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It just crossed my mind that we Italians have a very weird saying for "very rarely".
We don't say "once in a blue moon".
We say "once every pope's death" (una volta ogni morte di papa).
In Spain we say something quite similar. We say "every bishop's death" (cada muerte de obispo).
C.S. Lewis once wrote,
"I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief"
And I think we all needed to hear that.
you cant even begin poems with "i will sodomise and facef uck you" anymore. because of woke .
Holy fuck
Learning a language
Learning a language is a long long process. But it can be made fun and easy.
Learning through apps
1. Duolingo
2. Memrise
3. Quizlet
idk any more apps now please do tell if you all know any
Online sites with language learning resources
1. https://conjugator.reverso.net/conjugation-portuguese.html
This is available for the following languages -
French
English
Spanish
German
Italian
Portuguese
Hebrew
Russian
Arabic
Japanese
2. XeFjord
(european, middle eastern, african, asian, oceanic, native american, etc. etc.)
3. Learn a Language
This site is full of lists of words, phrases, etc with meanings and pronunciation for a bunch of languages. I wish I had discovered it earlier, it is really helpful.
4. Lexicity
Filled with a lot of resources for ancient languages like Akkadian, Egyptian, Mayan, Old English, etc.For each language, it has dictionaries, grammars, texts and some other resources.
5. BBC language learning
This site is filled with courses and lectures etc. for about 40 languages! It also has handy lists like '12 essential phrases in so and so language'
6. Internet Polyglot
This site does not have a languages, but is really good for learning and understanding languages.
7. Ethnologue
this is not exactly a language learning site, but worth a mention. The site claims claims to have language information, language family maps, etc. for world's 7,139 known living languages. It also has your basic information relatied to languages, like the most and least spoken one, endangered ones, etc.
8. Native Language
quote from their site: Native Languages of the Americas: Preserving and promoting American Indian languages
A very good Google document with language learning resources for more than 100 resources is this (credit to reddit user u/chlebka)
Another very good folder is this (credit to the tumblr user @salvadorbonaparte)
If there is some language you want to learn but it is not available on any of the above sites, feel free to send ask me to look for resources for that language. I'm more than happy to help. Or you could message me at @life-gave-me-oranges (my main).
please inform me if any of the above links are broken
Back in my bedroom, I dump the office supplies out of my hamper and load it up with my clothes. I’d quickly discovered the movers paid no attention to what was dirty and what was clean when they packed me up and soiled clothes got mixed in with the ones from my closet. Since I’m running a load, I might as well make it worthwhile.
dump (v) - tirar, verter, arrojar, deshacerse de algo
deposit or dispose of (rubbish, waste, or unwanted material), typically in a careless or hurried way
hamper (n) - cesta, canasta
a large, rectangular container with a lid
load (something) up (idiom) - cargar (algo)
to fill some form of transportation with its intended cargo
mover (n) - empresa de mudanzas
a company that transports furniture for people when they move to a new house
soiled (adj) - sucio, manchado
dirty, stained
load (n) - carga de una máquina (run a load = poner una lavadora que esté llena al máximo)
the quantity of material put into a device at one time
the amount of authorized work to be performed by a machine, a group, a department, or a factory
worthwhile (adj) - que vale la pena
useful and enjoyable, despite needing a lot of effort
Instead of a healer’s abode, a palace with huge windows and a turret sprawled in front of us.
abode (n) - morada
the place where someone lives
turret (n) - torreta
a small tower on top of a larger tower or at the corner of a building or wall, typically of a castle
‘Oh for crying out loud. Fine.’ Uncapping his flashy fountain pen again, CJ crossed out the first offer and scrawled a higher figure across the card. ‘Bandits, the lot of you.’
for crying out loud (idiom) - por el amor de Dios
said when you are annoyed, and to emphasize what you are saying
uncap (v) - destapar
to remove the cap (= lid or cover) from something
flashy (adj) - llamativo, ostentoso
looking too bright, big, and expensive in a way that is intended to get attention and admiration
scrawl (v) - garabatear, hacer garabatos
to write something quickly so that it is untidy
bandit (n) - bandido/a
a thief with a weapon, especially one belonging to a group that attacks people travelling through the countryside
I marched toward the king, keeping to the middle of the four guards. In a pinch, they’d serve as protection against any nervous bowmen.
