I’d say “camaraderie” with the vowel in palm, and “comrade” with the vowel in trap.

My impression is that com-rad is associated with the USA and com-raid is associated with Britain and Ireland. I’m not sure what the situation is for other English-speaking countries, but if I were to hazard a guess, one pronunciation over the other might be associated with the relative prestige or influence of British and American English for that person, for instance if you learned the word through American media you might pronounce it in an American way. I’m not an expert, though.

I personally say com-rad.

Betteridge’s law of headlines

Edit: It is somewhat amusing how the top comment says “[This article] adds fuel to the already loud and hysterical Arab claims that Israel is a colonialist power seeking to take their countries.” — I mean, yeah, this article is manufacturing consent for the establishment of a Reichskommissariat Libanon. Zionists, it would seem, can look naked colonialism right in the face and simply say that it “adds fuel to the hysterical claim” of colonialism.

There’s none so blind as those who will not see, as the saying goes…

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Well, that’s at least closer to right. I would recommend you look more into sign languages and International Sign on your own.

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Dividing Palestine into 24 sectors centered on al-Quds like that insane map of the “Central European Union”

“Some damned foolish thing in the Levant”

Satanyahoo

I’m gonna be honest, I read this as “Satanya-hoo” instead of “Satan-yahoo” at first. Yes, as in the Gabriel Dropout character.

I know that you’re referring to when he first took office, but Netanyahu is really about as old as “Israel” itself. He was in his mother’s belly when the “Ink Flag” was raised, when the Zionist Entity joined the United Nations, when the Zionist Entity commemorated the first anniversary of its declaration of “independence”, when the Green Line was set. Netanyahu was the Entity’s first PM to have been born after the Entity’s declaration of “independence”, and there have only been two others since then.

So, you know, time is relative, basically.

So you’re saying you’re in favor of Deaf people having a set of common signs to use when communicating with people from different countries, but you don’t want this to replace the local sign languages? Because if that’s what you’re getting at, then that’s just International Sign, isn’t it? That already exists and is widely used at international Deaf events.

If you were to force all the Deaf people of the world to use the same language, Deaf people would still communicate with their local communities far more often than communities in other countries, which means that neologisms and accents and so forth would gradually develop and accumulate, until there would eventually once again be hundreds of different regional sign languages — unless you were also continually suppressing Deaf people’s attempts to control their own languages, which is both a terrible thing to do and also not particularly sustainable in the long run.

…So by imposing a “Universal Sign Language”, you would’ve really just eradicated an enormous source of understudied language diversity and global cultural heritage, in order to not-solve a non-issue. Deaf people already have ways to communicate across language boundaries that they’re perfectly satisfied with, including, among others, the international auxiliary pidgin language used in the above video.

How the heck has nobody mentioned Lupin III yet?!

Yes, they do, but I’m just confused about why you think different sign languages should have the same sign.

Sorry, are you implying that sign languages are just engineered representations of spoken languages? Because if you are, those are called MCLs (manually coded languages), and are completely different from sign languages.

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It does not.

Ughhh but I just really love eating cake whilst also possessing it for future consumption…

Whoever made that first map forgot to color in a pretty big stretch of land between Mexico and Canada. How embarrassing!