company spokespeople pretty well, once they started interviewing poor folks down in the “holllers”, I kept having to turn the radio up and I still wasn’t getting a lot of it. I recently heard another radio report about a tribe called the Monacans in Virginia. I assumed they would be easy to understand like most Virginians, but this was one of the nastiest US English dialects I’ve ever heard. The Monacans live in Appalachian Virginia, north of Lynchburg near the town of Amherst and then northwest of Lynchburg near the Natural Bridge and the towns of Goshen, Lexington and Glasgow.  The terrain looks something like this. The Natural Bridge area is more forested. The spokeswoman for the Monacans was an assimilated woman speaking an intelligible Southern or maybe Appalachian English. However, they also interviewed several tribe members, older women who lived in very rural areas and recalled how they used to practically live off the land down there. I was missing a lot of what they said, and it was one of the hardest-core English dialects I’ve ever heard. The tribe is said to be somewhat Black-White-Indian mixed, and for this reason, they have had a hard time getting recognized. I am not sure how their mixed nature plays into this dialect, or how many other folks around there talk the same way. I suspect that the real hardcore lect is with older people, rural people, and possibly females. Females often have the hardest core dialects since males have to work. In having to work, they often have to tone down their hardcore dialects or languages and either learn a majority tongue or speak a more assimilated dialect. Traditional women are just in the home and in a lot of parts of the world, they stay monolingual and don’t learn the majority language of the country. I’m not sure how the rest of Appalachian English sounds, but at least the speech of some parts of Appalachian West Virginia (this area is in the Blue Ridge Mountains) and Virginia is incredibly hard to understand. The dialect spoken by the Monacans seems to be one of the Southern Appalachian dialects. These are the dialects that are said to resemble Shakespearean English. Though this is not Shakespearean English (this is an urban legend) these dialects to contain many Elizabethan English words from 1550-1600 which are no longer used in Modern English. They also have strong influences from Scots and North Ireland Scots English, along with some influences from Welsh. Wikipedia says that Appalachian English is one of hardest to understand English dialects spoken in America.

Check Out Galician

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UzwWh91UVc] Galician is a language similar to Portuguese that is spoken in Spain by about 3.5 million speakers. Speakers are located in the far northwest of Spain in the region of Galicia. Galicia is one of four languages other than Castilian that are recognized by Spain. The other three are Basque, Catalan and Aranese (Occitan). Galician is having problems lately, as a lot of speakers in urban areas are not speaking it anymore, and much of the speaker base is located in rural areas. Nevertheless, it is still widely spoken outside of large cities, even by young people. There have been some problems setting up Galician-medium schools, as the Spanish state doesn’t seem to want to pay for it. The state of Galicia has not done a very good job of preserving the language. For instance, most of the Galician TV stations are in Castillian. Despite all of this, Galician is still doing pretty well and should be secure for the remainder of the 21st Century. Galician is related to Portuguese, but Portuguese speakers are very ethnocentric and crazy about their language, and they have adopted the notion that all dialects of Portuguese can understand each other. This is not the case, as there are several languages under the Portuguese rubric, and even saying that Brazilian and European Portuguese are the same language is getting harder and harder of a case to make. A group called “Reintegrationists” insists that Galician is a dialect of Portuguese, but this does not seem to be the case. For one thing, Portuguese and Galician are not really fully intelligible. So it looks like the best case is to split Galician off as a separate language closely related to Portuguese. As long as we are talking about dialects, it really ought to be the other way around – Portuguese as a dialect of Galician. Galician is actually the original language of the area and it preserves the old form of Portuguese-Galician best of all. Portuguese is best seen as a Galician dialect that drifted further and further away from the original Galician language. Galicia has been a part of Spain for a good 600 years or so, and in this period, Galician and Portuguese have drifted further apart. Galician is now properly seen as a language closely related to Portuguese that has been heavily influenced by Castillian. If you will, a language partway between Portuguese and Castillian. So if you speak Spanish, Galician should be more accessible to you than Portuguese. What is interesting is that Galician and Portuguese have drifted so far apart that Spanish speakers say that they understand Galician better than Portuguese speakers do. This is doubtless due to the heavy Spanish influence on Galician. In recent times, the Castillian influence has only increased. A Galician group based in Spain has formed to oppose the influence of the Reintegrationists, who are proposing a common writing system for both Galician and Portuguese. The Galician purists propose a purified Galician written language that emphasizes Galician’s differences with Portuguese. They have their work cut out for them. The video above is from Galician TV. On Galician TV a new form of Galician has emerged that is closer to Castillian than the form typically spoken on the Galician street. Many Castillian speakers say they can understand Galician TV pretty well, but even they have a hard time understanding street Galician. In the video, the female broadcaster in particular is speaking a heavily Castillianized form of Galician. The male broadcaster’s dialect is less so. They are interviewing a man who represents the Reintegrationist group in Galicia. He is speaking a much more “street” form of Galician and was harder for me to understand. I understood the woman best of all, then the male broadcaster and last the man being interviewed. I understand Spanish pretty well. If you understand Spanish, you should be able to understand some of the video above, but you probably won’t fully understand it.

Interesting Website

Note: Repost from the old blog. Delphi.lv. It looks like a big Latvian site. Took me a little while to figure this linguistic puzzle out. Click here and you get the Latvian version of the page, and click here and you get the Russian version of the same page. What I found very interesting was the very large number of commenters on the Russian version of the Latvian page. It’s well known that all of the Baltic states have been hostile to the Russian population (unfortunately seeded in the Baltics as settler-colonists in order to flood out the native Baltic peoples and water down Baltic nationalism) and the Russian language. I believe that upon independence, Latvia was as much as 4 Wikipedia to the rescue. Looks like Russophones and native Russians were 4 Wow. No wonder Latvian nationalists are pissed. Obviously this goes back to the USSR when Russian was the national language of Latvia and a lot of native-Latvian speakers also speak Russian too. With 8

“The Russian language is robust in Latvia, as Russian-speakers are a majority or plurality in many cities, almost all Latvians speak Russian as well as Latvian and culture and media from Russia have a strong presence in Latvia. Indeed, the legacy of Soviet Russification policy was still evident in the results of the 2000 census in Latvia, which showed that knowledge of Russian is still more widespread than knowledge of Latvian in Latvia: 8

Spot the Script 2

Repost from the old blog. Spot the language. Text of an unknown language, plus clues. Answer in the comments.

