#kolea

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#kolea by @fazzyhisiake https://www.instagram.com/p/CoGTNhDIgqZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[songofwizardry]

It's speak your language day! I have some fun facts on Kiswahili! Translation under the cut.

Leo hapa Tumblr ni siku ya kuongea lugha yako ya kwanza (inaitwa speak your language day)! Kuisherehekea siku hii, nilitaka ku shiriki nanyinyi nyote semi chache za Kiswahili. Kiswahili ina utajiri nyingi ya mapokeo ya mdomo, na kuna desturi na historia ndefu ya kusimulia mahadithi, kutega vitendawili, n.k.

Kwa mfano, ukitaka kusimulia hadithi, unaanza hivyo:

Msimulizi: Hadithi hadithi!

Hadhira: Hadithi njoo, uongo njoo, utamu kolea!

Msimulizi: Zamani za kale...

Hadithi zinazosimuliwa mara kwa mara ni hadithi za wanyama wa porini: sungura mjanja, mfalme simba, fisi, na kadhalika; hadithi kama hizi zinapatikana katika nchi nyingi za Kiafrika.

Vitendawili ni semi zinazotegwa, na watu wanatakiwa wazifumbulie. Watu wanaoongea Kiswahili kawaida wanajua vitendawili vingi, kwasababu tunazifunza katika shule ya msingi—mi mwenyewe nakumbuka nilipokuwa katika darasa la saba, kabla ya mtihani ya taifa, nilikaa ninakariri vitendawili kama arobaini! Vitendawili vinachekesha na vinachemsha bongo, kwa mfano:

"Askari wangu ni mpole lakini adui wanamhara." (Jibu: paka)

"Tajiri wa rangi." (Jibu: kinyonga)

"Numba yango ina nuguzo mmoja." (Jibu: uyoga)

"Mzungu katoka ulaya no mkono kiunoni." (Jibu: kikombe)

Kwa ukweli mi mwenyewe nimeaanza kusahau vitendawili vingine—lakini zinapatikana ukiGoogle siku hizi!

Kiswahili ni lugha yenye historia, desturi, na vipengele vingi vya kuvutia—siwezi kuziandika zote hapa, lakini kwa mfano, muda ya Kiswahili ("swahili time"), ngeli za nomino, historia ya uandikishi wa Kiswahili (kuanza na harufi za Kiarabu), na ilivyotengenezwa 'lingua franca' katika Tanzania, na lugha ya taifa baada ya uhuru. Natumaini mtafunza kidogo kuhusu lugha ya Kiswahili leo—usiache baada ya kujua 'Hakuna Matata' tu!

(Kama nimokesea sarufi, samahani sana! Siku hizi siandiki kwa Kiswahili kwa kawaida.)

(Translated from Kiswahili/Swahili, with some extra notes)

Today, here on tumblr, is Speak Your Language Day! To celebrate this day, I wanted to share with you a few short sayings in Kiswahili. Kiswahili has a rich variety of oral traditions, and there is a long history and tradition of narrating stories orally, posing vitendawili (common riddles), etc.

For example, it is traditional when one is narrating a story to start like this:

Narrator: A story, a story!

Audience: Story, come! Fiction, come! Make it sweet!

Narrator: Once upon a time...

The common tales that are narrated are folk tales involving wild animals: common characters of the cunning hare (sungura mjanja), the king lion, the hyena—folk tales of similar nature can be found in many African countries.

Vitendawili are short sayings that are posed, and people need to solve/figure them out. People who speak Kiswahili will know many of these, because we learn them in primary school—I remember when I was in Grade 7, before my national exams (standardised tests taken at the end of primary school), I sat and memorised about forty different vitendawili! Vitendawili can both make one laugh, and be mind-bogglers (literal translation: they boil the brain), for example:

"My soldier is so gentle, but the enemies are scared of them."

"The one wealthy in colours."

"My house has only one pillar."

"The white man has come from England with his hand on his waist."

Answers to the vitendawili are at the bottom.

In all honestly I have forgotten a lot of the vitendawili—but these days you can Google and find lists of them easily!

Kiswahili is a language with a rich history, and many fascinating features—I couldn't write them all here, but for example, Swahili time, our many noun classes, the history of writing Kiswahili (there are early Kiswahili writings using the Arabic script), and the way it originated as a lingua franca and how it became the national language and a uniting factor in Tanzania after independence. I hope you'll look up the history of or a little bit of Kiswahili today—it's much more than just the phrase 'Hakuna Matata'!

