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The loudest sound ever heard on Earth was the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883. The Indonesian volcano ruptured the ear drums of sailors 40 miles away, and people 3,000 miles away reported it as “a distant roar of heavy guns.” To put that in perspective, it would be like sitting in Boston and hearing a noise that came all the way from Dublin. Source Source 2
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Rebloggy post. Fantastic.
Reblog this if you are albanian🔴⚫
Dukeqene se jam e re dhe jam ne kerkim te blogjeve shqiptare qe jam e sigurt qe jan me te mrekullueshem se blogjet e qe huajve, athere beji reblog kesaj ne menyre qe followersat e tuaj ta shohin kete❤!
I can’t be the only one who thought the Black Market was an actual underground shop when I was a kid.
It’s kinda cool how we all speak different languages but the sound for a laugh is universal.
Did I ghost-write this tweet?
Shqipëria natyrale - Ethnic Albania
Shqipëria natyrale është krejt hapësira gjeografike shqipfolëse, ku banojnë shqiptarët sot me shumicë, ku është vendlindja e shqiptarëve me shumicë dhe ku u dëbuan nga vendbanimet e tyre etnike.
Ethnic Albania is a term used primarily by Albanians to denote the territories as the traditional homeland of the ethnic Albanians. In addition to the existing Albania, the term incorporates claims to regions in the neighbouring states, the areas include Kosovo and the Presheva Valley, territories in southern Montenegro (Ulqin, Tuzi, Plava) northwestern Greece (Preveza, Janina, Arta) referred by Albanians as Chameria and a part of western Macedonia (Tetova, Struga, Shkupi).
Shqiperia madhe very soon!
1. Albania
2. Malesia
3. Cameria
4. Kosovo
5. Ilirida
LONG LIVE SHQIPERI ETNIKE
The phrase “died unexpectedly” should have an age limit. “103 year old Tom died unexpectedly this morning” makes no sense.
(Almost) Everything About the Albanian Language
Information:
Albanian (In Albanian: Shqip) is a language spoken in Albania, Kosovo, Western Macedonia, Southern Montenegro, Northwestern and parts of Southeast Greece, parts of Southeastern Italy, and the Preševo Valley in Serbia.
Dialects:
There are two dialects of Albanian, Gheg and Tosk, which are broken down in much smaller subdialects. Gheg is spoken in places north of the Shkumbin River. Tosk is spoken in places south of the Shkumbin River. There are also smaller dialects such as Arbëresh and Arvanitika. Arbëresh is spoken in parts of Southeastern Italy. Arvanitika is spoken in parts of Southeastern Greece. The Gheg dialect was the official dialect of Albania, until Enver Hoxha’s communist regime.
Language Info:
Albanian is an Indo-European language, however, it has its own branch on the Indo-European family tree. Most linguists think Albanian came from the Illyrian language a long time ago. Albanian is also considered a very old language. Overtime, Albanian has been majorly affected by Latin and Ancient Greek (since they were dominant languages for a long time), so Albanian shares many words with the Romance languages, and a few with Modern Greek. Also, since Albania was under the Ottoman Empire for awhile, you will encounter MANY words that Albanian and Turkish have in common. Now here are some features of Albanian that might stress you out if you decide to learn it, but don’t worry! These are pretty easy to master once you know how to use them.
Albanian Features:
Alphabet:
Albanian has 36 letters, as opposed to English’s 26. The Albanian alphabet is: A B C Ç D Dh E Ë F G Gj H I J K L Ll M N Nj O P Q R Rr S Sh T Th U V X Xh Y Z Zh Yes, some letters look like two letters, but actually they are one letter. So, një has two letters, nj and ë. Rruga has 4 letters, not 5. Gjashtë has 5 letters, not 7. (I know, weird, right?)
Clitics:
Albanian is a seriously clitic language. You will hear clitics in almost every single sentence. Even in the smallest sentences such as E di, which means I know. The di is conjugated to the singular first-person form, so there’s no need to include unë in the sentence, but you can if you want to. The clitic e is added in there, to literally mean I know it or I know that. So saying Unë di or just di would be grammatically incorrect. You would have to use e to make it Unë e di or E di. Also, the clitic a is usually used in yes/no questions. Such as A shkove? (Did you go?) However, when that same clitic a is added to the end of the sentence, it usually marks surprise and usually used when the speaker told the listener not to do the action. So for example, Shkove në rrugë a? would mean *So you went onto the street after all [even though I told you not to]?
Admiratives:
Apparently, Albanian has verb forms that are called miratives or admiratives. They show surprise most of the time, but can also show doubt or irony sometimes. They can be translated by using the word apparently. For example, Rruga është e mbyllur. (The road is closed. [with no surprise/informative]) and Rruga qenka e mbyllur.Apparently, the road is closed. [with surprise]
Cases:
Albanian is a case language, there are 6 cases in Albanian, but only 4 are used in everyday speech. Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, and Dative. These aren’t so hard, because the Accusative is basically just the Nominative except you add an -n to the end of the definite form of the word. (Oh yes, Albanian does not have a word for a/an or the. They use different forms of the word to symbolize number and definite forms. Just like the Scandinavian languages.) Genitive is also made by just adding the correct clitic (based on the word whether its masculine or feminine) to the beginning and using the Dative form of the word. So you just have to learn the Nominative and Dative forms! :D
Word Order:
Since Albanian has an accusative form, word order is flexible. The official word order is SVO (Subject-Verb-Object) but it could be any word order as long as you use the Accusative form. (If you’re talking about someone eating apples, you don’t want to say that the apples are eating that person!)