自らはブログサービス提供はおろかパーツひとつ貸し出しもせず、登録者がオール他社サービスで作成したブログ記事を送信させて広告掲載頁に表示し座したまま広告収入を得、 ひとたび広告に対する苦情がでるや広告元を悪者にしていい子になり、更にはうっとうしいスパムメールを送りつけるだけでは飽き足らず自らの管理義務の一部を登録者に押し付けた挙句、権限濫用で都合のいいように頁を改竄し外面をよくして新規登録者を誘い、 あまつさえ無料サービスだと大威張りで恩を着せる「にほんブログ村」ことムラウチドットコム。 奴等は最初ハーケンクロイツを弾圧してきたが、私はナチスではなかったので何もしなかった その次に奴等は卍を弾圧してきた。私は少し不安を覚えたが、少林寺拳法を習っていなかったので何もしなかった その次に奴等はクリスマスを弾圧してきたが、私はしっと団員だし「ハッピーホリデー」でも別にいいやと思い何もしなかった その次に奴等はメルギブソンを弾圧してきた。私の不安はさらに高まったが、マッドマックスの新作じゃないから何もしなかった。 なるほどぉ。上空から見るとナチってますね。 がまたしても、世界を変えつつあります。もうすこし具体的にいうと、彼らは海軍基地の 兵舎を改修工事させる力をももちはじめているのです! こちらのカギ十字型の建物、実はカリフォルニア州のコロナド海軍基地の兵舎なのです。 のような観測衛星プログラムで見ると、大きなカギ十字にみえる~! と で画像を発見した人の声をきっかけに話題が広まり、海軍は、万ドル以上をかけて歳の 兵舎を植木など兵舎をとりまく風景を変えたり、屋根にソーラーパネルを設置したりして、かぎ十字に 見えないように改修工事をすることになったそうです。 寝ずの番で世界をモニターするウォッチャー達が世界の建物ポリス役をしてくれてる っていうのは良いですね。万ドルを有益につかえますから。

Obviously, this is a Northeast Asian script, but which one? And for which language? I’m not going to give you any clues at all, since there are not that many choices here, and even one clue easily gives it away. There are a few large NE Asian languages that have scripts that look something like this, but in general, a practiced eye can tell them apart. Or at least I can. This is way too easy. Once again, from a link to a certain popular video on this site. This nation is extremely wired up and I have received vast numbers of hits from this land for this post. I also love their women, but that’s another matter altogether.

Spot the Script 1

Repost from the old blog. Spot the language. Text of an unknown language, plus clues. Answer in the comments.

Η Δημοκρατια , αυτη η Δημοκρατια που θελουν μερικοι να καταργησουν, ευτυχως για ολους μας δουλευει αρκετα καλα. Οταν λοιπον ενα βιβλιο προαγει τον μισος και τον ρατσισμο παραβαινει τους νομους του κρατους και πολυ καλα κανει και δικαζεται ο συγραφεας του. Οι φασιστες καινε τα βιβλια που δεν τους αρεσουν. Με συνοπτικες διαδικασιες .Την ειδαμε πολλες φορες την σκηνη. Συμετειχε και η νομαρχαρα μας. Σηκωσαν κεφαλι τα φασισταρια. Τα εκτρωματα της κοινωνιας. Οι ανθρωποι που δεν εχουν ιερο και οσιο. Αυτοι που ολη η Ευρωπη τους θεωρει καταπτυστους και επικινδυνους. Αυτοι που αιματοκυλισαν ολο σχεδον τον κοσμο. Τα χαμερπη ανθρωπαρια που μονο κατα αγελες και εν κρυπτω επιβαλουν με την βια τις αποψεις τους. Οι ρατσιστες που εχουν την εντυπωση οτι ειναι ανωτερη φυλη και αυτο τους δινει το δικαιωμα να εγκληματουν κατα της ανθροπωτητας. !!!!!!!! Μας συγχωρείς φίλε apd, φίλη σου είναι η ευαίσθητη καλλιτέχνις (sic); Τη θίξαμε; Κάποια εφημεριδα είχε γράψει οτι το ολο περιστατικό ήταν στημένο, οτι τηλεφώνησαν στους μπάτσους εκ των έσω και μετά καλέσαν τα ΜΜΕ για να γινει τζέρτζελο. ‘Αλλα αν μας το ζητας εσύ να το ερευνήσουμε το θέμα. ‘Οποια στοιχεία συλλέξουμε θα τα στείλουμε μετά πακέτο στον εισαγγελέα. Α, και που ‘σαι apd, το νόημα του μηνύματος πάλι δεν ήταν αυτό. Αλλά έχεις μια μοναδική ικανότητα εκεί που βυθίζεται το πλοίο να σε ενοχλεί η τσίμπλα που έχεις στο ματι. Εύγε. Φοβερά τα στοιχεία σου. Όσο και η κριτική σου… (Χώρια που δεν καταλαβαίνεις ότι το να έχουν τις σημαίες στη συγκέντρωση του Καραμανλή είναι ΑΚΡΙΒΩΣ η αποθέωση των “ηθικών” αξιών.) για να καταλάβουν οι διάφοροι υποστηρικτές και βλάκες που ψήφισαν ΛΑ.Ο.Σ, τις συνέπειες που ενδεχόμενα θα έχουν οι πράξεις τους, ας δούνε τα ανδραγαθήματα των νεοναζί στην Ρωσία. Πρόσφατα αποκαλύφθηκε βίντεο όπου ρώσος νεοναζί αποκεφαλίζει νεαρό σκουρόχρωμο μη ρώσο. Τέτοια εγκλήματα στην Ρωσία από νεοναζί είναι συχνά Το λινκ για το βίντεο είναι εδώ Προσοχή είναι αποκρουστικό θέαμα, μην το κλικάρετε αν δεν μπορείτε να το αντέξετε Το γεγονός της εισόδου της ελληνικής ακροδεξιάς στην ελληνική βουλή πιθανά θα μας επιφυλάσσει τέτοια δεινά και εδώ, μια και η προπαγάνδιση των εμετικών ιδεών τους, η κάλυψη και προπαγάνδιση βίαιων πράξεων από νεοναζί θα έχουν και επίσημους απολογητές, η ΝΔ θα πιέζεται να υιοθετεί ακροδεξιές θέσεις κοκ Το δικαστήριο θα κρίνει αν το συγκεκριμένο βιβλίο, προσβάλει μια συγκεκριμένη μερίδα ανθρώπων και προτρέπει προς τέλεση παράνομων πράξεων. Δε θα κρίνει το ιστορικό κομμάτι που έτσι και αλλιώς έχει κριθεί εδώ και δεκαετίες. Οι ρεβιζιονιστές τύπου Πλεύρη και Φορισόν απλά προσπαθούν να αναθεωρήσουν την ιστορία για να ξεχάσουμε το παρελθόν και να να μη μπορέσουμε να αντιμετωπίσουμε τα εγκλήματα που έρχονται, ίσως βέβαια και να το κάνουν για το ντορό και τα κέρδη (67€ έχει το Εβραίοι – Ολη η Αλήθεια), αν και αμφιβάλω γιατί συνήθως ο ρεβιζιονισμός πάει χέρι-χέρι με ακραίες πολιτικές θέσεις και προπαγάνδα. Οταν μια κοινωνια ειναι πολυφωνικη, μεσα απ’τα πολλα που μπορει να ακουσει καποιος, εχει 2 επιλογες. 1) Να αρχισει να κατακρινει οτι του φαινεται ηλιθιο, ανηθικο, φασιστικο, οπισθοδρομικο, αρνητικο κτλ. 2) Να αρχισει να ενσωματωνει οτι του φαινεται θετικο. Το δευτερο ειναι σαφως πιο εποικοδομητικο. Ακομα και οι Πλευρηδες, ακροαριστεροι, τρομοκρατες, εξωκοινοβουλευτικοι κτλ εχουν μια οπτικη που σε καποια σημεια οχι μονο ειναι σωστη αλλα δινουν τη σφαιρικοτητα αποψης που λειπει απο τη mainstream κοσμοθεαση. Αυτο δε σημαινει φυσικα οτι καποιος θα συμφωνησει με ολους – μονο οτι θα παρει επιλεκτικα τα στοιχεια που επωφελουν στον εμπλουτισμο της οπτικης του γωνιας. Σε επιπεδο κοινοβουλιου, δεν βλεπω γιατι η θεσμοθετημενη πολυφωνια ειναι κατι κακο. Αντιθετα, θα ηθελα να παψει το πλαφον του

