CL learning dictionary

Sup /прог/, or /προγκ/. I wrote this CL code to help myself with learning russian (I'm greek). I want to learn some words but I don't want to write them in sequence because human memory works in funny ways. I don't want preconceptions.

Anyhow, while all this works fine in the slime repl, it goes FUBAR as soon as I save it in a file. What fucking encoding am I supposed to use? With utf-8 I get a bunch of Ξ\255's in the code and as output, and with utf-16 I get compilation errors.

lo and behold,

;; utf-16

(defparameter *ru-gr*
'(("комната" . "δωμάτιο") ; room
("окно" . "παράθυρο") ; window
("кот" . "γάτος") ; cat (male)
("кошка" . "γάτα") ; cat (female)
("буква" . "γράμμα (αλφαβήτου)") ; etc
("холодно" . "κάνει κρύο (επίρρημα)")
("плохо" . "άσχημα (επίρρημα)")
("погода" . "καιρός")
("когда" . "πότε")
("многа" . "πολύ")
("очень" . "πολύ")
("мало" . "λίγο")
("парк" . "πάρκο")
("брат" . "αδερφός")
("сестра" . "αδερφή")
("торт" . "τούρτα")
("рыба" . "ψάρι")
("карма" . "χάρτης")
("группа" . "γκρουπ")
("утро" . "πρωί")
("урок" . "μάθημα")
("подруга" . "φίλη")
("друг" . "φίλος")
("зуб" . "δόντι")
("зубы" . "δόντια")
("горат" . "πόλη")
("муха" . "μύγα")
("собака" . "σκύλος")
("завтра" . "αύριο")
("завтрак" . "πρωϊνό (φαγητό)")
("сын" . "γιος")
("сок" . "χυμός")
("суп" . "σούπα")
("сыр" . "τυρί")
("стол" . "τραπέζι")
("стул" . "καρέκλα")
("звук" . "ήχος")
("слово" . "λέξη")
("сумка" . "τσάντα")
("страна" . "χώρα")
("завод" . "εργοστάσιο")
("рассказ" . "διήγημα")
("автобус" . "λεωφορίο")))

(defparameter *gr-ru*
(mapcar (lambda (x)
(cons (cdr x) (car x)))
*ru-gr*))

(defun exclude (k n)
"Creates a list (0,...,k-1, k+1,...,n), excluding k from it"
(loop for i from 0 to n
when (/= i k)
collect i))

(defun scramble (list)
"Scrambles a list"
(scramble-help list '()))

(defun scramble-help (list acc)
(if list
(let* ((len (length list))
(index (if (= 1 len) 0 (random (1- len))))
(element (nth index list)))
(scramble-help
(mapcar (lambda (x)
(nth x list))
(exclude index (1- len)))
(cons element acc)))
acc))

>>43
Iraq? What about Serbia? And Afghanistan? And Libya? And Pakistan (which is bombed by unmanned aircraft as if attacking a country with robots is somehow more humane than attacking it with human military squads).

It just happened at we got news of it afterwards

12 years can't "just happen". Guantanamo was announced.

Our military has no concept of ethics. They are blood thirsty savages that enjoy being powerful. They're thugs and gangsters in uniform. If they ever came against people at home we would be slaughtered.

You pay their wages and buy their guns, for fuck's sake.

They are blood thirsty savages that enjoy being powerful

That's an outlet of the kind of society that you have cultivated. A society driven by wanton consumption of the grossest pleasures, be it munching junk food and watching pornowrestling, or dealing devastation to people who speak a different language as if it's just a video game.