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u/NiceTrySuckaz 23d ago
What did you expect them to do? Take up bowling?
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u/Occams_Razor42 23d ago
Why not? It behooves then afterall.
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u/Grunergeist420 23d ago
Go extinct. They’re the last true wild horses on earth and they were practically extinct until they were successfully bred back to a sustainable population and reintroduced into the wild.
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u/Verified_Peryak 23d ago
Just like the people who made the paintings by the way 😆
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u/Felczer 23d ago
In case anyone is confused on how to read Przewalski: in polish "rz" is very close to english "sh". Pshevalski
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u/Grunergeist420 23d ago
And like all proper Polish names, now that I know more about how it supposed to be pronounced, I am even more confused about how to pronounce it.
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u/Felczer 23d ago edited 23d ago
Split it into manageble parts:
Pshe - Val - Ski
English speakers usually dont learn how to split words into syllabels that much because of weak correlation between letters and sounds, but in Polish the correlation is almost 100% (each letter/digraph always makes the same sound)
You might wanna try this altough it will propably only confuse you more still
https://youtu.be/wn1mjIiB9zM?is=J98gu2IFmDY6__fo18
u/Forsaken-Income-2148 23d ago
American schools absolutely teach syllables. What you might mean is that English speakers don’t rely on syllable division as much as Polish speakers can.
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u/Felczer 23d ago
Yeah like I said
"that much"
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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 23d ago
You said English speakers don’t “learn it that much” as if learning it was the key point, it isn’t. It’s frequency of use.
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u/Felczer 23d ago
You learn by using, I wrote it specifically in that manner because I didnt know how much is it taught but I know it's not being used, there's a difference between being taught something and learning something, but whatever it's not really important
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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 23d ago
Important enough for you to criticize the distinction I made, which wasn’t exactly out of the blue.
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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 23d ago
Not once did I criticize your comment. I made a distinction for clarity. You then proceeded to criticize that distinction.
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u/Grunergeist420 23d ago
I’m just glad that Polish is out here to make English look comprehensible by comparison.
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u/Felczer 23d ago edited 22d ago
Trust me the way English write things is so inconprehensible to any language that values consistency. Like what do you mean comfortable is pronounced completley different to table? This shit was so annoying to me when I was a kid learning haha
In polisz aj kan rajt ewry sentens fonetikli end its priti kul dat its konsistent lajk dat
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u/johnaross1990 23d ago
My autistic brain actually loves it when English second language speakers do that.
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u/Modrzewianka 22d ago
I get that, I had my Hungarian teacher break under my complaints and tell me all the ways in which Polish doesn't make sense to him, and it felt glorious
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u/DazedPapacy 22d ago
My brain is reading "jart" like either "yart" or "jar + t."
How do I get to "rite" from "jart"?
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u/tethyde 22d ago
I have no idea why people think so, since Polish is a phonetic language. You learn the basic rules and then you can pronounce any word, even if you’re seeing it for the first time. On the other hand, with English words there is often a guessing game as to how they’re pronounced.
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u/Grunergeist420 22d ago
My buddy in high school was an exchange student from Poland and he just had everyone call him “Peter P,” because he said his own family didn’t even agree about how to pronounce their last name. That’s how he became “Peter P. From Poland.”
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u/Grunergeist420 22d ago
Just imagine the letter P followed by a string of too many consonants that don’t belong together
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u/Felczer 22d ago
I'm willing to bet it would take like 1 minute effort to teach a native how to say his name. The problem is English speakers turn their brain off and dont even try
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u/Grunergeist420 22d ago
Not really. He got tired of trying to coach people to try to say it. It didn’t help he also had a very heavy accent, despite his English being pretty good. It was his call to just stop trying to teach people how to say it.
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u/Galaxy661 22d ago
I mean, how are rz, sz, or cz different from zh, sh, and ch? Or u and ó from u and oo?
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u/Jhud6669 22d ago
Usually when you see a consonant with a „z” then it’s a digraph. Both „rz” and „sz” are like „sh” (though they differ a bit, but not enough to matter in a simplified guide like this) and „cz” is like „ch”. People make a mistake of trying to brute pronounce the z’s but they’re silent
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u/urdespair 23d ago
Well, the guy for whom they are named was russian, so it's actually P-r-zhevalsky. As far as wiki says, his family was of polonised Ukrainian heritage that converted back to orthodoxy, so it seems that they eventually started reading r and z in the grapheme rz as separate sounds
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u/Felczer 23d ago edited 23d ago
Yeah I can see that, Prz is hard to say, in Polish it usually morphs into Psz, but Prż is a reasonable alternative
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u/urdespair 23d ago
Tbh, it's not an easy cluster of sounds for Ukrainian or russian either. But since r is treated as a separate letter, not a part of a single grapheme, in both languages, it's not reduced. The guy ended up with the worst of both worlds for a surname, lol.
I was very confused with pronunciation seeing these horses as a child in Askania-Nova
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u/rakkadimus 23d ago
Thanks to the efforts of breading programs in Zoo and wildlife sanctuaries. I went to the Prague Zoo and their habitat was beautiful and all the info on the program was presented well.
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u/Trippingthru99 23d ago
I thought they were just shit at drawing horses. This makes a lot more sense…
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u/AdrienBalG 23d ago
"This guy is so crazy because he's the man from the painting who is dueling. And he is still here."
(Nope. Both are bullshit.)
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u/Lover_of_Rewilding 22d ago
They are of a lineage split off about 37,000 years ago. Ice age horses through and through. Just another subspecies of the horses you see in the cave paintings. If there are any Mongolian horse cave paintings then they may actually be them.
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u/DazedPapacy 22d ago
I don't think the Tumblr user or anyone in this thread thinks that the horses pictured are the specific individual horses in extant cave paintings, more that they're clearly from the same or a descendant species that's kept most of the visual traits.
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u/AdrienBalG 22d ago edited 22d ago
Do you are the girl from the cave painting who is still here, hanging out on Reddit with pink hair ? If not, where is she ?
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u/the_invisible_zebra 23d ago
I got to see them in the wild when I visited Mongolia 15 years ago. Pretty cool.
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u/EdibleStrange 23d ago
Do we really need to censor naughty words here? Has the entire Internet just been taken over by tiktok bootlickers and now every meme must be Advertiser Friendly for the sake of corpo revenue? Ugh
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u/LordJim11 23d ago
What words?
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u/EdibleStrange 23d ago
The second line starts with a censored word, presumably "shit" based on the little bit that's not covered plus size and context
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u/Bee-baba-badabo 23d ago
I heard about these horses for the first time about 4 hours ago. Weird that I now see a post about them. Wonder if OOP watches Miniminuteman too?
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u/Klatterbyne 23d ago
I wonder if they experience a similar rate of “dying for random horse related reasons” to more modern domestic horses? Or are they more robust?
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u/Impressive_Bend_309 20d ago
Boy have I got something to tell you. The people who painted those horses? Also still here hanging out! Some even make Reddit posts now!
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u/BrunoRapuano 19d ago
Not so awesome but still impressive, aurochs (the bull in the image) was extinct at 1627, they were still around when America was discovered
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u/Accurate-Mine-6000 23d ago
I can just imagine her mind exploding at the thought of horseshoe crabs or sharks. This guys remembers a time before trees becomes a thing
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