(My apologies if I've made any grammar mistakes—these days I don't often write in Kiswahili. Also, because I intentionally wanted to write this in Kiswahili first, and then translate it, and I'm not practiced at translation, the English sounds clunky/weird—my apologies, but hey, it's SpYLD, I gotta prioritise the non-English text.)

Answers to the vitendawili:

A cat

A chameleon

A mushroom

A teacup

Some links:

Langfocus' Swahili video, which is a really good primer

The online Kiswahili dictionary I use most

For Kiswahili news, BBC Swahili (both online and you can listen to the radio) is pretty good. There's also many, many Kiswahili language news sites you can find, eg Mwananchi.

And of course, music!

Bongo flava is a genre of Tanzanian music (that originated in Dar es Salaam! Bongoland!)—it's a vibrant genre, it's closely linked to hip-hop and Afrobeats; I have a soft spot for the Bongo Flava of the 00s, so here's Usineseme by Ali Kiba (2009)

Sauti Sol are super well known these days, with good reason! They're awesome! They sing in both Kiswahili and English, but my favourite song of theirs is Nairobi

And in a departure from my usual brand, some patriotic music—this is a remix of the traditional patriotic song Tanzania Tanzania, recorded to encourage people to vote in the 2015 elections. I like it because it's a fun video that captures a lot of different parts of Dar es Salaam.

[omniblades-and-stars]

Are there any adventures in Crash's long life, either on Tuchanka or when she left, that she hold particularly dear or exciting?

I'm definitely not making this up right off the cuff.

Anytime Crash gets to make a lot of noise, she lives for. I mean, she's a giant dinosaur/turtle woman who wears purple armor. She doesn't live life sneaky.

Once upon a time, one of her friends was captured by slavers, and well, that just won't do. So Crash sends out the call for help. And of course, some folks who are up for a little bit of mayhem and a krogan style bit of carnage answer.

Let's see, her neighbor, a batarian woman named Kolea, brought the tech powers. An asari named Heliy, they brought centuries of biotic training and a "fuck around and find out" attitude. And a quarian fellow, Ren, brought just like .... a lot of grenades.

Now, if you were a two-bit slaving operation and your front door blows inward out of nowhere and a krogan woman with the biggest shotgun you've ever seen rushes in through the smoke shouting things about "krogan hospitality" and promising turn your sorry ass to ashes, you'd probably be pretty scared, right?

Anyways, they rescue her friend, and a couple of other people who happened to be there. All in all, a very successful rescue mission.

There were a lot of explosions. Many of them were probably not strictly necessary.

[gauntsghostsfieldguide]

Anarch- Part 13

FOURTEEN: TRUTH AND OTHER LIES

"‘Your little girl, she’ll be all right,’ said Blenner beside him. ‘I’m sure of it, major.’" Oh, Blenner. She's not his little girl anymore. She never was.

Blenner's confessing all to Kolea, but idk if this'll make shit happen, since they're all stuck down in the basement.

"Zweil looked at Fazekiel, then went over to her and hugged her tightly, pressing her head against his shoulder." Aww, Zweil's a good man.

"Domor grinned at them, then gave Zweil a hug." <3

"‘I’ll break him,’ she said. ‘I’ll end his career. Once he’s confessed, it’ll be sanction for him.’" I hope so.

"It was a shadow mass three times her size, a focus of darkness penned in by her radiance, but still lashing and rending with razor tendrils. It was hard to look at, and harder still to define: a cloud of knife-edged shadow that shifted and swam in supple, geometric patterns. It had a constantly changing texture, like rippling mirror scales, part absolute void, part iridescent black, like the wing-cases of some daemonic beetle. It was a storm of whirling, midnight-black thorns surrounding a super-dense core of immaterium darkness." That's terrifying.

"A storm of heavy las-fire blocked it. Multiple weapons unloaded into it at full auto." Oh, good, reinforcements. The first good news we've had.

Poor Kolea. And Dalin. Though, Dalin... shit's going to happen.

