02-06-2019, 03:23 PM
(02-06-2019, 01:58 PM)Bill the Piper Wrote:(02-06-2019, 01:42 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(02-06-2019, 12:05 PM)Bill the Piper Wrote:(01-14-2019, 09:40 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Prestan prestupovat zakony, idiote!
Is this supposed to be Russian? I cannot find the first two words in my dictionary. Zakony means laws, yes. Idiot is spelled идиот without the -e.
It's Czech subtitles for the English "Stop breaking the law, @$$hole!". Sorry -- no hacek which would give it away as Czech, Slovak, Slovene, or Croatian.
I was trying to be cute.
I'm astonished how similar Czech and Russian are! Do you speak any Czech, BTW?
No. I wish I had gotten a good chance to learn a Slavic language as a way of expanding my intellectual universe.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.