Re: The immortal sayings of Vkarlamov (1)

On Mar 14, 7:26 pm, darsiau...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I dispute Gintas' self coronation to "native"
status - when he simply in fact is not a native of Lithuania.

What would the village be without it's village idiot? Keep up the
"good" work.

I was born in Europe, you prick, so Europe is my native continent and
there's nothing you can do to change that. All the time I've spent
away from Europe I regard as an aberration ruled by force majeure, but
which will be remedied in good time.

People study their own family histories
and ancestry and take great pride in their lineage

But only in English in tha case of 90+ of yankee "Lithuanians".

I will always argue against Gintas'
demotion of Lithuanians to lesser subsets, ie yankee, based on
language alone.

Argue all you want, village idiot. When I'm in Lietuva (as I will be
again come Easter) I here tikri lietuviai constantly referring to your
lot as amerikiečiai (note: not Amerikos lietuviai) and cracking wry
smiles at the quaint yankee notion that one can be a lietuvis without
speaking lietuviškai. (We are not Eire yet, thank God. No wonder you
morons worship it. No nasty, difficult language learning required.
Just drink lots of Guinness.)

Although Gintas writes "no one speaks Žemaitish any
more, let's be realistic".

Read the rest, you prick: «[...] and like with most dialects or
regional languages, it is in decline. I would venture to say that a
majority of the younger generation never speak it among themselves on
a normal basis (maybe
just to mess around now and then), and what counts is what the younger
people are doing.

The causes are the same everywhere: TV above all, and othe mass media;
also centralised eduction systems meaning not only that the curriculum
is in the national official language, but also that many teachers are
not local people. Finally, mobility, starting with army service and
following on with job seeking away from one's native area, and
fraternising with people from all over the place, means that one
spends a lot of time speaking the national language rather than the
regional language/dialect. And people being what they are (lazy
animals - law of least effort applies) the less they speak it the less
they are inclined to use it. It's very similar to what happens with
ethnic language in an émigré situation. »

You can't find anything factually wrong with that. Stick to beer and
bowling. Oh, and goodness gracious me, I didn't now that Schlitz had
become {deservedly} extinct. Oh, that's almost as bad as not knowing
what Madonna's latest pop song is called {no idea} or who Britney
Spears is sleeping with {couldn't care less}. Some of us have better
things to do, Homer. Now run along and watch American Idol ...



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