Very cute video, but now do one where you fill in Nonna’s sayings from her language and background! (And then explain it to us)
Heh.
Now just a day back we’ve entered a 10 day calendar period of palindromic dates — 5/20/25 through 5/29/25.
My Thai sister-in-law, when she heard someone say, “It’s raining cats and dogs,” said, “That doesn’t make any sense!” And it doesn’t!
When I taught English as a Second Language (ESL), idioms were my favorite thing to keep things light and fun. I remember a party hosted by one of my Russian students, attended by my students from around the world, where they were all teaching me idioms from their language. This was after a lot of vodka and all of us were laughing as hard as one can laugh. It was great, and I don’t remember a single one because they were all so crazy/random/wrong that I couldn’t even make a connection to get them into my memory banks. They made no sense!
Judging by the progress on Telsa’s “Optimus” humanoid robot, I think we’re 5 to 10 years away from having domestic robots that can do dishes, laundry, clean & vacuum, as well as all sorts of household tasks fairly well. Hopefully these things will be reasonably affordable.
There’s an old, probably apocryphal, story about early computer translators. The test was to feed a phrase from English, translate it to the other language, and then translate that back into English. Supposedly the phrase “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” came back (via Russian) as “The vodka is ok, but the meat is rotten.”
he’s supposed to be the respectable one after Zuma, but his East bloc training still lingers,
• The discussion about prostate cancer – postings & comments – has been very informative.
• Genuinely surprised by how many commentors have had prostate cancer.
• Was wondering if those who have had prostate cancer – and no family history – would be willing to share how they became aware that they had prostate cancer (i.e., physicals, symptoms, testing, diagnosis process, etc.). Thank you.
What the hell happened to Spring?
Very cute video, but now do one where you fill in Nonna’s sayings from her language and background! (And then explain it to us)
Heh.
Now just a day back we’ve entered a 10 day calendar period of palindromic dates — 5/20/25 through 5/29/25.
My Thai sister-in-law, when she heard someone say, “It’s raining cats and dogs,” said, “That doesn’t make any sense!” And it doesn’t!
When I taught English as a Second Language (ESL), idioms were my favorite thing to keep things light and fun. I remember a party hosted by one of my Russian students, attended by my students from around the world, where they were all teaching me idioms from their language. This was after a lot of vodka and all of us were laughing as hard as one can laugh. It was great, and I don’t remember a single one because they were all so crazy/random/wrong that I couldn’t even make a connection to get them into my memory banks. They made no sense!
Judging by the progress on Telsa’s “Optimus” humanoid robot, I think we’re 5 to 10 years away from having domestic robots that can do dishes, laundry, clean & vacuum, as well as all sorts of household tasks fairly well. Hopefully these things will be reasonably affordable.
There’s an old, probably apocryphal, story about early computer translators. The test was to feed a phrase from English, translate it to the other language, and then translate that back into English. Supposedly the phrase “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” came back (via Russian) as “The vodka is ok, but the meat is rotten.”
ah Cyril old chap, checkmate
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1925231386790642028
he’s supposed to be the respectable one after Zuma, but his East bloc training still lingers,
• The discussion about prostate cancer – postings & comments – has been very informative.
• Genuinely surprised by how many commentors have had prostate cancer.
• Was wondering if those who have had prostate cancer – and no family history – would be willing to share how they became aware that they had prostate cancer (i.e., physicals, symptoms, testing, diagnosis process, etc.). Thank you.
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/05/21/trump-humiliates-nbc-news-reporter-during-white-house-exchange-he-unwisely-came-back-for-more-n2189396