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But from this capitalist democracy–that is inevitably narrow and stealthily pushes aside the poor…–forward development does not proceed simply, directly and smoothly, towards “greater and greater democracy", as the liberal professors and petty-bourgeois opportunists would have us believe.

豪雪　リンゴ園深刻/岩渕議員・党県議ら被害調査/青森や弘前 | しんぶん赤旗｜日本共産党 日本共産党の岩渕友参院議員は１６日、青森県を襲った記録的な豪雪を受け、青森市や弘前市でリンゴ園地などの被害状況を調査しました。安藤晴美、吉俣洋両県議と党青森市議団、党弘前市議団が参加しました。

#豪雪 リンゴ園深刻
岩渕議員・日本共産党の県議ら被害調査
青森市　弘前市
青森市で１月の積雪が戦後最多
雪の重みで枝折れや幹割れなどの被害

#青森 #弘前
#しんぶん赤旗は日本共産党の新聞 #日本共産党 www.jcp.or.jp/akahata/aik2...

沖縄の米軍基地ＰＦＡＳ汚染/周辺住民の健康放置　地位協定などを議論/全国交流集会 | しんぶん赤旗｜日本共産党 沖縄での米軍基地による有機フッ素化合物（総称＝ＰＦＡＳ）汚染と住民のたたかいをテーマにしたオンライン全国交流集会が１４日夜、開かれました。日米地位協定をたてに基地への立ち入りが拒まれるなど、米軍基地周辺の住民の健康や人権問題が放置されている現状や課題、運動の方向性について語り合

沖縄の米軍基地ＰＦＡＳ汚染って？
環境汚染防止の二大原則を踏みにじる地位協定
①行政による立ち入り調査
②汚染者負担の原則

#しんぶん赤旗は日本共産党の新聞 #日本共産党 www.jcp.or.jp/akahata/aik2...

They cannot dedicate themselves to actual class analysis so to explain it the anti communist liberals will become Nazis

Many such cases

Cool. /wai/ わい (or /waiha/ わいは) also happens to be a common interjection in the dialect of Japanese I work on!

Agreed, it seemed quite speculative even before the geminate issue. The Gothic Little Daddy explanation is a lot simpler!

I was reminded of our exchange regarding the Yiddish-like Germanic interpretation of Attila. Any thoughts on the etymology proposed here??

RAM pulls no punches

The crazy thing is that 群 underwent OC *gur → MC *kun, and 駿 underwent OC *tsur- → MC *tsun (or something) according to BS. Perhaps there was some awareness of these older pronunciations at the time of borrowing?

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Very cool! Yeah I was curious about the original Gothic. That pronunciation doesn’t really mesh with modern English phonotactics but as you pointed out , it’s practically Yiddish😄

Stress on first syllable?