I'm back in Facebook jail

[pfitz59]

I told a troll to go back to Russia. I'm a bully.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

1. On the bright side,

you'll always have a home and plenty of friends on DU.

Kudos to you for standimg up for what's right.

[pfitz59]

3. Thanks

I'll hang out here. The Trolls are outta control, yet seems FB leaves them alone...

[Tetrachloride]

2. Be more indirect by posting a picture

of something Russian like Chernobyl

[Hugh_Lebowski]

5. PERFECT!!! (nt)

[Vogon_Glory]

9. Or if it concerns asinine comments about water

Pix of beached fishing boats on dried-out. Portions of the Aral Sea and the Sea of Azov

[csziggy]

13. Except Chernobyl is actually in Ukraine

This might be more iconic for Russia:

Saint Basil's Cathedral in Red Square of Moscow is the most popular icon of Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. A Badge of Honour, by any measure AFAIC (nt)

[Chicago1980]

6. How long is your sentence?

[vercetti2021]

7. Haha

Guess they can't handle the truth. I'm surprised I haven't been hit with my 30 day yet. I usually call out people, just use selective wording and gifs to prevent someone from using my words to report.

[samnsara]

8. thats all it took? I should be in FB timeout then....

..i never call them russian tho ( because not all russians are evil) i just call them a russian bot then i block their ass

[Jim G.]

10. LOL!

[ailsagirl]

11. Hilarious!!

[orangecrush]

12. Is there a D.U. Lounge jail?

Asking for a friend.

[ailsagirl]

16. Tell your friend...

maybe someday!! (not)

[orangecrush]

18. I have...

[sakabatou]

14. Yeah, I've had that happen to me too.

[DFW]

15. Thanks for the warning

I almost never look at Facebook any more, but when I do, I'll just post my remark directly in Russian, make them work for it.

By the way, I often make posts on sites that really do attract a lot of Russian trolls. How to spot them? Russian has no articles (a, the) and is declined, like Latin. I.e., an ending often comes on the word where in English we would use a preposition before it.

For example, take the word "city." In Russian, that is "город," pronounced "GAW-rod." That is also "a city" and "the city." You have to figure out from the context which is meant, since "a" and "the" don't exist in Russian. To say "of the city," you say "города," pronounced "GAW-rod-ah." To say "of the cities," you would say, "городов," pronounced "GAW-rod-ov." A Russian just learning English, trying to say "a land full of cities" would say "land full cities." They are unsure where to put things in, since they don't exist in their language.

If you remember Rocky and Bullwinkle-- the spy, Natasha, would always say, "Look, Boris! Is Moose and Squirrel!" Russian doesn't have a verb "to be" in the present tense, either. If you want to say, "your mother is an aardvark," a Russian would say, "your mother aardvark!"

Happy troll hunting!

[ailsagirl]

17. Nice to know you can do that-- you're pretty much multi-lingual, aren't you?

German
Russian
English

[DFW]

20. And a few others:

Dutch
Swedish
Catalan
Italian
French
Spanish
Schwyzerdüütsch

I know smatterings of others (Polish, Japanese, Tagalog, e.g.), but am not really conversational in them.

[ailsagirl]

21. OMG!!! You're a true polyglot!!

[DFW]

22. My work and geographical situation demand it

I live in the German Rheinland (married to one of the friendlier natives) and travel to anywhere between three and six countries a week. I'd have to be some kind of idiot if I didn't learn the languages of the people I live and work with.

[ailsagirl]

23. It takes a great deal of intelligence to master that many languages.

My hat is off to you

[DFW]

24. It's less of an achievement than it sounds, believe me

I'm in contact with these people almost every day, and after decades, I'd have to be some kind of arrogant to expect all of them to speak English when I am working with them on their home turf. Besides, it leaves a lot less room for misunderstandings when I know what someone wants to say to me in their own language--not least when it concerns my wife, with whom I have always spoken German from day one.

Also, languages that share a similarity are always easier to learn than one from another group entirely. Therefore, Latin-based (so-called Romance) languages, such as French, Catalan, Italian and Spanish, are pretty easy to pick up once you know one of them. The same goes for the Germanic languages. The first one I learned was Swedish, grammatically by far the easiest of the group. Then came German, Swiss German, and then finally Dutch. The only one that was a little harder to get used to was Russian, with its heavily declined nouns, and two words for every verb. But I started early (high school) with Russian, so I could concentrate on it earlier than most of the others.

A language fades in one's mind if not used constantly, and I use all of mine on a regular basis. That's what keeps a language alive, at least to me. I'd probably be a fading old idiot if I had learned all this, and then gotten stuck working in some office in the USA somewhere, never needing to use them. The fact that I need to be able to answer the phone and speak in any of the languages I know is what keeps me aware and awake mentally. Plus, the friends I have? I'd never have them if I didn't speak their languages, as the depth needed to develop a true friend in a foreign culture will never be there if one of the friends doesn't know the other's language thoroughly. That constitutes riches no one can tax or measure in dollars or euros.

[wnylib]

26. I speak Castillian and a little (very little)

German.

I can understand some Portuguese and Italian because of the similarity to Castillian, but can't speak them. Same for written (but not spoken) French, by picking out the roots of words.

But, I am most fluent in northwestern Pennsylvanian, western New Yorkan, and eastern Ohioan.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

19. I've been there.

A post back in 2018 was found to offend a Repuke in 2020. It was a CNN news video!

[FakeNoose]

25. Their whole plan is to provoke you into responding somehow

... it doesn't really matter how you respond. They'll report whatever you say, and call it "hate speech" or some nonsense.

But if you don't respond, their ridiculous angry statement stands as the last word. So they win either way.

The only way you can win against those assholes is to report them first before they can report you. I know that goes against the grain for most liberals. That's why I find Facebook so tiresome. I haven't been on Facebook since early January, because I completely lost interest in feeding the trolls.