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| Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
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10:03 pm - [Eurovision] Semifinal 1, Party For Everybody
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So Carl and I watched the first Eurovision semifinal last night (on delay, since I was at work when it aired). To its credit Azerbaijan put on a pretty decent show, and the postcards actually make the country look rather lovely. There were some tuning issues in several parts of the show -- some were obviously an earpiece issue (Romania), and others may have just been nerves (Cyprus).
Many of the qualifiers, Carl absolutely loathed. He didn't buy the "look at us, we're cute old ladies" spiel of Russia ("They can't harmonise!"), nor of the "personal" nature of Albania ("all she's doing is screaming!").
I said that Iceland, Greece, Romania, Switzerland, Cyprus, Russia, Hungary, Austria, Moldova, and Ireland would go through. There were songs I liked far better (in fact, I thought Greece was crap), but I also know that it's impossible for Russia, Romania, and Greece NOT to qualify, hence why I had them down. I was two off (Albania got in, Switzerland didn't; Denmark got in, Austria didn't). To be honest, I wouldn't've minded Israel and Finland going through, but I can see why they didn't.
CARL's FAVOURITE/LEAST FAVOURITE: Hungary, Montenegro
(Top 10: Hungary, Iceland, Denmark, Finland, Moldova, Romania, Switzerland, San Marino, Ireland, Latvia)
REGEV's FAVOURTITE/LEAST FAVOURITE: Hungary, Montenegro
(Top 10: Hungary, Denmark, Iceland, Moldova, Switzerland, Romania, Finland, Ireland, Israel, Albania)
Keep in mind: Carl was very biased towards Moldova ("I'd hit that") and Hungary ("this is the hottest Eurovision band ever!").
Hungary was fantastically performed. I was just okay with the song, but damn did he sell it. And Montenegro was a huge uncomfortable train wreck. I will not be schocked at all if it gets a big fat 0. Not having any other neighbours in this semi (how did that even happen??) doesn't help any.
So this upcoming Saturday Carl and I are having a party here in Peoria for the Eurovision final (starting at 1pm, the show starts at 2pm). Yep, that's when Bear Pride is, but it just isn't in the cards. So, I am going to make the best of it and have another party here. It gives me an excuse to make bacon-wrapped dates and baklava!
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| Friday, May 18th, 2012
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3:46 pm - Employment procured!
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Sometimes it IS all about who you know.
Recently, as you might recall, my work cut my hours back again, a month sooner than I expected. Last year was hard enough on reduced hours, so instead of just doing without it, or wasting my vacation time, I found other work.
Lance (my last holiday card model) and I work out at the same gym now, and it turns out that he is working for a local lawyer's office, and told me they had a position -- as unglorious as it may be -- waiting for someone looking to do temp work. And yeah, I'm more than willing.
He put a good word in, and I met the lawyer today. The office is VERY casual, and everyone who works there is family -- a stark contrast from my current job, where I get very ignorant questions about how on earth I could "give up a fine woman's pussy for a fat hairy man's ass".
The pay isn't great, and it's only one day a week, but it will be nice to make some extra cash and not be as desperate to make ends meet as I was last year. And really, who knows where else this could lead?
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| Monday, May 14th, 2012
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11:47 pm - [Multilingual Monday] Linguistic Screwups
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First off: Balashon is a great Hebrew language source. It covers words in modern Hebrew and why they are used. As you know, the revival of the Hebrew language as a spoken living language has been fascinating to watch blossom as it adapts to the modern world, and the site (which, sadly, doesn't seem to be getting updated anymore) has some great information on why certain words are used, and where they come from.
Today's theme: word mistakes. What had inspired me to do this theme, was the definition in the above Balashon of the word תרועה, teruah -- short shofar blasts, which can also refer to a battle cry and a vocal shout. This root has manifested into two different verbs:
It is very easy to mix up hatra'ah התרעה - warning, with the similar sounding hatraah התראה - which also means warning. But the former means also "alert, alarm" (think of the shofar, and the original distinction of teruah), while the latter also has the sense of "give advance notice" (for example, as witnesses are required to do in capital cases). Or as the site Safa Ivrit has it, התראה means "warning someone not do something" and התרעה means "warning about something that is about to happen."