This one is so easy. On top of that, like a moron, I will give you a ton of hints. Maybe the script is European or maybe it is non-European. Democrats, philosophers, professional warriors, physicians and playwrights, pederasty and intergender non-coital friendships, allegories and caves, colonels and coups, Camelot and shipping magnates, logic and dialogs, blood feuds and sodomy, November 17 and 1968. There, now you’ve got it for sure, assuming you did not spot the script right off. I was looking for a Romanization of this script, but I am not sure it even exists.

Spot the Language 19

Repost from the old blog. Spot the language. Text of an unknown language, plus clues. Answer in the comments.

Максим (Кроха) практически не скрывал своих противоестественных страстей. Никого не стесняясь, он заходил к очередному любовнику и принимался за черное дело. Свидетель такого цирка, оттого ушедший из МП, тогда неосторожно заглянул в помещение и, увидев, чем занимается правящий архиерей, сказал: – Паскуда, хотя бы панагию снял…В свое время еще существовавший Совет по делам религий был обезкуражен многочисленными неблаговидными выходками одного Члена Синода. Поводом послужило несколько письменных заявлений уборщицы. Суть заключалась в следующем. – У меня – строгий рабочий день,- сообщала глупая тетка.- В 19.00 я оканчиваю работу и ухожу домой. По трудовому договору я обязана до этого сделать мокрую уборку в помещении. А я захожу в митрополичий кабинет – а они там безобразят. – Как это? – испуганно интересовались чиновники. – А так,- не сдавалась представительница пролетариата.- Они друг дружку употребляют прямо на письменном столе и мешают уборке. Я им говорю: «Кончайте быстрее. Мне надо убираться и уходить». А они – ни в какую, только сопят. Ну, я их мокрой тряпкой попыталась разогнать. Так они мне стали угрожать увольнением. Я так это дело не оставлю!.. Но особенно хорошо: Вспомнилась мне, когда-то прочитанная стенограмма одного заседания в обкоме КПСС, кажется, Волынской области. Там что-то сильно требовались зоотехники, скотники, доярки и т.д. Речь шла, если помню правильно, о селе Торчине. Но каков официальный ответ местного партийного руководителя: – Зоотехникiв немаэ. Абу пип, абу милиционэр. Скотникiв тэж немаэ… И вот так везде – абу пип, абу милиционэр, а скотникiв немаэ.

