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History of Litre: The Coin with the Biggest Plastic Surgery Team In The World
Despite being used in 95% of nations worldwide, not many people think much of the humble origins of the "litre"; presumably, they were too busy crying either from math homework or the price of petrol. We all know that "litre" originated from the old French word "litron", which in turn derived from the Ancient Greek word "litra". However, have we considered the corresponding historical events that may have influenced the evolution of the word from "litra" to "litre"?
"Litra" was a form of currency in pre-classical Ancient Greece, possibly dating back to an even older period. However, to understand how it went from Ancient Greece to France, we need to look at Sicily, which transitioned from Greek independence to a Roman colony.
Want to read more on how these events influence the evolution of "litre"? Find out more by reading my article at:
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Litre: Coin with Biggest Plastic Surgery Team in the World
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Interesting Cultural, Historical and Linguistic Connections: Loan Words
The use of similar words in countries that share the same state religion but having different meaning is a generally well-known fact.
Some of these words may be seen very commonly in Arabic/Malayic branch of the Austronesian language countries, namely:
Malay (Bahasa Melayu) : mani - sperm, semen
Arabic: مني (mani) - jewel, gem, beads (Also the same in sanskrit)
Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) : batin - inner self
Arabic: مني (baṭn) - stomach
These are some that caught my attention.
The spread of language and culture through trade thought to be due to 1028AD with the help of foreign presence through peaceful trade on coastal trading ports in modern-day Malaysia and Indonesia. Islam and Arabic language was further popularised when the first Sultan of Melaka converted to Islam after marrying into the religion. However, we cannot forget that before the introduction of Islam, a majority of the people in the Malay peninsulas were communicating in Sanskrit and was heavily influenced by India and Cambodia before their maritime golden era. Introduction of foreign culture may disrupt or assimilate with the home culture, and one of the way we can learn a country’s history is to learn the etymology of the language.
And then there’s my home country, Burma. Burmese, a language so weird that the wiki page for loan word is like this:
But don’t be fooled. The history of the Burmese language is a unique one. With a country that traded with many foreign influences from Persians to the French, and then getting colonised by the British in 1989, the Burmese language has many loan words and learned words. For exmaple:
Burmese: တိုဟူး (tuihpu) - Tofu
Hokkien: 豆腐 (tāu-hū) - Tofu
Burmese: အီကြာကွေး (i-kra-kwe:) - You Tiao
Hokkien: 油炸糕 (iû-chiā-kóe)
Burmese: လီတာ (lita) - Litre
French: litre
Burmese: ကတိ (ka.ti.) - promise, agreement
Pali: kathikā - agreement, talk, conversation
The ancient world was way more advanced and liberal, yet backwards and conservative at the same time than we thought. The world in the past was more complicated than the textbooks and the stories that were told to us, and the morals and ethics of time seem to be always changing. Times may move forwared, trends may change, but the impact of trade and society will always leave an imprint behind on the words used and its usage if we studied where the words we use in our day to day life came from. Maybe then, the outcasts and the lower class of the past who did not have a chance to leave their imprint in this world will not be forgotten, as words may have been their only chance to be remembered.
I was studying and i looked through HelloTalk. Saw a post saying “Good Morning” and i was like “fk it’s morning alr????” And that’s when i realised i forgot to sleep...
I WANT to do something but in Japanese (something-たい です。)
Add the suffix ~たい (-tai) to a verb in the ~ます (-masu) form when indicating a desire to carry out an action.
E.g.
飲みます - ます + たい = 飲みたい
I want to drink water.
水を飲みたいです。
Mizu wo nomitai desu.
帰ります - ます + たい = 帰りたい
I want to go home.
うちに帰りたいです。
Uchi ni kaeritai desu.
NOT TO BE MISTAKEN FOR WANTING SOMETHING/PHYSICAL OBJECT
The word ほしい (Hoshii) is used to express desire for something that is not an action.
E.g.
I want water.
水がほしいです。
Mizu ga hoshii desu.
I HAVE to do this but in Japanese (action~なければなりません。)
When expressing an action that must be done, add ~なければなりません (-nakerebanarimasen) to your action word while in the ~ない (-nai) form.
E.g.
飲まない - ない + なければなりません = 飲まなければなりません。
(You) have to drink water.
水を飲まなければなりません。
Mizu wo nomanakerebanarimasen.
帰らない - ない + なければなりません = 帰らなければなりません
I have to go back by 9.
