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Dictionary definition of "compulsive":
irresistibly interesting or exciting; compelling.
"this play is compulsive viewing"
That's what I said and what I meant. If I'd written "compelling viewing, IMO", would that be wrong too?
No, compelling would be appropriate. IMHO, it really is helpful to, from time to time, debate word use, primarily because many words are becoming political rather than grammatical and also losing specificity. In this thread I'm sure we all are more sensitive in those linguistic matters in large part because of the Russian language seeming ambiguity regarding words that in English might seem to be absolutes, such as 'truth'.
The English problem of 'compulsory' vs 'compulsive' it just one example of the problem caused by a language which absorbs words from many languages so:
while both words stem from the same latin root, 'to force', one indicates 'required' while the other indicates 'obsessive'. The Russian language 'truth' is as difficult to translate simply because each word connotes different ambiguity.
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In this thread, more than most, ambiguity makes some of us compulsive in efforts to make posts compelling but hopefully not compelling compliance. Since that word, as many, has entirely different meanings depending on grammatical usage I recall my Linguistics professor compelling us to learn arcane grammar in Runic, the written form of Old English, failing to do so would cause a failing grade.
Even for this thread this would be off-topic were it not that Russian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Polish and Yiddish are deeply involved in the history that allows Putin to claim "Ukrainian is not a language" and "The Ukraine" is not a country. It is impossible to understand how and why the post 1990-1991 Russia semi to many Russians as an anomaly that has not legitimacy at all.
It is core to linguistic and social perspectives that no current high ranking Russian official can exist in power in oder to achieve peace.
In an earlier post I asserted that Putin's Russia would never stop murdering minorities. It is the linguistic and cultural history of the Baltics, Poland, and every other country that once was part of the USSR that makes it undeniable that the only real solution is having government run by people who reached adulthood after 1990.
Just check the leaders of Ukraine, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Moldova, Georgia every one reached adulthood after 1990. The exceptions in Latvia (born in USA) and Poland (educated in part in Switzerland and USA and formerly employed by a Spanish bank) prove the point.
Chances seem remote that Russia can rehabilitate itself with gerontological leadership. Is that not always the case?
Thus in my opinion peace will NOT happen no matter how bad the conditions become until Russia has leaders who never knew the USSR.