To mother! Mother! Holy Mother! Glory to Mother! It was 1910-1914. It was before King-Crane already, yet the cruel imperialists were already carving up and feasting on Arab lands, and Mother sat down to eat. Dining on Ottoman’s choice cuts as she had always lustily dreamed. The hate, the hate for Ottoman, the burning hate. Well, no man will stand for being eaten alive, and in Ottoman’s mansion, a great mutiny arose with the finest of his sons, the Young Men. There was a rising on the Bosporus, and they had murder in their eyes. Little did history realize the significance of those days, the rise of the Young Men, that it would lead to a war that shattered all things, the Great Imperialist Slaughter as the Left snorted amid heaves, half a decade hence. Who today yet connects the two tremors? Ah, but it is true. The war, the war, the maddest of all the horrible wars, a war for no reason! It was 1914 and it was 1915 and it was war, the worst war the world pretended it had ever seen. Mother was beaten and nearly died at Tannenburg and Masurim Lakes as a Hun went mad. Mother crawled back scrambling to the Hinterland, where no man could ever beat her for good. With her, a 100,000 man Czech Legion, traitors to a one, rallying to the cry of their own flesh and blood. There was war in Galice, in the Pallid Lands. There, in a Sallow Land, the fight stalemated for years, and a million of Mother’s sons never did breathe again. Brusilov, in 1916, opened the door, and Mother grabbed the tallest Carpathian peaks. In reaching for the sky, a million more sons were trampled dead. At home there were riots and frustration with the dying, the long dying and the sadness of the dying. The monarch toppled, and the people dreamed that they ruled. It was March 1917, and the world was shaking. Mother was dragged to Brest-Livotsk, raging and snarling all the way and clawing with her nails. At gunpoint, she signed, and they cruelly hacked away her flesh. “Mother! Holy Mother!” the people cried, as they always did in this cruel enraptured land. “For land! For bread! for peace!” the wild peasant crowds longed and roared, and revolution shook the land. In Red and White, the blood ran across the wheezing land for years. Wrangel and Denikin grabbed the South, and Kolchak grabbed the East. 40,000 Czechs, turncoats in the Great War, changed colors again, and the rails were seized. It was 1921, we were at a seaport, just the two of us. We watched in terror, you and me, as the sailors raged and burned, and 400 brave ones fell. We ran from the flames and the soldiers’ bullets mowing down men. Agile and adaptive as a snake, from privation, the state went to NEP and won the bloody war. The people had no food, they shrunk, huddled and then died, and no one knew how many starved, but starving was a normal way here, like the endless forests and the mean frozen dirt. Everyone from other lands pitched in on the fight, everyone against Mother, as usual, but in the end the People prevailed as the peasants cheered. To this day, the Ruling Class of the World trembles with rage at this horrible blow. The saga of Mother, the strange, sad, terrible and beautiful saga of Mother, so proud but so backwards and full of rage, like a wild woman living in the woods with her head held high, does not end here, but here we shall end our tale. Even today, she rises again, and no one can figure her out. Those wily Eastern ways and the eternal resentment of the West. The icy wind blows, she throws back another hard drink and listens to her great composers. The bookshelves heave with her authors, the greatest lettermen that walked on soil. Her pride and her pain and her rage. She tosses back another drink as the wind howls. It is late, she is beautiful, blond and blue yet alone again, and she rages at the snowy drifts fighting her sills. Mother is horny and she wants sex again and again, wants the world, wants to do the world, and the men are all drinking again, drinking and singing, drinking and fighting, drinking and sleeping. There is death everywhere, but there always is and always was, as death is part of Mother as dear as her very heart. She will rise again. Like her or not, always respect Mother. The way you respect a Grizzly Bear. Imperious yet crippled, she demands you look her in the eye and give her her due.

Spot the Language 18

Repost from the old blog. Spot the language. Text of an unknown language, plus clues. Answer in the comments.

Etu istoriyu mne rasskazal drug, kotoryi rabotaet v predstavitel’stve sotovoi kompanii v nashem gorode. Prihoditsya emu po dolgu sluzhby obshat’sya s narodom iz chisla novyh i podobnye istorii u nego neredki. Prihodit kak-to k nim klientka – vsya na pontah (iz novyh), i prinosit svoi sotovyi v tresnutom korpuse. Prosit pochinit’. Stali uznavat’,kak mol poluchilos’, chto korpus tresnul. V otvet poluchayut ves’ma original’nyi otvet: v unitaz upal (eto che-zh ona s nim delala v tualete?!). Nu ladno, otdali na remont – tam ego zalatali, vodu vylili, v obshem remontnikam prishlos’ podolbat’sya. Prihodit ona zabirat’ otremontirovannyi sotovik, nu i dlya profilaktiki ei govoryat, chto ne stoit bol’she ronyat’ apparat v unitaz, chto tam aktivnaya sreda i vse takoe… I tut klientka vozmushenno proiznosit: – Eto u VAS TAM aktivnaya sreda! A u MENYa TAM vse normal’no! Posle etogo moemu drugu prishlos’ retirovat’sya v sosednyuyu komnatu, chtoby ne obidet’ svoim istericheskim smehom klientku. A kakovo prishlos’ tem, kto ostalsya?? Eta zabavnaya istoriya sluchilas’ so mnoi let vosem’ nazad. Togda ya byl molozhe, bezzabotnee, zhil odin, poetomu zhilploshad’yu ne ispytyval. Nu i ishodya iz vysheizlozhennogo prosto taki sleduet ,chto s baryshnyami ya obshalsya ochen’ mnogo i po-chestnomu skazat’ esli, to eto dlya menya byl takoi nu ochen’ ocharovatel’nyi sport, v kotorom nu esli ne masterom, to pervorazryadnikom ya byl. I vot togda zhe mne na den’ rozhden’ya podarili krutoi firmennyi remen’, i nado skazat’, chto zastezhka u etogo remnya byla ochen’ mudrenaya, osobenno dlya neopytnyh zhenskih ruk. Kazhdaya novaya baryshnya, kogda my v pylu strasti sryvali s drug druga odezhdy, kazhdyi raz putalas’ i rvala remen’ prosto vmeste s shtanami. I vot odnazhdy rvem my, znachit, odezhdy, dohodim do remnya, i tut ona azh materit’sya nachala, a ya, ves’ vozbuzhdennyi i tozhe uzhe zanervnichavshii, nekontroliruya sebya vypalil:”Da chto zhe vy vse ego otkryt’-to ne mozhete!” otvetnaya reakciya byla ochen’ dostoinoi!!!!!!!

