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ThomasjServo
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[UoN]Sentinel
United States11320 Posts
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[UoN]Sentinel
United States11320 Posts
On August 07 2015 07:09 ThomasjServo wrote: I'm back in AP European history in this thread now. I don't know about you, but we started at the plague. This is the stuff they didn't teach us XD | ||
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ThomasjServo
15244 Posts
On August 07 2015 07:10 [UoN]Sentinel wrote: I don't know about you, but we started at the plague. This is the stuff they didn't teach us XD We dabbled before the plague, dark ages weren't terribly a big part, the HRE though was a pretty big slice of things. | ||
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Yoav
United States1874 Posts
On August 07 2015 05:00 [UoN]Sentinel wrote: Agreed. Like I remember the way we learned it in school is you've got the Roman Empire, it splits, west falls, east does its thing for a thousand years before it falls, but we don't cover the thousand years after Justinian or even mention their existence. I think we went from there straight to the rise of Islam but they never really explained where all the reconquered territories went when they started talking about the caliphate. Talked about the Holy Roman Empire a lot, but that's about it. And then in AP European history we start going in-depth after it's already done falling and the Ottomans move in. The 12 Byzantine Rulers podcast by Lars Brownworth is amazing though. It's a great overview of the highs and lows of Byzantine history, and really gets into the empire, what changed from classical Rome, its interactions with the other European and Asian states around it, etc. Also, didn't the Muslims, specifically the Turks, start calling themselves "Rum" in the end too? There was the Sultanate of Rum, and then Mehmet II crowning himself caesar once he took Constantinople. Yup. It's kinda fascinating that the Turks did end up appropriating that title and (to an extent) kingdom. But it only makes sense; to them, that's what that land was called. Incidentally, that podcast looks fascinating. Definitely gonna check it out. | ||
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[UoN]Sentinel
United States11320 Posts
On August 07 2015 07:42 Yoav wrote: Yup. It's kinda fascinating that the Turks did end up appropriating that title and (to an extent) kingdom. But it only makes sense; to them, that's what that land was called. Incidentally, that podcast looks fascinating. Definitely gonna check it out. It's really great. Especially with some of the emperors (I believe Zeno, Irene and Basil II and possible 1-2 others) you feel like you're listening to some cross between Game of Thrones and a spy novel. On August 07 2015 07:35 ThomasjServo wrote: We dabbled before the plague, dark ages weren't terribly a big part, the HRE though was a pretty big slice of things. Yeah but that was mostly the later HRE. Charles V, the Thirty Years' War, that stuff. | ||
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mecrotq
Canada121 Posts
If someone block you on Facebook, but you still able to see the past conversation with this person. Is it normal that sometime i see the cellphone logo next to her name even if she blocked me? Or is it because she is looking at our chat? p.s. I cannot see her profil anymore just the past conversations i had with her and i also cannot reply to it. Thanks for your answers. | ||
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[UoN]Sentinel
United States11320 Posts
On August 07 2015 08:18 mecrotq wrote: Facebook Question: If someone block you on Facebook, but you still able to see the past conversation with this person. Is it normal that sometime i see the cellphone logo next to her name even if she blocked me? Or is it because she is looking at our chat? p.s. I cannot see her profil anymore just the past conversations i had with her and i also cannot reply to it. Thanks for your answers. Might just mean she's online, I've gotten this a few times. | ||
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fluidrone
France1478 Posts
On August 07 2015 08:21 [UoN]Sentinel wrote: Might just mean she's online, I've gotten this a few times. Their system makes it so this conversation (although it should now be called a "defunct conversation") serves as a bridge and that bridge will remain until you "close it / delete it / whatever etc. While these are not admissible in court yet in most manners/countries, it is a clear violation of her rights, while you are perfectly innocent (in so far as using fache book can be regarded as "innoncent"). You clearly are suspect for asking. Yes you should close that connection to her, and not stalk her via fb software (fb maleware more like). You loved and lost, better go find someone else, no? These cyber leeks... These new bridges and missiles that can hurt .. ("Like ripping your own heart with a spoon" quote from rh prince of thieves) are indeed weird stuff to deal with, to say the least ; like letters you get in the mail (notices/tabs/invoices/summons) and you never open them, because (for you or for a court) unveiling their content would prove something or other, and so you don't. Here it is the "opposite", a conversation (whatever its origin) that you don't want to close. Well you might even want to close that chapter in your life (read "bring closure to"), but something inside you says "keep it open" (it might be of use someday, it should be used one day (self preservation/righteousness talking ; "I can prove it happened" "I must save others" from this etc)... Uninteresting I, for instance, have had such a conversation with hundreds of people added to it, on another platform (needless to say no one's adress is safe, no one's feelings are safe in the cyber age). I responded to a "formal" invitation and it turned out arguably to be a "trap". The result of the axioms of the invitation made my conversation sad, and I blame myself (while I also blame others that doesn't seem very useful).. but that is rather passive agressive useless of me and so maybe I try to add more to it than what it is/was.. the sickest part of it, I admit is that it feels weird to somehow feel "alive/important to others, even if it is by being invited to a cyber "dinner de con" (while being said "con"). ps: "un dinner de con" is a dinner party where you come to have fun at one of the invited guest's expense, unbeknowns to you if you are the "con" (read/translate to "fool" in this case). tldr: a cave is a cave | ||