And that made me think: mixing up words in English isn't all that uncommon (especially closely related words -- an effect vs. affect; lie vs. lay; compliment vs. complement -- here is a decent list of words in English), so it would have to happen -- to some degree or another -- in other languages, right?
Upon doing a bit more research I came across this lovely chart of German word pairs that could be confused, and then it popped in my head: while our first example happens with native speakers of the language, are these also happening among native German speakers, or are they simply issues with LEARNERS of German? Certainly, NOT being a native speaker would cause a completely different set of words to be confused, in part because of influence of one's native tongue (for example, MANY English speakers botch sacar vs. tomar; the former is used for "take" as in "to take pictures", but the latter's literal meaning means that "tomar fotos" isn't unheard of).
Of course that doesn't cover the realm of orthographic confusion -- In Japanese, 儀, 義 and 議 are confusing because -- well, a) look at them. They LOOK alike; b) they all have the reading "gi" (and two have the reading "yoi"); c) the former two have similar meanings (politeness vs. righteousness; the third means "discussion"); d) in certain cases one or another may be used -- not that they're interchangeable!! Other multiple sets of lookalikes/soundalikes -- 像 and 象 (both have close pronunciations -- "sou" vs. "zou" -- and can mean "image", but the former can be a statue, whereas the latter is an elephant); 緑, 縁, and 録 (the first and third can be pronounced "roku"; green vs. edge vs. record); 横 and 構 (sideways vs. posture). This means that there are that many more people using the wrong character, not helped by current input software where one can inadvertently put in an incorrect character when typing phonetically rather easily. In this case, wouldn't this be more like "you're" vs. "your", or "its" vs. "it's" in English?
Be it the wrong word or just common spelling issues, I'd love to hear about common flub-ups in other languages.
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| Sunday, May 13th, 2012
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5:47 pm - Mother's Day
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I'm developing as much a loathing for Mother's Day as I have for Father's Day. Earlier today, I actually thought: "I should call Mom up, since it's Mother's Day and all."
Stupid, stupid, fucking stupid.
You would think, with the whole fiasco of having to go through her house and sell everything, that I would remember that she's been dead. Hell, her yartzeit was on Thanksgiving, for God's sake.
I think one of the worst things, is that as opposed to knowing for a full month that my father was going to die, Ima having her heart attack and being found by my brother was just so sudden, that it really made the fact that we spent the entire month before she died bickering with one another, that much harder to deal with.
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| Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
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10:38 pm - [Eurovision] Carl and Eurovsion 2012, #7572
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The other day I found the Facebook page of Kaliopi, FYR Macedonia's entrant to the Eurovision Song Contest this year. I posted that I loved her entry and that I hoped she qualified.
She "liked" the post, and I told Carl last night, "Hey, the chick from Macedonia liked my post on Facebook."
"You mean ... on the 'social network.'"
"Ah yes, right."
(Carl was making a joke referring to San Marino's entry this year, which was originally "Facebook" and is now "The Social Network Song" since trademarks aren't allowed in the contest.)
current mood:  amused
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| Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
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11:04 pm - Work Woes
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I have a lot to post here, but first the most immediate stuff: my hours were, once again, cut at my work -- almost an entire month earlier than anticipated. Things must be rough, as everyone in our layout department faced the same fate -- sans three whose jobs were trimmed altogether.
It's caused a rather dark and somber mood at my workplace, and several people who drive heavy distances now see fewer reasons to keep coming, and have been exploring other options. My boss knows this, and there's really little he can say. It's not like he can be surprised by the desire to seek greener pastures, myself included. Though, there don't seem to be too many green pastures, but I continue to look ...
Of course this means trimming our belts, since sixteen hours of work time will be missing each paycheque. I was hoping to head up to Chicago for Bear Pride -- I haven't missed one in a decade, I don't think -- but the cost is off-putting (a bus, plus a room, plus food, plus event ... it adds up quickly!), and I'm not sure I can justify spending that kind of money now.
