Hello! Big.FAN I follow you on Twitter but I'm a bit shy to DM you on there 🤓 I really wanted to ask, since I noticed you're one of the only Mongolian Pathologic accounts I know of- could you break down a word for me if you have the time?
The word is 'Ekhilel.' It's used on Day II of P3 during Isidor’s funeral 'Forgive the big city ekhilel, father. He didn't mean to intrude.' I didn’t think much of it at first, but then I saw someone else asking about it in a tweet and got super curious! It would be so, so helpful if you could share your insight. 💟 THANKS in advance
Repost cuz I needed to add few things but BUCKLE UP FOR THOSE WHO FUCKING CARES
ALSO off topic before we start but I GREATLYYYYYYY love when people figure out I can speak Mongolian on tumblr or anywhere because I don’t consider myself super fluent, so it’s not really public info, BUT LOL I guess #they can fuckinf tell and that’s okay 👍. But still if it means i get pretty cool asks like these and i get to have fun then YAY….ANYWAYS I think I figured it out so I’ll share all I know. Again for THOSE who cares..
The word ”ekhilel" said during Isidor funeral where Artemy quote says
- "Forgive the big city ekhilel, father. He didn't mean to intrude."
As we all know the kin language does pull heavily from buryat and Mongolian. Naturally so. here the word эхлэл (ekhlel), which means "beginning", the verb эхлэх means "to begin," and the suffix nominalizes it into something kind of like "one who is at the start."
So an ekhilel is basically a beginner, someone who doesn't know yet, in this case Daniil, a city outsider who hasn't been initiated into Kin ways yadada.. It sits in the same family as erdem (for those who doesn’t know: a learned man who still doesn't know the Lines) or medenegshe (you are not part of us)…
BUT ALSO interesting ENOUGH is the tone Artemy uses it with, It's not even an insult, it's almost I guess sympathetic ? He says it in a way where he’s excusing him, where it’s like he will eventually learn/know(?, so an ekhilel isn't a malicious term, just a way to describe it as someone who hasn't started the real path yet. Beginner.
Love to add that Artemy has a kind of hopeful attitude about it, which is both funny and really good, because he clearly invested way too much faith in Daniil ever actually getting or understanding anything n the fact that he kept promoting him with new weightier titles and nicknames, only to basically go “damn u learned fucking nothing bro” at the very end of the game
-> These are some free resources I used or heard about a lot to learn Korean and what they include, there's probably way more! I'll make more parts in the future. There's also ratings and pesonal notes about each one, but again they're 'personal' so it might not be the same for everyone! That's why you should always try it yourself first.
-> These resources are or were fully free when I used them, if anything changed and they're no longer free I do not take any responsibility for possible accidental purchases, I recommend to always check first before processing with it.
Here we go:
GoodJobKorean — Full free Hangul Course, 12 Lessons, Videos (with pronunciation, etc) + Pdf Practice sheets (with some vocabulary) + Quizes to see if you understood each lesson.
Rating: 100/10 I tried and loved it, easy to understand and explained nicely. Really useful for beginners learning hangul!
A/N: You may have to rebuy it after a month (not sure because I finished it in less then a month and never logged back in) but It's still free (if not you can always just make another account to get it free again)
GoldenKeyKorean: Free Hangul course, pronunciation + 2H long master course (advanced and basic levels) with 2 pdf books
Rating: I personally did not try this one, but I'm pretty sure it's fully free (at least that's what I've seen), but he often does limited editions/limited time special free courses so it's better to check if the offer is still active and follow his instagram for future updates and courses.
Now Korean Class: Fully free 9 Korean courses with different levels (1-9) with multiple videos for each, explains sentence structures, grammar, counters, numbers, and way more.
Rating: 100/10, It really is free, multiple levels, sooo many different things to learn I absolutely loved it!!
A/N: You just have to rebuy it after a month but I'm pretty sure it's still free (if not you can always just make another account to get it free again). I recently lost acess to it, idk why I think my phone is lagging... It tells me something went wrong to try again later, lol, just in case some content changed etc I wouldn't know.
Koldoristudy: 3 different Free Korean PDF study sheets, 1 Hangul, 1 Vocabulary and 1 winter study, includes Grammar, stroke order guides and syllable blocks,
Rating: 10/10 Loved it, I thought it would be just some pdf files to boringly write hangul/words but It's actually way more! it explains grammar and some useful language rules!
Talk to me in korean: Multiple free podcasts on different platforms + PDF with grammar and vocabulary explained for different levels of learners, 7 days free trial with possible cancelation
Rating: 9/10 It's really good, I'm just not a big fan of podcasts as I have a short attention spawn LOL. I personally didn't try the 7-days free trial but they do have LOTS of different lessons and videos that seem to be amazing and useful.
A/N: personally I find their website really confusing, to make things easier you can try things like just typing "Talk To me In korean (Pdf level _)" on google and the first link should be the free pdf file, etc etc.
Loescen Learn Korean Website: Free Interactive web-based learning, important vocabulary, pronunciation beginner to intermediate level, basic conversation courses and dialogues
Rating: 8/10, so good!! It surprised me, I just wish it went more in deep about things like sentence structures and grammar instead of blindly learning dialogue lines or words without breaking them into steps for deeper understanding of the language.
A/N: works for other languages too!!
