ISIS/ISIL conflict in Syria/Iraq (No OpEd, No Politics)

Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

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(related to north-to-Hama):
after recent gains
Yesterday at 2:39 PM
Jura said:
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today Government attacked again in "C" below, I read in Twitter; pro-Government account has said they got to Ma'an (above; it's Ti'an below) but had to withdraw, so I use this version:
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Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

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now I watched to about third of
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in Aleppo

(the interpreter speaks with a horrible accent, but my mine is worse :) actually I often mispronounce words because I don't know where to put stress, as in for example ...
[malatók] (this is correct)
[mólotok] (that's what I would probably say, and if I saw I mispronounced, I would change it to
[malótok]
LOL!
 
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delft

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Jura said:
now I watched to about third of
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in Aleppo

(the interpreter speaks with a horrible accent, but my mine is worse :) actually I often mispronounce words because I don't know where to put stress, as in for example ...
[malatók] (this is correct)
[mólotok] (that's what I would probably say, and if I saw I mispronounced, I would change it to
[malótok]
LOL!
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I can imagine when you are used to a language that always puts the stress on the first part of a word.
 
Jura The idiot

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delft said:
I can imagine when you are used to a language that always puts the stress on the first part of a word.
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... and my other language puts it on the last but one syllable :)

the problem with Russian is every native speaker knows where to put stress (the rule is there is no rule :) so it must sound silly when I mispronounce some common word ... but I'm heading off topic again ... to Carstensz Top LOLOL
 
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delft

Brigadier
Jura said:
... and my other language puts it on the last but one syllable :)

the problem with Russian is every native speaker knows where to put stress (the rule is there is no rule :) so it must sound silly when I mispronounce some common word ... but I'm heading off topic again ... to Carstensz Top LOLOL
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I remember a Russian word the meaning of which depend on where you put the stress. The corresponding Dutch word is very different, has both meanings but consists of a single syllable. :)
What is you other language?
 
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Jura The idiot

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delft said:
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I remember a Russian word the meaning of which depend on where you put the stress. The corresponding Dutch word is very different, has both meanings but consists of a single syllable. :)
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in exceptional cases, stress should be marked in a Russian text to avoid confusion; in naval literature I noticed
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which could mean something like contract (бро́ня) OR armor (броня́) ... but speaking of naval terms, my problem could be something major like confusing снаряд with заряд (projectile and propellant in typical context) LOL

as for Dutch, I like how you guys pronounce 'g' in words like
gracht (channels)
Gogh (the painter)
in the past I asked some Dutch people to repeatedly say this for me (no way I could learn it LOL)

delft said:
What is you other language?
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I thought you knew it's Polish; I come from the region with, ehm, complex history, and when I was a teenager, I loved to talk to somebody who remembered how it was in
  1. Austro-Hungarian Empire (capital: Vienna)
  2. Poland since 1918 (capital: Warsaw)
  3. Czechoslovakia since 1919 (capital: Prague)
  4. Poland since 1938 (capital: Warsaw)
  5. Germany (capital: Berlin; according to Hitla, people in this part of Silesia had been Germans, so he merged this region with Reich)
  6. Czechoslovakia since 1945 (capital: Prague)
  7. Communistic Czechoslovakia since 1948 (capital: Prague)
  8. Czecho-Slovak Federation since 1990 (now I had to check LOL and there was only one capital: Prague)
  9. Czech Republic since 1993 (capital: Prague)
and during this period, that person had moved the place of living within about ten miles; never been to Vienna and Berlin; to Warsaw once, and to Prague twice as far as I know

now I'm very saddened (as you already guessed, that person passed away long time ago :-(
but I won't delete this ... it's veering totally off topic, but delft we may go on in Private Messages (try find the one-syllable word you mentioned)
 
Jura The idiot

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Jura said:
I think I've said this before: I like Propaganda :)

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... so:
Russia’s Defense Ministry slams British minister’s allegations on Syria
The UK’s Defense Secretary Michael Fallon in an interview with the BBC said that Russia was determined to prolong the civil war in Syria
Russia’s Defense Ministry’s spokesman Igor Konashenko slammed a recent statement by the UK’s Defense Secretary Michael Fallon’s as unintelligible in which he alleged that Russia was determined to prolong the civil war in Syria.

"The British defense secretary should have dwelled on what the UK has done to help the war-torn country, before making unintelligible statements on Russia’s alleged responsibility for the deteriorating situation in Syria," Konashenkov noted.

Fallon had earlier said in an interview with the BBC that "Russia is determined to prolong this civil war."

Konashenkov pointed out that Russia had been delivering humanitarian aid to the Syrian people on a regular basis. "Tell me, Mr. Fallon, how many settlements have returned to a peaceful life thanks to British assistance, how many pounds of humanitarian aid has the UK delivered to the Syrians, how many square feet of territory has your country liberated from the terrorists?" Russia’s Defense Ministry’s spokesman asserted.

"Where was the UK when IS (terrorist group, outlawed in Russia) had nearly reached the Mediterranean shore and almost turned Syria into a terrorist caliphate as had happened in Libya thanks to your efforts? You had been calling the shots on the Syrian aerial domain before the Russian Aerospace Force arrived on the scene. So who should be held accountable for creating and encouraging IS and Al-Qaeda’s offshoot Jabhat al-Nusra (also outlawed in Russia), whom the Russian Aerospace Force has been successfully fighting?" Konashenkov stressed.
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Jura The idiot

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(related to the mountains north to
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, close to Turkish border):

Jul 1, 2016
Jura said:
Jan 31, 2016

the tide turned, and the above maps are kinda usable again ...
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... and it may happen they'll be usable again (later in summer the tide turned ... twice :) maybe more times?), anyway: I've read in Twitter Rebels attacked in the area probably in this map from the above collection:
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let's wait and see
 
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