"He looked at the Beati. When he spoke, just the one word, there was a tiny break in his voice. ‘Now,’ he said." ;_;

[ahlulhaditht]

🌾

تنبيه مهم تضمنه قوله تعالى {إنما ذلكم الشيطان يخوف أولياءه فلا تخافوهم وخافون }. [آل عمران ١٧٥]

🌿 قال شيخ الإسلام ابن تيمية رحمه الله:

دلت الآية على أن المؤمن لا يجوز له أن يخاف أولياء الشيطان، ولا يخاف الناس .اه‍

📚مجموع الفتاوى ١/٢٠٩.

An important warning included in His saying, the Most High:

{ Indeed, it is only the devil who would make (men) fear his partisans. Fear them not; fear Me }

[Al-Imran 175]

🌿 Sheikh Al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allāh have mercy on him, said:

The verse indicates that it is not permissible for a believer to fear the allies of Shaytān, nor should he fear people.

📚 Majmoo' Fatāwa 1/209.

t.me/Ahlul_hadith_translations

Picture above of the beautiful views in Kolea - Tipaza province - shared by sister in al-Jazā'yr - Algeria 🌾

[eclecticstarlightblogger]

Αλβανία: Ξεκίνησε η Εβδομάδα Τουρκικού Πολιτισμο

Ξεκίνησε στην Αλβανία η «Εβδομάδα Τουρκικού Πολιτισμού», η οποία περιλαμβάνει δραστηριότητες για την προώθηση της οθωμανικής και τουρκικής παρουσίας. Η εκδήλωση άνοιξε με την έκθεση «Φύλλα από τον τουρκικό πολιτισμό» που πραγματοποιήθηκε στο κέντρο «Sotir Kolea» της Αλβανικής Εθνικής Βιβλιοθήκης, υπό την αιγίδα της Τουρκικής Πρεσβείας στα Τίρανα και του Ινστιτούτου Τίρανα Yunus Emre…

[thoughtfullyblogger]

Αλβανία: Ξεκίνησε η Εβδομάδα Τουρκικού Πολιτισμο

Ξεκίνησε στην Αλβανία η «Εβδομάδα Τουρκικού Πολιτισμού», η οποία περιλαμβάνει δραστηριότητες για την προώθηση της οθωμανικής και τουρκικής παρουσίας. Η εκδήλωση άνοιξε με την έκθεση «Φύλλα από τον τουρκικό πολιτισμό» που πραγματοποιήθηκε στο κέντρο «Sotir Kolea» της Αλβανικής Εθνικής Βιβλιοθήκης, υπό την αιγίδα της Τουρκικής Πρεσβείας στα Τίρανα και του Ινστιτούτου Τίρανα Yunus Emre…

[greekblogs]

Αλβανία: Ξεκίνησε η Εβδομάδα Τουρκικού Πολιτισμο

Ξεκίνησε στην Αλβανία η «Εβδομάδα Τουρκικού Πολιτισμού», η οποία περιλαμβάνει δραστηριότητες για την προώθηση της οθωμανικής και τουρκικής παρουσίας. Η εκδήλωση άνοιξε με την έκθεση «Φύλλα από τον τουρκικό πολιτισμό» που πραγματοποιήθηκε στο κέντρο «Sotir Kolea» της Αλβανικής Εθνικής Βιβλιοθήκης, υπό την αιγίδα της Τουρκικής Πρεσβείας στα Τίρανα και του Ινστιτούτου Τίρανα Yunus Emre…

[skandaladiaplokidiafthora]

Αλβανία: Ξεκίνησε η Εβδομάδα Τουρκικού Πολιτισμο

Ξεκίνησε στην Αλβανία η «Εβδομάδα Τουρκικού Πολιτισμού», η οποία περιλαμβάνει δραστηριότητες για την προώθηση της οθωμανικής και τουρκικής παρουσίας. Η εκδήλωση άνοιξε με την έκθεση «Φύλλα από τον τουρκικό πολιτισμό» που πραγματοποιήθηκε στο κέντρο «Sotir Kolea» της Αλβανικής Εθνικής Βιβλιοθήκης, υπό την αιγίδα της Τουρκικής Πρεσβείας στα Τίρανα και του Ινστιτούτου Τίρανα Yunus Emre…

[esandersonucc]

Story: No Signs

March 3, 2024 Exodus 20:1-171 Corinthians 1:18-25 The kolea had successfully made his first flight to Hawai’i the previous fall. He’d hatched a young bird in Alaska, he’d been fed by his parents, he’d learned to find his own food, and eventually he’d taken off for the long journey to Hawai’i. He’d found a spot here to look for worms and seeds and berries. He’d worn his mottled tan and brown…

[humanrightsupdates]

Urgent Action: ACTIVIST SENTENCED FOLLOWING REFOULEMENT(Algeria 82.23)

On 4 July, a court of appeal in Algiers confirmed the sentencing of Amazigh activist Slimane Bouhafs to three years in prison and a 100,000DA (around USD 734) fine. Slimane Bouhafs had been granted refugee status in Tunisia in 2020.

