The questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread IX

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Lord Baal said:
They tend not to make cheap rip-offs of animated films, as even a cheap rip-off will likely be pretty expensive.
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Not if it were animated traditionally.

(I mean, if it doesn't exist it doesn't exist, but I really want it to.)
 
I figure we have a few Russians on this board so I wanted to ask, how mutually understandable is Russian and Ukrainian? Could you hold a lengthy conversation with them? What about something much simpler? What about the written language?
 
Q: Do you think there will ever be a case of a fetus in fetu with a functioning brain (to some extent), and if so would it be considered murder to have it removed?
 
No, no, and do you approve of the tribble genocide?
 
ParkCungHee said:
I figure we have a few Russians on this board so I wanted to ask, how mutually understandable is Russian and Ukrainian? Could you hold a lengthy conversation with them? What about something much simpler? What about the written language?
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Not very likely. You'd be able to understand some of it but a lengthy conversation would inevitably stumble upon the differences in the languages. Same thing for writing -- the vocabulary is different.
 
Klingons were the ones who wanted the tribbles wiped out. But that was directed at Newbunkle and his question of rare medical stuff - you're never going to see a scenario with humans resulting from that like various fiction stories suggest. (tribbles are obviously different but
Spoiler :
born pregant
 
I was referring to the means utilised by the crew of the Enterprise to get rid of them (I assume that it was followed by their destruction).
 
Genocidicbunny said:
Not very likely. You'd be able to understand some of it but a lengthy conversation would inevitably stumble upon the differences in the languages. Same thing for writing -- the vocabulary is different.
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My Russian is really quite poor, and I haven't ever learned any Ukrainian but even I was able to understand lots from written texts in Ukrainian. I believe it is safe to say that 60-70% of Ukrainian words share the same root with Russian ones...?
 
Yeekim said:
My Russian is really quite poor, and I haven't ever learned any Ukrainian but even I was able to understand lots from written texts in Ukrainian. I believe it is safe to say that 60-70% of Ukrainian words share the same root with Russian ones...?
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It depends on when they're from. If they're from the soviet era, you may not have been reading pure Ukranian. From my experience, I can generally get the gist of a passage, but there are sometimes words key to the meaning that I don't understand.
 
Genocidicbunny said:
It depends on when they're from. If they're from the soviet era, you may not have been reading pure Ukranian. From my experience, I can generally get the gist of a passage, but there are sometimes words key to the meaning that I don't understand.
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No, they were contemporary ones. Had to do some business in Ukraine back in 2008. The times...
 
What is this supposed to be? I don't get it.
 
ryaz said:
I think the power output decreases over time.

You might be able to replace or change some parts. But I can't guarantee what may happen.
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My problem is that mine seems to be cooking faster than it used to. Weird.
 
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