I applaud your inventiveness - it takes some effort to mask a piece of political news as an entry about linguists. It was almost successful. Now, I hope the maintainers of both communities will delete this crap as soon as possible.
linguaphiles is not about "linguists" (as you put it) at all! Look: "A community for people who love language to discuss all aspects of languages and linguistics" (my underlining) This posting is fine! Maybe you are in quarrel with this user? Maybe I answer that way because, on the contrary, I like very much his postings? Anyway, this is really no crap!
For the purposes of this community, my point is not to raise the hackles of bear cubs pimping for Putinoids, but to observe the penetration of russian Internet slang. As linked above, this is why they call it Albanian.
penetration of the russian internet slang on the internet? or where? please forgive my stubbornness, but most of the post is completely off that, just pure politics and such ;) though the NYT quote in the last paragraph is just to the point and well deserves more words ;) cheers
Medvedev’s comments about “Olbanian” are remarkable only by their vacuousness. By contrast, the penetration of russian internet slang into forensic analyses is a notable sociolinguistic development. Pure politics is indispensable as its context.
i cant believe this post has generated such uproar. i think it is clearly relevant to linguaphiles, and it is interesting. moreover, I completely agree with remi_jakovlevic that in this day and age it takes a pretty out of date "linguaphile" to deny that language and power are utterly bound.
and just for the record, I think we WOULD be surprised (ok, maybe not surprised, but rightly outraged) if we found that someone was arrested in LA for posting a "how to" on bombs. This does happen (more in my experience it happens that people are arrested for things they say in public speeches at conferences and gatherings, and it is said that they were "inciting violence", etc. Or merely posting that one supports in theoretical terms an illegal action, somehow the police try to say is a crime) and it is done ridiculously and hypocritically, not to mention illegally, although they always will make the law what they want it to be.
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"A community for people who love language to discuss all aspects of languages and linguistics" (my underlining)
This posting is fine!
Maybe you are in quarrel with this user? Maybe I answer that way because, on the contrary, I like very much his postings? Anyway, this is really no crap!
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please forgive my stubbornness, but most of the post is completely off that, just pure politics and such ;)
though the NYT quote in the last paragraph is just to the point and well deserves more words ;)
cheers
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and just for the record, I think we WOULD be surprised (ok, maybe not surprised, but rightly outraged) if we found that someone was arrested in LA for posting a "how to" on bombs. This does happen (more in my experience it happens that people are arrested for things they say in public speeches at conferences and gatherings, and it is said that they were "inciting violence", etc. Or merely posting that one supports in theoretical terms an illegal action, somehow the police try to say is a crime) and it is done ridiculously and hypocritically, not to mention illegally, although they always will make the law what they want it to be.
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