However, this did not protect him from being kidnapped from his home in Tunis and tried on charges of terrorism for his supposed affiliations to a Kabylie independence organization in September 2021 and since held in Kolea prison, near to Algiers.

Slimane Bouhafs is currently detained in Kolea prison, 400km from where his family lives. His family are only permitted to visit him two at a time and for a maximum of 15 minutes. A round-trip to the prison takes them 10 hours and they have to rent a car as well as a hotel near the prison to make sure that they are on time. If they arrive even slightly late, they are not allowed in. His family believes he is at grave risk of abuse in Algerian prisons due to the ill-treatment he previously faced, and they are concerned for his health as he is not receiving adequate medical treatment for his gout.

Not only are the charges against Slimane Bouhafs bogus, but his entire trial is illegal under international human rights law. He must be released immediately and all charges against him dropped.

TAKE ACTION NOW

Please take action as-soon-as possible. This Urgent Action expires on October 24th, 2023.

Write a letter in your own words or using the sample below as a guide to one or both government officials listed. You can also email, fax, call or Tweet them.

[hawaii]

Rainy day kolea. #kolea #plover #pacificgoldenplover #birdspotting (at Central Oahu Regional Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CL6EzWDjnNh/?igshid=13f1chclgnbwe

[gauntsghostsfieldguide]

Anarch- Part 12

THIRTEEN: UP INTO THE LIGHT

"Merity seemed alert, but Meryn was either traumatised, or unwilling to hide his usual, sullen nature." It's Meryn. Could be both.

"‘In the face of an unknown threat, assembling reliable data seems sensible,’" It does help the unknown become known, as long as the unknown doesn't kill you first.

"She kept flicking her eyes in Meryn’s direction, trying to show she didn’t want to speak in front of him, but the commissar was too weary and anxious to notice the hint." Leave him behind! Not that testimony is important right now, but cut his ass loose.

"The glory days and noble ends of the First and fething Only were memories. Reality and the future was a colder place." I think this is one reason why I don't really like Warmaster and Anarch. On the one hand, they feel like a conclusion. On the other, it's a hell of an anti-climax, so far. Not the fitting end.

"‘What are you, my dad?’ Neither of them spoke for a moment. ‘Yes,’ said Kolea." Awkward.

"It was part of a human jawbone, with three molars still embedded in it. It was black because it was covered in blood, and in the odd light, the redness of the blood appeared black." D:

I swear to fuck, if Elodie's dead...

Poor Bonin.

"Yoncy was no longer Yoncy. A stifling darkness whirled out of her as though a dead star had blinked anti-light. She fractured and rearranged in a neat but complex fractal fashion, folding like some intricate, hinged puzzle. Her smile was the last thing to disappear. What took her place was still her. It was also the most abominable thing any of them would ever see." D: D:

[ahlulhaditht]

Picture above shared by a sister, the sky above Kolea, town in the province of Tipaza, al-Jazā'yr Algeria

One of the most famous prophetic narrations about true dreams at the end of times....

عن أبي هريرة رضي الله عنه مرفوعاً: «إذا اقترب الزمان لم تَكَدْ رؤيا المؤمن تكذب، ورؤيا المؤمن جزء من ستة وأربعين جزءا من النبوة».

وفي رواية: «أصدقكم رؤيا، أصدقكم حديثا».

Abu Hurayrah (رضي الله عنه - may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When the end of time draws near, the dream of a believer can hardly be false, and the dream of a believer is one part from forty-six parts of prophet-hood."

Sahīh - authentic [al-Bukhārī and Muslim]

In another narration, the Prophet ﷺ (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Those of you who have the most truthful dreams are those who are the most truthful in speech."

Sahīh - authentic

[al-Bukhārī and Muslim]

[jonathanmorse]