I stayed up much later than I should have, and the movie was pretty stupid, too.
36 thoughts on “October 30, 2015: Double Dumb”
I dig today's CoC post image, but I don't think I'd want to drink the coffee.
Can anybody translate?
I can't figure out how to transcribe the last line, but the first two are:
ЖЖЕНЫЙ
КОФЕ
Which Google translates to,
Burning
COFFEE
Google Translate has the option for a software keyboard when using languages with different character sets. I enabled that and then hunted and pecked each character.
That's going well beyond the call of duty. Thank you.
I think it might be better translated as "Burnt Coffee," but excellent work.
Cyrillic keyboards were something of a conversation piece among my fellow Russian learners. A few used a transliterated Cyrillic keyboard (corresponding phonetic sounds to a US keyboard layout), while others felt it was important to learn the proper Cyrillic layout and would put stickers on their keyboards of the Cyrillic characters.
Not really. With just knowledge of Cyrillic: zhzhyeniy
Kofye
S. S_u i Ko.
I didn't know words could start with two like consonants.
I bet the middle line means "Coffee"
and the final "Ko." means "Co." as in "Company"
I don't believe Russian uses the "I" character. So maybe this is Ukrainian?
But Ukrainian doesn't seem to have the "bl"-looking thing in the top row?
I found it under the "Ctrl+Alt" option. Checking The Repository, it was eliminated in 1917-18.
Checking the provenance of this image, one site has it listed under the headline of "Pre-revolutionary posters".
And rightly so. Filthy bourgeoisie letters taking all the glory...
There you go, bringing class into it again.
The post-Revolution alphabet reform is a fascinating intersection of politics & culture.
What gets even more interesting for folks learning the language is the subjective/selective omission of things like the umlaut over ë (e & ë are two different vowels) and that Russian script uses different characters yet.
I'm familiar with the Russian script vs print distinction. "m" is a T although M is an M. "n" is a P (print looks like pi). "u" is an I (the backwards-N).
Lowercase "g"s look like English script lowercase "r"s (print looks like capital gamma).
In Middle School, I learned as many foreign alphabets as I could at the library.
I actually picked up the д into д in my handwriting, and it's with me to this day in my signature (though I don't write anything else in cursive anymore).
I've had people look at my signature and call me "Dan" because the swoop goes up and back towards the top of the big A.
I used the alphabets to write to myself in code. Just phonetic translation, mostly. I became most fond of Arabic because it looked like nothing else and was easy to write. (Cyrillic and Greek were too easy to occasionally parse.) Hebrew was just too hard for me, probably because I couldn't reduce it to a handwritten style. (There were no books available on Hindi, Tamil, Georgian, or Armenian, and I know that the east Asian languages did not even have alphabetical systems at all.)
Georgian is a gorgeous script, one of my favorites.
Is it just me, or is MLB doing a press release on Fielding Grammy finalists just another sign of the decline of Western Civilization?
Dude, they weren't even standing on your lawn!
Shifty eyes and hooded sweatshirts.
Maybe their pants were too baggy and hung too low.
And what about that music? Just noise.
Maybe it's just my perception, but it seems like there are more press releases and announcements going on during the World Series than there have been in previous years. This is not the time of year that MLB should be pulling eyes away from what is happening on the field.
With the sheer volume of information we come across every day, I can see why they would put out more press releases and announcements now than in the past. Some Twins fan that's kind of checked out from the playoffs might see it come across his Twitter feed that Dozier's up for a Fielding Grammy at 2B, then remember that the World Series is still going and make it a point to see the game tonight.
Press releases don't bother me. Finalists for Fielding Grammies? Who needs those?
Reminder to anyone who's interested:
The Rugby World Cup final is tomorrow morning. New Zealand (All Blacks) vs. Australia (Wallabies). Coverage starts at 11AM on NBC.
I mentioned a few months ago (back when AMR had some microwave issues) that I discovered one of our basement walls seemed to be rotting. Anyway, yesterday demo began on a complete rebuild of our basement (it was unfinished before, now it'll be entirely redone!). We have a coal room (our house is 96 years old), and the slanted floor is what was caving in because there was no foundation underneath the slants. Pretty cool stuff, except when we came home today and noticed our living room floor at our front door had dropped by about an inch and creaked with every step.
The project manager hustled over and realized the subcontractor who did some demo today accidentally took out two loadbaring walls. Oops. They rigged a remedial solution to last until the new walls are put in (after the new floor is laid) around Thanksgiving.
I dig today's CoC post image, but I don't think I'd want to drink the coffee.
Can anybody translate?