Oh my, oh my, oh my. I did not even know that they wrote this language in Latin characters. I thought it was always written in another script. It is almost always written in another script, but a Romanization does exist, or several of them. A story. A story of Mother. For Ottoman, she had hoarded hate as long as she could recall. It had always been this way, neighbors at the throat. Alas, but it was always so. And now for Ottoman, a burning hate had raged in Mother’s animal eyes for a century or more, since she was just a lady moving into confident matronly middle age. In a hundred years, she had raged at Ottoman repeatedly and watered the soils with blood each time. The world was shaken and alarmed by her rage. At Paris in ’56, at Berlin in ’78, they cried to muzzle Mother’s fangs. In ’56, twas to be once and for evermore. In that year, Mother wanted Wallach, who she insisted was always hers, as she often did, her son, her wayward son, and this time she grabbed him only to have him snatched back. She would grab him again in the span of a lifetime. In the late ’90’s there were Tariff Wars with the great rival to the west, the cultured rival Mother had always resented, adored and mimicked; she felt so inferior to him and yet so proud. Bjorko Treaty signed, two great men on a yacht pressing flesh. But the alliances, the fateful alliances that would ruin it all in a waterfall of cascading death and madness in a mere decade hence, the alliances ruined it all. Ottoman was tumbling and crashing in his old age. His limbs were tired, he was forgetful, and he fell all the time. The children in his house began to rebel, each seizing their own rooms in the great tumbledown mansion and defying the decrepit patriarch to take them down. Mother was hungry and feeling greedy, and her hatred of Ottoman was as old as the icy North Wind. She reached in and grabbed. Monarch to monarch, each on borrowed time, two old men partying in the sun with assassins all around them, each knowing he would soon be killed. It was 1903, and at least Macedonia was saved and policed, while the Balkans burned mad. A year later, in ’04, the Yellow Men came from the East, but that was all the fault of Britain of course, as are so many of history’s tales. Contra the anti-Germans, who see German perfidy for all time, or at least 200 years, this was the time of a magnificent Germany. She laid rails to Baghdad and invited everyone to ride. And Mother saw that and raged. No Hun rails would run up anywhere near her stockings. The story does not end here. For the saga of Mother is as timeless as her snowdrifts, her candlelit nights and her endless evergreens.

Spot The Language 17

Repost from the old blog. Spot the language. Text of an unknown language, plus clues. Answer in the comments.

da še mal razclenim tisto o tehniki – tehnika je en redkih “objektivnih” kazateljev kdo je kašn kitarist – je neka kvantiteta… recimo pa da ni kvaliteta glasbenika – in ravno zato, ker tehnika in nadrkanost ne doloca o tem, kdo je boljši je še tolk bolj nesmislno govort, da je nekdo boljši?! kaj sploh pomeni boljši?! da se nas je globje dotaknu s svojo muzko – to je popolnoma subjektivna ocena… zato je za moje pojme ful brezveze o tem govort….. mene pac folk navduši in povem, al pa mi gre ob dolocenih wannabejih na bruhanje – tisto pa se trudim skrivat – ampak vcas vseeno udari na dan…. p.s. Malmsteen je meni en najvecjih kretenov med kitaristi (všec mi je ena plata + ene 3 komadi …poslušam ga 1x na 6 let – po obnašanju pa je totaln kmetavzar…) – zame je ideal kitarista nekje med Jason Backerjem, Marty Friedmanom in pa Dime-jem pa ok… recimo Zakk Wyldom – in tu mislim tudi attitude, ne samo igranje …po drugi strani pa me fascinirajo stili ala Tim Calvert & Jeff Loomis s svojim cist odpicenim stilom arabske melodije – arpediosi, k so cist narobe in cudni + slajdi – in pa vibe, ki ga oddajata je alienski Dejzi je moj najboljš prjatu… OK, šala (kot vedno)…Ampak tale pa ne vem ce lahk ti meni ocitaš s svojim bohotenjem po forumih…Ce ti je clovek na pogled antipaticen potem še nima zarad tega, al karkol si že s tem mislu…Za moje ucke je tut bolj prijeten pogled na kakšno fejst deklino ku pa na tebe (naprimer) pa ne bom zaradi tega ožigosal tvojega karakterja… Sej vem, da ne mislš nc slabga ne meni ne komu drugemu sam gobec pa moram mal stegnit (tko kot ga ti) Pa še to…Hvala za vse pohvale (kontra nazaj) ampak res mi take stvari zlo mal pomenijo kar se tice muske, ker pa mislm da sem cist zares in se zavedam stvari, ki jih pocnem…Casi, ko sem rabu sem in tja kakšno samopotrditev (s pomocjo drugih) so že zdavnaj minili, pa še takrat jih je bilo bolj malo… Z musko se ukvarjam izkljucno zato, ker mi to paše in to me vec kot zadovoljuje…pa rad se mal pozajebavam…pa rad mal pofilozofiram…pa prevec cajta imam na šihtu, da lahk vism na internetu in pricam gluposti…to je to…Klasicen

Here is a new language for you all! This is actually not the literary language, but is instead a slangy form of the language used mostly by young people on the Internet. The people who speak this language are worried that it is going to die out. The main reason they worry about this is due to a small number of speakers. But if you have at least a couple million speakers, and this one does, then you are pretty much doing all right in today’s world, especially if you are the language of a country, as this European one is. Most of the languages of this family are written with a non-Latin alphabet, but some of them use a modified Latin alphabet, as this one does. This is one of the few languages in Indo-European that has preserved the dual grammatical number. Rust Belt, Chicago and Cleveland. Some of the finest forests in Europe, half a nation, oak, beech, spruce, fir and pine. Teeming with species vanished from most of the continent: Edible doormouse, European wildcat, Eurasian lynx, red fox, Eurasian brown bear, Eurasian wolf, Beech marten, golden jackal, Chamois, Alpine ibex, Marble trout, Horned viper, grass snake, Tawny owl, Long-Eared owl, Eagle owl, Short-toed eagle, White stork. Bottlenose dolphins cavorting in the Gulf. Towering peaks, Julians, Karavankes, Kamniks, Dinarics range. A quarter of a nation in caves, Classical Karst. Melania Knauss, Peter Handke, George Voinovich, Amy Klobuchar, Tom Harkin, Charles Kuralt, Micky Dolenz, Slavoj Žižek. Donald Trump’s wife, fiction authors, politicians, TV journalists, Monkey drummers and Stalinist sociologist/philosopher/cultural critics. Prosciutto ham, Teran red wine, Carolinian sausage. World famous Lipizzan horses. First to Frankia, then, in Translatio imperii, East Francia ceded to Otto I, first of the emperors. Neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire, yet the Dynastic Ruler of the Romans, the Monarchy of the Habichtsburg House, ruled the land for nearly a millenia. Catholic to the core, Catholic counter-reformation reaction with Ferdinand leading the way, all of the Protestants expelled in a dim memory of 400 years, and the legacy of Papist reaction remains. Yet only 5 Revolutions of 1848 came, Spring of Nations, Year of Revolution, the Manifesto set to type, but it all came to naught, and reaction just hardened across the continent. In 1941, three aggressors each took a bite, and nothing was left, Ostmark took the biggest chomp of all. The partisans fought back with ferocity, the occupiers launched Plan Black and Operation White, night and day massacres. In a collaborationist camp next door, 400,000 were burned by the capital U as priests in Franciscan robes blessed the killers. At Bleiburg, after cessation, there was retribution, and 15,000 Pavelic gangsters ate dirt. By ’45, a nation bathed in blood, 1.7 million in the ground, and Josip at the helm. A per capita income of $28,000+/yr, but most of the economy is state-owned, enough to make a socialist smile. Northerners, hard working, industrious, punctual and dour, resent the slackers of the South in the tradition seen across the globe. The bill (pre-Euro) used to be the tolar – I bet you never heard of that one!

