Recent content by Keoland

If you had a french flag in your 'residence' place, I would not have been quite so obvious... :p Yes, there are differences, It's just that I think that the ones you pointed out aren't the ones, for the most part... You're right about the spanish being informal. They differ from the...

You know Maciamo, what you wrote applies not only to the French, but to all southern europeans. We are all just like that, with the possible exception that we are not as obsessed with egalité like the French are, mostly because we do not claim paternity of the modern concept. For us, the main...

Let me put it this way: when our politicians were campaigning for us to join the EU, they just said "FREE MONEY!". Any debate just revolved around "the country will get lots of subsidies". And even now, as soon as enlargement or anything else EU is talked about (including the constitution)...

Yes it is - any serious top notch history book tells it (the schoolbooks and the lesser books only mention that the 'monarchy was overthrown on October 5th, 1910). Note that there *was* fighting before the white flag showed up... and it wasn't a war, just a coup. It's just that things there...

Thank you for remembering, lexico... :cool: Though when I saw the title, I thought you might have known that the 5th of October is not only the anniversary of the Republic in October 5th, 1910, but also of the Monarchy, because the Kingdom of Portugal was (at least officially, though...

Very well, yours and Maciamos' comments about that are right. I am sorry :sorry: Yet, over 400 current japanese words come from portuguese, and it is estimated that in the XVIth century over 4,000 portuguese words were used. And NOT only katakana words. Examples: ???V?A (pai), ?p?g...

I can give some reasons, and I'm not even anti-turkish: 1. Turkey does not recognize Cyprus. How can we even negotiate with someone that does not recongize one of us? 2. We are having a lot of problems absorving the new eastern european countries. Rumania and Bulgaria (and soon Croatia) will...

Are you sure you're happy in Japan :? From my admiteddly limited POV, I'd say you are probably bound to have tons of issues with the way japanese society works... :relief:

The Turkish issue always was a difficult one for Europe. Let us not dawdle much around minor points: the issue regarding Turkey is RELIGION. After all, Eastern Thrace lies clearly in Europe (denying it would imply Constantinople is not European, something that nobody would admit), and most...

Germany? Though industrial achievements come to mind, the biggest german influence is definitely on thought and ideas. And not only philosophical ones - the whole concept of modern warfare can be traced directly back to Germany. As for Marx, I think an internationalist communist would consider...

You mean that the americans don't know the pleasure of dining out with your friends from 19h00 PM to 01h00 AM, where people talk about all kinds of things at the table? :souka: Heck, if that happened here our political life would break down, as it revolves around talking for hours at the...