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| Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
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11:20 pm - [Memories] The Washing Machine
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DO you remember Friday Night Videos? When I was in grade school, my brother, sister, and I would stay up late at night watching this show, and several times we would be introduced to music videos that we had never seen before.
One night David Lee Roth's "Jump" came on, and it was completely new for my brother and I. At one point, we completely misheard the lyrics, and BOTH of us somehow heard, "I went and kicked the washing machine / if you know what I mean."
I looked at my brother, and my brother at me, and before you knew it, we were in the utility room kicking my dad's avocado washing machine repeatedly, and loudly. Because somehow this course of action made sense. Come on, we were seven at the oldest! Anyways, this ended up waking my dad out of a dead sleep (since his bedroom was RIGHT next to the utility room), and he lammed his door open in a fury.
"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ASSHOLES DOING??" my dad yelled, the vein above his right eyebrow pulsing wildly. Of course we knew we were in deep shit at that point, and all we could do was quietly stutter.
"... but ... videos ... and David Lee Roth ... and the washing machine ..."
"FOR FUCK'S SAKE GO TO BED!!"
And from that point on, David Lee Roth will always remind me of my dad. :: laugh :: Why am I telling this now? Carl and I went to dinner, and "Jump" came on. I chuckled, and Carl asked what was so funny, and I relayed this tale of childhood stupidity to him. He was pretty damned amused by it ^o^
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| Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
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11:56 pm - Southern Illinois, #03: Cairo
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(Yeah, go ahead, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) muckefuck, try arguing the town isn't in Southern Illnois. :: laugh ::)
Fast-forwarding right to the goodies -- Cairo.
Jamie had already been to Cairo as part of her honeymoon (where her and her husband roadtripped throughout the southern part of the state), and she sent amazing pictures of the downtown area. Why so amazing? Cairo, in its height, had tens of thousands of people in it, employing a number of people with jobs due to its location along the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Between those jobs steadily vanishing and intense race rioting, the population dwindled down to the 1500 or so there now.
Now, 1500 isn't abandoned, by any stretch of the imagination. But apparently huge chunks of the city have been rendered abandoned. Tons of buildings are covered in overgrowth, windows boarded up or bashed out, with some huge chunks missing out of several them. It was, indeed, Life After Man, in person. The current population belied how the city -- once apparently beautiful -- sat in ruin. Nothing outside of one restaurant and a Dollar General seemed to even be open, and that includes medical facilities, gas stations ...
I was dumbdounded. And that's saying something. And several things caught my eye -- for starters, sections of downtown had fairly new brick roads installed. And while they wren't brand new, they couldn't be more than a decade or so old. Yet, these roads lead to absolutely nothing. So, why install them to begin with? Another eye-opener was the sheer amount of vegetation -- in some cases, they completely enveloped homes and literally crushed them. I think it's the first time I've ever seen that, in my life. Several spots are historically registered, and they are fairly well maintained, and it seems other buildings had restorations started, that were never finished. This seems true of the Gem Theater, which is falling apart, a sign in the ticket window announcing restoration covered in dust the only sign that someone -- at some point in time -- started trying to save it.
( Several pictures of the city. )
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| Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
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12:04 am - [Multilingual Monday] More Hebrew Transliteration
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Once again, I present a page where students take logos and make Hebrew versions of them. The last time they were exclusively common Latin logos being ported into the Hebrew script, with the challenge of maintaining the same "feel" of the original logo. In this venture, Japanese and Arabic are also introduced.
I'll be honest, I find the Arabic ones the most fascinating. Though you have the advantage that both languages read in the same direction, the very nature of the written scripts is different from one another, but the three presented maintain the feel of the feel of the original logo while at least being somewhat readable in Hebrew. My favourite, a logo for Zaytoon, is above, with the original (brilliant) Arabic logo on the left, and the Hebrew version on the right. I'm amazed how much of the feel of the Arabic version remains, even with the elimination of the waaw (the loop towards the bottom left. Use of some vowel points was required to not only make it readable to Hebrew viewers (yay Semitic script vagueness!) but also to try to retain at least some of the "dots" found in the Arabic version (found on z, y, t and n).
Thank you to Urso for this great article -- I can't wait to see more student work!!