Spot the Language 16

Repost from the old blog. Spot the language. Text of an unknown language, plus clues. Answer in the comments.

Si kerese kistionai de sa terra tua, benni a intru. Est partzida in duas bariedades fundamentales. Po su tataresu (o turritanu) sa chistione est prus difitzile ca mancari siet de gramàtiga, tenet meda de su lessicu logudoresu (8 Finas a oe, mancari bi siant istados medas traballos e bideas, no s’agatat ancora unu istandard de iscritura de sa limba. S’ùnicu puntu chi acomunat sos istudiosos est sa modalidade de atzentadura: s’atzentu cheret postu in sa sìllaba de tres (partende dae sa fine de sa paràula) o in s’ùrtima. Lassende a parte sas grafias no issientìficas, sighidas dae sos iscritores e dae sos poetas in tantos sèculos, oe bi sunt bàtor propostas printzipales pro iscrìere su. La faeddant o la cumprendent, nessi pro carchi fràsia, unos 1.200.000 pessonas de prus sos disterrados chi no bi istant. Sos chi la cumprendent e impreant de mèngius manera sunt prus pagos, ma no b’at carchi cherta ispetzialìstiga chi nde tratet; paret peroe, comente pro totu sas limbas de minorìa, chi la faeddent mèngius sos betzos, mancari bi sient giòvanos chi l’istùdient e l’impreent meda e bene.

Well, well, well, what have we here? I can’t believe I actually found this language on the Internet! Amazing. Another European language, a very conservative one, resembling some widely-spoken tongues, yet not well known at all. To see it, who would recognize it? To tell the truth, this language is actually a collection of four different languages, but we will just call it one language for now. Yes, it has millions of speakers. Even in its homeland, the most widely spoken language is not the language of people themselves, but another one – to independentists, it is the language of the colonizer. It is little recognized, but these are some of the most ancient and obscure people in Europe. Racially, they cannot even be considered to be the same race as almost all other Europeans. This suggests that these people may be the last remnants of the most ancient Europeans. The language is also very ancient, and it is said to be the most conservative in its widely spoken family. It has retained other obscure influences, including from the non-European shores of the Mediterranean. It may even be related to Lydian, an ancient Hittite-like tongue from the earliest days of Indo-European, but this is not proven. Wickedly black humor and sardines. Casu Marzu, delicious rotten sheep’s milk cheese full of live white worms. Yum! Similar to Marcetto (caçe fraçeche), Salterello, Ribiòla cui bèg, Furmai nis, milbenkäse and mimolette. Eat it with pane carasau bread and Cannonau red wine. They do live a very, very long time, but one knows why. Is it that wormy cheese? For one thing, they walk a lot in the hills, even into very old age, and they have very close families. There have been famous ones: Italo Calvino scribbling his cryptic books. Pier Angeli in the movies, “There was only one love in my life, and that was Jimmy Dean,” she said, but he was long dead in a speeding crash. She was 39, nervous, lonely and broke, a tranquilizer and allergic shock, dead before Godfather. Jean-Paul Marat, one cruel hand on the guillotine’s lever and the other kind hand on the many patients under his care. The end. Corday, hero of the Second Empire, Plutarch under arm, stagecoach to Paris, deadly shopping at Palais Royal, enters. “They shall all be guillotined!” he cries, revolutionary to the end. The murderess’ knife plunges into the man in the bathtub. “À moi, ma chère amie!” the last words, and Jacques-Louis David put it on canvas, blood in the bath, for all time. A trial, “I killed one man to save 100,000!” and it was off with her head, then a slap to her severed face. In a ditch next to the unfortunate Louis 16, then heaped with dirt, buried in ignominy, but the Bonapartes keep her skull to this day. The Jacobins were not deterred by that singular plunging blade, and Marie herself was next in line. Of course, my favorite of all, Antonio Gramsci, festering in a barred cell, and dead soon after mercy release.

Spot the Language 15

Repost from the old blog. Spot the language. Text of an unknown language, plus clues. Answer in the comments.

