@sslaia that, and even more. Russian school students learn about six: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, and prepositional. In advanced linguistics, even more than six are identified, but there's no consensus on how to call them (vocative, partitive, etc.)

@clacke except Japanese is ACTUALLY not related to anything :)

So I heard this on a podcast, as a conversation between two Americans:
— "How did you learn Russian?"
— "I went to the University of Vermont, and I needed to choose a language, and I learned Latin in highschool, and it wasn't for me and I wanted to choose a language not even remotely similar to Latin, so I kind of randomly chose Russian."

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And that's all I remember, doctor.

(Explanation, just in case you need it: Latin is an Indo-European language, and so is Russian, which already makes them related. So is English, but Russian preserves ancient Indo-European features, such as noun cases, much more than English does, and in that regard, it's even more similar to Latin. So it's not remote at all.)

I was about to write a post about Zionism, but, unlike lots of other people, when I write about such a sensitive topic I try to do proper research first.

As I was doing this research, I discovered that the Esperanto word for "case-sensitive" is "uskla", which is derived from the suffix of the words "majuscule" and "miniscule", and this is awesome.

@evan Um... I'm really surprised about this result. Some of the worst wars in U.N. history have started since he took office. Ethiopia, Burma, Ukraine, Gaza. Isn't the U.N.'s whole point to prevent wars?

I don't think it's necessarily his personal fault, but he doesn't seem to be very helpful either. (What would be helpful? For example, trying to expel Russia from the Security Council.)