GefreiterKania
3 Sep 2023
History / Historical look at various civilisational differences between Russia and the West [159]
If it is true that every forum has more readers than users, then the existence of this board is actually good news for Russia.
Think about it: any chance person who comes across this board and is even remotely sane is bound to be repulsed by the sheer amount of nonsense spouted here, ranging from hateful racist outbursts to amateur psychological/sociological analyses. In such case two things can happen: such person can close their browser tab in disgust and never return or develop some sort of Russophilia as a healthy psychological reaction.
It's one thing to oppose the actions of Putin's government and think that this war is a horrible mistake that will bring misery to both Ukrainians and Russians, and another to change a previously regular, thematic forum into a hate-fest including the spelling "game" of regularly putting capitalised SS in the name of country that lost millions of its citizens in their struggle against the nazis.
Some of it could partially be justified at the very beginning of the war with shock and fear, natural in such situations, but today it is just a vicious hate campaign, visible also in some media and wide political circles. Madness.
Funnily enough, if you asked me about Russophobia two years ago, I would have also shaken my head in disbelief and asked for proof.
That's OK in English I suppose, but in Polish "pełnoskalowa inwazja" sounds very clumsy. It is, however, constantly used in the media and by politicians (e.g. Duda keeps banging on about this "pełnoskalowa inwazja" all the time). It's almost as if they received instructions on what to say and what expressions to use - instructions written in English and hastily translated into Polish. This idiotic newspeak word doesn't even exist in the Great Dictionary of the Polish Language...
wsjp.pl/
It also doesn't exist in the PWN dictionary...
sjp.pwn.pl/szukaj/pe%C5%82noskalowy.html
A native Polish speaker would say "inwazja na pełną skalę" instead of using this newspeak adjective "pełnoskalowy". If all of a sudden mainstream media...
polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2023-02-24/wojna-w-ukrainie-rok-pelnoskalowej-inwazji-rosji-na-ukraine-niepowodzenie-planu-putina/
pap.pl/aktualnosci/news%2C1089468%2Cnewsweek-pelnoskalowa-inwazja-na-ukraine-w-ciagu-najblizszych-48-godzin
... and ruling politicians start using it, then maybe (just maybe) they have their instructions written for them in English? If so, they should at least hire more careful translators.
Man, Maf, I have to say - you've made Russophobia into some form of art.
If it is true that every forum has more readers than users, then the existence of this board is actually good news for Russia.
Think about it: any chance person who comes across this board and is even remotely sane is bound to be repulsed by the sheer amount of nonsense spouted here, ranging from hateful racist outbursts to amateur psychological/sociological analyses. In such case two things can happen: such person can close their browser tab in disgust and never return or develop some sort of Russophilia as a healthy psychological reaction.
It's one thing to oppose the actions of Putin's government and think that this war is a horrible mistake that will bring misery to both Ukrainians and Russians, and another to change a previously regular, thematic forum into a hate-fest including the spelling "game" of regularly putting capitalised SS in the name of country that lost millions of its citizens in their struggle against the nazis.
Some of it could partially be justified at the very beginning of the war with shock and fear, natural in such situations, but today it is just a vicious hate campaign, visible also in some media and wide political circles. Madness.
that ask me for proof of Russophobia
Funnily enough, if you asked me about Russophobia two years ago, I would have also shaken my head in disbelief and asked for proof.
full-scale invasion
That's OK in English I suppose, but in Polish "pełnoskalowa inwazja" sounds very clumsy. It is, however, constantly used in the media and by politicians (e.g. Duda keeps banging on about this "pełnoskalowa inwazja" all the time). It's almost as if they received instructions on what to say and what expressions to use - instructions written in English and hastily translated into Polish. This idiotic newspeak word doesn't even exist in the Great Dictionary of the Polish Language...
wsjp.pl/
It also doesn't exist in the PWN dictionary...
sjp.pwn.pl/szukaj/pe%C5%82noskalowy.html
A native Polish speaker would say "inwazja na pełną skalę" instead of using this newspeak adjective "pełnoskalowy". If all of a sudden mainstream media...
polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2023-02-24/wojna-w-ukrainie-rok-pelnoskalowej-inwazji-rosji-na-ukraine-niepowodzenie-planu-putina/
pap.pl/aktualnosci/news%2C1089468%2Cnewsweek-pelnoskalowa-inwazja-na-ukraine-w-ciagu-najblizszych-48-godzin
... and ruling politicians start using it, then maybe (just maybe) they have their instructions written for them in English? If so, they should at least hire more careful translators.