Les contradiccions de l’autoanomenada – en un atac d’optimisme – Esquerra Independentista (EI) són tant bèsties que poden ser fins i tot apreciades per un nen de quatre anys amb problemes de miopia. Vegem-les: 1) El Capitalisme està interessat en què el jovent es drogui i d’aquesta manera no s’impliqui en qüestions socials i nacionals adoptant una postura “passota”: l’EI està a favor del consum i la legalització de les drogues i protesta quan hi ha ràzzies policials per acabar amb els “camells” i perseguir els consumidors. 2) L’EI diu voler construïr una Societat Socialista i un Home i una Dona nous (de fet també ho volia Pol Pot i Enver Hoxha) i en canvi aposta per fer costat a la degradació humana mitjançant el consum de drogues i el flirteig amb el món de la delinqüència que hi va associat. 3) Al Capitalisme li interessa que hi hagi molta immigració il.legal i descontrolada per poder explotar millor als treballadors i abaixar els sous. L’EI, a l’igual que fan els gestors de la Burgesia s’omple la boca de crides pels “papers per a tothom” i el multiculturalisme que no fa més que donar suport a la globalització del Capital que diu combatre. 4) Al Capitalisme li interessa que les agressions contra els drets socials i nacionals quedin sense resposta. L’EI s’omple la boca de declaracions ampuloses com “La lluita és l’únic camí” o “Cap agressió sense resposta” que no són més que manifestacions gestuals i buides i se li arruga la titola quan 4 killakos i 3 immigrants tercermundistes maten a un dels nostres a Berga o quan els germans Rochina de torn surten de caça.

I was actually amazed and pleased to see this language on the Internet! Well, this is a European language, and yes, it has millions of speakers, and yes, it’s even on the Internet! Amazing! If you have some knowledge of European languages, it should be clear to you that this language is a member of a large European sub-family. Considering the popularity of the languages it is related to, it’s a bit strange that this language is little studied. Indeed, it is only spoken daily by about 5 Art, Picasso, Miro and Dali. Music, Casals and Cugat. Gaudi’s structures, Father Serra the Indian killer, Nacho Vidal’s dirty flicks, Ferrer elected President three times. From anarchism to fascism to democracy, but the industry was always there. Tourists, skiing, cathedrals and white beaches. Dancing and a taste of burning rum. Which rum? Why, Bacardi, of course! What other? Human castles, of all things. The food, the food. Tomato, garlic, aubergine, red peppers, artichokes, bread, pasta, olive oil, cava wine, beans, chickpeas, mushrooms, pork, mato cheese, poultry, lamb, sardines, anchovies, tuna, and don’t forget the cod. Making wine forever, for 2000 years. Oh come now, you can get this one!

White Separatism, White Supremacism, Etc.

White Separatists are all White Supremacists because most all WN’s think that Whites are better than all the other races. That’s why they need to separate, discriminate, expel, on and on. This is also behind the whole fixation on “We are going extinct.” Fact is, ethnic groups and their genetic lines are going extinct all over the world as we speak. It’s always been going on, but the process is pretty accelerated now. Now one much cares. The only thing anyone cares about is preserving their culture and language, but that gets harder as the ethnic group intermarries so much. No one seems to give a damn about genetic extinction. Why don’t they care? Because none of these groups think their genes are better than everyone else’s genes. Only Whites do. Only WN’s think that their genes are better that the genes of all other humans. This is the impetus behind all WN, White Separatism, neo-Nazism and all that. White Separatists always like to conflate ethnic separatism with racial separatism. List of ethnic separatists here. Indeed, there have been many ethnic separatist movements all over the world, and some have been successful. But ethnic separatism or national liberation is completely different from racial separatism. For instance, most ethnic separatists contain a variety of ethnic groups, racial, religious and otherwise, within their separatist nation. There are various genetic lines going in Basques, Kurds and whatnot. If you want to move to the Basque Country or Kurdistan, learn Basque or Kurdish and take up Basque or Kurdish culture, no one is going to stop you. Ethnic separatists care nothing about racial lines or intermarriage as a general rule. Most are fairly mixed genetically anyway. For instance, the Palestinian nation, a nation seeking national liberation, is made up of all sorts of racial and ethnic stocks. They share a Palestinian culture and speak Palestinian Arabic. I’m not aware of any ethnic separatists anywhere who oppose marriage outside of the ethnic group other than the Jews. But the Jews have blurred the lines between racial and ethnic separatism in that sense. Racial separatists are listed here. As you can see, racial separatism and ethnic separatism are totally different. Note that the movements are not successful, and indeed, there has probably never been a successful racial separatist movement anywhere on Earth. It’s true that there have been some religious separatist groups, and some have been pretty successful. It’s easier to do this because Pakistan is 9 Gender Separatism is about as whack as racial separatism, if not more so. It’s never worked either, and it never will. There are different types such as Feminist Separatism and Lesbian Separatism. The difference is that there are some straight women in Feminist Separatism (I guess!) but since they hate men and chicks don’t turn them on, they don’t fuck anyone or anything except maybe themselves and inanimate objects. Similar to racial and sex orientation separatists, these bitches are serious haters. They have formed little separatist communities in the US called “womyn’s lands.” The reason these LC’s spell “woman” as “womyn” is because the way sane people spell it has that gross word “man” in there stinking up that pretty feminine word. What a bunch of dumb bitches! One of the leaders of this movement is some Jewish chick named Elena Dykewomon. I take it that wasn’t her given name! Notice how the former Elena Nachman spells her name. That icky “man” etymology problem again. I wonder where they stay when they travel? The YWCA? Similar, of course, is Queer Separatism. Actually a lot of straights would probably be pretty happy with that one! Queer Separatists are haters too, like all gender, race and sexual orientation separatists, and they get their ideology from the founder of Zionism, Theodor Herzl. One more reason Zionism sucks. It gave birth to a bunch of other hater movements. These dumbasses insist that gays are a nation in need of national liberation and a homeland. As you can see, all of the racial separatist movements are failing,  and it looks like they will always fail.

Spot The Language 14

Repost from the old blog. Spot the language. Text of an unknown language, plus clues. Answer in the comments. We normally like to use only Latin scripts, except when we play Spot the Script. But in this case, we will use a well-known script that is actually used by a 76 languages, mostly from a former large country. We will not play any tricks on you here – this language is one of the largest and most famous ones using the script, and it is fairly common on the Net. We are not playing Spot the Script here; it’s obvious to any intelligent person. You have to figure out the language using the script, but the clues are pretty easy.

