Re: Baghdad

On May 30, 9:23 am, "Paul J Kriha" <paul.nospam.kr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On May 29, 7:22 am, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 29, 12:25 am, Craoibhi...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
[...]
A savant learned Finnish in ten days.
Says Franz Gnaedinger.

I would respect
your skills of learning if something resulted from it.

And when something actually results from it, you of course overlook
it. Convenient.

You can call it whatever you want. You are still just a nutcase with
delusions of grandeur, one of millions.

You tried to earn brownies by attacking me when
you joined sci.lang,

Nope. Attacking you is the professional duty.

and when I unexpectedly
gave back you lost your composure and told me
in your stilted German that my head may burst
the sooner the better.

I didn't "loose my composure", I simply wanted to demonstrate, that I
simply regard you not just as a crackpot, but also as personally
repulsive.

If linguists are dogs, you are a rat.

See what I mean? no phantasy in your language,
no colors in your head.

You are about the least qualified person to opine on anyone's
linguistic phantasy or literary skills, you who haven't even read
Russian literature when it still could have made any difference.

And of course, you are the supreme authority on the correct literary
style in contemporary Irish language. :D

As Goethe said, correct means nothing in art.

He also wrote the following (I paraphrase in English from memory):

"I derive great satisfaction from knowing that in this century
I am the only man who sees things as they truly are."

I love his poetry, but as far as science goes he was a crackpot
of the worst kind. By worst kind of scientific crackpot I mean
a person who is highly intelligent but refuses to read and study
other people's papers and keeps writing silly scientific articles.
For example, he insisted on colours to be artifact/mirrage of the
eye not a property of light even though other scientists have
already split white light by prisms and developed the wave theory
of that phenomenon.

And you think quoting Goethe will make you an authority on literary
style in a language which you neither speak, nor read, nor
understand?

So you haven't even read Russian classics ever before? What a savage.
We were a very Russophobe family, due to the fact that Russians had
actually attacked our country in 1939, but we read Russian literature
all right.

I guess, I and my family had even more reasons for being extreme
Russophobes, and we indeed were, but volumes of Russian classical
literature always had place in our library. I even read and memorised
some of the finest R. poetry in original.

Studying Russian, I at first thought I would have the moral obligation
of being the sort of sugary Russia-fancier as many aficionados of
Russian literature in the West tend to be. However, real acquaintance
with Russians soon cured me from any romanticism. However, I still
regularly read Russian - I am starting "Khozhdenie po mukam" by Alexey
Tolstoy.


No, I never read Russian literature before.

There really is no excuse, remembering that Russian classics are
available in all major languages. In Irish, there are regrettably few
translations. I have myself translated some samples into Irish. But if
you read German and English, there is no excuse.

Perhaps, he is waiting for a translation into Magdalenian?

And, of course, he is waiting for somebody else to do it. :D

I like
to read books in the original, but I don't understand
Russian.

Well, I already know the ambrosia of the gods will never be yours to
eat.

Now I read Anna Karenina in a splendid
Wordsworth translation and edition.

That sounds like you were saying that you drink the piss that was
originally the purest and clearest water before it passed through the
metabolism of a splendid pisser.

Oooooo, eeeeee. :-)

Uh, how should I interpret that reaction?

.

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