2011-05-14, 02:18 | Link #13681 |
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http://www.gmanews.tv/story/220554/n...uino-to-marcos
This is getting ridiculous with each passing day, which means that the Church here is showing just how backward they are, as both sides are fighting over the reproductive rights of women, even to the point of calling names: if the clergy call Aquino a "Marcos", is the Church the "Taliban" or the "Inquisition"?
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2011-05-14, 07:21 | Link #13683 |
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Omani forces arrest protesters after clashes
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...74D0IN20110514
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2011-05-14, 10:02 | Link #13684 | |
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You might want to retract that personal attack before you get the bahnhammer.
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2011-05-14, 11:10 | Link #13686 | |
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Of course, there are even worse German words I can think of, like Spoiler for NSFW:
Nonetheless, I find that the longer terms are, or more ambiguous the combination of words used, the more likely it is going to refer to something atrocious or incredibly silly. Like "political correctness" (which form of politics is correct anyway?), "quantitative easing" (it means printing money, but I used it to refer to flat-chested girls when I am with my friends), or sometimes in the form of acronyms like COICA (it seems to be pronounced like "cocker", and the rationale behind that IS certainly dangling nuts). What is wrong with keeping things simple (unless you are talking about it in the context of technical science and engineering, or simply want to annoy the heck for the sake of non-serious lulz)?
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2011-05-14, 21:30 | Link #13687 |
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NY police say Iinternational Money Found head Strauss-Kahn in custody.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...74D29F20110515
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2011-05-15, 05:29 | Link #13688 | |
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2011-05-15, 05:42 | Link #13689 |
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Being a womanizer is something that doesn't matter here, we don't select our president because of his private life.
But rape is something else, if it's true, he is dead in the political way. So far, it's his voice against the maid one, I believe the cops will do their job. Hmm, the only issue is that we all know a certain woman who will love to use that to increase in popularity. |
2011-05-15, 07:32 | Link #13692 |
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Ah I see. Staying $3000 hotel rooms doesn't really jive with the Socialist ethos does it?
The rape charge just adds insult to injury. And he's in in charge of the IMF, which is, almost the exact opposite of Socialist in terms of the policies it encourages in reciever states. How is this guy part of the Socialist party? |
2011-05-15, 07:45 | Link #13693 |
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Being socialist doesn't mean to redeem the liberalist way. It's just the "workers" have more right, not being used, limit in the time you can work, ackwowledge of some works being physically harder than other, university aren't private, our health system and a lot of others things, in a nutshell it would be "equal sharing of the money gained".
So you can indeed, belong to the IMF and be socialist. Same way for being "rich" and paying high class suite or riding a porsche ( though it's true it made some noise ) So far it hasn't be proved he is guilty yet. |
2011-05-15, 08:34 | Link #13694 | |
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IMF usually forces their receivers to cut public services like healthcare, which doesn't go down well with most of the socialists I know. My impression of French Socialists is that they're much the same, if not more leftist. |
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2011-05-15, 08:38 | Link #13695 |
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Israel-Palestinian violence erupts on three borders
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...74E1NT20110515
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2011-05-15, 08:52 | Link #13697 | |
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in one case, at the Syrian border, they actually managed to break into Israeli territory, and are now in the process of being rounded up and returned. sadly, several deaths are involved.
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2011-05-15, 09:44 | Link #13698 | |||
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By the way, the direct translation of flame war doesn't work (lets say I've never heard it yet). Dict.cc translates it into "unsachliche Auseinandersetzung mit persönlichen Beleidigungen" which basically describes whats happening. In fact there is a word in german that describes this sufficiently: Verbalattacke. Quote:
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Now I am not saying impossible to understand or very hard to understand (as single word)... but consider this: You are reading a law, and every 4th or 5th word is such a construction. When you start to decipher the last word of the sentence, you've basically already forgotten how it started. And the overall length of these sentences (1 paragraph) and the structuring doesn't help either. So, many people (that includes me) have to read these sentences 3 or more times to actually understand them in its entirety. Such constructs do not speak a language of understanding. Which is especially unnerving since they are used allover in laws and contracts. Something everyone should be able to understand. Now, most german lawyers will tell you that this is a necessity, because otherwise the correctness, completeness and precission of what is said cannot be guaranteed. I say, that is a bullshit excuse for elitism. I have yet to stumble over such a monstrosity that I cannot transform in a simpler, easier to understand form without loosing information of the original or adding information to it. It just takes a lot of my time to restructure it - probably the same time the author needed to encode that monster.
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2011-05-15, 09:57 | Link #13699 | |
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This is like 1.75X creepier/more intimidating than the original english version. All because it's in the German language. |
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2011-05-15, 10:23 | Link #13700 | |
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He wrote: "I think that a description of any loud, stirring, tumultuous episode must be tamer in German than in English. Our descriptive words of this character have such a deep, strong, resonant sound, while their German equivalents do seem so thin and mild and energyless. Boom, burst, crash, roar, storm, bellow, blow, thunder, explosion; howl, cry, shout, yell, groan; battle, hell. These are magnificent words; the have a force and magnitude of sound befitting the things which they describe. But their German equivalents would be ever so nice to sing the children to sleep with..." Which indicates, that he knows german in a written rather than spoken form.
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