https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbafT2w0cCQ feels like a parody of england. like "Oh, we used to throw scalding pennies at the poor, but now it's a fun tradition"
Dr. Taylor Jones released a video about untranslatable words. basically the point of the video was "there's no such thing as an untranslateable word, you can always just use more words for it, but also, every word in every language has a unique semantic and conotative associations and as such every word is untranslateable.
I wrote a comment that I also want to share here.
https://youtu.be/6h84uWYWbhM
TLDR: i'd consider names for days of the week untranslateable between languages that don't start their work week on the same day.
my L1 is Hebrew. in Hebrew, all weekdays except for שבת have a cardinal number as their name. Sunday is literally called "first", which makes sense since that's what it is.
and since I learned English while still living this "Sunday is the first day" life, I've internalized it in a way that is now for me extremely hard to dislodge. to me, Sunday is a work day and Friday is a weekend, and I need to work extra hard to remind myself that's not true on most of the planet.
so now that I live in Czechia, where Sunday isn't a work day and Friday isn't a weekend, you know what I do? I use the Czech names of the days of the week, even when speaking English or Hebrew. because while "Friday" and "שישי" both feel like a weekend to me, "pátek" does not (and in fact by literally meaning "fifth" it evokes the same feeling as "חמישי", Thursday, does, which is exactly what I want).
days of the week are untranslateable.
so yeah the whole "can barely afford catfood let alone rent" situation hasn't exactly improved. it's pretty fucking demoralizing, not gonna lie. i hate posting about it. i hate shit just not getting better. but it isn't, so what else can i do but beg?
help me out if you can, yeah? iceland's expensive.
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I've seen some posts advertising Black Friday "gaming deals," all with links to Amazon.
Amazon workers around the world are on strike this weekend. Don't cross the picket line. Support your local, independent book and game stores instead. #TTRPG #AmazonStrike #ShopLocal https://uniglobalunion.org/news/make-amazon-pay-strikes-2024/
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