ricudis

8 ms·

61.
by ricudis 4y ago
Long gone are the good old times where you just had to place some local policemen/military in every voting center "friendly advising" people who should they vote for. "For their own security", of course (reference:
62.
by ricudis 6y ago
There's also some mismatching caused by the way the modern Greek alphabet and phonetics are mapped into Latin - take for example the second letter of the alphabet, "Beta". In Modern Greek it sounds like the latin V (and the l
63.
by ricudis 6y ago
Not really. Although Greek has several local dialects, the pronunciation variations across the Greek population are relatively small (no matter that we always exaggerate them for effect). Plus, no one really knows what the "classical&q
64.
by ricudis 6y ago
The clip in [0] is standard Modern Greek with a cavaet - the pronounciation of TV anchormans tend to be quite distinctive, as they usually over-stress their tonality for comprehensibility. If you hear Greeks in a casual conversation it&#x27
65.
by ricudis 6y ago
That's not so uncommon in Singapore (even today that there is definitely less jungle than what I wish there was). Everybody speaks English, but they all carry over their native language phonetics, which is wonderful, especially for the
66.
by ricudis 7y ago
Anybody noticed that they failed to redact some of the names on the chat transcript?
67.
by ricudis 7y ago
Όλο το Ελληναριό του HN εδώ μαζεύτηκε :P Greeks use Chinese as the canonical example of an incomprehensible language. What's interesting is that although the "It's Greek to me" colloquialism mostly refers to the fact tha
68.
by ricudis 7y ago
The confusion stems from the fact that most people perceive it as a "measure of economic development", while in fact it's political cold war terminology: First world = US + close allies Second world = USSR + close allies Thir
69.
by ricudis 8y ago
The name Bak Kut Teh is Hokkien Chinese. Of course the same dish appears in Malaysia too. Culinary history of Singapore and Malaysia is shared and intertwined, nevermind that the perennial favourite flamewar between Malaysians and Singapore