Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: sci.physics,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,sci.physics.relativity,sci.math Subject: Re: "The Day The Earth Stood Still" Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:58:27 -0700 Organization: The Starmaker Organization Lines: 162 Message-ID: <6850AFA3.7906@ix.netcom.com> References: <682B552E.5518@ix.netcom.com> <682D194E.150E@ix.netcom.com> <100ubf5$17p2r$1@dont-email.me> <6834A942.3E5D@ix.netcom.com> <1015pbt$2tjj2$2@dont-email.me> <1017u6f$3eiv7$1@dont-email.me> <0nln3kh9610shpgp51smfqv3n8oap81k49@4ax.com> <101u0bn$23b6j$1@dont-email.me> <684C5C86.4950@ix.netcom.com> <684D319E.51BE@ix.netcom.com> <684F76F8.4DC6@ix.netcom.com> <68504A5C.33D1@ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 01:58:02 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="80bad57cbe8ab976b3ffc5d5494d2a5a"; logging-data="2060311"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/aywwMLVoTRx45wB5vNei86U+YGH9yPU0=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:aHEQoGVKRmokAa+tWbn4Si99kRw= X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 250616-4, 06/16/2025), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:893344 alt.fan.rush-limbaugh:2944117 sci.physics.relativity:664294 sci.math:638757 The Starmaker wrote: > > The Starmaker wrote: > > > > Thomas Heger wrote: > > > > > > Am Samstag000014, 14.06.2025 um 10:23 schrieb The Starmaker: > > > > Thomas Heger wrote: > > > >> > > > >> Am Freitag000013, 13.06.2025 um 19:14 schrieb The Starmaker: > > > >>> Thomas Heger wrote: > > > >>>> > > > >>>> Am Dienstag000010, 10.06.2025 um 12:56 schrieb Governor Swill: > > > >>>>> On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 07:04:30 +0200, Thomas Heger wrote: > > > >>>>>> Am Freitag000006, 06.06.2025 um 08:03 schrieb Gronk: > > > >>>>>>> Governor Swill wrote:> On Sat, 31 May 2025 08:41:43 +0200, Thomas Heger > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>>>> > Prussian disappeared in the 17th century - before globalization. > > > >>>>>>> > Conquest, military and non military can wipe out small languages. > > > >>>>>>> > Cultures can be absorbed by larger ones leading to loss of a language. > > > >>>>>>> > Russian is as common as Ukrainian in Ukraine. There are a few common > > > >>>>>>> > second languages today.Ã‚ English, French, Japanese, Spanish, Italian > > > >>>>>>> > and lately Chinese. > > > >>>>>> > > > >>>>>> German was actually a 'lingua franca', too. > > > >>>>>> > > > >>>>>> > > > >>>>>> Chinese on the other hand is no language you like to learn for fun. > > > >>>>>> > > > >>>>>> Especially writing in Chinese is REALLY difficult. > > > >>>>>> > > > >>>>>> The language itself has also disadvantages. > > > >>>>>> > > > >>>>>> This can be seen in many translations from Chinese in what they like to > > > >>>>>> call 'manuals'. > > > >>>>>> > > > >>>>>> These little papers reveal a lack of something called 'grammar', hence > > > >>>>>> the language has a lack of possibility to express certain subtle ideas. > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> English is quite common in Asia. In photos of cities English signs > > > >>>>> can often be seen and not all are 'brand names'. > > > >>>> > > > >>>> Sure. > > > >>>> > > > >>>> But that 'English' isn't the language of the British Islands. > > > >>>> > > > >>>> The problem is, that the iternal logic of Chinese makes Chinese speakers > > > >>>> almost certainly bad speakers of English. > > > >>>> > > > >>>> This is why many 'English manuals' of products from China are more funny > > > >>>> than useful. > > > >>>> > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>>> English has disadvantages, too, but which are quite irrelevant for most > > > >>>>>> speakers of English as a second language: > > > >>>>>> > > > >>>>>> English has an insane amout of diffent words (~one million) > > > >>>>>> > > > >>>>>> English has also a number of totally illogic rules and special cases. > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> This is largely because English comes from the same Indo European > > > >>>>> branch as German but is heavily modified by the Romance languagues, > > > >>>>> especially French. Owing to the Conquest, a huge number of Old > > > >>>>> French words entered common usage in England, often delineating class. > > > >>>>> For example, Britons ate pigs, but the French conquerors served it > > > >>>>> with fine wine and called it pork. > > > >>>> > > > >>>> English had a HUGE number of ancestors, who had left their marks in the > > > >>>> English language. > > > >>>> > > > >>>> Keltic languages > > > >>>> Latin > > > >>>> Danish > > > >>>> French > > > >>>> German > > > >>>> Dutch > > > >>>> Hindi > > > >>>> Kisuaheli > > > >>>> ... > > > >>>> > > > >>>> TH > > > >>> > > > >>> That is whay Daniel Webster invented the "Webster Dictionary"...to get > > > >>> rid of > > > >>> all these foreign influences. > > > >>> > > > >>> In Mexicao they say "tele" > > > >>> In Britian they say "tele"... > > > >>> > > > >>> in the United States we say...Television! > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> TELEVISION!!!! > > > >>> > > > >>> Learn English! > > > >> > > > >> I can speak, read and write English quite well, even if that isn't perfect. > > > >> > > > >> But English is a second language for me. (My native language is German.) > > > > > > > > > > > > You're German? Can you explain to me why Israel today doesn't want > > > > Germany to posses nucluer weapons???? > > > > > > Atomic bombs were actually invented in Germany. > > > (what they told you in school was more or less a lie) > > > > > > But Germans don't like atomic bombs, because they are difficult to use > > > and extremely expensive. > > > > > > Actually atomic bombs cannot be used properly and if the enemy has them, > > > too, they are practically useless. > > > > > > But Germans could most likely build them, supposed they wanted to. > > > > Of course the Germans were the first to invent the atomic bomb...it > > was invented by a German, living in Germany and his name was...Albert > > Einstein. > > > > he just continued his invention with his German friends in the USA! > > Let's not forget real History... > > it was Einstein who said: > > "If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my > formula in 1905." - Albert Einstein > > His formula for the atomic bomb was invented in 1905 in Germany! > Published in German!! Written in Geramn!!! > > The Germans invented the fucking atomic bomb...Einstein and his friends > were those Germans! > > if you > take away > the shell > of a snail... > he's still > a snail. > Did you see the selfie of Einstein and Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and his atomic bomb formula? https://content.time.com/time/magazine/archive/covers/1946/1101460701_400.jpg -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.