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I stayed indoors most of yesterday, feeling a bit under the weather. Better today so I decided to take the fixie for a ride. I didn't shower or anything before heading out, but figured I could use a clean t-shirt. Opened the door. It was windy so I decided to add a long sleeve and the wind-breaker. Arriving home after the ride I discovered that I was in fact wearing two t-shirts, one long sleeve top and the wind-breaker so it wasn't all that surprising that I was sweating non-stop. So to feel a little better I made myself a burger. I believe Tröstmat translates to comfort food.
6 October 2020.
English: Wind.
Irish: Gaoth.
Finnish: Tuuli.
Add a translation in your own language in the comments.
day 6.
rapidograph/adobe illustrator cs6.
3 inch square.
Swedish word of the day. Sommarläsning. Summer reading down by the water. Around 30C in Nynäshamn yesterday.
One great thing with my favorite cafe is the monthly lottery where the first price is a cake. My buddy Jujja has a spooky way of winning it every now of then. One reason could be that a lot of people give him their receipts, another that I often write down his name on my receipts! Anywho, because of that we had free cake yesterday. So the Swedish word of the day is Schwarzwaldtårta, Black Forest cake.
Swedish word of the season. Tree stand at a grove at Stav in Tungelsta. Moose hunting season is here.
Swedish word of the day. Ankarlift. The ski-lift at Hammarbybacken photographed yesterday afternoon. They had a very short season this Winter and closed one week ago when it was too warm to make snow. It is a little colder now, so you ever know.
I snapped a few photos of the BMW and as the girl waved to me I waved back at her, although I think it looked like I gave her the finger. I got two okay photos but they were not perfect so I tried combining the two. This was the result. I had to resize one photo and clone parts of that photo to the one where the girl waved to me. I only gave it a few minutes and if I feel like it I might try to fix it a bit more. So Swedish word of the day is fotomontage. Photo montage.
Swedish word of the day. Trappa. Sju brunrars stig. An 888-meter-long path through a forest at the cemetery. A risky walk this time of the year.
Swedish word of the day. Nyårslöfte. New Year's resolution. Begin your new tradition. Why not! I will most likely start collecting Patek Philippe watches next year!
Today's word is trumpery, from French tromper (to deceive). Earliest documented use: 1481.
Learn more at: wordsmith.org/words/trumpery.html
Humorous Swedish word of the day. Pusshållplats. A bit of a pun on the word busshållplats, which beans bus stop. Whereas, a pusshållplats would be a place where you would go for a kiss. Noticed at Kajsas på kajen at Hammarby sjöstad on a sunny Spring day.
Swedish slang expression of the day. Turturduvor. It means lovers, and it is also the Swedish name for the European turtle dove.
Swedish word of the day. Jobbar. Works, (for a living so I can afford this, okay?). Or something like that.
Swedish word of the day. Urverk. Clockwork. I took a walk in an empty city over the weekend. Södra klockan at Postgirot.
The memorial grove hill at The Woodland Cemetery, seen from the Meditation Hill. The grass still have the Winter color. The stairs up to the Meditation Hill are still closed off, but no one really cares about that.
Today's word is alterity, from French altérité, from Latin alteritas (otherness), from alter (other), from Greek heteros (other). Earliest documented use: 1500.
Learn more at: wordsmith.org/words/alterity.html
6 October 2019.
English: Take
Irish: Gabhaim Welsh: Cymryd
Finnish: Ottaa Estonian: Võtma
day 6.
rapidograph/adobe illustrator cs6.
3 inch square.
Swedish word of the day. Disabled parking place. This is the welcoming sight you get when you arrive by car to the Rudan nature reserve in Handen.
Swedish word of the day. Cykelsadel. Bicycle seat. I stopped for a light lunch outdoors, near the biofuel plant today.
Swedish word of the day. Initialer. Initials. Left there back in 1910 by Albert Holm, the maritime pilot from Öja who decided that the island needed a road.
20 October 2020.
English: Much.
Irish: Puinn.
Finnish: Paljon.
Please translate to your own language.
Examples:
Kissa syö paljon hiiriä.
(The cat eats a lot of mice.)
Cé go bhfuil misneach agat níl puinn céille agat.
(Although you have courage, you have not much sense.)
day 20.
rapidograph/adobe illustrator cs6.
3 inch square.
This purple vegetable has names. In American English it goes as an eggplant, in South African and South Asian Englishes as a brinjal, in British English as an aubergine, and in the language of emojis, well, we’ll talk about that some other time.
In all the names for this bulbous vegetable, there is one that truly sticks out. Many words have traveled, but when it comes to linguistic miles covered, it would be hard to beat the aubergine. It rises above all.
The aubergine spread its seed far and wide before reaching the English language. It came to English from Sanskrit via Persian, Arabic, Catalan, and French. That’s some serious wanderlust.
This week we’ll look at some other words that have earned the well-traveled designation, words that have bounced around before planting their flag in the English language.
On a different note, this Saturday I drove all the way to Lumen Field, a football stadium here in Seattle, and it turned out no game was taking place. So disappointing! Not!
Some 8,000 people were getting vaccinated that day. I too had an appointment. Got my first Pfizer shot. Here's to science! And to adults being in charge of running the country again!
Today's word is zen, after Zen, a school of Mahayana Buddhism. From Japanese zen (meditation), from Chinese chan (meditation), from Pali jhanam (jhanam), from Sanskrit dhyana (meditation). Earliest documented use: 1727. Also see satori.
Learn more about today's word at: wordsmith.org/words/zen.html
Swedish words of the day. Kylskåp/Fridge left in nature by an idiot /idiot, some words don't need translation. The closest household waste recycling centre is roughly one kilometre away from where the idiot left the kylskåp.
Bullerskärm. Swedish word of the day. Noise barrier fence along the Nynäsbanan railway line at Håga in Västehaninge. In the background a new building at the industrial park.