9時までにうちに帰らなければなりません。
Kuji made ni uchi ni kaeranakerebanarimasen.
It’s ok if you don’t do this but in Japanese (action~なくてもいいです。)
Used when wanting to inform that you don’t necessarily have to do a certain action. Add the suffix to a verb in the ~ない (-nai) form
E.g.
飲まない - ない + なくてもいいです = 飲まなくてもいいです
(You) don’t have to drink water.
水を飲まなくてもいいです。
Mizu wo nomanakutemo ii desu.
帰らない - ない + なくてもいいです = 帰らなくてもいいです
(I) don’t have to go home.
うちに帰らなくてもいいです。
Uchi ni kaeranakutemo ii desu.
Answering yes/no questions with なければなりません or なくてもいいです.
When asked if one must or must not do a certain action, such as having to write answers in pen, always answer with a yes or no first. If the answer is a yes, you usually may not need to say in addition to the yes.
E.g.
A:
Must I write my name?
名前を書かなければなりませんか。
Namae wo kakanakerebanarimasen ka.
B:
Yes, (you must write).
はい、(書かなければなりません)。
Hai, (kakanakerebanarimasen).
OR
No, you may not need to.
いいえ、書かなくてもいいです。
Iie, kakanakutemo ii desu.
E.g.
A:
May I not use a pencil to write my answer?
鉛筆で答えを書かなくてもいいですか。
Enpitsu de kotae wo kakanakutemo ii desu ka.
B:
Yes, you may not need to use a pencil.
はい、鉛筆で書かなくてもいいです。
Hai, enpitsu de kakanakutemo ii desu.
OR
No, you must use a pencil.
いいえ、鉛筆で書かなければなりません。
Iie, enpitsu de kakanakerebanarimasen.
Feel free to ask me any questions or correct me!! :)
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…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment
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Hi @chouhatsumimi! I’m your Langblr Secret Santa for this year! I heard that you’re more interested in learning about culture and historical part of Japanese and Chinese language, hence, I will explain more about how Christmas is celebrated in China and Japan, and I will also be explaining on the history of both Japanese language and Chinese language.
Christmas:
Since Christmas is a Christian holiday, both China and Japan don’t really celebrate it the western way, such as singing carols or decorating Christmas trees. In fact, most Chinese and Japanese people do not have a Christmas tree in their own home.
Christmas in Mandarin can be 圣诞节 (shèng dàn jié) or 耶诞节 (yē dàn jié). Santa is called 圣诞老人 (shèng dàn lao rén) in Mandarin (literally translated as Christmas Old Man), and サンタさん (Santa-san) in Japanese. When greeting each other during this festive season, in Mandarin, one would say 圣诞节快乐 (shèng dàn jié kuài lè), while in Japanese, one would say メリークリスマス (Merii kurisumasu).
In Mandarin, 圣诞节 is literally translated to Saint’s Birthday, where 圣 means Saint. 耶诞节 is less commonly used, where 耶 is talking about Jesus (耶稣 yē sū).
Both countries treat Christmas more like a romantic holiday rather than a religious holiday, where couples would come together to spend some time. In mainland China and Japsn, Christmas is not a public holiday, although school is closed on Christmas in Japan due to multiple holidays around Christmas ( in Japan, if there are multiple holidays close to each other, the days in between are also holidays e.g. 1, 3, and 5 are national holidays, hence 1-5 is public holidays).
In China, people give each other apples due to a homophone. Christmas Eve in Mandarin is called 平安夜 (píng ān yè), which translated, means peaceful night. This comes from the phrase silent night. Apple in Mandarin is called 苹果 (píng guo). Since both sounds very similar, Chinese people started giving apples on Christmas Eve to wish their loved ones a peaceful and safe year ahead.
In Japan, people eat fried chicken on Christmas, specifically Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). This was due to a very successful marketing campaign done by KFC in 1974 called クリスマスにはケンタッキー‼︎ (Kurisumasu ni wa kentakki!!) They also eat strawberry shortcake for Christmas instead of a rich fruit cake.
Japanese Language History:
The Japanese languge consists of 3 writing systems: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. The Japanese we know today came and evolved from the Yamato people (also known as 和人 (Wajin)), which was one of the largest ethnic group that came to grow and colonise Japan. They came up with the spoken language called 和語 (Wago), which is later known as the Kunyomi of our Kanji.
