Thread: University of Tartu, University of Latvia

[quote=bad manners]

Originally Posted by joysof

Originally Posted by "bad manners":2s3uwwcu

Originally Posted by joysof

I'm not sure that the 'Yiddish in Nazi Germany' parallel stands up.

Look up the definition of 'almost' in your favourite dictionary, joysof.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=almost

One of your less sensible posts, that. We all - except Nonna, perhaps - know what 'almost' means: it implies proximity. There isn't any.

The Jews in Germany were labeled, and that label entitled them to less rights and more suffering than those non-labeled. Replace "Jews" with "Russians", and "Germany" with "Latvia", and hopefully you shall see that the rest applies verbatim.[/quote:2s3uwwcu]

Grammar: 'fewer rights'.

Sorry, bm, but when you talk about 'almost' and 'verbatim', I expect a little more. Where's the Latvian equivalent of the Enabling Act or the Citizenship Law? What goes on with the Russians in the Baltic these days is a 'то отлив, то прилив' state of affairs and comparisons with Hitlerian Germany are not far short of odious. Unless you have something dramatic to share...