Live Lingua: Multiple free ebooks and audio files lessons, grammar, vocabulary, hangul, etc, beginner to advanced,
Rating: 9/10 Covers up a lot of different things like I said, grammar, vocabulary, etc etc, but AGAIN each course covers many subjects and it quickly feels heavy and too long/complicated/takes too much time (personally for me, as an individual with ADHD)
How to study korean: LOTS of grammar and vocabulary, beginners to advanced, multiple lessons, linked YT videos to reinforce lessons, PDFs, etc
Rating: 100/10 explains really well, SO MUCH STUFF, different levels, it's really awesome! Lessons are available in multiple languages and not just English!! However again I find it a bit intimidating as it really has LOTS of things to learn which make it seem hard and heavy...
A/N: Personally I find the website complicated to navigate 😭 just type "how to study korean lesson _" for easier access if you want and It should be the top results
Udemy TOPIK grammar through 100 patters: TOPIK vocabulary, grammar and conversations, 100 grammatical patters koreans use a lot
Rating: 8/10 really good, well explained, but again personally it feels pretty heavy and long, videos in Korean with English subtitles, however there are no English subtitles for "example sentences" which sucks, you need to know some basic vocabulary to really understand the example sentences used there.
Tomi Korean: Free PDF with 430 basic korean vocabulary (words, verbs, nouns, adjectives, etc) with audio files, free PDF Worksheet for hangul learning
Rating: 8/0 Love it, really nice for useful vocabulary but you'll have to willingly study the words cause the pdf only makes you write it once and it's really just Korean-English translations, but it has images so its good for visual learners too! Personally I also found it takes a lot of storage to download everything lol.
A/N: I did not check the hangul worksheet as I can already write and read hangul but little personal opinion/tip; I think GoodJobKorean is the best option to learn Hangul here, specially compared to this one. Yes I did not try this Hangul Worksheet but I believe GoodJobKorean offers more variated content and help (videos, quizes, etc) than what a PDF sheet has to offer, that's my opinion.
That's all so far!
Many of these courses have social media accounts where they post different content and tricks to learn, I'll be making a post about those in the future too!!
If anything changed since I first used these resources or if there's any misinformation in this post, please let me know!
a fun quirk of chinese is how "already" is used differently than it is in english. its a tricky word bc the translation is pretty much 1 to 1, but the use cases are different
im thinking mostly in service contexts, where you'd expect to see "Your log-on was successful!" or "Your package has been shipped!" you'll instead see "You have already logged on!" or "Your package has already been shipped!"
it tripped me up the first few times i saw it, but in these contexts it means "this action has been completed, as indicated by this message" and not what an english speaker would expect, which is "there was an issue with the thing you just tried to do, since the goal you were looking for was already in-progress" - like, you-can't-log-in-twice kind of errors.
Harvested the first of my tutae kurī potatoes today and just absolutely replicating the emotional journey that someone went on when naming these.
Here's some foliage pictures from a couple of months ago. This is such a beautiful plant.
My soil is better at growing potato leaves than potatoes sadly. I've only harvested one plant, the rest of them are showing no signs of slowing down. They went into the ground in the first weekend in September, so just shy of 180 days growing time already!
I bet Transformers that have been off-world pick up a lot of weird slang. It's probably resulted in at least one situation where someone who's been off-world is getting intimate with their partner/FWB/whatever, and then they call a spike some sort of completely incomprehensible alien gibberish and refer to fuel pouches as tits in the same breath, and it completely ruins the mood because now they have to explain what they said in plain Cybertronian (or whatever their language is called) so their partner knows what the hell they're talking about
I've been thinking about this because undoubtedly
This undoubtedly happens, and I think it'll lead to so much fun variety in explicit terminology
it's a translation of the german version; only the first three verses, might do the rest later now finished; if you find any mistakes or have questions about translation choices please do not hesitate to ask; see here why i did this; i payed absolutely no attention to the amount of syllables or stuff like that.
Habesne paullo tempum pro me?
Tum canam carmen pro te
De IC aeri-vesicis
In suae viae ad caelum.
Nuncne fortasse tu meminisse me?
Tum canam carmen pro te
De IC aeri-vesicis
Et ut illius de illi sequit.
IC aer-vesicae
In suae viae ad caelum
Incognito-volatui-rei ex universo aliquis habebat.
Idcirco praefectus mittebat
Aeri-legio sequenti,
Ut periculi signa dare, si sic esset.
Autem ibi caeli erant
Soli IC aer-vesicae.
IC lura-volatus;
Quisque bellator grandis erat;
Sibi habebant centurio Circus;
Spectaculum magnum accidebat.
Adcolae nihil conprehendebant,
Et sentiebant se offendebantur.
Autem aliquis iaculabant caeli
Ad IC aera-vesicas.
IC belli-senatores,
Ramentum-flammiferum amphora-bencinique,
Personas carisas se habebant,
Iam praedam opimam olefaciebant;
Clamabant: "bellum" et potestatem volebant.
Babae!, quis hoc cogitavisset,
Ut aliquando quid tantum sequit
IC aeris-vesicarum causa?
IC aeris-vesicarum causa
IC aer-vesicae
IC annos bellum
Nullam locum victori relinquebant.
Belli-senatores non iam sunt,
Etiam nulla lura-volatus.
Facio meum itinera hodie,
Mundus in fragminibus iacent video.
Unam aera-vesicam repperi,
Meminisse te eamque permitto.
Hello Mark! I found out about the limnonectes genus recently - why are some of them knobheads? What is the purpose of knob?
The structure is called a caruncle, which sounds like a made-up word, but then again, all words are made up. It is made of connective tissue underneath skin full of mucous glands (studied histologically by Lambertz et al. 2014), but its function is unknown. However, because it is only present in males, I have a well-founded suspicion that it is involved in sexual selection one way or another. I would guess that it is either (a) very intimidating for other males, (b) actually helpful in physical contests among males, (c) very attractive to females, or (d) some combination of the above.
