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- Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 417
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Re: War in the Middle East, again
The fact that Jews were treated like utter crap throughout the Middle East after the 1947-1948 war despite most of them having no part in said war is a big reason why almost all of them moved to Israel (generally with what they could pack in a suitcase at most), and I have heard nothing that indica...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:08 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 417
- Views: 73921
Re: War in the Middle East, again
according to the wiki, there's fewer than 10k jews in Iran, from something like 50k back before the revolution. Is that indicative of how they are treated now? Jews left for Israel from all over the world, especially unstable places and Middle Eastern countries. The fact that Jews were treated like...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:04 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Challenge: American English as a separate language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 539
Re: Challenge: American English as a separate language
What historical circumstances could lead to American English developing towards a separate language, at least as different from British English as Afrikaans from Dutch? In our world the high literacy rate of the colonists (aided by the printing press) and constant contact with Britain meant that bo...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:58 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
- Replies: 969
- Views: 477493
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:28 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 417
- Views: 73921
Re: War in the Middle East, again
I hear all the neighboring states declared war when Israel was created. Was this because they saw Israel as a crusader state? Was their reaction worse than the opposition faced by, say, Rojava? The official narrative that Arabs/Muslims/poors are irredeemably antisemitic doesn't seem right to me. In...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:20 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Resources Thread
- Replies: 88
- Views: 69739
Re: Resources Thread
I was linked to this impressively accessible grammar of West Greenlandic: https://oqa.dk/assets/aitwg2ED.pdf . It’s a little eccentric in its presentation, but then again West Greenlandic is a little eccentric too, so it works well. From just reading the first few pages this seems much more "f...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: RPG thread
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2500
Re: RPG thread
On a completely different note, D&D did expand my vocabulary with interesting words like "phylactery" and "thaumaturgist". I just googled "dnd phylactery" and was amazed by how little D&D phylacteries had to do with RL phylacteries... Somehow I am not surprised...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 12:00 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
- Replies: 969
- Views: 477493
Re: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
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- Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:35 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 417
- Views: 73921
Re: War in the Middle East, again
The second is quite the opposite: I think we expect a lot better from Israel, because, among other things it's a democracy with strong cultural ties to us. I don't know how to compare indignation but I think people feel or felt the same about British and US war crimes. The Iraq War, or the Troubles...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:17 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 417
- Views: 73921
Re: War in the Middle East, again
I get the impression that people implicitly seem to expect (due to the frankly rather racist view, to be honest) that as a Western (with a big W) country Israel ought to be better than, say, any random less-developed African or Asian country, so when it is not they are apt to criticize it ─ or care ...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:10 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 417
- Views: 73921
Re: War in the Middle East, again
In this case, Palestine matters right now because the IDF is bombing Gaza to smithereens and starving those it hasn't bombed in a very disproportionate fashion at the very present. And Sudan matters right now , and Myanmar also matters right now , and… you get the point, I hope. Do you really ? Lik...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:54 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 417
- Views: 73921
Re: War in the Middle East, again
Everybody else gets to have an apartheid state that's actively committing genocide and lying about it, but suddenly people object when the Jews do it? Nobody makes a peep when there's ethnic cleansing in Sudan or Myanmar (don't google it), or when the AfD tries to do the fourth reich (don't google ...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:31 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 417
- Views: 73921
Re: War in the Middle East, again
Everybody else gets to have an apartheid state that's actively committing genocide and lying about it, but suddenly people object when the Jews do it? Nobody makes a peep when there's ethnic cleansing in Sudan or Myanmar (don't google it), or when the AfD tries to do the fourth reich (don't google ...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:30 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 417
- Views: 73921
Re: War in the Middle East, again
do we remember what a state is? it is generally understood to be the monopoly of violence over a territory: how about the other part? jewish here means an ethnicity [...] So, an ethnostate, a policy of the monopoly of violence being held by a certain ethnic group, presumably in its own interest, an...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:47 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 666
- Views: 753561
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
Okay, I have fixed my "type" classes functionality and it is now working well, such that I can compile src/common/special_oo.fs to flash so I do not need to reload it every time I reboot if I want to use show, hash, or equal?.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:43 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 666
- Views: 753561
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:40 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 417
- Views: 73921
Re: War in the Middle East, again
C'mon, we'r all linguists here, we all know it's never this simple. This is like saying "'capitalism is an economic system based on capital, nothing more, nothing less". Zionism is as Zionism does. You can say that support for settlements in the occupied territories isn't definitionally p...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 3:53 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 666
- Views: 753561
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
I have realized I put a stupid bug in zeptoscript with regard to "type" classes (not to be confused with Haskell's type classes). Specifically, the issue is that I made specifying them initialize them in RAM, but if you tried to initialize them in flash they would disappear after rebooting...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1210
- Views: 715995
Re: Happy things thread!
I have written a guide to zeptoscript over the last few days or so and also implemented classes for non-"object" types to enable the implementation of words such as show ( value -- string ), for converting any value into a human-readable string; hash ( value -- hash ), for turning any valu...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:33 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 417
- Views: 73921
Re: War in the Middle East, again
I think you don't get it because Zionism does not mean what you think it means. Zionism is the belief that there should be a Jewish homeland at about the current location of Israel, nothing more, nothing less. You will find pretty much any kind of opinion on Gaza, or the West Bank settlements among...