2 Kidneys, 2 lungs, 2 halves of a brain that we can lose huge chunks of and still go on living... 1 Heart!? LAME!kokorodoko wrote: Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:58 am video of a human heart beating
It looks alive. Like the Zerg buildings in Starcraft. Crazy how you never feel all that movement.
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75Gammalsvenskby, or Старошведське, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine. First settled in 1781 by inhabitants of then-Swedish Dagö (Hiiumaa), off the coast of Estonia. Name means 'Old Swedish Village'.
In the 1920s, the Swedish government, fearing for the fate of the inhabitants, sent a rescue mission to bring them to Sweden. They were coldly received in their new country, and most of them went back to the village.
The woman interviewed here has very peculiar speech. Takes a while to get used to her accent and cadence, but then I can hear some of those Finland-Swedish traits that you also find in some Northern Swedish dialects. But it sounds very old, with odd verb endings and such, and the way /g/ is dropped in for example "stugor" (cottages) at 1:43 - she says stuuør - and also her 's' sound tends toward a 'sh'. The latter is also a trait of the aforementioned dialects.
She also says things like hä var inge å eta, "there was nothing to eat" (1:03, talking about the collectivizations) - hä var, there was ..., is something you find all across the country, the standard phrase is dé fanns. I'm not the most familiar with the origin region and how common or peculiar some of these features are.
I would be able to understand her, but it's far from what I'm used to.
The surrounding area must presumably have made some impact. I did think she sounded like a Slavic old lady at first, but that may be because I wasn't used to her speech. But the ways she says "inte" (not) at 3:04 - "we will not let them in (the Russians)" - sounds "foreign". But she says Ukráina (3:09) like a Swede would, as a diphthong, not Ukrajína, like a Ukrainian would.
So funny.
In the 1920s, the Swedish government, fearing for the fate of the inhabitants, sent a rescue mission to bring them to Sweden. They were coldly received in their new country, and most of them went back to the village.
The woman interviewed here has very peculiar speech. Takes a while to get used to her accent and cadence, but then I can hear some of those Finland-Swedish traits that you also find in some Northern Swedish dialects. But it sounds very old, with odd verb endings and such, and the way /g/ is dropped in for example "stugor" (cottages) at 1:43 - she says stuuør - and also her 's' sound tends toward a 'sh'. The latter is also a trait of the aforementioned dialects.
She also says things like hä var inge å eta, "there was nothing to eat" (1:03, talking about the collectivizations) - hä var, there was ..., is something you find all across the country, the standard phrase is dé fanns. I'm not the most familiar with the origin region and how common or peculiar some of these features are.
I would be able to understand her, but it's far from what I'm used to.
The surrounding area must presumably have made some impact. I did think she sounded like a Slavic old lady at first, but that may be because I wasn't used to her speech. But the ways she says "inte" (not) at 3:04 - "we will not let them in (the Russians)" - sounds "foreign". But she says Ukráina (3:09) like a Swede would, as a diphthong, not Ukrajína, like a Ukrainian would.
So funny.
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76^ Ah fuck of course there's some shit like this:
With the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, the German army arrived in Gammalsvenskby on 25 August 1941, where the soldiers were welcomed as liberators.[14] During the Nazis's three-year occupation, they granted the Swedish Ukrainians German citizenship and many of the men from Gammalsvenskby joined the German forces — both voluntarily and through conscription.
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Dave N. wrote:Most of us are here because we’re trying to keep some spark of an idea from going out.