fark them and their inferior potassium.

Great, are they competing in some international sporting event that we can throw to them to make them feel better?

PC LOAD LETTER: Nice article.

Which was your favorite word?

Bah, a nation run by little girls...

Is it bad that I have a hard time keeping the more obscure *stan countries separate in my mind?

Great Success!!

Giving your country a name that ends with "stan" is so last century. Puh-leeze dictators, try to have a little more panache when giving your country a name.

He is my neighbor Nursultan Tuliagby. He is pain in my assholes. I get a window from a glass, he must get a window from a glass. I get a step, he must get a step. I get a newspaper article, he cannot afford. Great success!

FTFA: It said the earthquake was 1 km deep

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Atomic Spunk: Giving your country a name that ends with "stan" is so last century. Puh-leeze dictators, try to have a little more panache when giving your country a name.

Kazakhageddon?

ratman999: Atomic Spunk: Giving your country a name that ends with "stan" is so last century. Puh-leeze dictators, try to have a little more panache when giving your country a name.

Kazakhageddon?

I think he's just against stodgy old names from several decades ago. Kazakhstan, Kazakhmildred... ugh. Nowadays it's all about -aydens. Jayden, Cayden, Kazakhayden.

Go, kids! Smash the Jew chick before he hatches!

I was born in Kazakhstan so I'm really getting a kick out of some of these replies...

/Karaganda represent!

Atomic Spunk
Giving your country a name that ends with "stan" is so last century. Puh-leeze dictators, try to have a little more panache when giving your country a name.

That's going to cause a bit of confusion. Mind if we call you Bruce?

6.4? We wouldn't even get out of bed for one of those when I lived in Cali.

Uzbeks drank my battery fluid!

Uzbekistanians? I've been dealing with those sneaky Russian farks!

Atomic Spunk: Giving your country a name that ends with "stan" is so last century. Puh-leeze dictators, try to have a little more panache when giving your country a name.

It's just Persian for "-land". In fairness, there are probably Uzbeks and Kazakhs who can't sort out Greenland, Finnland, Deutschland, etc. and want these renamed to something more normal sounding.

ShannonKW: Atomic Spunk: Giving your country a name that ends with "stan" is so last century. Puh-leeze dictators, try to have a little more panache when giving your country a name.

It's just Persian for "-land". In fairness, there are probably Uzbeks and Kazakhs who can't sort out Greenland, Finnland, Deutschland, etc. and want these renamed to something more normal sounding.

Farsi? I thought it was Turkish.

djh0101010: Is it bad that I have a hard time keeping the more obscure *stan countries separate in my mind?

The only way you'll get a larger cluster of "stans" together is to have a bowling tournament in Milwaukee.

I notice the nearest city was Ferengara. Did the Ferengi bargain them down from a 7.0?

/Also, I would be more concerned with the series of 5+ off of the Greek isles that have been occurring lately.

Subby: you are a mad genius. +1 good job

1km deep? That's gonna cause some damage.

Uzbeks, the weak link in the great chain of socialism

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Very nice....

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Great Success!!

Damn it, I was gonna post that. Ah, screw it.

Possibly Chuck Norris in disguise.

airsickmoth: Uzbeks, the weak link in the great chain of socialism

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wedun: Farsi? I thought it was Turkish.

Basically, no.

I don't know any Turkish, but it is possible that Turkish uses it also. All the countries in a wide swath about old Persia have Persian loanwords in their languages. Persia used to be the center of culture and learning in the region as Rome used to be in Europe. The languages of places like Uzbekistan and Pakistan are full of Persian loanwords for the same reason English is full of Latin. At one time all the learned people were supposed know Latin, and they left us with a dog's breakfast of Latin vocabulary to use when we want to be pompous. The same thing happened with Persian in central Asia.

ShannonKW: wedun: Farsi? I thought it was Turkish.

Basically, no.

I don't know any Turkish, but it is possible that Turkish uses it also. All the countries in a wide swath about old Persia have Persian loanwords in their languages. Persia used to be the center of culture and learning in the region as Rome used to be in Europe. The languages of places like Uzbekistan and Pakistan are full of Persian loanwords for the same reason English is full of Latin. At one time all the learned people were supposed know Latin, and they left us with a dog's breakfast of Latin vocabulary to use when we want to be pompous. The same thing happened with Persian in central Asia.

Etymological nerdgasm.

ShannonKW: The languages of places like Uzbekistan and Pakistan

It also helps some of those languages are fairly closely related. So where as what became English borrowed some Latin by way of French mostly, these languages share a lot from the get go by being closely related. Indeed one of the families of Indo-European languages is the Indo-Iranian group, which has everything from modern Farsi to Kurdish to Hindi and even Nepali. And while the languages might not sound much alike, there are related words between the Indo-Iranian languages and English. Like the Hindi yoga, and the the English word yoke. Yoga means to join together, same as yoke.

WhyteRaven74:

*tips hat*

Looks like you're more on top of the linguistics than I am. In the narrow case of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan though I'd say the "-stan" was straightforwardly borrowed from Persian as I think Kazakh and Uzbek are Turkic languages.

It seems a lot turns on how the founders of a country want to align it culturally when they name it. Pakistan got a "stan" but when Bengal got their independence it got a "des", which means the same thing, only it's a home-grown word. It's not hard to see the statement they were making.

djh0101010: Is it bad that I have a hard time keeping the more obscure *stan countries separate in my mind?

Yes.

Rhino_man: airsickmoth: Uzbeks, the weak link in the great chain of socialism

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Do not give them money or matches...

and don't encourage them to gamble and drink.

ShannonKW: WhyteRaven74:

*tips hat*

Looks like you're more on top of the linguistics than I am. In the narrow case of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan though I'd say the "-stan" was straightforwardly borrowed from Persian as I think Kazakh and Uzbek are Turkic languages.

It seems a lot turns on how the founders of a country want to align it culturally when they name it. Pakistan got a "stan" but when Bengal got their independence it got a "des", which means the same thing, only it's a home-grown word. It's not hard to see the statement they were making.

I'm looking for that "des" in Bengal..... Could you point it out for me?

Why is it that "FPS Russia" keeps running through Olegs mind?

earthworm2.0: I'm looking for that "des" in Bengal..... Could you point it out for me?

The independent part of Bengal is called Bangladesh. I'm told that the "sh" is pronounced like an s. Bangaladesh == "Land of Bengal"

Thisss pleasssesss Cobra Commander...

Rhino_man: airsickmoth: Uzbeks, the weak link in the great chain of socialism

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They drank my battery fluid!

/old

And no one has mentioned the Kaboom! ad next to the article?

Was there supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom! next to the article? I did not see one, hmmmmm, this makes me very angry, very angry indeed. I'm as angry as an Uzbekistanian that has had an earthquake dropped on him by a neighbor.

God damn it fark, why must you teach me things?

Is that a desert country?

/blatantly trying to Dune-jack the thread
//great-grandfather of a sandworm would be 1 km-ish

It is a war over Potassium.