Piglet would never defund hospitals and police forces
And yet here we are.
Piglet will be first against the wall
Piglet would absolutely vote Tory. The whole point of the heffalump story is that piglet is the kind of person who is easily whipped up into paroxysms of paranoid fear over imaginary threats to the point of actively working against his own self interest.
I just need questioning girls to know that it doesn’t mean shit if you feel like being attracted to women is like…new for you. it doesn’t mean you “made it up” or are “not really into girls”. it’s perfectly normal to feel blindsided by sapphic love and attraction after a lifetime of suppressing it, excusing it, and ignoring it. all it means is that you’re finally letting yourself feel it.
or it can be genuinely new. people can change.
cool cool but i was talking specifically about compulsory heterosexuality
i know. i was adding another possibility. it’s ok to discover an attraction that you’ve been pressured by society to suppress. it’s also ok if it’s genuinely new – not everyone has to fit a “born this way” story. all im saying is that, however you arrive at that point in your sexuality (or gender), like you say it doesn’t mean you made it up or it’s not real.
They voted for Trump because he said he would run our country like a business. Which obviously entails callously making money off of poverty, completely disregarding small businesses and devastating poor communities & deepening food desserts. Top 1% playbook.
Like I stated, the main goal of this is to profit off of poverty. But additionally, large retailers wont see that much of a hit off their bottom line due to this new fee. It is the smaller stores that will be affected and might possibly just choose to stop accepting SNAP. So either smaller stores in low income areas will lose money that they can’t afford OR low income areas that are already food desserts will lose yet another necessary resource.
Depressing, because I doubt many will speak out about this because everyone loves to hate poor people
Trading women’s reproductive rights for political power is despicable. This is a callous political move that puts women at risk & should be condemned in the strongest possible terms. Pay attention to which politicians support this strategy, because they need to GO.
If this does happen can Scotland refuse to comply and keep the limits as they are, due to the Scottish NHS being devolved?
This is disgraceful. Women always suffer most when right wing nutters are in power.
I’m not sure if Scotland can have its own law regarding it. Anyone able to help out?
one of the amendments to the Scotland Act 2016 was that Scotland could have its own law/s regarding abortion. so hey maybe in 5 years English women will be travelling to Scotland for abortions.
Actually I believe the DUP contacted Marco Biagi while he was minister to agree to prevent women from Northern Ireland coming to Scotland for abortion.
Broadly
speaking, Slavic languages can be divided into those using the Cyrillic
alphabet and those using the Latin alphabet, but in truth each language
has developed its own modified alphabet. These language-specific
letters and diacritic signs can serve as surefire clues, but
unfortunately the task is much harder with speech, since accents and
dialects tend to confuse even the most skilled listeners.
So how do you tell Slavic languages apart?
The Cyrillic alphabet:
BELARUSIAN – ў
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Belarusian is the only language which uses the letter ў. It sounds
similar to an English ‘w’, and the Latin transcription is ‘ŭ’. It is
most often encountered in word endings equivalent to the Russian -ov or
–ev suffixes, e.g., last names like Быкаў (Bykaŭ) or Някляеў
(Nyaklyayeŭ).
UKRAINIAN – ї and є
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ıf you see an ï amidst Cyrillic letters, you’re most likely reading
Ukrainian. This letter is pronounced /ji/, and should not be confused
with ‘i’ (/i/), or with ‘й’ (/j/) and ‘и’ (/ɪ/), which all look and
sound slightly different.
Ukrainian is also the only language with the letter є ‒ in Russian the corresponding ‘э’ character faces the other way…
BULGARIAN – ъ
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Ъ is a solid hint that you’re looking at Bulgarian ‒ it even pops up
in the name of the country: България. Though this letter (called ‘yer
golyam’/‘ер голям’) also appears in Russian and other Slavic languages,
it is not used frequently, whereas it appears regularly in Bulgarian.
This is perhaps because it is silent in other Slavic languages, but in
Bulgarian it symbolises a schwa sound (like the ‘u’ in ‘turn’). Make
sure you don’t confuse it with the soft sign, ‘ь’.
Additional hint: ата is a frequent grammatical ending in Bulgarian.
SERBIAN – ђ and ћ
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The similar ђ (dzhe) and ћ (tshe) are evidence you’re dealing with
Serbian. Serbian Cyrillic doesn’t have many of the letters used in
Russian Cyrillic; forget about ‘ё’, ‘й’, ‘щ’, ‘ъ’, ‘ы’, ‘ь’, ‘э’, ‘ю’,
and ‘я’. If you want to tell Serbian apart from Russian, you can also
look for љ (ly’) њ (ny’) and џ (dʒ), but these are also present in
Macedonian.
MACEDONIAN – Ѓ and Ќ
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Macedonian is the only language with the letters Ѓ and Ќ. The little
accents over these Cyrillic letters are a surefire way to tell
Macedonian apart from Serbian. The letters stand for sounds similar to
the English [dʒ] and [t͡ʃ] – the latter sounding really Chinese.
Additionally, Macedonian features the letter ‘s’ [d͡z], which otherwise does not occur in the Cyrillic alphabet.
RUSSIAN
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Famous for its inverted letters, Russian is probably the most
recognizable Slavic language out there. On the other hand it is quite
easy to confuse it with Ukrainian, Bulgarian or Serbian, so if you have a
full sentence on your hands, it’s best to proceed by elimination using
all the tips mentioned above.
The Latin alphabet:
POLISH – ł
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If you see the letter ł with the characteristic slash through it,
you’re looking at Polish. Ą and ę (which are nasal consonants) are also
giveaways but be careful, both letters are also in the Lithuanian
alphabet (which is not a Slavic language). Digraphs like ‘sz’, ‘cz’, and
‘dz’, sometimes combined into consonant clusters like ‘prz’, ‘trz’, and
‘szcz’, are clues, but watch out for Hungarian, which has similar
consonant clusters.
SLOVAK – ä
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Slovak is the only Slavic language to use ä, or ‘a s dvoma bodkami’
as the Slovaks call it. It comes up in words like ‘mäso’, ‘sôvä’, ‘rýbä’
(meat, owl, fish) and is pronounced like the English ‘a’ sound in
‘bad’. The same goes for ŕ, which is not used in any other Slavic
language.
CZECH – ů
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The Czech and Slovak alphabets are really similar. To tell them
apart, look for the tiny difference in the diacritic sign over the
letter r – where Slovak uses ‘ŕ’, the Czech letter has a tiny hook: ř.
Also, if you see the letter ů, it’s Czech.
CROATIAN – đ
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Written Croatian can appear hardly discernible from Slovenian, Czech
or Slovak, with which it shares the letters as ‘č’, ‘š’, and ‘ž’, it has
an easy distinctive feature ‒ the so-called crossed đ. [dʑ]
BOSNIAN
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The Bosnian alphabet is indistinguishable from Croatian. To identify
the language you would have to dig much deeper and look for differences
in vocabulary since Bosnian has some unique words, mostly of Persian and
Arabic origin.
SLOVENIAN
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Slovenian, which is the westernmost Slavic language, is also the most
discrete in terms of alphabet. In fact, it has only three special
characters, ‘č’, ‘š’, and ‘ž’, which also appear in Czech, Slovak and
Croatian. Again, your best bet is to proceed by elimination. (culture.pl)
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