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| Sunday, April 29th, 2012
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5:45 pm - On TV, again
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This past Thursday, I was, once again, on our local PBS station helping out with their annual auction. It wasn't anything fancy -- I read closed auction board results -- but it was quite fun. I decided to do something a little different this year, and decided to do freestyle on my beard, which got quite a few positive responses. I even got this, from a guy I used to hook up with, via Adam4Adam:
saw you on the WTVP auction. Grat Job! and awesome moustache and beard
As I went to pull this quote, apparently someone ELSE I talk to on that service also saw me. Were all the 'mos watching WTVP Thursday night??? :: laugh :: This gent said:
You were great. Very energetic... which is always good for a PBS event.
Tonight I help out again, but this time answering phones, so I might be visible again for a bit. I did that last year too and it was pretty entertaining for the most part!
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| Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
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11:58 pm - Southern Illinois, #02: Alton, IL
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| Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
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11:42 pm - Southern Illinois Prologue, #01: Mental Hospital
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This past weekend, we went from Peoria to Wickliffe, KY, with stops all along the way (at Lincoln, Alton, St. Louis, Prairie du Rocher, Chester, Kaskaskia, and Cairo). The trip, spanning two days, covered around 700 miles throughout three states.
We didn't do as much geocaching as I would have liked, but we saw some great things on our trip (and got two new states under our belts).
One of our earlier stops: ( An abandoned mental institution in Alton... )
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| Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
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11:19 pm - Arson, Slaves, And Ghosts: The Green House Tavern Followup
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So I had called around to see if, in fact, the old inn I mentioned two posts ago was still existing. I'd hate to drive miles out of the way, after all, to see absolutely nothing. Ne?
The lady at the library, as nice as she was, didn't seem to know anything about the house, resulting in my (inadvertent!) call to Gallatin County records.
"It was burned down."
"Excuse me?"
"If it's the house I'm thinking of, then some yahoos we have around here burned it down, I believe."
I can't even state in words a lot of this whole Green House Tavern THING. I can't explain what drew me to it; I can't explain why I felt the need to pour so much research into it, and I can't explain the disappointment I felt upon knowing that, in all likelihood, this historical landmark was burned way by some fucknuts. There's still some hope that this building is still standing and that the lady was thinking of some other building, but it's quite possible that she's not. Really, if anyone would know, it would be the lady working in records ...
It's a bit sad that the tavern -- attested to be in great shape as late as 1979 -- would just become forgotten about. Other locales have become much more well-known, full of stories of being haunted and the like. For example, there is the Crenshaw house, better known as the Old Slave House, owned by a man who garnered infamy kidnapping free blacks and selling them back into slavery. The house still stands to this day, and is now property of the state, and has been closed since 1999, with a recent excavation of the grounds finished last year. As I talked to the Shawneetown librarian, she stuggled to place the Green House Tavern, and immediately said, "Well there's the old Slave House -- have you seen that?"
Oh well. The adventure down south -- with or without the tavern -- starts Saturday. I'm still pretty excited even if one of my reasons for going has gone up in smoke.
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| Monday, April 16th, 2012
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9:31 pm
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I'm very fascinated by the works of Серге́й Миха́йлович Проку́дин-Го́рский, Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky. He worked extensively in early colour photography, and was commissioned by the tsar to document, in colour photography, the Russian empire at the time. His work can be seen in several places, including a PDF showing around a hundred of his photos.
I saw this pic in the Urals section and thought two things:
1.) Period facial hair. Woof.
2.) I would totally wear the outfit on the left.
This should come as no shock to anyone, really. :: laugh ::
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| Sunday, April 15th, 2012
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10:28 pm - The Search For The Green House Tavern
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When I get into something, I ... tend to take it a bit too far. Ask anyone. So it is not a terrible shock, then, that I've just dived into the possibility of finding abandoned settlements and ghost towns in southern Illinois this weekend -- so much so that I went to our local library and found a book on the subject.
It was very enlightening, with many places I wasn't aware even existing. Some settlements apparently never even had a name ("A Nameless Town" is seriously listed as a town in Randolph County), and most had either vanished and become recultivated land (common here in the Midwest), several had been reduced to mere hamlets (where 30 down to 1 person may still remain).
