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Archaeology In Bulgaria ^
| March 28, 2018
| Ivan Dikov (ouch!)
Posted on 04/03/2018 2:24:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv; Cronos
There is no denying that the Roman Empire fell when too many people inside it weren’t “Roman” in any sense of the word - regardless of “citizenship”. The eastern half existed as a shadow of the former greatness of the whole, slowly rotting and shrinking until the Turkish coup de grace in 1453.
For all of their “inferiority”, the barbarian tribes of the north would see a Germanic language become the international language of business today, while the hordes pouring across our southern border speak a tongue descended from the Roman Empire.
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posted on
04/04/2018 4:12:39 AM PDT
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kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: kearnyirish2; SunkenCiv
Actually Keaerney, there is denying that statement
the Roman Empire fell when too many people inside it werent Roman in any sense of the word - regardless of citizenship. Rome fell, or rather the Western Roman Empire fell due to:
- A failing economic system - Principate Rome was based on a slave economy and to do that you had to keep on conquering peoples
- An ossified elite who didn't get involved in the fighting but only the taking
- Thanks to the Gracchian reforms in the late republic, the people of the city became just welfare cases, easy to riot and not eager to fight
- The 50 years of chaos from the fall of the Severan dynasty tothe rise of DOmitian
- Debasing of the currency
- Barracks emperors
- No proper succession line
- Not hitting the barbarians when they were at the borders
Extension of citizenship was continuously done throughout Roman history -- from Alba Longa to the Social Wars (extending citizenship to all of Italy), then to Hispania and Cisalpine Gaul, then under Caracalla to all of the Empire (expanding the tax base)
English might be at its base a Germanic languages, but 70% of its words are French/ Latin/Italian/Spanish in origin. And English grammar follows the French fashion of dropping of cases -- if it was really a Germanic language it would have 5 cases instead of 1 today (Nominative, Genitive, Locative,Dativa,Vocative)
So English IS descended from Latin to a large extent as well as from proto-German (I call it a bastard language :)
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posted on
04/04/2018 6:55:51 AM PDT
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Cronos
(Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
To: Cronos
It is a Germanic language from the Anglo-Saxons, with some Latin grammar infused in it. While it is a “bastard language” (which makes it very difficult to learn), it is very different from a Romance language.
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posted on
04/04/2018 8:56:33 AM PDT
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kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: kearnyirish2
I’m not sure you can state that it is different from a Romance language — it has a strict SVO format as in French, because both of them lack the declinations one sees in German or Dutch.
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posted on
04/04/2018 10:42:53 PM PDT
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Cronos
(Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
To: SunkenCiv
Sorry to write this but the summary is so vague and insipidly bland and filled with platitudes and stereotypes that it is essentially worthless.
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posted on
04/11/2018 5:58:47 AM PDT
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eleni121
("All Along the Watchtower" Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5-9)
To: eleni121
Welcome back, looks like you’ve been gone a spell.
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04/11/2018 7:22:54 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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06/11/2018 1:00:37 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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