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thinking about the other week when i was leading a tour through the historic fort and a little girl pointed to an axe and said “what if i ate that”

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If your life is horrible and you need a new source of meaning and direction.... Do NOT find religion. Learn to identify plants.

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Wool & lana

The word lana (wool) in languages such as Spanish is etymologically related to English wool. For words to be related, they don't have to look like each other. Instead, you have to be able to trace them back to the same ancestor through regular sound changes - and that's what linguists managed to do with wool and lana. The infographic shows the Germanic and Romance family trees of these words.

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i love studying i'm sorry i just do. i love learning new information, writing little asterisks next to things i don't understand knowing one day i'll come back to it and it'll make perfect sense.

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Autunno - vocab

Autumn : L’ AUTUNNO Blanket : LA COPERTA Leaf : LA FOGLIA - leaves : LE FOGLIE  Rain : LA PIOGGIA Raincoat : L’IMPERMEABILE Umbrella : L’OMBRELLO Wind : IL VENTO Scarf : LA SCIARPA Storm : LA TEMPESTA / BUFERA Cold (n.) : IL FREDDO   Warm (adj.) : TIEPIDO To bundle up : INFAGOTTARSI / COPRIRSI

Hot chocolate : LA CIOCCOLATA CALDA Whipped cream : LA PANNA MONTATA Chestnut : LA CASTAGNA Hazelnut : LA NOCCIOLA Corn mush : LA POLENTA Pumpkin : LA ZUCCA - pumpkins : LE ZUCCHE Sweets : LE CARAMELLE / I DOLCI

Halloween : HALLOWEEN Trick or treat : DOLCETTO O SCHERZETTO (literally: little sweet or little joke) Horror film / movie : IL FILM DELL’ORRORE / FILM HORROR Costume : IL COSTUME / LA MASCHERA Cobweb / spiderweb : LA RAGNATELA Ghost : IL FANTASMA Monster : IL MOSTRO Zombie : LO ZOMBIE Lycanthrope : IL LICANTROPO ( Werewolf : IL LUPO MANNARO ) Vampire : IL VAMPIRO Bat : IL PIPISTRELLO Skeleton : LO SCHELETRO Coffin : LA BARA Dust : LA POLVERE Spider : IL RAGNO Scarecrow : LO SPAVENTAPASSERI Witch : LA STREGA Witchcraft : LA STREGONERIA

To dress up : ADDOBBARE / ORNARE (place); TRAVESTIRSI / MASCHERARSI (person) To haunt : PERSEGUITARE To scare : SPAVENTARE / FARE PAURA

Haunted : INFESTATO (place) Scared : SPAVENTATO Scare / fear (n.) : LO SPAVENTO / LA PAURA Creepy : PAUROSO / SPAVENTOSO Dark (adj.) : BUIO / SCURO  Dark (n.) / darkness : : IL BUIO / L’OSCURITA’

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I'm bored so here you have another multilingual post. Sorry for adding colors but my mind has started going nuts at a certain point... ENG - ITA - FRA - ESP - KOR

Days - (i) Giorni - (les) Jours - (los) Días - 날(들): Monday - (il) Lunedì - (le) Lundi - (el) Lunes - 월요일 Tuesday - (il) Martedì - (le) Mardi - (el) Martes - 화요일 Wednesday - (il) Mercoledì - (le) Mercredi - (el) Miércoles - 수요일 Thursday - (il) Giovedì - (le) Jeudi - (el) Jueves - 목요일 Friday - (il) Venerdì - (le) Vendredi - (el) Viernes - 금요일 Saturday - (il) Sabato - (le) Samedi - (el) Sabado - 토요일 Sunday - (la) Domenica - (la) Dimanche - (el) Domingo - 일요일

[Week - (la) Settimana - (la) Semaine - (la) Semana - 일주일] [Weekend - Fine settimana - Fin de semaine - Fin de semana - 주말]

Months - (i) Mesi - (les) Mois - (los) Meses - 달(들): January - Gennaio - Janvier - Enero - 1월/일월 February - Febbraio - Février - Febrero - 2월/이월 March - Marzo - Mars - Marzo - 3월/삼월 April - Aprile - Avril - Abril - 4월/사월 May - Maggio - Mai - Mayo - 5월/오월 June - Giugno - Juin - Junio - 6월/육월 July - Luglio - Juillet - Julio - 7월/칠월 August - Agosto - Août - Agosto - 8월/팔월 September - Settembre - Septembre - Septiembre - 9월/구월 October - Ottobre - Octobre - Octubre - 10월/십월 November - Novembre - Novembre - Noviembre - 11월/십일월 December - Dicembre - Décembre - Diciembre - 12월/십이월

[Year - (l')Anno - (l')Année - (el) Año - 년]

Seasons - (le) Stagioni - (les) Saisons - (las) Estaciones - 계절 : Spring - (la) Primavera - (le) Printemps - (la) Primavera - 봄 Summer - (l')Estate - (l')Été - (el) Verano - 여름 Autumn - (l')Autunno - (l')Automne - (el) Otoño - 가을 Winter - (l')Inverno - (l')Hiver - (el) Invierno - 겨울

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I've been working on our taxonomy project thingy again but this time I decided to do some plants because we've been learning to identify Potentilla and Waldsteinia which are both in the rose family. I also realised I know very little about plant taxonomy and figured I might as well see what's going on with that.