I took down quite a few notes (as the book was noncirculating, and buying a new copy is outrageously expensive now that the book is out of print), and as I took notes for Gallatin County, that's when I saw it ...
GREEN HOUSE TAVERN
Green House was not a town but an important inn. On the Shawneetown-Vincesnnes Post Road, half way between New Haven and Shawneetown, Joseph Pierce built an inn. This was in the southwest quarter of section 6, township 11, range 10. Pierce was a Revolutionary War soplider. He bought the land with continental currency paid to him for his war services.
He had a sawmill and there was plenty of white oak, cypress and poplar timber on his land. Nevertheless, he ordered the inn built in Cincinnati, Ohio and shipped down the Ohio River to Shawneetown. Here it was loaded on ox carts and hauled to the sight. It was built in sections and erected by fitting tongue and grove (sp) joints. The sills are 12 by 14 inches, pegged together with wooden pegs. The inn had six rooms with a fireplace in each room. It cost $2,200.
The mail stage stopped here and passengers were entertained. The meals were rough but nourishing.
In 1863 three members of the Knights of the Golden Circle were caught stealing horses to send south for the Confederate Calvary. They were jailed in the basement of Green House. That night they escaped and one of them was shot and killed in the pursuit to recapture them.
The owners of Green House in the century after it was built were: Joseph Pierce, Henry Pierce, Joseph Pierce II, Cums Young, A.G. Motten, Benjamin Gawtney, Maruice Fheerer, G.T. Wilson, JOhn Mabley, L. Givens, G. Wilson, and the present owner is Emmett Downen, who obtained it in 1949.
Today the inn still stands. It has eight rooms and a full basement and is of outstanding architecture.
Immediately upon reading this, I had to learn more. Of course, doing a Google Search of "Green House" and "Shawneetown" turned up nothing useful. I mixed other search words, to no avail. Did this structure even still exist?? It said so in the book, but the book was also older than me, and if I learned anything from our time at Vishnu Springs, it's that thirty years is plenty of time for something to be ruined beyond recognition.
Another problem is the location -- the article helps not at all. "Between New Haven and Shawneetown" could be any number of places. The Post Road listed does not exist by that name anymore. And then there's the PLSS description -- "section 6, township 11, range 10" puts the location far south of both New Haven and Shawneetown, meaning that it is incorrect. Fortunately I struck Google gold (as it were) and found this writeup about cemeteries of Gallatin County, and there it states ... "present Green House Center of SW 1/4, Sec. 6, T8, R10." Well that makes a LOT more sense.
Using a PLSS overlay onto Google Earth (I DID mention I take things a bit far -- right?), I got coordinates of 37°50'57.12"N 88°9'2.83"W (feel free to plug them into Google Earth!). And voila, right there I see something that looks like a structure of some sort (it's hard to tell in aerial view). Is this the Green House Tavern?? It seems to be so!! I am calling the Shawneetown library tomorrow and see if I can't procure any more information.
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| Thursday, April 12th, 2012
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11:54 pm - Southern Illinois Trip
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So Jamie, Mark and I next week will be taking a trip to southern Illinois. Though we originally planned a three-day weekend thing, work kept us from doing that. A shame, really, as there's a lot I'd love to explore.
Yes, there will be geocaching, but also site seeing. I'm particularly interested in exploring abandoned settlements, but how much will really be there? I mean, after all, we already have Kaskaskia (the state's first capital) and Cairo (which has a very abandoned downtown), but there has to be more ... right?
Regardless, time is now NOT on our side as we initially hoped, meaning we'll have to postpone various activities for another time.
Suggestions while I'm there?
EDIT: There is this list of "Shawnee tourism," covering a wide range of things to seek out when in the Shawnee National Forest area.
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| Monday, April 9th, 2012
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10:19 pm - [Multilingual Monday] Linky linky
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Links that are of linguistic interest -- at least, they are to me:
36 Kanji a Day. I admit it; there are always those stray kanji that, no matter what, seem to escape me. Separated into nine levels, there are four kanji each day, providing pronunciations, good words to learn, and other tidbits. Yeah, I check this every day.
