/int/ - International

>>18750 I once read Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus in what I believe was the original English version. And I mean from way back when. Surprisingly, the language was MUCH closer to German than it is now.

>>18750 >Spanish-American War First time I'm hearing about this. Qrd?

>>18755 it was in America fighting for California or something - watch Zorro, man

>>18790 Why were Spaniards in America?

>>18791 Vacation.

>>18792 I mean specifically North America, I thought they were further south

>>18793 Ever wondered why so many Californian cities have Spanish names? No?

>>18794 Tejas and Nuevo Mexico too

>>18793 >I thought they were further south tordesillas, man there are even spanish cities in alaska like Cordova and Valdez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdez,_Alaska#Spanish_beginnings but the spanish american war was in the caribbean and the pacific, spain didnt have any territory in the mainland by 1989 when it started

>>18797 >by 1989 when it started 1898*

>>18795 Las Vegas, Nevada

I read The World According to Clarkson by Jeremy Clarkson No overarching theme, each chapter is a story in itself. Non-fiction, beyond the fictitious parts he comes up with. He wrote real interesting things about migration. How human traffickers using fast motorboats to ship migrants from Albania to Italy, and that it's a great business for some, and that lots of migrants are forced to do crime for this mafia to so he can pay for his fee and save his family from being sold as slaves and prostitutes, and that the Afghans are coming. Elsewhere he also mentions how migrants try to get through the Channel into England. The book wasn't written in 2025, neither in 2015 at the start of the "migration crisis", but in 2001. This raises the question: when did this crisis start actually?

>>18755 It was a war between the US and Spain in the late 1800s, probably around 1880s. Cuba and the Philipenes had been engaged in a civil war and the US had recently concluded it's civil war. A US warship blew up in Cuba, probably die to its coal fire engine. US sensationalist newspapers blamed it on the Spanish. The US was also opposed to the occupation of Cuba due to the Monroe doctrine. The US won the war and captured a lot of Spanish islands, like Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.

>>18755 It was a very important war. The result - occupying the Flippines and Cuba - led the US to start to build her own client empire. You see they thought about what to do with those guys, they did not want colonies, but also did not want to integrate them as US states for they saw the population of said islands as childlike savages (like how they viewed dem injuns) that has no place in the enlightened and civilized US. So they set up regimes and made agreements with them that they can intervene if something happens see Cuba's Constitution, 1906.

>>18754 >Surprisingly, the language was MUCH closer to German than it is now. Interdesting. The grammar and vocabulary aren't that different from today. Do you mean the prose style? What I notice when reading old books like that is the long sentences with many clauses and commas, and a more poetic way of describing emotions and simple events. Is modern German like that?

>>18898 >not want to integrate them as US states Being a US territory is separate from being a US state. Territories have to apply for statehood, Congress has to approve it, and once a territory becomes a state it becomes integrated into the US government and cannot leave. I don't think the Philippines ever applied for statehood. They give me a headache because they boast about how they fought the US and lost, then complain that the US didn't do enough to protect them during WW2, then complain that the US rebuilt Japan and not them after they got their independence...

>>18910 To be fair, they have a lot to be mad about. We killed up to 10% of their population in a war to conquer them after liberating them, and if you've ever played HoI4 the lack of defense of the Philippines IRL is inconceivable.

>>18903 I can't give you any details, it was about two decades ago. I just remember that the part you quoted was my impression. That stuck with me.

>>18925 There are ancient terms like "wherefore". It's basically the German Wofür. Many English speakers don't know that it just means why.

Has the previous book thread sank?

>>19019 Had the same thought and was shocked to not find it anymore, so unless it has been deleted by the mods I guess it died…

>>19019 just like Kursk

I read the book 20000 miles under the sea for the first time and was very confused that it wasn't about diving 20000 miles deep but about traveling for 20000 miles along the sea. Slightly disappointed tbh.

>>19111 >very confused that it wasn't about diving 20000 miles deep why did you even think it was about diving? maybe it was about a tunnel under the ocean

>>19112 When I was young I read something where a group of adventurers dove with a submarine very deep and discovered some kind of cave with air in it. All I can remember about the place was that it had a mushroom forest in it or something. I thought it was the same book. Anyway when the book features a very famous submarine you would think it would be about diving very deep.

>>19113 >it had a mushroom forest in it you may be talking about the Lost World by Conan Doyle

>>19113 but also there was that book by Jules Verne called A Journey towards the Center of the Earth

>>19118 > A Journey towards the Center of the Earth I think this was it! Thanks. I will read this next.

>>19123 I had like 12 volumes works of Jules Verne and read all of it when a teen the best one is Mysterious Island but that's exactly why you have to read 20000 Leagues under the Sea at first

hes hungry reading translation

>>19889 starving Norwegians

The Rabbit Tetralogy by John Updike. Feels a bit Bernd to me, reminds me also of Homo Faber by Frisch.

>>20023 >Homo Faber by Frisch I like that book

>>20023 only read the first one was nice

>>20025 You might want to try the first one - "Run Rabbit, Run". Rabbit is less calculating and precise than Faber but like him, he is helpless to influence any social situations he stumbles into to his advantage.

Powerful stuff by the enlightened Doctor

Bernd is at the moment i a 'reality' mystery phase. Because of this Bernd reads these two books at the moment. One about megalithic structures in Germany, one about the most chilling cases of alien abduction.

>>21399 >the other one is about one of the most chilling cases of alien abduction. Fixed.