Konstantin Velichkov

Christifidelis • Scholar • M.Litt. Int. Hist., Univ. of St Andrews • Nonnumquam Latine scribit, 時々日本語で.

[Konstantin Velichkov @Konstant_V]

@James_II_1688 The problem with Salic law is that sooner or later you will end up with a lone female heir, at which point you either disappear (Burgundy), have to do a ‘pragmatic sanction’ (Austria), or end up with a parallel claimant line with civil wars every generation (Spain).

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@RomanoSace57080 @litteraechristi Far be it from me to disparage an established usage tolerated by Authority, but for some reason unknown even to myself, I find the German realisation of the Latin soft C (‘patsem, tsēlum’) as quite unpleasantly grating on the ear.

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@edwardW2 @Robin_C_Douglas The part about the Tridentine Mass surviving in the underground Chinese church well into the 1990s is fascinating, and I’m surprised it seems to have been overlooked by Trad Catholics in all the liturgical polemics I’ve seen.

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@YabaiKeikai @CacheThatCheque If ALTs were working as intended, you'd see what you find across Europe: many mid-ability students who can hold a conversation in English, but maybe struggle with grammar and literature. I imagine the pattern is reversed in Japan, even among those who score high marks in English.

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@countmaculad The Chinese rites case (and its subsequent applications across East Asia) are the one, singular instance I’m 100% on the Jesuit side and think the Dominican order totally dropped the ball. On the other hand, they were right in De Auxiliis, sooo…

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@YabaiKeikai @CacheThatCheque Could they not just hire fewer but actually qualified foreign English teachers, and put them in more academically selective and intensive schools which aim to produce actual (semi-)fluency rather than the ungodly カタカナ語 most speak at the end of their educations?

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@JimmyThomist @AuronMacintyre I came across the remarkable case of the overnight collapse of Québécois Catholicism in my research a few years ago. The lack of historical data is baffling. I wonder if the virulent reaction of Canadian liberals to Diefenbaker (a sort of Trump ‘avant la lettre’) played a role…

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@GaiusLatine @CullumSmith @WesleyHoratio From many years of studying the matter I've come to the conclusion that the old stereotype of the laity ('pay, pray, and obey'), while exaggerated, seems to have been based on a certain real rigorism typical of the Irish who dominated the US hierarchy well into the mid 20th c.

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@thelb236 @pluant Instant communication (initially telegraphs) is why we have the practice of Rome positively confirming episcopal appointments at all. I am all for returning to the previous case of a Papal veto on unsuitable candidates and deference to the chapter’s choice 95% of the time…

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@oatney76 @pluant Precisely because the limits aren’t codified as in secular positive law, proposals such as the Pillar’s to essentially change the conditions of sacramental validity on a whim to ‘own the SSPX’ are at best reckless and at worst actively dangerous to the faith.

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@shinobu_books Counterpoint: at least it isn't used officially by organs of the state (e.g. a フリーター局 or the like).
The abomination known as マイナンバー, on the other hand...

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@taicosama Wouldn’t the ‘desinicised’ 日本 be ‘Hi-no-moto’? Whatever one takes as its underlying etymology, ‘Yamato’ is no less a gikun for 日本 than it is for 大和.

Also, good luck with making the Japanese version of Anglish lol

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@marcpuck @BCJCarter Leaving aside that it’s a disastrous idea, must all future ecumenical councils inevitably take place at the Vatican? If it is really necessary to have one, it would be better to convoke it elsewhere.

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One dimension of the AI-in-art-and-music debate that is overlooked, is its potential to circumvent censorship and cancellation. Case in point: none of the human-sung recordings of 'I Vow to Thee, My Country' include the second verse. Before AI, I had *never* heard it sung!

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@heisei_ramen @QuetzalPhoenix The one part of this chart that is completely wrong is コンセント being in any way semantically related to ‘consent’, it’s from ‘concentric socket’.

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@shinobu_books Draconian severity with weights and measures when it comes to staple foods for urban populations seems to be a pre-modern universal. Look at how strict regulations on bakers and brewers in medieval London were (though not, iirc, ever quite rising to capital offences).

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@EsquireCatholic Another point for my thesis, that most of these people, some ironically, others entirely unconsciously, end up embodying 19th century anti-Catholic caricatures.

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@heisei_ramen I wonder whether investingating and shaming the specific companies by name which seem to have such an insatiable appetite for foreign labour wouldn’t work better given Japan’s culture and social norms… Or maybe the investigator just gets slammed for ‘defamation’!

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@shinobu_books I will have to tone down my habitual complaints about excessive katakana and unnatural loanwords if the alternative is this cursed romaji-kanji 混ぜ書き...

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@MurrayRundus This entire discourse is full of a particular kind of Trad-popesplainer archetype, which seems to be some latter-day ironic imitation of a 19th century anti-Catholic caricature.