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Edit: in answer to c-mans question:

Nothing really, which is why I translated it like I did originally as sanctity. Hagiography is just a word I personally only didnt have to look up cuz i took Bible studies classes in college so id err away from using it
#13722
Dont Mess With Sucess
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They're called guillemets you stupid fucking polyglot
#13723
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Ya that's the word. I hate them and their weird punctuation changes that they cause or necessitate or whatever. people in Spain need to admit they aren't important and just write shit like the real spanish speaking world does
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swampman posted:

They're called guillemets you stupid fucking polyglot


ironically you are treating all romance languages as the same, just like you accused in your post! in spanish they are properly referred to as guillermos.

#13725
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Generally they're referred to as nothing because no one uses them except Fuckin nerds trying to look smart in their nerd books
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#13727
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i, personally, love the word "hagiography" but sometimes i want it to be "hagiograph" instead when its used as a noun
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if someone has the italian pdf i could do it over the summer a few pages a day as an exercise
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Ya but I ain't looking up shit so why should other readers. also im switching between apps in my phone cuz my computer shat bed so like I said I'll translate small excerpts when im done. and they'll be bad till i get a computer again cuz I cant check to the Spanish while I write so I do things like mix up acabal and empezal in my mind while I'm switching apps (although I've always mixed up acaba n empieza even in speech for some reason but never 'acaba de')

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https://www.google.com/search?q=leggenda+stalin+losurdo+pdf&oq=leggenda+stalin+losurdo+pdf&aqs=chrome..69i57.7688j0j4&client=ms-android-bullitt&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
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#13732
mt.real
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i constantly look things up when i translate, not that i've done it much, but i have an aspergers level of dedication to trying to recapture the spirit of the original and i have no faith in my ability to just understand what that is without reading similar phrases in context in other places, looking up details of words, etc. i really like it, but it's fucking hard. translating a major work pre-internet must have been monumental
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mt.real
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and even w/all of that, i reread my graeber-piketty interview translation a few weeks ago when i came across it accidentally, and it's still stilted and shitty
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#13735
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de puño y letra by abimael guzman.
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roseweird posted:

yea thats what i ended up with, ty elias



Translate it please. thank you in advance

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http://variety.com/2016/film/news/jeffrey-tambor-steve-buscemi-death-of-stalin-1201772578/

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Makeshift_Swahili posted:

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/jeffrey-tambor-steve-buscemi-death-of-stalin-1201772578/



oh cool lookin' forward to some real liberal anticommunism comin' to theaters near me

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#13742
UNUSUALY COOL
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roseweird posted:

http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/12/news/economy/solar-energy-job-growth-us-economy/



yup

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UNUSUALY COOL
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UNUSUALY COOL
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it's what i mentioned where people are betting on oil price increases after this saudi price fixing, both the hedge funds and venture capital on things like solar where the spending pattern has continued unabated through cheap oil. camera obscura responded by saying the saudis might be betting on a revolution in this technology and i don't think so, i think the u.s. solar industry is usually a good way to spend other people's money based on their fears about oil prices and costs and especially on glam projects for state and municipal governments. it moves with oil prices in a way people can exploit. but it gets ed begley jr up and around the country which is nice for us.
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#13749
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they're "bad", but like in the MJ song
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#13752
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The other day I started reading a copy of Labor and Communism by Bert Cochran, published by Princeton University Press, naively hoping for an academic account of the history of the relationship between American labor and the Communist party/socialism. Instead it turns out the author is a Trotskyist and the first chapter has been a long anti-Soviet and anti-Russian screed with the unstated but strong assumption that the interests of American communism and Soviet communism cannot coexist, that the internationalism the American leadership was pursuing was actually just "foreign nationalism" to the benefit of Russia, that while not all members were conscious spies as the right-wing claimed, many were unwitting dupes taking "orders from Kremlin bureaucrats." Revealingly, he dismisses the campaign to cleanse the party of "white chauvinism" (i.e. his perspective) as "Stalinist furies destroying themselves from within." Unsurprisingly, after reading the Preface it turns out his adviser and the person who awarded him a fellowship at Columbia was Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Can anyone recommend a book or article with a more sober analysis of the American labor movement with regards to its relationship with the communist movement? Or is this book worth reading, after ignoring all the anti-Russian chauvinist sentiment? It's just hard to take it seriously as an academic work after reading his rant at the beginning.
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aerdil posted:

"Stalinist furies destroying themselves from within."


please rename DYTD to this

#13754
ive gender
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Been away reading What Is To Be Done, and Mikhail Bulgakov's Master & Margarita. I should have read WITBD a long time ago, covers so many important fundamentals.
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WITBD is good if you want to read Atlas Shrugged but don't see much of a difference between the extreme right and left and don't want to go through 1000+ pages.
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ellectric posted:

“If we were to define a sleeping bag as a house, India would move swiftly towards ending her housing shortage. A shortage of nearly thirty-one million units. Accept this definition, and you could go in for mass production of sleeping bags. We could then have passionate debates about the drastic reduction in the magnitude of the housing problem. The cover stories could run headlines: ‘Is it for real?’ And straps: ‘Sounds too good to be true, but it is.’ The government could boast that it had not only stepped up production of sleeping bags but had piled up an all-time record surplus of them. Say, thirty-seven million. Conservatives could argue that we were doing so well, the time had come to export sleeping bags, at ‘world prices’. The bleeding hearts could moan that sleeping bags had not reached the poorest. Investigative muckrakers could scrutinise the contracts given to manufacturers. Were the bags overpriced? Were they of good quality? That ends the housing shortage. There’s only one problem. Those without houses at the start of the programme will still be without houses at the end of it. (True, some of them will have sleeping bags, probably at world prices.)”



Holy shit, nails it virtually point for point two decades later: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-32644293

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roseweird posted:

ive been spending all my spare time for the past 2 weeks learning a programming language and have been too exhausted to study history and current events, this is why otherwise intelligent nerds are ignorant autistic anarcho libertarian capitalists i guess, i gotta find some balance though somehow



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hi
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https://twitter.com/bad_dominicana/status/746609206720094208
http://archive.is/etdsi