I chose to just start at Eukaryota on Wikipedia and see if I could eventually navigate through all the taxonomic levels until I got to where I wanted to be and it was fun trying to find the right path without looking it up.

this was also a practical way of doing things because I had to fill out all the other taxonomic levels between Eukaryota and Rosaceae because we hadn't filled out any plants yet (except that at some point I made a page for viridiplantae? I guess?).

anyway, some examples:

at one point I got distracted filling in Gymnospermae so we can also add more stuff to those at some point:

(I included Gnetidae in Pinophyta because it was listed as being included in there cladistically but not traditionally, but it seems like the actual classification is heavily debated and I don't really have an opinion on this right now)

back to Angiospermae. I managed to guess that Rosaceae is in Eudicots and I figured it'd probably be in Pentapetalae because the flowers on the species I'm familiar with have 5 petals, and this turned out to be the case so that's handy

there are also just a lot more words here that I recognise.

Rosaceae containes 3 subfamilies but so far I've only filled in one of them, Rosoideae, which contains 6 tribes

out of those tribes, I've filled in Colurieae and Potentilleae, since Colurieae contains Waldsteinia, and Potentilleae contains Potentilla

Potentilliae also contains strawberries (Fragaria), and Rosaceae as a whole also contains apples, raspberries, blackberries, pears, plums, cherries, peaches, apricots, almonds, blackthorn, and quinces.

so this has been a fun little adventure figuring out some plant taxonomy and learning how a bunch of stuff is related (and finding out about stuff where nobody's really sure where it fits). I've probably missed stuff out or gotten something wrong somewhere in here because it was a mess to figure out some of it, but I also haven't included screenshots of every taxonomic level because there are so many and I don't think Tumblr would let me add that many images

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Hey uh. I know learning languages is cool and shit but you should ideally not be using Duolingo.

They have been letting go of their human staff and replacing them with AI, leading to a ton of mistakes.

(also while practicing my first language - not English, which I have been speaking since I learned how to talk and writing since I learned how to write - kept saying I was wrong except I wasn't. It leaves no room for nuance/multiple correct answers)

There are other language apps, but also check out your library! They have language tools for FREE

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I forgot to give any updates for a little while, but here's our September forest.

the cleaning stuff was mostly organising stuff on our phone and laptop, but also slowly catching up with tidying our room because things got pretty bad over the summer so it was a mess (and still is but not as bad).

we did pretty well with reading towards the start of the month but haven't kept up with it very well since then. I have been really enjoying Shadecursed by Aeryn Christie though. I'm about a quarter of the way through and it's such a fun and engaging book.

actually studying hasn't been going great but it is what it is. I still feel like I've learnt a lot just from going on iNat so much and slowly learning how to ID various species even if I haven't been making actual notes about them. I've actually been learning a little bit of the terminology used for describing plants and it's been really interesting.

I don't really have any set goals for October since things are still kinda chaotic and we're mostly just seeing how we feel. hopefully it'll be a nice month

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🔵 PRESENT 🔵 eu continui - I continue tu continui - you continue el/ea continuă - he/she continues noi continuăm - we continue voi continuați - you continue ei/ele continuă - they continue

🟡 PAST 🟡 eu am continuat - I continued tu ai continuat - you continued el/ea a continuat - he/she continued noi am continuat - we continued voi aţi continuat - you continued ei/ele au continuat - they continued

🔴 FUTURE 🔴 eu voi continua - I'll continue tu vei continua - you'll continue el/ea va continua - he/she will continue noi vom continua - we'll continue voi veţi continua - you'll continue ei/ele vor continua - they'll continue

