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Post by esperent »

Quanttek wrote: post #19
thaumasiotes wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Myanman Is there an adjectival form of Myanmar? I've been assuming we were stuck with "Burmese" regardless of whether we called it "Burma".

Yes: it's Myanma, so it's the Myanma government.

That's the official adjectival form according to the Myanmar government. However, in practice I've never seen it used (even in Myanmar). People tend to either say Burmese or simply use Myanmar as both noun and adjective, as in, "the Burmese language" or "the Myanmar language".

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Post by yread »

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #32

Is there really someone who believes this video was not planned / manufactured? Are you that gullible?

Lots of things happen in the world. Some of them are hard to believe. If there is 1 billion cameras in the world they are bound to catch some 1 in a billion events

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Post by koheripbal »

senthilnayagam wrote: post #13

highly doubt it. coup happened at 4am local time, sunrise in winter happens at 6:47 am. this video is pretty bright

But it's so much more click-worthy to pretend the title is true. This is a great example of how misinformation can propagate orders of magnitude further and faster than the truth as long as it's funny, ironic, or reinforces existing bias.

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Post by est31 »

z92 wrote: post #37
sillysaurusx wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an interesting analysis. Did the coup really happen at 4am? If so, then there's almost no way this video could be legit.

Coup news takes time to reach the media. If this is not fake more likely this video is from the previous day afternoon, when they raided the parliament.

According to this comment the camera faces westwards: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25999725

The sun shines from the back towards the right so is more in the east. I'd put it somewhere around 10 to 12 AM local time (UTC+6.5).

https://www.suncalc.org/#/19.7758,96.1326,15/2021.01.31/11:4...

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Post by teorema »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #30
senthilnayagam wrote: post #13

highly doubt it. coup happened at 4am local time, sunrise in winter happens at 6:47 am. this video is pretty bright

This is an interesting analysis. Did the coup really happen at 4am? If so, then there's almost no way this video could be legit.

This LA Times article notes that the video was taken in the morning: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-02-01/myanma...

This stated communication blackouts lasted from 3 to 1115 am, with one journalist reporting a loss of service at 4am: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55893736.

The coup didn't happen instantaneously at a given time, so it seems reasonable to say the video was recorded during the coup. At the same time, it's not really clear what specific activities the vehicles were on route to.

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Post by Clewza313 »

senthilnayagam wrote: post #13

highly doubt it. coup happened at 4am local time, sunrise in winter happens at 6:47 am. this video is pretty bright

What, 4AM instantaneously? I'm sure they arrested key people at that time, but there's no need to barricade streets etc (as shown in this video) until later when things are under control and you can start worrying about public unrest.

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Post by Clewza313 »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #16
mhh__ wrote: post #3

I think this is also the road featured in Top Gear a while back. I know nothing about Myanman politics so I won't wax poetic about anything

> Myanman Is there an adjectival form of Myanmar? I've been assuming we were stuck with "Burmese" regardless of whether we called it "Burma".

Tediously complicated explanation:

Burmese is tonal, and has both the noun "Myanma" and the related but not identical adjective "Myanma". The noun has a low tone and a long "a", which reflecting British pronunciation was spelled "Myanmar". The adjectival form uses the creaky tone with a short "a", hence it's supposed to be spelled "Myanma" without the r.

In practice, though, nobody cares and everybody says "Myanmar" for both, even the official English translation of the constitution, which says "Myanmar language".

"Myanman" or "Myanmarese" are both wrong though.

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