agrostis

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by agrostis 11y ago
One curious thing about the alphabet is that it includes the letters І, Ѣ, Ѳ, Ѵ which had been phased out of the Russian alphabet following the orthography reform of 1918 and were afterwards regarded as a vestige of the “old regime”.
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by agrostis 12y ago
To tell the truth, I found much more interesting another article referenced from that, the one on craft vs. instinct in construction http://m.nautil.us/issue/8/home/the-termite-and-the-architec...
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by agrostis 12y ago
As if it helped Sun (in the long run, I mean).
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by agrostis 12y ago
If you were a native Russian, your would look out not for malice but rather for negligence and indifference on part of the authorities. Which is why I, for one, think the right question to ask is: how did it come that a person so evidently
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by agrostis 12y ago
Ah, Karinthy! I remember doing a production of his ´Refund´ [ http://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/170806254 ] in high school theatre many years ago; we had lots of fun.
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by agrostis 12y ago
Montaigne's Essays; and I'm reading (Bunin's Russian translation of) the Song of Hiawatha for my son at bedtime.
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by agrostis 12y ago
I fear so much. As if OED subscription at two hundred quid per annum wasn't bad enough.
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by agrostis 12y ago
That's a good question. Loeb's primary strength (apart from its exceptional typographics) is that it puts original texts side by side with translations, making it easier for a reader to make sense of the Greek or Latin source by
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Harvard's Loeb Classical Library Goes Digital(harvardmagazine.com)
23 points by agrostis 12y ago|5 comments
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by agrostis 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake
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by agrostis 12y ago
And Mari, and Mordvinic, and Komi, and Udmurt, and Karelian, and Veps, and Vodic (though the last two are, sadly, more or less moribund).
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by agrostis 12y ago
Bottom line: native speakers of English don't grok morphology. When exposed to it, the best among them get fascinated and keen, the worst are cast into despair and ennui. But hey, this way of dealing with words is quite common as lan
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RedHat requests Russian partners to suspend projects under U.S. sanctions(translate.google.com)
54 points by agrostis 12y ago|50 comments
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by agrostis 12y ago
What you're trying to do here is to subordinate god to laws of logic. But, from the theist point of view, everything is god's creation. The world, essentially, is a system of laws, and laws of logic are as much part of it as law
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by agrostis 13y ago
Further links in English: • http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/03/19/towr-m19.html • http://www.dezeen.com/2014/03/18/ando-koolhaas-kuma-moscow-s... • http:/&
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Moscow’s iconic Shukhov tower to be dismantled(calvertjournal.com)
1 points by agrostis 13y ago|1 comments
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by agrostis 13y ago
Oh, he seems to understand it well enough. Iraq '03 and Libya '11 have been excellent examples of 21st Century Power. (I'm omitting Serbia '99, as it was, formally speaking, 20th century, but that example was very spect
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by agrostis 13y ago
Won't it try to rotate about one's hand when one swipes up or down?
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by agrostis 13y ago
Re. Russian media: I wonder, why their view (extremely biased, no doubt) could be of any concern to HN readers who are predominantly English-speaking and get much of their information from Internet sources?
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Serious Science(serious-science.org)
79 points by agrostis 13y ago|26 comments
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by agrostis 13y ago
I have to confess that my knowledge of the history of weapons is rudimentary, so I gladly accede to your point; my previous remark only concerned Soviet geopolitics as it stood in 1947 vs. 1920.
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by agrostis 13y ago
Minor correction: in 1947, when the AK was developed, World Wide Socialist Revolution, as you put it, was not on the agenda for quite some time. The idea of Soviet autarky (“establishing socialism in one particular country”) has been adopte
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by agrostis 13y ago
Btw., am I the only one to think it rather knavish that the word “materialism” which originally signified a school of thought emphasizing the physicality of the world and all things in it (think Democritus, Indian Lokayatics, de la Mettrie,
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by agrostis 13y ago
Right, but it works the other way round, too: if your police thinks YOUR competitors (and this may mean, well, gangs) pay better, nothing would prevent it from turning over to protect their interests rather than yours.
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by agrostis 14y ago
You might find interesting Anna Wierzbicka's essay on her own experience of bilingualism ( http://www.une.edu.au/bcss/linguistics/nsm/pdfs/double-life.... ). Wierzbicka is a Polish-Australian linguist specializing in semantic universals an
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by agrostis 14y ago
I pretty much know the context — I'm from Moscow, we had it no less tough here than you Varsovians. Still, I stand to it that the degradation of architectural aesthetics in the second half of the 20th century was not limited to the Eastern
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by agrostis 14y ago
Hmm. One funny thing is that VVD, one of the parties in question, is generally labeled as “conservative-liberal”. Your average American con would probably suffer a mental breakdown when trying to sort it out. (I'm conservative myself, by
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by agrostis 14y ago
I share your opinion that post-WW2 architecture is nightmarish, but do you seriously think that it has to do with political pressure exerted on the architects and engineers by communist authorities? Compare Warsaw with, e. g., Rotterdam, a
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by agrostis 15y ago
You, Sir, are Surkovite propaganda.
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by agrostis 15y ago
Re. the crowd: it might be thin indeed—the most trustworthy estimates for the attendance were around 50k people—but for Moscow, this is extraordinary, as almost all protest demonstrations in the last fifteen years or so were of a narrowly p

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