“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
No silly. Not those ones, silly sausage! This is about language. Tut. From romoanionpod101: Romanian Language Romanian is a Romance language spoken in Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine. It has over 24 million native speakers and around 4 million learners all around the world. It retains some of the features of Latin, such as […]
Oh. I Loooove Academic texts! Cucuteni A3–A4–Trypillya B – look it up. Eventually you’ll get the good ol’ Wiki : Cucuteni–Trypillia Culture To save you time….it’s connected to the Ukraine. Which I already knew without having to wade through tons of BS with long, made-up, confusing words/timelines/theories and blahblah whatever. The reach of the […]
Oh. For pity’s sake. One step forward, a thousand years back. Wiki : Karanovo VI–Gumelniţa–Kodžadermen But I’m still in the right geographical area. Happy Day. Let’s Waltz :o)
OK. What are those? Tartarian Emojis? What is a “tell settlement”? Where/Who/What was Vinča? Is Starčevo–Kőrös–Criș a made-up name? Why do I keep getting sent back to Transylvania? Who was Milady Tărtăria? What’s the point of rhetorical questions? ;o)
Ovo je teško Serbian? What? And they say English is one of the hardest languages to learn. Pish. Too much for today. I need a trip to Govan to recover some sanity.
…Oh. Feeling a bit dizzy now, I’ve just come across a 50 page article from 2011 about -title above – that links Slavic countries with language with artefacts with something I’d shelved a while ago. “Shut up everybody. Shut up. Don’t move. Don’t speak. Don’t breathe. I’m trying to think.” Laugh out loud.
From NC: “In 1929, the famous Russian linguist M.N. Speransky published a mysterious inscription of nine lines, which he found on the flyleaf – a sheet next to the binding – books of the XVII century. The scientist considered the inscription “totally unbreakable”: there were Cyrillic letters in the record, but they alternated with […]
Remember? It’s in the Kremlin now. From Encyclopedia Britannica published 1771 : Tartary???? Oh! So Emperor is the same as Mogul? Who’d’uv thought? :o)
Do y’all remember Anna Anderson? She pretended to be Anastasia Romanov. The story ran forever! In an attempt to quash it, Phil the Greek aka Duke of Edinburgh (Nope!) had his DNA done. The soi-disant “British Royal Family” are related to the Romanov… Same old, same old ? “Koh-i-noor (or Kuh-e Nur) diamond, around 191 […]
Wiki: Orlov “The “Orlov” diamond, circa 200 karats. Found in India. Named after Count G. G. Orlov. Kept in the Diamond Vault of the Muscovite Kremlin. “It has preserved the ancient Indian cutting shape from the very time of the Great Moguls in India. There are many legends and fairy tales that concern this […]