Hi Pat, I think the Sunday prayers for Putin are a good idea. It may be a much more dangerous time in that conflict than most of us realize. I hear a lot of pundit opinions on news reports about 'Putin is probably bluffing about use of battlefield nuclear weapons' and 'if US weapons are used on Russia, probably a gesture at most in return', but the upside-down probability curve may mean that the assessments of what Putin will or will not 'probably' do are incorrect. Putin may take actions that catch the West unprepared. In the big picture, Russia and Ukraine have had declining birth rates for years, and killing off large numbers of eligible bachelors may threaten their long-term cultural survival.
'Otstavil' is a very mysterious caption. I have been studying Russian with the Pimsleur Language program for several years, as I have a feeling that there will be refugees in my part of Canada who speak Russian and who may need medical help. I am slowly getting a feel for it, at least sometimes.
'Otstavil' is a verb in the past tense, past perfect I believe. Something that was done once and is not ongoing. It is also masculine. A man would say "Yah otstavil," while a woman would say "Yah otstavila" to say the same thing about themselves. "Ot" is a prefix that means 'from' at least some of the time--and can be a separate word at times.
Looking at the picture I drew when I woke up that day, it looks like I actually wrote 'ot stavil'-- Two words. What they might mean changes, depending on the context in which they appear. 'Yah ot stavil' (Yah = I, first person pronoun) means "I left it." But change the "I" to a "He" -- 'On ot stavil' means "He put it away." Change it to "they" -- 'Oni ot stavil' comes up as "They didn't put it" in Google translate. If I add the word for "there" (tam), 'Oni tam ot stavil' comes out as "They put it there."
Add a negative 'ne', and 'Yah ne ot stavil' becomes "I didn't put it down."
The infinitive 'stavit-' means 'to put something upright in a particular place.'
Taking a step back from all that, if it is Putin, he may be thinking about making an announcement along the lines of "I have restored everything in Ukraine to its proper state," and calling the whole thing off. This seems very unlikely, but he IS standing in an upside down probability curve....
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Date: 2024-06-15 07:49 am (UTC)I think the Sunday prayers for Putin are a good idea. It may be a much more dangerous time in that conflict than most of us realize. I hear a lot of pundit opinions on news reports about 'Putin is probably bluffing about use of battlefield nuclear weapons' and 'if US weapons are used on Russia, probably a gesture at most in return', but the upside-down probability curve may mean that the assessments of what Putin will or will not 'probably' do are incorrect. Putin may take actions that catch the West unprepared.
In the big picture, Russia and Ukraine have had declining birth rates for years, and killing off large numbers of eligible bachelors may threaten their long-term cultural survival.
'Otstavil' is a very mysterious caption. I have been studying Russian with the Pimsleur Language program for several years, as I have a feeling that there will be refugees in my part of Canada who speak Russian and who may need medical help. I am slowly getting a feel for it, at least sometimes.
'Otstavil' is a verb in the past tense, past perfect I believe. Something that was done once and is not ongoing. It is also masculine. A man would say "Yah otstavil," while a woman would say "Yah otstavila" to say the same thing about themselves. "Ot" is a prefix that means 'from' at least some of the time--and can be a separate word at times.
Looking at the picture I drew when I woke up that day, it looks like I actually wrote 'ot stavil'-- Two words. What they might mean changes, depending on the context in which they appear.
'Yah ot stavil' (Yah = I, first person pronoun) means "I left it."
But change the "I" to a "He" -- 'On ot stavil' means "He put it away."
Change it to "they" -- 'Oni ot stavil' comes up as "They didn't put it" in Google translate.
If I add the word for "there" (tam), 'Oni tam ot stavil' comes out as "They put it there."
Add a negative 'ne', and 'Yah ne ot stavil' becomes "I didn't put it down."
The infinitive 'stavit-' means 'to put something upright in a particular place.'
Taking a step back from all that, if it is Putin, he may be thinking about making an announcement along the lines of "I have restored everything in Ukraine to its proper state," and calling the whole thing off.
This seems very unlikely, but he IS standing in an upside down probability curve....