Before the introduction of Kanji, there was no writing system in Japan at the time. Kanji was only introduced to Japan by Korea in the 5th century through the Korean Peninsula. It was during that time the Yamato people wanted a government that was pretty similar to the Chinese government to make themselves more elite, but realise in order for senpai to notice them, they needed a writing system. So they adapted their writing system by sending a few scholars over to China to learn their characters.
The problem came when the scholars came back from China. They realised they have their own words of some Kanji, such as water, where the chinese reading of the word was すい (Sui) and the 和語 version of the word was みず. They decided in the end to use both readings for one character, and called the chinese reading of the word Onyōmi and the 和語 version of the word Kunyōmi.
Hiragana came from the ladies of that time, who were excluded from learning the Chinese characters. It was a cursive abbreviation of the Chinese characters and were used by ladies for novels, poetry and diaries.
Katakana came from priests, who read Chinese characters. They would translate the Chinese works and add modulation of intonations beside the Chinese characters.
During this time, Hentaigana was also created by monks who couldn’t stand taking such a long time to write the Chinese characters. It was an illegible form of characters, which eventually evolved to Hiragana and Katakana.
Chinese Language History:
China has a written system that has existed for more than 3000 years. There are 2 writing systems: traditional and simplified Chinese, and pinyin. Although there are multiple dialects in the country itself, its written form is the most common way of communicating, as the words itself don’t really change much from dialect to dialect.
Unlike what most people believe, mainland China mostly uses simplified Chinese as their writing system. Although simplified Chinese has existed for years, it was only in 1950s that it became official in an attempt to improve literacy within the nation. Those who literate in simplified Chinese may not be able to literate in traditional Chinese. (By the way Kanji is mostly in traditional Chinese, although some characters do not exist in Chinese)
Pinyin came to after China wanted to make Chinese more understandable, where they used western alphabets to write out the pronunciation of each characters. In 1977, China made a request to the UN for the naming of China’s geographical locations to be in the pinyin system.
With this, I hope you’ve learnt something new during this fesitve season! Merry Christmas!
Some onomatopoeia and syllable-repeated words I actually use
しぶしぶ(言う)(to say) reluctantly
「あの人、感じはいいもんね」マーサはしぶしぶ言いました。「わかった」”She’s a nice lady,” Martha conceded. “All right.”
よちよち(歩き)to totter, walk with tottering steps
ソフィーはこの商売のことなら知り抜いていました。よちよち歩きのころから、店から中庭をはさんで奥に立っている大きな作業場に出入りしていたからです。Sophie of course knew the hat trade quite well already. Since she was a tiny child she had run and out of the big workshed across the yard….
ぬくぬく snug, cozy. Presumably related to ぬくもり, warmth
おかげでドロシーはとてもぬくぬくとして、朝までぐっすり眠りました。These kept her very snug and warm, and she slept soundly until morning.
なれなれしい over-familiar, casual (of a way of speaking or behavior)
And the antonym よそよそしい, aloof, distant, formal (of a way of speaking or behavior)
彼は私の妻になれなれしすぎだ。He is getting far too familiar with my wife.
その金持ちの友人は彼によそよそしい態度を取った。The rich friend gave him the cold shoulder.
ちょくちょく now and then, occasionally, sometimes (often for visiting a person or place). Can also be said ちょこちょこ, which also has other meanings (could be a regional difference, as I hear ちょこちょこ more often here in Osaka)
だってお隣さんだし。ちょくちょくお邪魔するから。Well, we’re neighbors. I’ll be popping over all the time.
hi @stressedoutbutstillsurviving! i’m your secret santa for this year’s event organised by @langblrsecretsanta. since you like baking and are learning japanese, i decided to share this nice tofu matcha cake recipe i found! :)
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listen, the studyblr community can be a wonderful place - but there’s this emphasis on absolute perfection that really doesn’t help a lot of students dealing with other issues on top of their studies. here are five unconventional study tips that might not fit the studyblr aesthetic but have helped me get straight as whilst learning to live with mental health and family problems too!
1. don’t study whilst commuting
i walk to school, so posts about studying on the bus just aren’t helpful - i don’t have the option to do that! even if i’m taking the train somewhere, the last thing on my mind is studying. i’m thinking about my bed and how early it is and whether or not my coffee is cool enough to drink without burning myself yet. not all of us can start working the second we’re awake, and that’s okay!
instead: record your lessons and listen to them as you travel!
even if you’re not paying attention, you’ll remember more than you think! this is especially useful for languages - i recorded myself reading a few essays and listened to them as i walked, which made noticing grammatical errors so much easier!
