@andriy_ht Hoy, como siempre, hay que seguir apoyando a Ucrania para que recupere sus territorios (todos) de una agresión asesina e injustificable. Espero que a quienes hablan de "paz por territorios" o que la paz "se negocia" se les atraganten un día sus palabras. Ucrania vencerá.
@andriy_ht La Rusia de Putin va camino de que le pase lo que pasó a la Alemania nazi o, más recientemente, a la Siria de Asad: sus seguidores van perdiendo la fe, se van dando cuenta de que nada tiene sentido y la fantasía imperialista de Putin caerá, con estrépito, en cualquier instante.
Milton Friedman:
“Economists don’t know much, but there’s one thing we know very, very well—and that’s how to produce shortages.”
“You want a shortage of housing in New York City? Set a maximum price on rent, and you will have a shortage of housing.”
@_danitorres___ Yo lo hago cuando estoy solo o hay poca gente en la parada porque viví muchos años fuera. Pero es verdad que aquí no veo a nadie más hacerlo.
@Lo_Mauro En España en los años 90 (al menos en mi entorno) era habitual decir "estampar un CD". Lo de "quemar" siempre me sonó a calco del inglés en malas traducciones.
@NEWDAWNING2@NSTRIKE1231@LIGHTNING5T I don't know how reliable this information is but, anyway, they seem to be referring to a village Torets'ke further west, not Toretsk.
@thisroomoffools@jegaevi As an alternative to 周 and 星期, there is also the very colloquial word 礼拜 for week. which can only collocate with 天, giving 礼拜天 as the most informal spoken word for Sunday.
@thisroomoffools@jegaevi It's exactly the other way around. The forms with 周 are more formal than the forms with 星期 whereas 日 is formal as opposed to the colloquial 天. This gives you 周日, very formal, 星期日, formal, and 星期天, the most common and usual form in speech.
@laughatlilith@riskylew It is a remnant of the old Romanisation system Gwoyeu Romatzyh, which used vowel combinations like 'aa' and 'ii' to indicate the third tone. As Shānxī and Shǎnxī would be the same without the tone marks, someone decided to keep the GR vowel to distinguish the two names better.
@BrankoMilan This change has been noticeable in how people address their parents. My mum, born in 1936, would address her mum, born in 1900, as 'usted'. For me (1971) my mum was 'tú' but my grandma was 'usted, abuela'. With young people nowadays it's always 'tú' with parents and grandparents.
@RImperatrix Es por la política de los bancos respecto a sus cajeros automáticos. En España, apenas se ven billetes de 100€ porque los cajeros no los dan. En UK pasa lo mismo con los de £50: no se ven apenas porque los cajeros solo dan billetes de £20.
@SouthVarangian@Mikiashvili_M This hi/si merger that was accepted as part of the official standard pronunciation in the 20th century is the origin of the modern 'xi' syllable. But the old distinction is still noticeable in the choice of characters used for transcriptions (names with "hi-" often use 希).
@SouthVarangian@Mikiashvili_M It does when you consider two facts: 1. Chinese doesn't have a final 's', so Hellas is hard to say and becomes "Hella". 2. Mandarin used to have a syllable 'hi' (as in 希), but it ended up merged with 'si' (西) first in the Beijing dialect and, later, in the standard language.
@LindseyGrahamSC@POTUS So, in your view, the people of Greenland don't count, the current laws and constitution of Denmark don't matter. Only what the US wants counts. How is this different from Putin saying that Russia needs Crimea or Donbas and that the world should simply be happy about it?
@andriy_ht@IO_Leo_mmg Sin duda, Zelenskyy ha tenido un papel admirable desde que empezó la segunda invasión rusa. Reconforta ver que antepone la dignidad de su pueblo a ideas vacuas de "paz" o "diplomacia" basadas en la rendición al proyecto imperialista de Putin. Hoy más que nunca, ¡Slava Ukraini!
@GLandsbergis Well said. The question is: will buffoons like Mark Rutte or Keir Starmer finally say 'enough is enough'? Or will they continue grovelling and saying 'oh, this is a good plan, what a great leader you are, this is gonna work out'? It is time for Europe to fully stand with Ukraine.