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fluidrone
France1478 Posts
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IgnE
United States7684 Posts
On August 07 2015 07:04 Acrofales wrote: Err, it was a German king who rode down into Italy to marry some Italian nobility, conquered most of Italy on his way, and kinda forced the pope to crown him emperor. He then deposed the pope (how awesome is that) and installed his buddy in that spot, rode back up to Germany and then the Holy Roman Empire forgot about Rome for the rest of its 700 year (or so) existence. Are you forgetting Charlemagne? | ||
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Acrofales
Spain18475 Posts
Sure, fine. It was a Frankish king who died, split his empire between his sons. Their subsequent heirs squabbled quite a bit until eventually, two centuries later, a German king rode down into Italy to marry some Italian nobility, conquered most of Italy, etc. etc. etc. Why exactly is Charlemagne relevant except for the fact that he was the one to restore "Holy Roman Emperor" as a title since the fall of Rome? | ||
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[UoN]Sentinel
United States11320 Posts
Like I'm pretty sure "hamburger" is derived from Hamburg (like frankfurter and wiener), but now we have ham + burger as the root word for things like cheeseburger or Burger King. | ||
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ThomasjServo
15244 Posts
On August 11 2015 02:44 [UoN]Sentinel wrote: What is it called when an existing word is broken at the wrong place to make suffixes? Like I'm pretty sure "hamburger" is derived from Hamburg (like frankfurter and wiener), but now we have ham + burger as the root word for things like cheeseburger or Burger King. In the case of Hamburger at least it would seem that it just naturally came from the use of the I think these are the wikis you are after, all from the Hamburger wikipedia funnily enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipping_(morphology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-formation The term "burger", a back-formation, is associated with many different types of sandwiches, similar to a (ground meat) hamburger, but made of different meats such as buffalo in the buffalo burger, venison, kangaroo, turkey, elk, lamb or fish like salmon in the salmon burger, but even with meatless sandwiches as is the case of the veggie burger.[3] | ||
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[UoN]Sentinel
United States11320 Posts
On August 11 2015 03:35 ThomasjServo wrote: In the case of Hamburger at least it would seem that it just naturally came from the use of the I think these are the wikis you are after, all from the Hamburger wikipedia funnily enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipping_(morphology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-formation Almost, although I learned a lot about words from those two. They seem interchangeable to some extent. I found it in the back-formation article; it was rebracketing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebracketing Same way we got hydralisk, ultralisk and mutalisk in SC I believe. Basilisk = basil + iskos ("little king"), and either hydraisk or some other name sounded too awkward, or whoever named them split the word at the wrong letter, and now we have the "lisk" suffix for our Zerg units. Zergling/Baneling/Broodling seem to be correct though. | ||
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IgnE
United States7684 Posts
On August 10 2015 22:33 Acrofales wrote: Sure, fine. It was a Frankish king who died, split his empire between his sons. Their subsequent heirs squabbled quite a bit until eventually, two centuries later, a German king rode down into Italy to marry some Italian nobility, conquered most of Italy, etc. etc. etc. Why exactly is Charlemagne relevant except for the fact that he was the one to restore "Holy Roman Emperor" as a title since the fall of Rome? I don't know. That seemed pretty relevant. | ||
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Epishade
United States2267 Posts
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The_Templar
your Country52798 Posts
Lol, is this real? | ||
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ravenox
United States4 Posts
So what are French girls into? As in what is the French idea of romance, first dates and what not. | ||
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oGoZenob
France1503 Posts
On August 11 2015 17:48 ravenox wrote: While visiting home I discovered that an old friend's wife is hosting a couple of gorgeous French exchange students that are going to be attending the university in town. I have traveled a bit in the old US of A and discovered that in different regions girls tend to enjoy different things and have markedly different expectations. So what are French girls into? As in what is the French idea of romance, first dates and what not. You're not into something just because you were born in a certain place. Just talk to them | ||
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