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RE: Battle of Vukovar
July 24, 2022 at 11:58 am
(July 24, 2022 at 2:34 am)Deesse23 Wrote: (July 23, 2022 at 2:28 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Maybe you were not taught Latin the right way. How exactly did you study it? At school, major classes, by very, very good teachers, and i was pretty darn good at it.
You seem to think a language is hard just because you suck at it. Have you considered that sometimes people just suck at something?
You are a programmer afaik. To do programming, you need structured thinking. Latin is a very structured language. I always liked to compare Latin to math. Its (at least to me and the people i studied with) not like other languages (also maybe because its a *dead* language and can only be trained in class, not in life).
You also mentioned that you were writing in Latin or making videos. Have you ever read and translated original documents? I did Cicero, Sallust, Caesar and Catull.
Caesar was straight forward. Cicero, wooo hooo, philosophy and rhetoric combined, in a foreign language. A whole difference to Caesar. Then there was (crazy) Catullus. F.ing weirdo latin poet. A wholly different ballpark to anything else.
Its like comparing reading the news in the times, then Shakespeare and then ..... idontknow some fucking crazy poet on dope.
If you say Latin is a very structured language, perhaps you mean that you were taught it using the grammar-translation (transverbalisation) method. That is a very bad method to learn a language. English is just as structured, but it is usually not taught using the transverbalisation method.
I am not able to understand Cicero without help, for about the same reason I am not able to understand Shakespeare without help.
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RE: Battle of Vukovar
July 24, 2022 at 12:04 pm
(July 24, 2022 at 11:58 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: I am not able to understand Cicero without help, for about the same reason I am not able to understand Shakespeare without help.
Now the only mystery is what specifically that reason is. Curses!
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RE: Battle of Vukovar
July 24, 2022 at 2:03 pm
So…moths?
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RE: Battle of Vukovar
July 24, 2022 at 2:05 pm
Is this battle still being fought?
It started four years ago!
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RE: Battle of Vukovar
July 24, 2022 at 2:18 pm
(July 24, 2022 at 2:05 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Is this battle still being fought?
It started four years ago!
There's a battle going on, but what it's inside isn't Vukovar.
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RE: Battle of Vukovar
November 14, 2022 at 5:23 am
(July 3, 2018 at 11:58 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: Damn, did a little research and this is one stupid conspiracy theory. This is a battle that involved thousands of people and destroyed a whole city, all less than 30 years ago.
What evidence are you looking for exactly? Like, what do you need to be shown to prove it's real?
And what has convinced you that it's real?
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RE: Battle of Vukovar
November 14, 2022 at 5:41 am
(This post was last modified: November 14, 2022 at 5:42 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(November 14, 2022 at 5:23 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: (July 3, 2018 at 11:58 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: Damn, did a little research and this is one stupid conspiracy theory. This is a battle that involved thousands of people and destroyed a whole city, all less than 30 years ago.
What evidence are you looking for exactly? Like, what do you need to be shown to prove it's real?
And what has convinced you that it's real?
Let’s see - massive damage to buildings caused by artillery, 7000+ casualties, 100+ armoured vehicles destroyed, 2.5 billion is restoration costs, war crimes trials and convictions, a cease fire, and a peace treaty.
Apart from a two-months long military engagement, what do you imagine would account for all of this?
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RE: Battle of Vukovar
November 14, 2022 at 12:30 pm
(November 14, 2022 at 5:41 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (November 14, 2022 at 5:23 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: And what has convinced you that it's real?
Let’s see - massive damage to buildings caused by artillery, 7000+ casualties, 100+ armoured vehicles destroyed, 2.5 billion is restoration costs, war crimes trials and convictions, a cease fire, and a peace treaty.
Apart from a two-months long military engagement, what do you imagine would account for all of this?
Boru
What is "artillery"? What has made you think it is real?
Where did you get that estimate of more than 7'000 casualties in the Battle of Vukovar? I thought the high estimates are around 3'000 casualties.
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RE: Battle of Vukovar
November 14, 2022 at 12:32 pm
What is artillery? Are you completely clueless and unable to use the Internet to look things up?
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RE: Battle of Vukovar
November 14, 2022 at 2:48 pm
(November 14, 2022 at 12:30 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: (November 14, 2022 at 5:41 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Let’s see - massive damage to buildings caused by artillery, 7000+ casualties, 100+ armoured vehicles destroyed, 2.5 billion is restoration costs, war crimes trials and convictions, a cease fire, and a peace treaty.
Apart from a two-months long military engagement, what do you imagine would account for all of this?
Boru
What is "artillery"? What has made you think it is real?
Where did you get that estimate of more than 7'000 casualties in the Battle of Vukovar? I thought the high estimates are around 3'000 casualties.
Artillery includes, but is not limited to, rockets, mortars, and howitzers. I think it is real because of the damage done to buildings.
Casualties: Military - Yugoslav: 1279 killed, 2500 wounded. Croatian: 1100 killed, 770 wounded. Total: 5649. Civilian: 1131 killed, 550 missing. Total: 1681. Grand total casualties, 7330. Source: Kardov, Kruno (2007). "Remember Vukovar". In Ramet, Sabrina P.; Matić, Davorka (eds.). Democratic Transition in Croatia: Value Transformation, Education, and Media. College Station: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-58544-587-5
I answered your questions, now please answer mine: what, apart from a military conflict, could have done the things listed in my previous post?
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