I can't figure out how to transcribe the last line, but the first two are:
Which Google translates to,
Google Translate has the option for a software keyboard when using languages with different character sets. I enabled that and then hunted and pecked each character.
That's going well beyond the call of duty. Thank you.
I think it might be better translated as "Burnt Coffee," but excellent work.
Cyrillic keyboards were something of a conversation piece among my fellow Russian learners. A few used a transliterated Cyrillic keyboard (corresponding phonetic sounds to a US keyboard layout), while others felt it was important to learn the proper Cyrillic layout and would put stickers on their keyboards of the Cyrillic characters.
Not really. With just knowledge of Cyrillic:
zhzhyeniyKofye
S. S_u i Ko.
I didn't know words could start with two like consonants.
I bet the middle line means "Coffee"
and the final "Ko." means "Co." as in "Company"
I don't believe Russian uses the "I" character. So maybe this is Ukrainian?
But Ukrainian doesn't seem to have the "bl"-looking thing in the top row?
I found it under the "Ctrl+Alt" option. Checking The Repository, it was eliminated in 1917-18.
Checking the provenance of this image, one site has it listed under the headline of "Pre-revolutionary posters".
And rightly so. Filthy bourgeoisie letters taking all the glory...
There you go, bringing class into it again.
The post-Revolution alphabet reform is a fascinating intersection of politics & culture.
What gets even more interesting for folks learning the language is the subjective/selective omission of things like the umlaut over ë (e & ë are two different vowels) and that Russian script uses different characters yet.
I'm familiar with the Russian script vs print distinction. "m" is a T although M is an M. "n" is a P (print looks like pi). "u" is an I (the backwards-N).
Lowercase "g"s look like English script lowercase "r"s (print looks like capital gamma).
In Middle School, I learned as many foreign alphabets as I could at the library.
I actually picked up the д into д in my handwriting, and it's with me to this day in my signature (though I don't write anything else in cursive anymore).
I've had people look at my signature and call me "Dan" because the swoop goes up and back towards the top of the big A.
I used the alphabets to write to myself in code. Just phonetic translation, mostly. I became most fond of Arabic because it looked like nothing else and was easy to write. (Cyrillic and Greek were too easy to occasionally parse.) Hebrew was just too hard for me, probably because I couldn't reduce it to a handwritten style. (There were no books available on Hindi, Tamil, Georgian, or Armenian, and I know that the east Asian languages did not even have alphabetical systems at all.)
Georgian is a gorgeous script, one of my favorites.
Once they're gone, that's it.
That's just another example of why that publication's journalism is so important to democracy.
Sponsored by Tomcat. Their latest ad campaign is pretty awesome.
No one seems to care about the problem.
And the U.S. dollar continues to show its strength.
No kidding. That makes 12 of them worth about $0.10.
That's a solid Arrested Development reference. Well done, twitter guy.
Ha, that's perfect.
Is it just me, or is MLB doing a press release on Fielding Grammy finalists just another sign of the decline of Western Civilization?
Dude, they weren't even standing on your lawn!
Shifty eyes and hooded sweatshirts.
Maybe their pants were too baggy and hung too low.
And what about that music? Just noise.
Maybe it's just my perception, but it seems like there are more press releases and announcements going on during the World Series than there have been in previous years. This is not the time of year that MLB should be pulling eyes away from what is happening on the field.
With the sheer volume of information we come across every day, I can see why they would put out more press releases and announcements now than in the past. Some Twins fan that's kind of checked out from the playoffs might see it come across his Twitter feed that Dozier's up for a Fielding Grammy at 2B, then remember that the World Series is still going and make it a point to see the game tonight.
Press releases don't bother me. Finalists for Fielding Grammies? Who needs those?
Reminder to anyone who's interested:
The Rugby World Cup final is tomorrow morning. New Zealand (All Blacks) vs. Australia (Wallabies). Coverage starts at 11AM on NBC.
ESPN Has Killed Grantland
Booourns
Borzi on the strangest four days in Minnesota sports.
I mentioned a few months ago (back when AMR had some microwave issues) that I discovered one of our basement walls seemed to be rotting. Anyway, yesterday demo began on a complete rebuild of our basement (it was unfinished before, now it'll be entirely redone!). We have a coal room (our house is 96 years old), and the slanted floor is what was caving in because there was no foundation underneath the slants. Pretty cool stuff, except when we came home today and noticed our living room floor at our front door had dropped by about an inch and creaked with every step.
The project manager hustled over and realized the subcontractor who did some demo today accidentally took out two loadbaring walls. Oops. They rigged a remedial solution to last until the new walls are put in (after the new floor is laid) around Thanksgiving.
Yikes.