http://trilema.com/2015/timeo-danaos-or-lets-enjoy-the-romanian-language-together/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:28:45 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 http://trilema.com/2015/timeo-danaos-or-lets-enjoy-the-romanian-language-together/#comment-146753 A catagraphy, or the remains of a bathroom on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Wed, 08 Jan 2020 14:25:48 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=59188#comment-146753 [...] is how you say bufallo in Romanian, and coincidentally -ic is how you declense a noun towards its function, "fapt" is fact, "faptic" is factual, "cutit" is knife, "cutitic" is knifish, [...] [...] is how you say bufallo in Romanian, and coincidentally -ic is how you declense a noun towards its function, "fapt" is fact, "faptic" is factual, "cutit" is knife, "cutitic" is knifish, [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2015/timeo-danaos-or-lets-enjoy-the-romanian-language-together/#comment-144061 A gift of memory on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Wed, 08 Jan 2020 11:03:31 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=59188#comment-144061 [...] attractive for reason of xenocide. [↩]It's really not that hard! μῆνιν, minin, like the Romanian "minie", anger, wrath. It's a genitive, the very thing. ἄειδε, aido, like fucking Aida, right [...] [...] attractive for reason of xenocide. [↩]It's really not that hard! μῆνιν, minin, like the Romanian "minie", anger, wrath. It's a genitive, the very thing. ἄειδε, aido, like fucking Aida, right [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2015/timeo-danaos-or-lets-enjoy-the-romanian-language-together/#comment-140914 People we don't like, fighting each other. An ode. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Tue, 07 Jan 2020 13:17:00 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=59188#comment-140914 [...] Metaphorically speaking both groups find themselves in the position of that weird bachelor uncle who mutters a lot and collects garbage. The one that spends 14 hours a day in the garage, working on his perpetuum mobile under another name. The one that goes to Alaska to become a sourdough miner and spends the rest of his days alone in a cabin upon a windswept glacier, playing with his rock collection. The one that will manage to deny fundamental laws through careful application of exceptional exceptions. Really, there's an excellent reason both groups are so rhetorically able : they're both born out of an unchecked, malignant metastasis of finesse. [...] [...] Metaphorically speaking both groups find themselves in the position of that weird bachelor uncle who mutters a lot and collects garbage. The one that spends 14 hours a day in the garage, working on his perpetuum mobile under another name. The one that goes to Alaska to become a sourdough miner and spends the rest of his days alone in a cabin upon a windswept glacier, playing with his rock collection. The one that will manage to deny fundamental laws through careful application of exceptional exceptions. Really, there's an excellent reason both groups are so rhetorically able : they're both born out of an unchecked, malignant metastasis of finesse. [...]

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