З безди подземних, з огненной вихожду геєнни Ярополк, братним мечем, люті убієнний, Брат князя Владимира. Ні! Глагол сей ложний. Не Владимир мой брат єсть, но враг мой, безбожний Братоубійця. Кая лесть! Многажди красно ім’я будет, но своєй вещі несогласно. Владимир — владініє мира знаменуєт, а брат мой з родственною кровію воюєт. Брат мой, — о горе! — і сей глагол неістовий: враг мой, супостат лютий, жрець моєя крові. Доповідь, кацапе.[robertlindsay.blogspot.com] Так поводяться справжні патріоти Росії. І ви від них не кращий.

Pale borderlands, meltdowns and Holodomors in the endless waves of grain. It’s ’32 and I’m hungry. Candidates get dioxin for dinner. Holidays on rocky beaches on the shores of ebony seas. Is this the homeland of the Indo-Europeans? Nationalist – fascists – Judeophobes in Canada, descendants of the UIA. The golden homeland of the Slavs, devastated in 1240 by Genghis. Then to the Poles, to Lithuania, on and on, always ruled, never ruling, until a flutter in 1917. Bohdan Khmelnytsky rebelling, and 20,000 dead Jews. Makho’s nigrescent legions. Later, a raging Barbarossa storm from the West, 1

Spot The Language 13

Repost from the old blog. Spot the language. Text of an unknown language, plus clues. Answer in the comments.

Gasit initial pe L.e nu cred ca filmul este real dar totusi myke nu mai posta cacaturi de genul asta. Si eu postez multe cacaturi dar de obicei sunt text (vezi postul cu fetusi). Uneori imi doresc sa nu fi renuntat la drepturile de admin …link dar de ce cacat sa te uiti la snufuri trecand peste un mic documentar ATENTIE! FILM DE O CRUZIME INCREDIBILA Un filmulet facut de mine pentru un proiect pe care il coordonez la facultate: El se adreseaza copiilor cu varste cuprinse intre 2 si 6 ani si incercam sa le inlaturam teama de medic! NU recomand celor care au mancat sau celor sensibili. Film din categoria snufuri. Bob Geldolf (actorul principal din The Wall) are o melodie foarte interesanta. Clipul e dureros. Turnul ala se vede perfect de la mine din clasa/banca. A fost si la stiri faza asta. Orientarea oamenilor veniti la plimbare… Asta e chiar trist si oricat ai protesta, daca nu ai forta sa ajungi la baietii rai de la UE faci degeaba. Adica sa fim seriosi, in justitia din, poti sa aduci oricate argumente mereu scapa oamenii cu bani. Am mai pus cateva filmulete. Ala de la jeg e misto facut, restul sunt de caterinca

At first one thinks this is a certain very well-known language (at least I did) then it turns out to be another language on examination. It seems to have preserved quite a bit of structure from a very famous old language that all members of this subfamily derive from. This is probably the most divergent member of the branch with only about 2 Kings with girl’s names and Iron Crosses. Dacians and bomb-blasted oil fields in 1944. Heads on sticks and a lad named Vlad. Eccentric noblemen with a hematophagia kink. And that’s all the hints you get. European again. This is the first link coming in from this country. It’s nice to see they are getting on the Net and making some nice forums.

Spot the Language 12

Repost from the old blog. Spot the language. Text of an unknown language, plus clues. Answer in the comments.

Történelem, nyelv és múlt esetén nagyon sok cikk kifejezetten rágalmazó, hangnemet üt meg a szerkesztők és elsősorban a gyakran önkinevezett adminisztrátorok összetételéből logikusan következően. Nem is említve a hollókoszt mesén való hosszas rágódást, és az erőteljes történelemhamisításokat, pl. a II. világháború történetét illetően, az ávósízű adatgyűjtögetést az elnyomóknak nem tetsző szerkesztők írásaiból, az elnyomókra annyira jellemző tudatos hamisításokat, fasisztázást, az aljas cinizmusában utolérhetetlen “felszabadítás” szó gyakori használatát, a gyűlölködést minden nemzet ellen (egyet kivéve), a nemzetgyilkos liberalizmus elvtelen dicsőítését és “jó dolog”-ként való feltüntetését, stb…. A technikai színvonal nem különösen magas, pl. táblázatokat fáradságosan kézzel kell beadni, helyesírásellenőrzés nincs, a rendszer nagyon lassú, és folyamatosan penetráns pénzkunyerálással idegesíti a felhasználót, gyakori az időleges teljes kiesés (mondjuk fél vagy egy órára). Egyetlen valamennyire hasznos dolog az egyes nyelveken megszerkesztett cikkek és képek egy füst alatti lehozásának lehetősége, a cikklehozási oldalról és a képlehozási oldalról. Az innen lehozott történelmi, nyelvészeti vagy napi politikai tartalmú cikkek nagy százaléka azonban erőteljes tartalmi átdolgozás nélkül nem használható. A tudományos és műszaki cikkek pedig általában lényegesen sekélyesebbek, mint az adott témára specializálódott oldalak információi. A fentieket összefoglalva leszögezzük, hogy az állítólag mindenki által szerkeszthető, “szabad” vikipédiára sokkal találóbb lenne a judeopédia elnevezés, hasonlóképpen, ahogy a mai világban uralkodó, az állítólag a nép akaratát tükröző “demokráciára” sokkal jobban illik a judeokrácia elnevezés.

Mystery casseroles and pungent red powders. Battles in 1956 and tens of thousands dead. Whether under the Far Left or Far Right, from Kun to the Arrow Cross, they have always killed themselves with equal gusto. Must be something in the air; no one has ever explained it. Lots of smoking and a very fatty diet leads to tons of heart disease. Tycoons and billionaires, Congressmen and governors, physicists and computer scientists, directors and actresses, escape artists, composers and photographers, Zionists and professional Jews, authors and publishers, and finally kooky psychoanalysts. Andy Grove, George Soros, Estee Lauder, Tom Lantos, George Pataki, Edward Teller, John Von Neumann, George Cukor, Jamie Lee Curtis, Goldie Hawn, Harry Houdini, Bartok, Franz Liszt, Robert Capa, Theodore Herzl, Elie Wiesel, Arthur Koestler, Joseph Pulitzer and Thomas Szasz. And those are just the Jews. That’s not including the blood and soil Josikeans. That ought to be enough for now. European, once again.

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