Usually mongol khagans were not in vanguards..does that give you a hint?
But vanguard gets the best piece of burning,looting,pillaging and....muhahahaha
True. An army, (unlike a neapolitan army around 1350 ) may cach and destry a vanguard though but not the army following it. So the vanguard guys get the bitter drink.
But if they accidentaly winn they get to burn,pillage,loot and.....muhahhaha before the others, that's worthy of risk. Anyway wasn't that Mongolian vanguard that defeated Russians at Kalka in 1223, imagine how much of read hair chicks they got after it, tell me you wouldn't risk?
Yeah and centuries later russians built a tank base exactly on the supposed burial of Ghenghis So I've read..
Don't mess with Ruskies,they will have their revenge sooner ot later and then there will be Russian thank bases all over the world.By then of course tanks will be uterrly obsolete...and used as recreational vehicles
By that time the pan-Western coalition will descend from the moon to retake earth. Sorry, I really wanted to type that.
@clandest this is for you... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14sJ5...eature=related
He,he I think that Odo would like it to Check this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dktjVfkeVkQ Little more blood and little less chicks...
I liked this Obilic fellow. He was kick ass! This is how a man treat a sultan or khan
Hello everyone! My knowledge of the Middle Ages is limited to basic stuff from equally basic lectures in university but I always wanted to learm more about it. My current studies keep me busy with Late Antiquity, Latin and Greek but as soon as I have the opportunity I would like to read more books about it. Since I don't know much about the most importants authors I would begin with the classic authors who wrote in my first language such as Duby and Le Goff. Besides, I would like to know even more how wrong SigniferOne is concerning his views on Middle Ages. I find nearly everything he writes an insult to history and historians (but amusing at the same time). I know a couple of university teachers specialized in Antiquity who would strongly disagree with him. Forgive my sentences if their structure is a little weird, I'm rather tired now. Salutations
Actually that actor who played Obilic in movie is pretty nasty guy in real life as well,a couple of years ago he killed some guy in bar for some insult and then he fled to USA, very good actor but very bad temper...
Greetings Flavius A! Sig was always like that, never mind, Le Goff and Duby are intrguing. I suggest Marc Bloch and Ladourie's Mountillou too..sure you are familiar with them. So, a native french speaker from Canada, I know a girl here in Hungary, born in Toronto, but she is sad, she has no canadian accent in french
@Flavious greetings friend! You have been such a long time member as I but only 20 posts! Maybe we will hear more from you here oh and by the way I am looking for advisers like you for an RPG I am developing check it out here if you are interested to know more
Greetings to you! @Armatus Sorry Armatus, I'm afraid I'm yoo busy with my studies to work for your mod. I do wish you luck for your project. @Odovacar Yes, accents are interesting. I do believe the hatred of french shared by many people is based on the french accent (from people from France to be precise....) which seems, well, unmanly in many cases. Did you ever had the chance of hearing many francophone accents?
No, Flavius. And the girl discouraged me from learning french. She speaks it as a native language, and when I tried to say "Je suis" she laughed for mins
A shame she was that rude. I heard hungarian has 16 declensions, which seems, well, complicated. But I guess some are rarely used or used only for specific situations, for instance: I am near the house, around the house, inside the house, on top of the house (don't know if this example is clear enough to be understood...). One of my friends is trying to learn finnish which has 14 declensions and he says it's quite difficult to master the language. I believe finnish is vaguely related to hungarian and estonian which are in the same group of languages if I remember correctly. Would you care to tell me more about it and/or to correct my statement?
The difficulty is that some words mutate according to the declension. It's a phonetical thing. Now you need to know the special case you cant learn the rule. For example "with the house" ház (house)+val (with) result: "házzal" instead of "házval" because of "total assimiliation" a phonetical rule. The inflection adapts itself to the word ending. And yet much difficulties as with every inflective language. Hungarian speakers find it difficult to understand time cases, like continous present tense, prateritum perfect and inperfect, in modern hungarian there are only 3 time cases. Hungarian is a finnugoric language, related to finnish and estonian. As with french, the noise-sounds are dificult and the pronunciation. I understand much of it because of latin. I wanna learn it for career possibilities and for Montesquieu
Thanks for the examples. As for french, like you said much of the vocabulary is similar to latin and also to english. I once saw some numbers about the amount of words that are spelled exactly the same way in french and english but only the pronunciation differs, examples: table, rude, accent. This amount gets even higher if we include words which have a -ty ending in english like celebrity (célébrité in french). I have to learn german and I think its about as hard as french. Since I think you know german, you should be able to at least read it without problems some day, if this is not already the case
Hey Cland, a video to boast our fights too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evMrdW3bYdY
