Old English is the language that was used by the Anglo-Saxons between their arrival in Britain and the Norman conquest. The language is significantly different than modern English. Old English had four cases (and a vestigial fifth one that was rarely used). The case determined the role of a word in a sentence and was appeared as an ending added to the word. For example, the dative (indirect object) case added an -um In the plural in all genders. So "stan" (stone) becomes "stanum". All nouns are declined in this manner, so the language is a lot more grammatically complex then modern English. Adjectives followed a similar scheme, and were declined based on the nouns they were describing.
I think it is appalling how little the West is doing to help the Kurds compared to what the West could be doing. The Kurds in Rojava are determined and courageous fighters, but have early Cold War weapons and no tanks. They have had to build makeshift tanks out of dumpsters and trucks. If the West would give the Kurds modern high-tech weaponry and proper tanks I have no doubt they would decimate ISIS in a few months. The Kurds are already winning the Siege of Kobani (ISIS controls less than 20% of the city at the time this is being written) without tanks, I would like to see what they could do with tanks. In the 1980's the CIA armed the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan, who later became the Taliban. Many of the people involved in that project say it was worth it to hurt Russia. If hurting Russia is important enough to justify arming the Taliban, then hurting ISIS should jutify whatever damage the Kurds might later do, if any at all.
In 1974 Turkey invaded Cyprus with the pretext of protecting ethnic Turks, as was permitted by a treaty that allowed Greece, Britain and Turkey to intervene. However, Turkey was not content to stop after the Greek junta had been removed from Cyprus, they still continued with their plan to annex the Northern half of the island for what the current Turkish Prime Minister openly describes as "Lebensraum" (directly translated from German as "habitat"or "living space", later became a key component of Nazi ideology, the idea being that Germany needed to conquer and colonize large swathes of land to expand the "master race" across the continent). Turkey then proceeded to drive out the Greek Cypriot majority from the North, establishing the so-called "Republic of Northern Cyprus"
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