English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Robusto

2:05 AM

tchrist

2:49 AM

I'm having a skunk invasion right this very now!

CowperKettle

4:24 AM

LOL. It was midnight, I was tired, and I typed underwhat instead of understand

SmokeDetector

4:47 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Repeating words in answer (86): Has "if I was" become grammatically correct in a southern US dialect? by Lawrence Kootnikoff on english.SE

Captain Bohemian

how nice if I can have food as soon as I get up every day.

CowperKettle

5:32 AM

@FaheemMitha There was no chance of it prevailing, because only the Bolsheviks have a strong militarized intra-party structure with strict subordination. The irony! The oppressive monarchic regime (up to 1917) nurtured the next oppressive regime (1917-1991)

The oppression did not allow other parties in Russia to grow strong enough, to gain enough well-organized supporters.

The Bolsheviks adopted a Taliban-like dictatorial structure of command, which allowed them to survive. They robbed banks to obtain funding. They dealt harshly with people refusing to toe the Party line.

In the several months from February to October 1917 that Russia was free, the democratically-minded parties grew, but not enough. While the Bolsheviks, fed by German money and having a highly efficient propaganda machine, really ballooned in strength in this short space of time.

Like a pathological organism that grows by leaps and bounds once you have killed off the good microorganisms in your body by antibiotics, but stopped taking the antibiotics.

znak.com/2020-09-28/…

The State Duma is preparing a law that may slow down the access to Facebook and Twitter in Russia, or halt it.

Several years back, they passed a law under which all personal data must be stored inside Russia, on servers to which Russian special services would have access.

And now Facebook and Twitter have been in violation of this law for many months, and resufing to pay fines, which keep getting bigger.

Faheem Mitha

6:45 AM

@Cerberus Yes. People have their agendas. The British certainly do, about the USSR.

@CowperKettle German money? Do tell.

@CowperKettle I just read an article which said Amnesty International India is shutting down its operations in India, because the Govt had targeted them and frozen its bank accounts. They remarked that this was fairly unusual, and in recent years had happened only in Russia, in 2016. I wonder what happened in 2016.

@CowperKettle I think I also read (probably Chomsky), that there was a multi-country invasion of Russia shortly after the revolution. Involving Germany and some other countries. But this particular historical factoid doesn't get much air time.

Apocalyptic posts like this make me wonder - how bad are things in the UK right now anyway?

theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/28/…

Anyone from the UK here?

I'm not very familiar with the UK, but I did live there briefly, once, many years ago.

CowperKettle

7:54 AM

Word of the day: perdurantism

> they believe that all persisting objects are four-dimensional "worms" that stretch across space-time, and that you are mistaken in believing that chairs, mountains, and people are simply three-dimensional

Færd

10:27 AM

@FaheemMitha Misleadingly, yes.

Faheem Mitha

12:49 PM

@Færd Well, they aren't.

M.A.R.

@CowperKettle yeah Mark works only with NSA

@tchrist oh crap

Literally maybe

@FaheemMitha yeah that's the point of the question

@CowperKettle OMG people other than me also make mistakes!

secretly satisfied

@CowperKettle sounds interesting, but what does it solve or explain that other philosophies fail to do so? If it doesn't add anything it would be just another perspective.

Hmm, maybe a lot of different philosophies are just that

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