Hasafa Haivrit. Not much help if you don't already read at least SOME Hebrew. The linked page contains a slew of words that have come into the modern Hebrew language through Arabic -- I was unaware, for example, that סחתיין, saxteyn ("Congrats" or "bravo") had initially come from the Arabic صَحتين, the word originating from health and wellness.
Tsalagi Sgwatlanohedi. It's a fascinating blog about the Cherokee language and attempts to incorporate it into daily life. Though really every possible layout makes the site look like a mess, there's some great info here, some vocab lessons, and various new articles.
My Languages -- Learn Georgian. A tip-of-the-iceberg introduction to the Georgian language, with plenty of vocabulary and not a HUGE amount of grammar (which, in Georgian, is mind-numbing!)
Any other language links I should know of? By all means, let me know!
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| Monday, April 2nd, 2012
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10:09 pm - [Multilingual Monday Music] Eurovision 2012
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Ah, the Eurovision Song Contest. One of the original draws for me, admittedly, was that each country had to sing in its own language, so you would hear languages in song that you wouldn't otherwise. Danish rap? Turkish rock? Russian dance music? It was there.
This rule was abolished in 1973 (giving English winners from countries like Sweden -- yep, Abba and "Waterloo"), came back in 1977, and was abolished again 1999, meaning a country could sing in whatever it wanted. While this has produced some unique linguistic choices -- Belgium sang in a fictional language in 2003 and came just points from winning, and Romania in 2007 sang in six languages including its own), several naysayers dubbed the more recent editions of the contest "Anglovision" as most entries are all -- or at least mostly -- in English. Or "English", case depending upon the language skills of the writers and singer involved!
Last year was, linguistically, bland. 25 entries competed in the final; 19 were completely in English, three were a mix, and only three (Spain, France, and Serbia) were 100% in another language. French, outside of two sentences in the Lithuanian entry, was completely absent (when, many years ago, it was a major player in the contest).
This year, it's different. A ballad one, which means this year, there are a metric asstonne of ballads. And with that, more people have opted to stick to their own language. It helps that -- somehow -- five of the six former Yugoslav countries are in the same final, meaning each of those five have stuck to their guns and are submitting songs in their native languages. Out of 42 competing entries, 12 are competely in another language, while six are a mix -- an improvement over last year. With that is the debut of three langauges (Georgian, Udmurt and Mühlviertlerisch, a dialect of German), and one entry (Bulgaria) features a chorus made of a huge mix of languages. Even if the particular songs are ones I'm not fond of, I applaud that there's a greater variety, linguistically, this year, than last.
Now if every other song weren't a ballad, that'd be awesome.
( Hear a sampling! )
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| Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
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11:26 pm - 9 years -- can you believe it?
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9 years ... can you believe it?
On March 29, 2003, I held an art show in my college in Romeoville, IL, in order to graduate and get my degree. Now, the funny part is that while not all of my artwork was homoerotic or bear-related ... yeah, let's be honest, a good chunk of it was. Ironic considering that my stuff was being displayed at my Jesuit college. Yes, even more ironic than the fact that a Jewish boy was at a Catholic university.
But I digress.
The turnout was pretty good, as I recall. Close friends, coworkers, my family (one of the last times the five of us were together for a big event) and a few others showed up. Along with Chris L (who I knew), was a man I didn't know. This cute stranger came up to me and said, "... yeah, I really like your art work." I thanked him, blushing deeply. The pic above is Carl and Chris, meeting my mother for the first time. My mother had always been a bit eccentric.
From this art show, I got an email from this stranger -- a man named Carl -- who offered to have a date with me, and we had our first date at an Ethiopian restaurant. It, unfortunately, didn't end on such a great note (as Carl loves to remind me, repeatedly -_-), and the second date? My cat died and we tried to figure out what to do with a feline cadaver on Easter, so also not a great date.
But the rest were fantastic. And though we've gotten into that "old married couple" phase of my life, I still love the man who I can come closest to calling my husband. He's been there for me through so many things, and has stuck by me, no matter how bitchy, angry, sad, or just plain neurotic I can be.
I love you, Carl. Happy anniversary.
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