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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.
18 October 2020.
English: Silence.
Irish: Tost.
Finnish: Vaitiolo.
Please translate to your own language.
Examples:
Bhí sé ina thost agus do bhíos-sa ag caint.
(He was silent and I was talking.)
day 18.
rapidograph/adobe illustrator cs6.
3 inch square.
CRASSULENT
adj. grotesquely obese
"People, in case you haven't noticed,
are a crassulent, beef-witted lot."
— Sherlock Holmes
Elementary s3e13 "Hemlock" (2015)
How to remember:
This comes from the Latin word "crassus" (fatty, thick)
which also gave us the words "crass" and “grease”
Check out the other High-Vocabulary Words of the Day
31 October 2020.
English: Shut.
Irish: Dúnaim.
Finnish: Kiinni.
Please translate to your language.
Examples:
Kaikki liikkeet ovat kiinni, pankit kiinni, posti kiinni.
(All the shops are shut, the banks are shut, the post office is shut.)
Ar mhiste leat an fhuinneog a dhúnadh?
(Would you mind shutting the window?)
Tá an tseana-scoil dúnta.
(The old school is closed.)
Dúnaidh doirse na stáblaí, mar beidh sé dorcha gan mhoill.
(Shut the stable doors, for it soon will be dark.)
Ar dhúnamair na fuinneoga?
(Did we shut the windows?)
day 31.
rapidograph/adobe illustrator cs6.
3 1/2 inch square.
Long Swedish word of the day. Elstängselsystem. Electric Fence System. I had to pass here to get into the forest.
Swedish word of the day. Fågelholk. This red nest box can be found in the birch forest at Söderby in Handen.
Day 257 of 365: a year in songs and photos
AND Word of the Day
AND #17 in the QOTSA discography
Song: Queens of the Stone Age, Another Love Song
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Three birds. One photographic stone.
Today's word of the day is:
melange \may-LAHNZH\, noun:
A mixture; a medley.
So here we have a medley of melodies. A melange of music. A bunch of 7" imports I collected while working at Record World back in the 80's, including Depeche Mode's "Just Can't Get Enough", The Jam's "Precious" and Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart Again" - there's also some China Crisis, Bruce Foxton and XTC in there. But I was thinking of love songs when I did this.
It's just funny how there's a time when a song can mean so much to you; the words, the meaning, the melody, even the feel of the record itself and whatever art was on the sleeve, it all held such emotion and definition for you. And years later you listen to it and find, it's just another love song.
The song: I have to say this is one of my least favorite QOTSA songs only because it's the one of the only ones that radio stations play. I don't like it in much the same way I don't like Faith No More's "Epic"; because too many people define the band by these songs and never really look into what else they have to offer.
Listen to song: youtube.com/watch?v=9eml0Jc72I8
And just to give you something else, here's the video for 3s and 7s youtube.com/watch?v=KUZL2hVUyUE
Swedish word of the day. Motvind. Headwind. The new walkway/bike path between Västerhaninge and Nedersta runs alongside the Nynäsbanan rail track. It feels like two kilometres of headwind most days.
If you are looking to buy a pub and pizza place, Vaskos in Tungelsta is for sale at the moment. www.blocket.se/vi/81632915.htm