Basque Sayings
Martin on Luca Antara has been working on Basque proverbs as he works on his theory of everything.
Of course Basque has always been that magnificent island of contrariness at the top of Spain.
Not Indo European, but quirkishly separate.
But I, for one, though once having studied Linguistics, have never read any of the language.
Martin solves this lack at least in part in this post Three Basque proverbs and two words.
I couldn't resist trying out the new technique
Gaua, gogapenen ama
Izena duen guztiak izatea ere badauje:
Nola soinu, hala dautza:
11 comments:
I'm coming over there. I'm bringing my ice cream maker and my tomato soup can and all my underwear.
Clear out a drawer for me, honey!
looks to me like passing the cursor over the Basque words should produce some result - the English? - but for me, nothing happens. cdit be cos I'm on a Mac, or using Safari?
whoops! wasn't lingering long enough ...
I have done screen design for nearly twenty years now. this was one of the things which most annoyed me. The technology, a pop-up on hover was in Windows Help from the start as a definitional aid. It has the advantage of not loosing the original thread, and getting lost under a barrage of windows. A common enough web experience.
I knew how to do this, but the tedium of having to do the double markup to get over the IE problem puts people off.
Also it is not clear how much HTML blogger allows.
Anyway I am glad it finally worked for you.
when I was young, so much younger than today, we used an expression "being sent to Coventry" which does sound all very famous five and I assume is an English expression that's rude about the city (in some way). Somewhere along the line, it morphed into "being sent to Siberia". Do you think this relates to the Gulag, or simple assonance?
PS I didn't Google this on purpose. It has taken all the fun out of the world as we know it.
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Map done. When I added it I found my first neighbour was Swarf.
OK I relented and googled because I couldn't be arsed spelling Solzhenitsyn myself. It started during the washing up this morning, yes I must get out more. I started thinking of all the ways teenage girls can be mean to each other, and it reminded me of that expression. but by the mid-seventies, the expression had morphed. I postulated, while scrubbing a pan, whether our consciousness was shifted by the Gulag Archipelago and the whole Cold War politics. But, now I have to go Google whether Siberia has any connectivity to the Gulag. One step forward...
The map looks very good - I like your work-in-progress attitude to layout.I'm in New Town, in what passes as an inner suburb, although what we experience here is quite different from what Newtown, as an inner burb of Sydney, would be like.
Kettering is a bayside village down the Channel (D'Entrecasteau) where one gets the ferry to Bruny Island.
I read erin and river's blogs quite regularly, and enjoy it, but don't comment - maybe in a few months. Will check out Martin next.
I like Haalo's blog because she is so prolific about a topic i like (food) and has such high production values. It's like a Gourmet mag, one entry at a time.
Does blogspot ever limit the amount of waffle you can have as comments? I guess there's always the delete button. Ciao
FK,
no limit
Babble on
Bernard
PS I can't get to martn's taxi blog through his profile..what's his blogaddress please
fk
Martin's blogs are the main Luca Antara at http://
lucaantara.blogspot.com/
or taxi driving (dérives) at http://fluvial.blogspot.com/
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