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Comment on I never thought I’d say that, but, wow, US needs moar libertarians, apparently by sendaianonymous

sendaianonymous — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:04:31 +0000

Someone in Whatever explained that it’s part of some new USian policy to randomly pull cars of people who are returning to Canada, too.
Still, my impression is still that assault was not meant to be part of that policy =_=

Comment on I never thought I’d say that, but, wow, US needs moar libertarians, apparently by sendaianonymous

sendaianonymous — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:00:26 +0000

But he just quoted Watts, and linked to a couple of posts, like this one: http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/44651.html that, while containing some useful data, are still full of the typical libertarian histrionics.

Comment on I never thought I’d say that, but, wow, US needs moar libertarians, apparently by Jaś Skoczowski

Jaś Skoczowski — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:43:22 +0000

But some libertarians do mention that case. For example: Roderick Long.

Comment on What can go wrong, will go wrong. What can’t go wrong, will go wrong, too. by miskidomleka

miskidomleka — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:44:00 +0000

Another myth debunked!

Anyway, I even can’t remember where did I read that “rowing” thing. It was like 25 or 30 years ago :-)

Comment on I never thought I’d say that, but, wow, US needs moar libertarians, apparently by pillowscrapbook

pillowscrapbook — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:47:29 +0000

This is absurd. Was there any reason, why they stopped him anyway? because there isn’t mentioned one. I mean is it ok in the usa to just stop a car and check its driver without any reason? I hope that he will win in court.

Comment on What can go wrong, will go wrong. What can’t go wrong, will go wrong, too. by sendaianonymous

sendaianonymous — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:32:38 +0000

Huh. This is the first time I’ve heard this story! I’ve no idea, but will try to look it up. Somewhere. Le Google is completely silent on that matter, as far as I can see.

Nonetheless, interesting :)

Scratch it, I’ve got it!

Luzon (traditionelles Chinesisch: (呂宋; pinyin: Lǚsòng)[1], ist die fünfzehntgrößte Insel der Welt und Heimat von 46.200.000 Menschen (Stand 2008). Der Name der Insel ist chinesisch und bedeutet übersetzt „niederes“, „südliches“ oder „kleines“ Song. Benannt wurde die Insel nach dem ehemaligen Reich Lusongguo (呂宋國); pinyin:Lǚsòngguó)[1], was übersetzt Luzon Reich heißt. Ein Unterschied zwischen Lusonguo und anderen Bereichen des philippinischen Archipels war, dass der Regent ein König (王), war und kein Fürst oder Sultan[1]. Die ersten Europäer, die Kontakt mit Bewohnern des Reiches hatten waren die Portugiesen, die Anfang des 16. Jahrhunderts, die Insel Malakka erreichten. Sie nannten das Reich Luçonia bzw. Luçon und seine Einwohner Luçoes.[2] Unter spanischer Herrschaft wurde der Name der Insel in Nueva Castilla (Neu-Kastilien) umbenannt.

(From German Wiki)
In case you don’t understand German, the name of the island is originally Chinese, and means “Southern/Lower Song”, and was derived from the name of the country called “Southern Song” (the original Chinese notation has the extra character 國 which is the older version of the character for “country”, and is often found in names of countries :)). Meanwhile, the Spanish used to call the island “Nueva Castilla”.
I sort of don’t understand the “呂” character though. My Chinese dictionary says it’s 1) surname, 2) name of a part of the tone. And well, *I* know that the character for “south” doesn’t look like that. Maybe it had a completely different meaning in older Chinese? Only, there should be some traces of that in the modern meaning, because the use of Hanzi/Kanji tends to be rather conservative, and they retain the same meanings for ages.
Well. My dictionary sucks, though. Would need a bigger one. Hmmmm.

Comment on What can go wrong, will go wrong. What can’t go wrong, will go wrong, too. by miskidomleka

miskidomleka — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:21:42 +0000

Is it true that:

the Philippine island Luzon was named this way because somebody (Magellan, maybe) approached the island, noticed someone in a boat and asked about the name of the island. The person replied “Luzon”. Which, as it turned out later, meant “I am rowing”

Comment on What can go wrong, will go wrong. What can’t go wrong, will go wrong, too. by sendaianonymous

sendaianonymous — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:29:15 +0000

Done!

A légpárnás járművem tele van angolnával.

Comment on What can go wrong, will go wrong. What can’t go wrong, will go wrong, too. by ekolog

ekolog — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:10:58 +0000

Damn, not sure why I wrote last comment logged in as Lukasz. Could you correct it to my usual nick and link? Thank you!

Also: My hovercraft is full of eels!

Comment on What can go wrong, will go wrong. What can’t go wrong, will go wrong, too. by sendaianonymous

sendaianonymous — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:00:21 +0000

To be fair, the article wasn’t about the diseases he surely must have caught. He lived there for two years. So.

Linguists keep track of mistakes they make. Equatorial parasites aren’t nearly as interesting :P