[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts

[Domen]

I remember we had a similar graph on lexical similarity of languages some time ago.

And in lexical terms Ukrainian and Belarusian are more similar to Polish than to Russian.

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Here it is:

http://elms.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/lexical-distance-among-languages-of-europe/

http://filocultglottologokaarlomari...uages-by-kostiantyn-tyshchenko/?doing_wp_cron

http://photo.i.ua/user/11131/134309/9436820/

Spoiler :

But other things in Ukrainian and Belarusian - syntax, for example - are more similar to Russian.

Hence they are all classified as East Slavic languages.

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Cybrxkhan - as many as 10 killed in battle / enemy captivity ???

It would be fun to make a list of all Emperors (of anything - but only emperors, no kings etc.) killed in battle / captivity.

Who is the "unknown" one ??? I wonder if "executed" includes executed in enemy captivity.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Didn't think it was possible, but yep, there is a lexical graph even crappier than the last slavic one.

 

[Domen]

What's so crappy in it?

 

[Takhisis]

We who can read Cyrillic are in the minority, Mr. Domen.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

What's so crappy in it?

The first graph was crap because a difference of 5% is irrelevant in such statistics. So the only things it showed (incorrectly) is that all those languages are sorta the same but not quite.

As for the second graph, well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_language#Lexis
And the turkish, slavic and hungarian percentages are much higher if you only count regular vocabulary. I can only imagine how correct the information is about other vocabularies.

 

[Domen]

Citizens of Poland with roots from former Polish areas located east of the Curzon Line (Kresy Wschodnie):

http://dzieje.pl/aktualnosci/cbos-co-siodmy-polak-pochodzi-z-kresow

http://kresowiacy.com/2014/01/co-si...lub-pradziadka-urodzonego-na-dawnych-kresach/

According to a recent study, 15% of people in Poland today (ca. 5,800,000) have ancestry from those regions. Among these 5,800,000 - 13% are people who were born there personally (mostly old people of course), 43% have at least one parent born there, 38% have at least one grandparent and 6% at least one great-grandparent born there. Percent of people with eastern ancestry by region (national score is 15% but in some regions as high as 1/2 of inhabitants):

I think parent(s) of Warpus are among these 5,800,000 - because he mentioned that his father has some family relatives who still live in Belarus.

And I guess that his parents live in lubuskie?

In 3 western regions those from Ukraine came mostly to dolnośląskie, those from Belarus to lubuskie, those from Lithuania to zachodniopomorskie.

 

[LamaGT]

When comparing languages it isn't just the vocabulary you're looking at, but also the syntax and grammar and other subtler things most laymen wouldn't pick up on (so that's why English, despite having overwhelming Romance influence, is still Germanic at heart). Ukrainian is still an East Slavic language regardless of Polish influence, so I'm assuming that's where the similarities come in.

Yes that's probably it. Though what's weird is that somehow Russian is closer to Polish than Ukrainian.

According to my parents, who speak both Polish and Russian (at one point fluently), Ukrainian is a lot closer to Russian than it is to Polish. They say things like: "Yeah, I can understand that Ukrainian guy on TV, because I know Russian." Meanwhile, I can understand like 5% of what the guy is saying.

Well I personally can't understand jack when people speak in Polish. Written language is much easier (too many Zs though) and I'd mostly attribute it to my comprehension of Ukrainian (can't actually speak it BTW, never had to).

 

[Takhisis]

Uſefulle Graphick Device for quicke reference regarding other Poſters' political, religious, ſocial and œconomick Viewes in On-line Diſcuſsion:

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[cybrxkhan]

Uſefulle Graphick Device for quicke reference regarding other Poſters' political, religious, ſocial and œconomick Viewes in On-line Diſcuſsion:

(Do Replace Уe Image of yonder Poſter withe Уe Appropriate one of Yrſelf)

So... I'm a whacko, I guess. You should post this in the "lol wots my political alignment, u think?" thread too for reference.

 

[luiz]

"Even after adjusting for differences of income, liberal markets tend to have higher income inequality and worse affordability,” Kolko said.

Kolko's theory isn't an outlier. There is a deep literature tying liberal residents to illiberal housing policies that create affordability crunches for the middle class. In 2010, UCLA economist Matthew Kahn published a study of California cities, which found that liberal metros issued fewer new housing permits. The correlation held over time: As California cities became more liberal, he said, they built fewer homes.

http://www.citylab.com/housing/2014...cant-afford-to-live-in-liberal-cities/382066/

So leftist Americans love poor people, as long as they live very far from them. By contrast, right-wing Americans such as Houstonians make life easier and more affordable for low-income residents. Sounds about right

 

[luiz]

Result of the Second Round of the Brazilian Presidential elections of 2014. The red municipalities voted for Dilma of the Workers' Party, the Blue voted for Aécio of the Social-Democratic Party. The more intense the color, the bigger the difference.

Guess which region is of the country is developed, educated and pays hundreds of billions of dollars every year for the backwards and ignorant region so that they can continue to screw us by electing thieves and baboons?

 

[warpus]

I think parent(s) of Warpus are among these 5,800,000 - because he mentioned that his father has some family relatives who still live in Belarus.

And I guess that his parents live in lubuskie?

My dad was born in Bialystok, Podlaskie voivodeship, and most of his side of the family still lives there.

Some of his family members live just across the border in Belarus. When the borders shifted in WW2, those were the people who refused to move. They wanted to continue living in their homes, whether they were in a new country or not.

As a result none of them speak Polish anymore, and they are pretty much Belarusian now. He's visited them once or twice in the last couple decades, and he has to use Russian to communicate with them. They are very poor. From what I remember they don't even consider themselves to be Polish culturally, but I could have some of that wrong. My dad seemed pretty down about the whole situation, so I didn't ask him too much about it.

 

[madviking]

Link to video.

 

[JohannaK]

I come from a big butt family from my mother's side. Oddly enough, mine seems to have flattened in the last few years.

 

[Hygro]

http://www.citylab.com/housing/2014...cant-afford-to-live-in-liberal-cities/382066/

So leftist Americans love poor people, as long as they live very far from them. By contrast, right-wing Americans such as Houstonians make life easier and more affordable for low-income residents. Sounds about right

Income inequality is in a part a function of population size and population density. So are liberal politics. It would be reasonable on top of everything else, a rise in inequality and being wise to it would make your politics shift left.

 

[Takhisis]

Meghan Trainor - All about that bass

AAAUUURGGHHH my eearrrrs!!!

 

[MilesGregarius]

So leftist Americans love poor people, as long as they live very far from them. By contrast, right-wing Americans such as Houstonians make life easier and more affordable for low-income residents. Sounds about right

Income inequality is in a part a function of population size and population density. So are liberal politics. It would be reasonable on top of everything else, a rise in inequality and being wise to it would make your politics shift left.

Not to mention simple "free-market values" at work. People actually want to live in uber-liberal San Francisco, thus driving demand, thus driving prices higher. Lefties make better capitalists!

 

[madviking]

AAAUUURGGHHH my eearrrrs!!!

sersly there are worse songs

like:


Link to video.

 

[Hygro]

Anaconda is a great song.

Well, not terribly anyhow.

I might just like the music video.

 

[nc-1701]

Anaconda is at least 10 times better than the fatty propaganda one, 200 times better if we compare the video's.