Show #57: Vladimir Putin: 'Dictatorial Thug' or Anti-Imperialist Stalwart?

Is there anyone else who can't seem to even receive the show. I am logged into Blogtalk and have refreshed and re-linked from SOTT several times. No Show here.
 
Finally got it. Last refresh showed a red bar stating 'live'. (that was not there before) Anyway, clicked on it and here I am! Strange though. That has never happened before.
 
Freya said:
Finally got it. Last refresh showed a red bar stating 'live'. (that was not there before) Anyway, clicked on it and here I am! Strange though. That has never happened before.
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That's happened to me before when I tried to start listening a minute before the show actually started -- it usually worked when I refreshed too.

The sound quality is clear now -- someone did something that fixed it!
 
Dis said:
The exception I took was as a native English speaker to describe Putin as obscure was inaccurate. Obscure indicates, in modern English parlance, unknown to a wide audience, not as you put forward, an unknown quantity. I would expect to have it taken as read, especially on this site, that all the political 'leaders' of the modern world have a public image quite separate to their personal and (true) political selves.
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Native English speaker from which English speaking country? I've learned that native English speakers from UK often use words differently from Americans.

For example: the word "revise". What is your definition of this word and how would you use it?
 
As English has become, due to the technology of the Anglo-American dominance of the world (gods/us help us!), the lingua franca of the BBM, I've learned that native English speakers from the USA often use words differently from those from GB :P

To revise is to re-appraise, to change one's opinion due to new information, to change due to the ability of having the power to re-write what is accepted.

I tried to apologise for ruffling feathers (and bit my tongue, knowing the noise to information ratio skew inherent in online communications), and tried to return to observing on this forum (despite a call in the past here to get off the fence, a stance I concur with btw).
 
Sadly the show keeps cutting out for large chunks of time for me. Also at beginning was loud interference. Plus volume 100% but when it does get through can hardly hear. Nothing broadcasting at the moment.

Maybe due to the topic. Another great man.
 
happyliza said:
Sadly the show keeps cutting out for large chunks of time for me. Also at beginning was loud interference. Plus volume 100% but when it does get through can hardly hear. Nothing broadcasting at the moment.

Maybe due to the topic. Another great man.
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Happened here too, just had to refresh browser and page.

Excellent show BTW :rockon:
 
Just to let you know, it's not me interfering with the show, probably just the full Moon :P
 
Thanks for the show, everyone, it was very good :cool2: Thanks also for addressing the Corbett report pieces from earlier this week -- I had posted one of them on FB a couple days ago because I thought it included a couple of interesting points, but it was good to hear your deconstruction of it.
 
Dis said:
To revise is to re-appraise, to change one's opinion due to new information, to change due to the ability of having the power to re-write what is accepted.
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That's the American definition.

In England and Ireland, when students are studying for a test, they are "revising".
 
Dis said:
I tried to apologise for ruffling feathers
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Not sure what you mean by "ruffling feathers" but the fact of the matter is you were simply wrong, and yet insisted you were right.
 
I am British English, Laura. I am cognisant of the adverb derived from 'revise' indicative of swotting up to get further up the academic ladder to 'prove' ones worth to society.
I am also European.
I am also a Human of Earth.
I am also a being from infinity, a soul framed in flesh, a finite mortal aiming for truth for myself and those with which I come into contact.
 
Dis said:
I am British English, Laura. I am cognisant of the adverb derived from 'revise' indicative of swotting up to get further up the academic ladder to 'prove' ones worth to society.
I am also European.
I am also a Human of Earth.
I am also a being from infinity, a soul framed in flesh, a finite mortal aiming for truth for myself and those with which I come into contact.

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Hey Perceval, you got all snarky, not me.
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Hi Dis,

you seem to take this very personally, when it really isn't personal. And there's nothing snarky about Perceval's response to you, it's just an observation. The replies you received were a result of people wondering why you would be so nitpicking about a specific term that didn't suit you, when what's really important here is that this is a very interesting topic for many people. Perhaps you could look into why you are feeling triggered in this way?
 
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