So, I hope I interested you in the Albanian language after this! Thank you for your time! (x)
Okay so
I’m searching for other langblrs to follow, so if you’re learning/speak any of the ones listed below please reblog or like this (or do something that’ll notify me that you’re learning the language) and I’ll check out your blog
-Spanish -Japanese -Hindi -Russian -Chinese (Mandarin) -French -Danish -Swedish -Norwegian (Bokmål) -Albanian -Icelandic -American Sign Language
thank you~
why do albanians literally never chill
Are you fucking kidding me
Man of the moment Keanu Reeves has shown his generosity by giving away £50 million of his earnings from the Matrix sequels. The 38-year-old decided to hand over the money to the unsung heroes of the sci-fi blockbusters - the costume and special effects teams.
*fistbump*
Confirmed. He’s also dumped millions into cancer research. I really do love Keanu Reeves a lot.
Keanu Reeves is like the nicest person. He still lives in an apartment/flat and he gives most of his money away to charities and people who need it. He even invites some paparazzi people to sit down and eat with him when he’s at a coffee shop or restaurant. He’s such a nice person.
When I was working on the UWS, one of my delivery guys accidentally backed his scooter into a parked car in front of the restaurant. I went out to help, since the driver didn’t speak much English, and it turned out the car belonged to Keanu Reeves. He helped us pick the scooter up, and when I asked if we could exchange insurance information (because the front of the car was pretty banged up), he kept telling us not to worry about it and put his hand on the driver’s shoulder and said “I just want to make sure you’re okay, man. Are you okay?” And he was so sincere about it and so kind that I decided in that moment I would always defend Keanu Reeves at all costs. He is an excellent man.
I need to be more like Keanu Reeves because I’m evil compared to him.
“Next few centuries”
Keanu dropping hints that he is an immortal.
i love keanu reeves
My wife and I were dining at Nobu’s in Honolulu and sitting across from us was Keanu or at least I thought it was. We kept talking about whether it was him or not and finally, I decided to throw some old school Bill & Ted at him.
I stood up and threw my arms up into the motion of an air guitar, my wife is begging me to sit back down, and I pointed at the guy who may be Keanu Reeves, and said, “Most Excellent.”
He stood up and did it back at me. Then we both had a moment and pointed at each other. I sent him another of whatever it was he was drinking. It was a cucumber sake martini. That was the end of it.
Or so I thought.
He left before we finished our meal. By the time we were done, dessert came that we didn’t order. We thought, “oh, must be compliments of the chef.” Then the bill never came. When we asked for it, our waitress said Keanu Reeves took care of it.
IT WAS REALLY HIM. And he left a note. It said, “thanks for the refresh. Keanu.”
When I finally saw him again years later, because of work. I brought it up. Then he air guitar and said, “most excellent. I remember. At Nobu’s. Thanks for the drink.” We chatted a bit and I got an autograph for my mum because she’s a huge Keanu fan. Then that was that.
What a moment.
An angel
And he does a lot of anti human trafficking work iirc. Seems like a really awesome guy.
Back when I first moved to NYC, I got a job as a theater usher. We were all young, 18-20 or so, and it was heavily impressed upon us that we needed to treat the theatergoers with TOTAL respect at ALL times or risk our jobs. As such, we were all totally underprepared for the drunk guy who tried to steal a bottle of wine from the lobby bar during intermission. We were trying to politely get the bottle back, but he was growing loud and belligerent. Since the second act was now starting, this was a countdown to all of us being in trouble.
Then Keanu walks up. Calmly charms the guy. Slips the usher behind the bar cash to cover the bottle, without the guy even noticing, and walks him back in to his seat like it’s a normal thing he does every day. He didn’t know the guy, didn’t know any of us, but effortlessly deescalated the situation and quite probably saved some jobs that night.
Just a wandering do-gooder, this man.
Even more anecdotes have been added to this since I last saw it and it’s just.
So good.
What an exceptional person.
David Bowie’s “The Next Day” video + Religious Imagery
adhdalistair:
penisennui:
(via Justin Jorgensen) “In 2007 I worked with photographers Williams + Hirakawa to create a concept piece of me sleeping on a sheet cake. I though these cakes looked like pillows, and there’s the obvious play on ‘sweet dreams.’
I wondered if I could fall asleep on a cake and have sweet dreams. I didn’t. It was pretty gross really and wasn’t easy to wash off.
A few years later, outtakes from the shoot were sold to Getty Images as stock photos. I didn’t know this until 2011 when one of those photos made #13 on the wildly popular Buzzffed.com list of “60 Completely Unusable Stock Photos.”
Into 2014, the Getty Image photo continues to make the rounds on Facebook and Tumblr.”
i can’t believe i leveled up enough to unlock cake pillow guy’s backstory
I can’t believe the “sweet dreams” joke didn’t occur to me
