Blackwater
8/12/2010 2:10:00 PM
Mike Jones <luck@dasteem.invalid> wrote:
>Responding to Mr.B1ack:
>
>> Mike Jones <luck@dasteem.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>Responding to Mr.B1ack:
>>>
>>>[...]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Funny thing (slighty related)...
>>>>>
>>>>>I've been making progress with my "learn to read mirror" project, and
>>>>>I happened to find an old Russian movie I'd downloaded from
>>>>>archive.org a while back. As soon as the pages of Russian text
>>>>>appeared, my brain started trying to mirror-read them.
>>>>>
>>>>>I can't look at anything with Russian writing on it now, just in case
>>>>>it messes up my "training". ;)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ha Ha ! I can see how that could be a problem :-)
>>>>
>>>> Dunno where the Cyrillic character set came from ... obviously
>>>> based on west-euro characters ... but you'd swear some early tsar
>>>> ordered his scribes to "make it different" just because, well "just
>>>> because".
>>>>
>>>> Even worse, the phonetics aren't even close to what you'd get from
>>>> German/English/whatever ... "Y" is pronounced like "U", backwards
>>>> 'R' like 'L' and such .... just to torture the west-euro brain I
>>>> think :-)
>>
>>
>>>I blame the French.
>>
>>
>> Agreed. The source of all evil. :-)
>
>
>Y'mean "l'evil"?
>
>Its hardly surprising they lose so many wars. While the Germans were
>shouting nice gutteral orders you could understand underwater, and the
>British were shouting nice strongly consonanted instructions that could
>even be heard over a supermarket walkie-talkie, the French still insist
>on that blurred curious noise that is not only unintelligible to almost
>any (non-French) life form on this planet, but seems to be designed for
>each word to make exactly the same sound over any kind of radio system.
>
>While the enemy is getting their act together, millions of French troops
>are tapping their helmets, saying "Quel ?tait celui?", (which sounds like
>"Gleur Gleur Gleur?").
>
>Not that I have an opinion either way, you understand? ;)
While it seems impossible for any nation to be more
self-righteous, ethnocentric and arrogant than the
Americans or British - the French manage to do it
with margin to spare :-)