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Al mare - Vocabs

al mare - to the sea la spiaggia - on the beach la sabbia - the sand il bagnasciuga / la battigia - foreshore le cabine - changing room il sole - th sun l’ombra - the shadow il bagnino - lifeguard i bagnanti - bathers, swimmers l’ombrellone - beach umbrella la sedia - chair la sdraio (sedia a sdraio) - lounger, beach chair il mare - the sea il pattino / il moscone - small, rowing catamaran il pedalò - pedalo la nave - the ship la crociera - cruise il gommone - rubber boat la motonave - motor vessel il traghetto / (il ferry boat) - ferry boat

divieto di balneazione - no bathing la mareggiata - storm surge, coastal storm il mare agitato / mosso - rough sea il mare calmo / piatto (bonaccia) - calm sea

le conchiglie - shells le meduse - jellyfishes il cavalluccio marino / l’ippocampo - sea horse i granchi - crabs i pesci - fishes le vongole - clams lo squalo - shark la balena - whale i delfini - dolphins le tartarughe marine - sea/water turtles  i gabbiani - seagulls le anemoni di mare - sea anemone

il costume (da bagno) intero - swimwear il costume a slip (da uomo) = speedo il (costume da bagno) due pezzi - two pieces swimwear la crema solare - sunscreen gli occhiali da sole - sunglasses alta protezione - high protection bassa protezione - low protection la paletta e il secchiello (paletta e secchiello) - bucket and spade le formine - shape models il castello di sabbia - sand castle le onde - waves gli spruzzi - sprays i racchettoni - beach paddleball il beach volley - beach volley il ping pong - ping pong

fare il bagno - to bathe entrare in acqua / in mare - to bathe, to enter the water/sea tuffarsi = to dip fare il bagno nudi - to skinny dip nuotare - to swim prendere il sole - to sunbathe abbronzarsi - to tan scottarsi - to burn yourself fare le immersioni (subacquee) - to go scuba diving il sub - scuba diver la bombola da sub - scuba tank maschera da sub - diver’s mask

la sabbia scotta! - the sand burns! per oggi starò all’ombra - I’ll stay in the shadow today giocare con la sabbia - to play with the sand ho il segno dell’abbronzatura / del costume! - My skin has the swimwear/tan sign fare le sabbiature - to sand bath spruzzarsi l’acqua addosso = to wash/spalsh each other with water vorrei affittare una cabina - I’d like to rent a changing room una sdraio e due sedie, quanto costa? - How much for a beach chair and two chairs? vado in spiaggia - I’m going on the beach ho la pelle chiara / sono pallida - I am pale ho la pelle scura - I have a dark skin mi sono abbronzato - I got tanned vorrei un gelato - I’d like to have an ice-cream

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Arriba 8.2 Vocabulary

la farmacia = pharmacy

la perfumería = beauty supply shop

el acondicionador = conditioner

el cepillo de dientes = toothbrush

la colonia = cologne

la crema hidratante = facial cream

la crema de afeitar = shaving cream

el desodorante = deodorant

la pasta de dientes = toothpaste

el perfume = perfume

el talco = talcum power

la joyería = jewelry store

el anillo = ring

los aretes = earrings

la cadena = chain

el collar = necklace

los pendientes = earrings

la pulsera = bracelet

el reloj inteligente = smartwatch

el reloj de pulsera = wristwatch

descripciones = descriptions

de diamantes = diamond

de oro = gold

de perlos = pearl

de plata = silver

más tiendos = more shops

la carnicería = butcher shop

la florería = flower shop

la heladería = ice cream shop

la panadería = bakery

la papelería = stationary shop

la pastelería = pastry shop

la quesería = cheese shop

la zapatería = shoe shop

devolver = to return something

gastar = to spend

hacer juego = to match

la nevería = nieve shop

la paletería = paleta shop

la floristería = flower shop

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Jibwemwin wiisniwin kidwinan 

Food words in (Eastern) Ojibwe

Are you hungry? - Gbakde na?

Yes, I’m hungry - Enh, nbakde

Me too, I’m hungry as well - Geniinh, nbakde ge’e

I’m thirsty - Ngaasknaabaagwe

What do you want to drink? - Wegnen waminakweyan?

I want - Nnandwendaan

Do you want to go for coffee? - Gwii-oo mkade’aabooke na?

I’ve already had a drink of water - Aazhi ngii-mnikwen nbiish

I’m drinking tea - Niibiishaaboo n’mnakwe

I drank pop - Menwaagmik ngii-mnikwen

The fish tastes good - Mnopgozi giigoonh

I’m eating deer meat - Waawaashkesh-wiiyaas n’miijin

I eat an egg - Waawan ngii-miijin

I eat eggs - Waawanoon ngii-miijinan

I’m eating - N’wiisin 

I’m eating - N’miijin

I eat - Ngii-miijin

I eat an apple - Mishiimin ngii-mowaa

I’ve had enough to eat - Aazhi mno-mnik ngii-wiisin

Wiisin - We use this when we are not specifying what we are eating

Miijin - We use this when we are eating an inanimate food. 

Mowaa - We use this when we are eating an animate food.

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Hundreds (Italian)

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Conjugation in Italian 🇮🇹

I speak - Lo parlo

You speak - Tu parli

He/She speaks - Lui/Lei parla

We speak - Noi parliamo

You speak - Voi parlate

They speak - Loro parlano

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Pronouns in Italian 🇮🇹

I - Io

You - Tu

He - Lui

She - Lei

We - Noi

You - Voi

They - Loro