in a pinch (idiom) - en un apuro
in a bad situation when help is needed
bowman (n) - arquero
an archer
All I wanted was a scapegoat.
scapegoat (n) - chivo expiatorio, cabeza de turco
a person who is blamed for something that someone else has done
The dinghy was caught in frozen waves, its prow lifted out from water by frost that had formed beneath it.
dinghy (n) - bote
a small boat
prow (n) - proa
the front part of a boat or ship
You've always struck me as rather gullible.
strike (someone) as (v) - dar la impresión de algo (a alguien)
to cause (someone) to think about someone or something in a particular way
gullible (n) - inocente, crédulo
someone who is gullible is easily tricked because they trust people too much.
The following peal of thunder made the cliff shake to an alarming degree.
peal (n) - estruendo
a long loud sound or series of sounds, especially of laughter or thunder
(...) the Lost Boys had gone down the river after salvaging weapons from the remains of the hideout.
salvage (v) - salvar, rescatar
to save goods from damage or destruction, especially from a ship that has sunk or been damaged or a building that has been damaged by fire or a flood
hideout (n) - escondrijo, guarida
a place where one can hide or is hiding
He said the name like it was shrapnel he was pulling from a wound.
shrapnel (n) - metralla
small pieces of metal that fly through the air when a bomb or similar weapon explodes and are intended to injure people
Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them.
Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said “Oh yeah sure that’s a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.”
“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”
“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”
It’s just.
50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job.
i also like that this is a “ask craftspeople” thing, it reminds me of when art historians were all “the fuck” about someone’s ear “deformity” in a portrait and couldn’t work out what the symbolism was until someone who’d also worked as a piercer was like “uhm, he’s fucked up a piercing there”. interdisciplinary shit also needs to include non-academic approaches because crafts & trades people know shit ok
One of my professors often tells us about a time he, as and Egyptian Archaeologist, came down upon a ring of bricks one brick high. In the middle of a house. He and his fellow researchers could not fpr the life of them figure out what tf it could possibly have been for. Until he decided to as a laborer, who doesnt even speak English, what it was. The guy gestures for my prof to follow him, and shows him the same ring of bricks in a nearby modern house. Said ring is filled with baby chicks, while momma hen is out in the yard having a snack. The chicks can’t get over the single brick, but mom can step right over. Over 2000 years and their still corraling chicks with brick circles. If it aint broke, dont fix it and always ask the locals.
I read something a while back about how pre-columbian Americans had obsidian blades they stored in the rafters of their houses. The archaeologists who discovered them came to the conclusion that the primitive civilizations believed keeping them closer to the sun would keep the blades sharper.
Then a mother looked at their findings and said “yeah, they stored their knives in the rafters to keep them out of reach of the children.”
Omg the ancient child proofing add on tho lol
I remember years ago on a forum (email list, that’s how old) a woman talking about going to a museum, and seeing among the women’s household objects a number of fired clay items referred to as “prayer objects”. (Apparently this sort of labeling is not uncommon when you have something that every house has and appears to be important, but no-one knows what it is.) She found a docent and said, “Excuse me, but I think those are drop spindles.” “Why would you think that, ma’am?” “Because they look just like the ones my husband makes for me. See?” They got all excited, took tons of pictures and video of her spinning with her spindle. When she was back in the area a few years later, they were still on display, but labeled as drop spindles.
So ancient Roman statues have some really weird hairstyles. Archaeologists just couldn’t figure them out. They didn’t have hairspray or modern hair bands, or elastic at all, but some of these things defied gravity better than Marge Simpson’s beehive.
Eventually they decided, wigs. Must be wigs. Or maybe hats. Definitely not real hair.
A hairdresser comes a long, looks at a few and is like, “Yeah, they’re sewn.”
“Don’t be silly!” the archaeologists cry. “How foolish, sewn hair indeed! LOL!”
So she went away and recreated them on real people using a needle and thread and the mystery of Roman hairstyles was solved.
She now works as a hair archaeologist and I believe she has a YouTube channel now where she recreates forgotten hairstyles, using only what they had available at the time.
Always question anything labelled as for a ritual or religious purpose without explanation because it’s very often shorthand for ‘we don’t know’ as if humans have not been the same since forever and have either made things for specific purposes or simply because they like making them (aka ART. Some things are simply art yet heaps of old research refuses to recognize this possibility.)
This is changing, but change is slow!