2. don’t rewrite all your notes
i love the studyblr aesthetic as much as anyone, but i honestly don’t have the time to write out pages and pages of notes in the hope of gaining a few followers. of course it’s nice to have pretty-looking notes, but when you have a huge list of tasks to do, it can become a way of procrastinating work that’s actually needed for a grade.
instead: organise your class notes!
check the material you’ll study before the lesson! if you’re into the brush lettering aesthetic, write out or print titles off ahead of class so you can stick them on your page without having to waste valuable lesson time drawing them. plus, knowing what you’re going to study before you actually come to it means you can prepare a list of questions to ask the teacher and improve your understanding of the subject! this way, you’ll have organised, clear notes from the beginning, so you won’t have to copy anything out at home.
3. don’t buy expensive stationery
i know everyone seems to have those tombow brush pens and leuchtturm journals. as someone who can’t afford them, trust me when i say i get how it feels. but spending money on expensive products (especially ones you don’t know how to use) is just counterproductive - your grades won’t magically go up if you start shopping at muji.
instead: try budget alternatives!
would you buy a £90 contour kit if you’d never used foundation before? the same goes for stationery! substitute for cheaper products from your local stationery stores whilst you get a feel for what’s helpful for you, not what anyone else has. for example, i tried so many types of pens before realising that my writing’s nicest with gel pens, so now i let myself get more expensive ones - but i didn’t waste more than £5 figuring this out because i’m #cheap. this list of popular studyblr dupes is constantly being added to if you really need to try something, but stressing about your stationery is not going to help you in the slightest.
4. don’t worry too much about being organised
look, we’d all like to be organised, but i’m an adult who’s lived with depression since i was thirteen, and i know it’s not always possible to have that pinterest-ready study den. sometimes your homework will be done on a bed that’s not been made in weeks of it’s going to be done at all, and that’s okay.
instead: do what you can.
had a bad day? stick on some guns n roses and do the work later. too exhausted to function? just finish that last maths problem and go to bed. it’s okay to not have a picture perfect lifestyle - most of the people who post those photos don’t have it either. just do what you have to do to get through the week.
5. don’t ignore your mental health
there’s such a weird culture of perfectionism here and it’s so damaging! of course no one has to post about their personal lives on their studyblrs - but please don’t let that lead you to believe it’s not important. this mentality of “everything is fine and i must be perfect” isn’t healthy.
instead: talk about how you feel!
it doesn’t have to be on your studyblr, but if you’re feeling suffocated by pressure to achieve, or you think you’re depressed, or you’re just going through a tough time and need to vent, talk to someone! bottling things up is not a healthy way to live life - believe me, i’ve tried it. it doesn’t work. there are so many impressionable young people here and we need to stop acting like our studies are all we can ever be.
i’m not trying to “call out” anyone who finds the minimalist note taking and study devotion helpful - everyone here is different, and i’m glad it works for you! but not all of us can do that, so this is for the people who can’t.
Can I add to this? both as a student who did well and as a teacher.
6. Don’t study right before the exam.
REST instead, I always found if i crammed i could remember well the last thing i read but nothing else. t. I used to play pokemon games while i waited to sit for my exams. It kept me low stress. Stress undoes all the effort you put into study
7. instead of writing your notes out again. or focusing on everything, bullet point the key stuff. its a good way to know if you’ve actually remembered something if you can look at a word or sentence and be like “ah i remember that”. it helps figuring out what you need to study more, because you can focus on the words or phrases you can’t remember a lot for and less time on those you know. Its also a good memory jogger closer to the exam. A lot of lecturers have a “key points to take away” or use headings, snatch these as a guide for what is important for you bullet summaries.
8. Hedge your bets and study SMART not Hard. I always see people feeling they need to know the whole course backwards and forwards, but you really don’t. if you are low on time you can make choices to prioritise content.heaps of stuff to study? need a pretty in depth knowledge of it? not enough time. pick a few subjects that A. have overarching themes for most of the topics in the course and therefore could be twisted to apply for everything B. pick a topic you think is LIKELY to appear in the exam (hint often things not assessed in class but highlighted a lot in lectures are pretty much going to be in a test in some form, make those your focus), if you are at uni, sometimes they keep old exams from the course in the library.. and those are the most useful things ever for forecasting test questions.
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